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it’s socioeconomic class, stupid (that’s a no brainer, but uh well, the troika has never really been anything but a duo, duh)

By shag carpet bomb • May 27th, 2008 • Category: Class, Clinton, Election 2008, Obama

Obama’s currently doing no worse among whites – a 12-point deficit to John McCain in the Newsweek data – than Al Gore did; he lost them by an identical 12 points in 2004, yet won the popular vote. John Kerry lost whites, moreover, by 17 points; Mike Dukakis, by 19 points.
Each of these three Democrats […]


i am so NOT a liberal

By shag carpet bomb • Feb 27th, 2008 • Category: Clinton, Election 2008, Obama, Politics

i totally loved how, in the debate last night, Obama shunted aside the label Liberal by saying something like, “if I were a Liberal, would republicans and independents be voting for me?” waddaguy waddaguy.
Why Why WHY are people who espouse progressive politics not holding his feet to the fire on that? I heard zippo about […]


your oppressor won’t allow you to vote for your liberation

By shag carpet bomb • Feb 13th, 2008 • Category: Clinton, Election 2008, Obama, Politics

[I, myself, plan on cashing in on this phenom. I’m making some buttons and bumper stickers: Don’t Blame Me, I didn’t vote for either of them. This occurred to me as I listened to Clinton and tried not to fall asleep. I had to entertain myself. Then I listened to Obama and tried not to […]


why i’d vote for obama if i could be arsed to vote

By shag carpet bomb • Feb 5th, 2008 • Category: Clinton, Election 2008, Obama

Over the weekend, I was telling R that I hadn’t yet heard a persuasive argument about why to vote for Obama. So damn, if no one can do it for you, you might as well do it yourself. So, I presented him my argument.
For those of us who are generally opposed to elections as a […]


nixon’s clinton’s religious pursuit of the fork in the road … and toads

By shag carpet bomb • Jan 30th, 2008 • Category: Clinton, Election 2008

After Obama’s win in Iowa, everyone familiar with the Clintons and how they operate could have set their watches by the Hillary camp’s inevitable decision to start reminding America of the dangers of electing a black teenager on coke. There is now a sudden sense on the campaign trail that the electoral chaos of the […]


Black Agenda Report brought a skunk to the party and they aren’t sorry

By shag carpet bomb • Jan 23rd, 2008 • Category: Clinton, Election 2008, Obama

From Freedom Rider: Why we write about Obama:
Black Agenda Report will continue to live up to its standards we have set for ourselves. Hillary Clinton and Obama are political twins, candidates bought off by corporate interests, ready to defend the American empire by killing people in far away places or tossing black people and the […]


say it! Ehrenreich on Clinton’s race problem

By shag carpet bomb • Jan 16th, 2008 • Category: Clinton, Election 2008, Social movements, Whiteness

Hillary’s Real MLK Problem
Barbara Ehrenreich

At first I took it as another, yawn, white rip-off of black culture and creativity: the Rolling Stones appropriating the Bo Diddley beat, Bo Derek sporting corn rows, and now Hillary giving Lyndon Baines Johnson credit for the Voting Rights Act of 1965. If you had to give this honor to […]