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grrr. if i have to read one more obama supporter at leftist discussion lists blow smoke about how it’s all posturing for the election, i’m gonna scream. aiyiyiyi. there, i feel better i’ve let off some steam. following up on comment in previous post, financial times is another paper you should read if you want [...]

brownfemipower recently argued (here, http://brownfemipower.com/archives/2617) that, as a woman of color (and her perspective only she hastened to add), she couldn’t sympathize with white feminists being upset at the loss of clinton’s candidacy for president. among her argument was that, of course, as a latina woman, she wasn’t sad that a candidate who supported militarizing [...]

link Mr. Nader, who drew headlines recently by suggesting that Obama was trying to “talk white,” quoted with seeming approval a comment from a black political scientist, Adolph Reed Jr., that Senator Obama seemed to be a “vacuous opportunist.” Mr. Nader portrayed Mr. Obama as changeable and too close to “corporate America.” “He’s backed off [...]

Obama at AIPAC: Don’t let the brief Clinton-Obama encounter at the AIPAC convention distract from the substance here: His speech Wednesday was a rather significant move to the right on Middle East policy. Eleven months after saying he would sit down with Iran’s leader “without precondition,” Obama said Wednesday: “Contrary to the claims to some, [...]

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 [...]

Black is the new black: It also lines up perfectly with even those younger blacks who’ve never ventured beyond the veil but who, minus the shadow of segregation, have concluded that their skin is as worthy as the next man’s. This is why all the fuss over how much or how little Obama addresses racism [...]

Obama No By Adolph Reed Jr., May 2008 Issue Progressive ­ May 2008 I’ve never been an Obama supporter. I’ve known him since the very beginning of his political career, which was his campaign for the seat in my state senate district in Chicago. He struck me then as a vacuous opportunist, a good performer [...]

Glen Ford at BAR, Obama’s ‘Race Neutral’ Strategy Unravels of its Own Contradictions. Excellent analysis, as usual. The title refers to someone’s reaction at the lbo listserv. it just cracked me up that a radical — a marxist radical and not some wimp ass version of such called “progressive” or some shit — actually thinks [...]

and, in another bit of new, exciting, change-ful thinking, put the squeeze on Iran. sanctions. yeah. how many deaths were caused by Clinton’s sanctions in Iraq. Fresh, Forward Thinking! Changeful! Whee. Statement of Senator Barack Obama on Additional Sanctions on Iran Chicago, IL | March 04, 2008 “I welcome the UN Security Council’s decision to [...]

From Henwood, a video for Obama by Will.i.am The antidote if you are retching from the saccharin sweetness of it: The Coup’s We Are The Ones.

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 [...]

[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 [...]

OK. I alluded to this analysis already, but I hadn’t realized I wasn’t very clear until I repeated myself and realized, fromt he response, that it was too opaque the 1st time. Here, I’m showing Obama’s rhetoric consists of empty signifiers. How his speeches are “all things to all people”. What makes white ppl so [...]

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 [...]

note to self: don’t write posts at 6 am. I wrote some of below over course of a few days. Was editing it. Hit Publish instead of Save. I’d intended to put it away and edit it properly. So, very very sorry about the totally incomprehensible material below. Aiyiyiyiyi. will swing by and fix it [...]

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 [...]

I was poking around, reading politically-oriented mainstream blogs the other day and got completely fed up with the whole Obama praises Reagan discussions. It just turned my stomach. Maybe it’s an age thing, because Reagan? I have nothing nice to say about that president (though, truth is, I have nothing nice to say about any [...]

Thanks to Oliver at CultPunk: Also, this chicka shoots and scores with this analysis of Obama’s rhetoric: Look at the extraordinary care with which Obama guides us here, and the fundamental duplicity of his message. He moves from King’s message of unity as solidarity in the face of oppression, to an idea of unity as [...]

It’s so freakin’ agonizing watching my friends drop like flies for Obama without knowing ONE lick about the dewd — and not caring either! They just seem to want to cover their ears and eyes and sing “la la la!” really loudly because they don’t want to know? I don’t know what it is, but [...]

Thanks to Dennis Claxton: “Talk about the black community — he has taught the black community you don’t have to act like Jesse Jackson; you don’t have to act like Al Sharpton. You can talk about the issues.” Black Agenda Report and Media Matters. Oh, and here’s a video on ObamaRama’s ChChChChange Also, this is [...]

As I wrote on lbo, I can’t get behind this enthusiasm, especially when people point to the groundswell of white people who — oh.my.dog — would vote for a black man in this day and age. Oh, just spare me ferchrissake. here’s what I see: Dwayne Monroe wrote, quoting Matt Taibbi writing in Rolling Stone: [...]

His message: I’m an international man of the world. I go beyond nation. And this going beyond nation, why it could ONLY happen in the u.s. What a lovely third way imperialism. srsly: fuck Obama.