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dennis takes no prisoners: http://dennisperrin.blogspot.com/2008/09/how-lucky-we-are.html JIM LEHRER: Good evening. I’m Jim Lehrer. LEHRER: You may remember me from an earlier age of TV journalism, when we transmitted official lies and propaganda to our educated audience in a very calm, reassuring way. When oil companies weren’t afraid to openly finance our efforts. Well, those days are [...]

problemchylde’s blog led me to kai’s blog where kai said something that sounded good, until i thought about it. (from http://www.kaichang.net/2008/07/kety-on-cnn.html ) “Democratic Party politicians are unlikely to grow a backbone until their constituents do” i wasn’t clear on what growing a backbone means, for obama’s constituency? a backbone means asking mccain questions, as if [...]

man, i was really disgusted when jackson, whose campaign i worked on back in 1988, rolled over and curtailed crits in order to support obama. now i learn, a little late i know, that he’d like to cut off obama’s nuts for talking down to black folks. ha. yay jesse! yay! personally, i’m glad to [...]

the wall st journal lurvs obama’s stance on iraq! Man of Refinement By JAMES TARANTO Nineteen days ago, we speculated about Barack Obama that he would soon abandon his promise to bring about an American defeat in Iraq: Could it be that Obama is planning to pivot? That is, what if he goes to Iraq [...]

i posted this in a thread at lbo’s discussion list. M liked it, so I’m posting it here in case readers might enjoy: i’m starting to envision the lanky fellah (obama) on a twister mat, with him contorting himself into all kinds of positions. maybe he’ll get contorted enough to suck his own dick, so [...]

so, i checked into blogs and i see all these people having meltdowns because some people are expressing a desire to vote mccain or mckinney or abstain this year. i don’t quite get the meltdown. isn’t that what we’re supposed to do? i mean, if you are progressive and still buy into this sham called [...]

I’m not posting this as a question for y’all to help answer, though great if you’d like to add to B’s list below. Rather, I’m posting it because I may just add to it as i have time. Why the little flurry of posts I shall call “more reasons why obama sux rocks” series? Because [...]

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 [...]

every single time someone speaks re the dem nomination race who does so by pointing at republicans and wanting everyone to hate republicans more than the shits in the democratic party, i want to puke on their shoes: June 3, 2008 interivew with David Sirota: AMY GOODMAN: David Sirota, you talk about conflicts of interest [...]

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 [...]

According to a Pew poll, atheists are the most reviled group in the nation: An atheist 65% Someone in “their” 70s 50 Muslim 48 Homosexual 46 Mormon 32 Hispanic 15 Woman 11 Black 4 It’s interesting, given the way an LBO list member, Charles, keeps insisting that blacks are more discriminated against. For those who [...]

i miss limpdick for this reason only. thank god for internet radio and youtube: Omali Yeshitela: Barack Obama and the crisis of the imperialist state and economy. Not that anyone reading this needs to be reminded of Yeshitela’s message.

[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 [...]

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 [...]