First

Sorry, I always wanted to do that.

Ms. Lovely

Go Barack!

myspace.com/keifk

OBAMA 08

what a lovely black family

OBAMA 2008…everyone lets get used to saying it—-> “President Obama”

There’s something about Barack that warms my heart. I saw this quote somewhere, and i think its says alot.

“Crispus Attucks was one of the first to die in the American Revolutionary War. Crispus Attucks died so that Rosa Parks could sit. Rosa Parks sat so that Martin Luther King Jr. could march. Martin Luther King Jr. marched so that Barack Obama could run and Barack Obama ran so that our children can fly”

OBAMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!

OBAMA 2008

NUBIAN QUEEN

There’s something about Barack that warms my heart. I saw this quote somewhere, and i think its says alot.

“Crispus Attucks was one of the first to die in the American Revolutionary War. Crispus Attucks died so that Rosa Parks could sit. Rosa Parks sat so that Martin Luther King Jr. could march. Martin Luther King Jr. marched so that Barack Obama could run and Barack Obama ran so that our children can fly”

^^^^^BEAUTIFUL!!!!

osama will never win. if he is our representative for the democrats then i will vote rebuplican. and i bet that i wont be the only one in america who does

@ Nubian Queen – WOW!!! That quote just made my day. Get out and vote. OBAMA 2008

Go OBAMA!! Haters gotta hate. “They said the same thing about the NY GIANTS. Players gotta Play!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I’m voting for him. We need a black Prez fo sho!

He can end da war. Obama 4 Prez!

Good thang his girls don’t look like wifey, she scarey looking. My girl told me she made Stevie Wonder fall.

CLINTON CLINTON CLINTON CLINTON CLINTON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

They are both good candidates (CLINTON/OBAMA), and as a “respected media source” (picture me snickering), YOU should be encouraging people to get out and JUST VOTE FOR SOMEBODY INSTEAD OF SITTING HOME AND WATCHING FROM THE SIDELINES.

…It won’t make a difference. Unfortunately, and quite sadly, Obama is no different from the rest of congress – and therefore will be a typical president – especially in this time of wicked war and wicked foreign policy.

DOMESTIC IMPACT OF THE WAR by DR. KING 1967.

… In the past two months unemployment has increased approximately 15%. At this moment tens of thousands of people and anti-poverty programs are being abruptly thrown out of jobs and training programs to search in a diminishing job market for work and survival. It is disgraceful that a Congress that can vote upwards of $35 billion a year for a senseless immoral war in Vietnam cannot vote a weak $2 billion dollars to carry on our all too feeble efforts to bind up the wound of our nations 35 million poor. This is nothing short of a Congress engaging in political guerilla warfare against the defenseless poor of our nation.

… In the past two months unemployment has increased approximately 15%. At this moment tens of thousands of people and anti-poverty programs are being abruptly thrown out of jobs and training programs to search in a diminishing job market for work and survival. It is disgraceful that a Congress that can vote upwards of $35 billion a year for a senseless immoral war in Vietnam cannot vote a weak $2 billion dollars to carry on our all too feeble efforts to bind up the wound of our nations 35 million poor. This is nothing short of a Congress engaging in political guerilla warfare against the defenseless poor of our nation.

… The inflation of war cuts the pay of the employed, the pension check of the retired and the savings of almost everyone. Inflation has stopped creeping and has begun running. Working people feel the double impact of inflation and unemployment immediately. But Negroes feel its impact with crushing severity because they live on the margin in all respects and have no reserve to cushion shock. There is a great deal of debate about the nation’s ability to maintain war and commit the billions required to attack poverty. Theoretically the United States has resources for both. But an iron logic dictates that we shall never voluntarily do both for two reasons. First, the majority of the present Congress and the Administration, as distinguished from the majority of the people, is single mindedly devoted to the pursuit of the war. It has been estimated by Senator (Harkey) that we spend approximately $500,000 to kill a single enemy soldier in Vietnam. And yet we spend about $53 for each impoverished American in anti-poverty programs. Congress appropriates military funds with alacrity and generosity. It appropriates poverty funds with miserliness and grudging reluctance. The government is emotionally committed to the war. It is emotionally hostile to the needs of the poor.

… Second, the government will resist committing adequate resources for domestic reform because these are reserves indispensable for a military adventure. The logical war requires of a nation deploy its well fought and immediate combat and simultaneously that it maintain substantial reserves. It will resist any diminishing of its military power through the draining off of resources for the social good. This is the inescapable contradiction between war and social progress at home. Military adventures must stultify domestic progress to ensure the certainty of military success. This is the reason the poor, and particularly Negroes, have a double stake in peace and international harmony. This is not to say it is useless to fight for domestic reform, on the contrary, as people discover in the struggle what is impeding their progress they comprehend the full and real cost of the war to them in their daily lives.

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It’s funny that a speech from 1967 100% apply to the situation in 2008. And the cycle will continue…

Apparently, history repeats itself because Americans have yet to learn – which is partly due to our government’s deliberate dumbing down of America…but I digress.

Just voted for Obama!!!! I’m sooo fired up and ready to go!!!!Cant wait to see the results!!! And if you haven’t voted yet PLEASE get out there and make this count for something..we may never have this opportunity again!! Barack Obama 4 your momma!!!!!!!!!!

@nahnah, I agree completely. Obama is just a puppet like the other candidates, no different from Hillary, McCain, or Romney. It doesn’t matter if Obama wins, it will still be the same thing. The only “change” is that the president will be black, if he even gets elected. The real presidential candidates have either had their characters smeared to hell and back, or have been completely ignored by every form of media, or both. Obama is NOT ending the war, he even said himself that he would invade Pakistan if needed. The problem is that nobody seems to notice, or care. Have anybody noticed why the media suddenly pays so much attention to this particular candidate? and a black one at that? I’ve never seen that much attention paid to Alan Keyes, and he’s been running for president forever.

This country is not a democracy. The next president of the United States has already been chosen with the help of the media. Honestly, the way I see it, if voters did not educate themselves properly, the outcome will probably go as follows: Obama wins the democratic nomination, but McCain will win the presidency, or if Hillary will win the democratic nomination, the race to the presidency will be between Hillary and McCain. Even if Obama wins the presidency, he will still be controlled by pro-war lobbyists and large corporations. With this said, Obama gets put into office and nothing changes. Obama will be blamed for his failure to make the “changes” that he promised, and will make it exponentially harder for another black person to run for office in the future.

I will vote for Obama because of what he stands for. Voting for him because he is black is the most irresponsible thing a person can do. Obama doesnt want the peoples support because he is black vote for him because you actually know and believe what he stands for.

i have a question,

co workers and i were talking about this and one of them said:

“America isnt ready for a woman in office nor a black man as well, its just a reason for one of them to get assasinated”…

he wasnt saying it in a mean way but do any of yall think that?…has that even ran through any heads?…it ran through mine…

its still running…

assasinated<—–oops typo

Some of you people make me so sick with “he won’t win” and act like yall know the basic setup of how everything goes…this same mentality is why a lot of black people are not ever happy wih who wins…we are o uick to knock one of ours down and then complain about why we don’t reall have anyone in office…Obama outside of being black is a great candidate…did yall pay attention to the amount of white voters he has also..if it were only cause he was black then no white people would care to vote for him.

Nwachukwu:

Wells said!

1. The president is not picked by the people. He/she is in fact picked by the media. Just because you get up and walk freely to the voting booth doesn’t mean you’ve freely picked your candidate – because you’ve been subconsciously directed by the media. Just look at Paul, Kucinich, and Gravel. They’ve been completely shunned by the media – and that’s because the actually represent change – instead of the status quo. Now, whether or not you or anybody else agree with their change is another thing. But, at least, their records actually match their rhetorics.

2. Research Obama’s record before he became a state senator. His record for the most part was very progressive. But, he’s been brought and sold by corporations and lobbyists.

3. One must question why the pro-war media that assisted Bush & co in lying to us into this imperialistic war of conquest would be so pro Obama – a black so-called anti-war candidate of change?…? Seriously, when has American corporations been about change?

I’ll give you something else to ponder…

Can you imagine Bush kindly giving up his power in a few months? For some reason, it’s hard to imagine. So, I think Americans need to keep our eyes open because these thugs are capable of doing just about anything…

ain’t nobody voting in new york! aaarrghhhh, the damn giants have taken over with their dang parade and people are going to get drunk afterwards and go home AFTER the polls close!!

@IM SAYIN THO….U FEEL ME??!?!?

Anything is possible, but I don’t particularly see it happening with either of these two candidates. They already submit to lobbyists, large corporations, and pro-war groups. People tend to get assassinated when there is fear that they will disrupt the status quo. Now, if someone like Ron Paul won the presidency, I could say that there would be a high probability of him getting shot. MLK didn’t get shot because he wanted equality between races. JFK didn’t get shot because he was catholic.

OBAMA 2008!

YES HE CAN!

OBAMA 2008!

YES HE CAN!

OBAMA 2008!

Hillary is the only choice. The Clintons know how to take care of black folk while this new buck ain’t got what it takes.

I’m always inclined to put myself in the hands of a white woman. Just feels right that way.

I’m sorry if Hillary gets the nomination…I donno what I’m gonna do…she can’t handle anything besides crying and no foreign leaders will respect her if she becomes president…our foreign policies will go down the drain and we will have trouble trading.

Lady Architet:

Just a few weeks ago, you made several comments about the candidates and how none of them offer any viable solution…But now I see you’ve had a change of mind? Well, that’s all fine and all, but please respect the opinions of others.

Like the majority of the folks who were ‘undecided’ or just simply not feeling Obama, you have jumped on the Obama train, which is all fine – but don’t force others to get on board.

His blackness has nothing to do with my dislike for him as a candidate. He might be great for you, but that is the power of being ‘great’ – it’s such a relative term.

Well based upon his performance as Senator of the state I am living in, FOR THE PAST SIX YEARS…

Obama WON’T be getting my vote…

Sorry…being 1/2 Black isn’t enough of a reason for me to vote for him…

Nobody is getting at Obama due to him being black. The issue that some of us is trying to put out there is that people are mostly making uneducated decisions, not questioning why some things are put into place. This is dangerous, because it keeps power in the hands of the people who misuse it.

I have to object to Kirsten John Foy’s use of the term “schizophrenic” to describe my political positions on the 2008 presidential process. As a developmental psychologist, I have dealt extensively with mental health issues in the black community and elsewhere. Schizophrenia is a serious disease which causes great hardship to those afflicted and to their families and friends. I would never transpose that very painful experience onto the political scene. I think it does a disservice to those who suffer from it.

That said, let’s get down to the details of Brother Foy’s defense of Reverend Al Sharpton in last week’s piece “The Schizophrenic Political Paradigm” in which I was accused of being schizophrenic, ungrateful and an apologist for Barack Obama.

Reverend Sharpton did host a show on KISS featuring myself and State Senator Bill Perkins, which I noted in my article a week earlier (“Clinton, Sharpton Cut Off Debate; Obama, Black Community Must Be Heard”). Sharpton’s instructions to us before going on the air were that he did not want any candidates named or discussed. He preferred a general dialogue about directions for black empowerment.

It was only after Senator Perkins specifically brought up Barack Obama’s campaign that the dialogue began to focus on the choice between Obama and Hillary Clinton. I brought up the need for Obama to directly engage Hillary about the record of Clintonism, its strategic compliance with supercorporate interests in the 1990s, and how those policies led to wage stagnation and a growing inequity between rich and poor. On the show, Reverend Sharpton concurred that Obama needed to speak more forcefully, but he offered no critique of Clintonism and its Democratic Leadership Council (DLC) philosophy.

I find this notable since Sharpton is supposedly a sworn enemy of DLC centrism. What’s more, Foy touts the historic significance of Reverend Jesse Jackson’s runs for the presidency as compared with Obama’s. Jackson’s campaigns were historic. And let’s not forget that Jackson’s candidacy, and the entire Rainbow movement, were efforts to create a counterweight to the DLC, whose center/right political strategy was designed to “triangulate” the Democratic Party away from its black base. The Clintons were originators and sponsors of the DLC approach. I’m sure that’s no small part of why Rev. Jackson has endorsed Obama.

Foy criticizes Obama for speaking to the National Action Network at the New York Sheraton, rather than in Harlem at the NAN’s rally. I’m not sure what the problem is. Barack Obama did what Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, Bill Richardson and other Democratic hopefuls did – they addressed the NAN convention at the site of its proceedings, namely the Sheraton. The conference wasn’t held in Harlem. It was held in midtown, no doubt for the convenience of the television cameras.

Similarly Foy’s article criticizes Obama’s fundraising for having come from “other segments of our society including corporations that have never had the interest of working class peoples at heart.” Why is this charge presented against Obama but not against Clinton? Indeed the more one looks at Reverend Sharpton’s reported “neutrality” on the presidential primary, the more one sees a constant barrage against Barack and a free pass for Hillary. Rev. Sharpton has every right to favor Hillary over Obama, if he so chooses. But he shouldn’t do it in a way that obscures or represses the debate in the black community.

Obama has said that America needs to “turn the page,” that we need a new way. He hasn’t spelled out what that new way is and he needs to. But Clinton’s way is the old way and it assumes, among other things, that black people frame our issues in the same old way. Police brutality. Reparations. Culturally relevant curriculum. But times are changing. We cannot build our power location simply as victims of law enforcement abuse any more than we should be willing to accept the idea that reparations are an adequate remedy for the problem of poverty. These traditional “black agendas” are conservative to the core. They keep us on the sidelines shouting for seemingly militant causes that do not improve our lives. We need radical changes in the political and policymaking process to reorganize these inequities. We do need a new way.

That’s one reason that so many African Americans are becoming independents rather than Democrats and voting independently rather than for the Democratic Party’s prescribed choices. Young African Americans now identify as independents at a rate of 35%. Just two years ago half the black community in New York City rejected the Democratic mayoral candidate and joined me in supporting Mike Bloomberg, who Reverend Sharpton has taken to saying will “give black voters an option” in 2008, part of his effort to avoid saying anything about the Democratic presidential primary. This is especially ironic because while Sharpton is now promoting the possibility of a Bloomberg run in a positive way, Foy’s article also accuses me of trying to “destroy the Democratic Party in the city of New York by working with the billionaire Republican mayor to bring about nonpartisan elections….” Nonpartisan elections was a simple reform designed to create a level playing field for New York City’s one million independent voters, many of whom are black and Latino. Reverend Sharpton needs to make up his mind. Is Bloomberg “an option” or a billionaire out to destroy the Democrats?

For Reverend Sharpton, as well as for the majority of black elected Democrats, black independents do not exist. We are a troublesome reminder of the Democratic Party’s failure to deliver a progressive agenda. And here I would fault both Clinton and Obama. Neither has reached out to black independents, to the black community of the future.

Foy tosses around numerous political platitudes including the idea that when a black candidate is in the race, the black community is bound to support him or her. Foy criticizes Obama for backing Chicago Mayor Richard Daley for re-election over a black challenger, supposedly evidence that Obama has an agenda that is counter to that of African Americans. But if one holds to this perspective, wouldn’t that make it obligatory to support Obama in the Democratic primaries? He is, after all, not only black, but the first viable black contender for the presidency with sufficient resources to mount a genuine national campaign. For those who’ve held to that “Vote Black” principle, it seems an odd moment to abandon it.

Through Foy, Reverend Sharpton insists he is simply interested in a genuine dialogue on these issues. I hope he is. And if he is, I call on him to join with me and a growing list of black insurgent and independent activists who want an Apollo forum where Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton converse on their views on new ways and old ways, and on how the black community can best empower itself through its political activism.

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Lenora Fulani is a developmental psychologist and a member of the Independence Party’s State Committee. She holds a monthly meeting in Harlem and can be reached at 212-609-2800

EVERYBODY AND THEIR MOMMA SHOULD VOTE FOR OBAMA!!!!!

Truth be told…

The Democratic and Republican party are actually one party – sorta like a double headed monster.

NahNah,

you are right I did have an undecided view on things a few weeks ago cause I didn’t have enough knowledge…but I took some time and watched debates and read to get a better understanding of things that would help me in my decision. It’s not my job to get people on the Obama train…that’s the train I choose to ride…but you got people commenting saying people are dumb to vote for him and criticizing him so hard that it’s ridiculous. I don’t see why there’s a need to come in and comment if all you doing is talking about how bad he is and all this other stuff..what I say are my opinions not persuasions.

Nwachukwu,

Are you saying that nobody in the united states should vote because it’s already set up?

I’d trade places with Michelle any day or nite. :p

OBAMA ’08!!!

ILuvYellaBoyZ

I’d trade places with Michelle any day or nite. :p

OBAMA ‘08!!!

^^^^Girl, you know Michelle ain’t giving him up without a fight!!! LOL..:)

Lady Architect:

Absolutely not! The election is set up, that’s true, but there is still a chance that people can make a difference. The key to this lies in educating one’s self about who they should vote for, going far beyond the media. Look at the person’s professional history and their voting record. Ask questions at the right places, because there is always someone willing to give answers. You have to look beyond what everyone is telling you. There are presidential candidates that no one has ever heard of, and for good reason: they will disrupt the status quo. The reason why the setup works so well is that the majority of the US does not look further than the media, who constantly dictates how people should think and act, and in this case, who to vote for.

@ helltothamaw, I’M READY. SHE CAN BRING IT!!! LOL

Hell that’s the ONLY brotha I’d even contemplate fighting over.

You don’t think the media is effective? Go outside, and tell me how many people you see wearing iPods? look at the style of dress people are wearing, and count the similarities. Look at the way that certain groups of people act and communicate. Tell me that there isn’t a pattern.

ILuvYellaBoyZ

@ helltothamaw, I’M READY. SHE CAN BRING IT!!! LOL

Hell that’s the ONLY brotha I’d even contemplate fighting over.

^^^^I know that’s right!!!

I agree with anonymous. We have such low expectations for ourselves and others. Obama will be one of the best president’s in US history. I just went to the polls and voted for a black man…I’m so excited to be a part of history…

To Anonymous, who posted @ 10:43a_ EXACTLY!!

@ helltothanaw, glad we’re in agreement, lol

Once again, nobody is carrying a “crabs in a bucket” mentality here. No one is knocking Obama because he is black, or saying that he will not win. I will, however, admit to saying that he will not change anything. Not only Obama, but all of the presidential “front runners,” as defined by the mainstream media. Do you honest think that the media will give these candidates all the attention they they are getting, if they are actually going bring change? Think about that. What large corporation do you know would accepted change? What lobbyist do you expect to adapt to change.

Do you think that Obama was the only black candidate to ever run for president? There were MANY before him, only to get completely ignored, or written off as crazy or incompetent. Look at the situation that is going on with the US economy, and foreign policy. Does it bother you that the US is essentially broke? That we have to borrow money from the Chinese to “stimulate” economy? Why do we have a war which killed more people than 9/11? Why hasn’t Bush been impeached, or arrested? Why does this “great presidential candidate,” Obama not mention these things at all? You want a change in this country? You will have to do so from the inside out, and not one damn “front runner” is saying anything. If you still think Obama is going to bring change, you are dreaming.

H I L L A R Y ALLLLLLLLLLL THE WAYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!

If anyone wants to pick an argument, come back in an hour or so, I’m going to class.

Stop telling people who to vote for. Encouraging everyone to vote is good enough.

@NUBIAN QUEEN

I am feeling your quote. You go girl.

Everyone let’s BARACKTHEVOTE.

Well, let me get out of here and go vote.

GO OBAMA ’08

While no one wants to listen to you or I whine or complain about what ever is causing us to be held down as a people, they will listen to your vote. Today we let our voices be heard.

WHAT EVER YOUR FRUSTRATION MAY BE TAKE THAT FRUSTRATION OUT IN THE VOTING BOOTH

AND THEN GO SHOW OFF YOUR “I VOTED” STICKER LIKE A NEW PAIR OF JEANS

Be sure to call up our grannies, grandpa’s, aunties, and uncles to see if they need a ride…and even that cousin who always seem to need a ride to church

BE LIKE MIKE AND JUST DO IT

VOTE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Here’s a look at the landscape today in terms of delegates up for grabs-

California 441 delegates

New York 281 delegates

Illinois 185 delegates

New Jersey 107 delegates

Massachusetts 121 delegates

Georgia 103 delegates

Minnesota 88 delegates

Missouri 88 delegates

Tennessee 85 delegates

Arizona 67 delegates

Alabama 60 delegates

Connecticut 60 delegates

Colorado 71 delegates

Arkansas 47 delegates

Oklahoma 47 delegates

Kansas 41 delegates

New Mexico 38 delegates

Utah 29 delegates

Delaware 23 delegates

Idaho 23 delegates

North Dakota 21 delegates

Alaska 18 delegates

YOU HAVE THE POWER…..VOTE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

N2U

Good thang his girls don’t look like wifey, she scarey looking. My girl told me she made Stevie Wonder fall.

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N2U, what exactly is scary looking about First Lady Obama? She is a beautiful, strong black woman, and she did not make Stevie fall.

The family in that picture will “crank dat soulja” in the White House on day one.

@Nahnah

I really don’t like negative posts, or negative people, but you take the cake. Just vote for the white lady with the lies, deceit and empty promises WHO WANTS TO GARNISH WAGES AND/OR FINE PPL WHO DON’T SIGN UP TO HER UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE PLAN.

Fine, but why must you tear down a brotha in the process? It’s not necessary. He’ll win w/ or w/o your support, and when you get through, just watch and continue to see what Billary really thinks about you, or the warmongering McCain. Whoever you support, do so, but don’t criticize others b/c they aren’t buying into your enslaved thought process.

HAVE A GREAT SUPER TUESDAY, and vote for your girl, but leave my guy alone.

OBAMA 2008!!!

I want to see the man make history but i cant vote 4 someone who potentially will allow Gay marriages. Sorry Obama. U change that stance and u got my vote

LOL! SILLY NEGROES. DON’T YOU GET IT? AT THE END OF THE DAY, THE STATUS QUO WILL PREVAIL. MY COUNTRY WILL NEVER LET A WOMAN, LET ALONE A BLACK LIVE IN THE WHITE HOUSE, UNLESS THEY ARE IN A SUBORDINATE ROLE.

IT PAINS ME TO SEE YOU MINORITIES GET YOUR HOPES UP WITH THESE FANCIFUL NOTIONS OF A WOMEN OR NEGRO RUNNING THE WHITE HOUSE AS THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

JUST BE SATISFIED THAT THEY HAVE MADE STRIDES IN OTHER FIELDS, SUCHAS SECY. OF STATE OR SENATORS, BUT ANYTHING LOFTIER WILL ALWAYS BE BEYOND THEIR REACH.

YOUR TIME AND EFFORT WOULD BE BETTER SERVED BY CASTING YOUR VOTE FOR THE TRIED AND TRUE MIDDLE-AGED WHITE MALE TO STEER THIS GREAT COUNTRY. VOTE FOR EITHER MCCAIN OR ROMNEY. VOTE FOR THE STATUS QUO. IT’S SAFE. IT’S RIGHT. IT’S WHITE!

GOD BLESS AMERICA!

Memo to Obama: Become bigotted and you’ll have lpatt169′s vote.

LMAO @ these single issued voters. Especially when it’s other ppl’s private life. Not the economy, foreign relation policy, or health care.

@sherman b

Surely you’re being sarcastic. That mind set is that of many in this world. However, the opposite of that has gotten us this far… so I say we should dream EVEN bigger and damn the nay sayers.

OBAMA 2008!!!

I just have to say that to all those people who don’t accept change can come, remember that WE the people run this country. That is a powerful concept and that is how Obama’s campaign has grown so fast and so far. IF we as a country, together, stand up to those corporations, WE can change the world. Obama is more than a politician, he is on a journey sent from God to lead people out of darkness and into the light. Never before have we in our generation seen someone inspire people of all backgrounds and denominations. Faith is based on hope and belief. Collectively, WE can change this country.

OBAMA 08, CHANGE the GAME

WHY I AM VOTING FOR BARACK OBAMA

I am sick of folks who don’t think Barack Obama can win complaining that black folks should not consider race to make their decision. Why the hell not? Some veterans vote for veterans, many evangelicals vote for so called candidates who profess their views, many white folks will be voting for whites, SO WHY THE HELL SHOULD I NOT VOTE FOR HIGHLY QUALIFIED BLACK PRESIDENTIAL CANIDATE?

Hell yea, I’m not ashamed to say I’m voting for him because he’s black, but that is not the only reason. While Obama is a consensus-builder at heart, he’s not afraid to stand on principle, even when it’s not politically expedient – he was alone among the leading Democratic presidential candidates in coming out against the Iraq War from the start.

This is a man who got a law degree from Harvard, and could have earned millions like John Edwards, but instead he went to live and work on the south side of Chicago, and that says a lot about him.

It’s a little clichéd, but true: a president of color will surely send a strong signal that people of color (and, frankly, all people not born into White, male, Christian privilege) need no longer assume that this country won’t let them succeed. It won’t be an end to racism, of course, far from it. And I’m even a bit worried that conservatives will use an Obama presidency to claim that “Racism is over! We don’t need affirmative action or any of that anymore, see!” But despite that possibility, the benefits outweigh the risks. At the very least, an Obama candidacy will emphasize the political importance of people of color, even if loses.

The president, in addition to being our leader, is our representative—the public face we show the world. Our modern world is no longer one which appreciates a superpower throwing its rich, white, establishment weight around. Europeans, South Americans, Middle Eastern countries, and sworn terrorist enemies resent that to varying degrees about us. Electing a young, multi-ethnic brown skin man for president will present a much different face: one that says, “We’ve come to realize that our strength comes from our diversity. Our economic strength resides in the hard work of our immigrants (both willing and unwilling) in our present and our past, and we all have a stake in our success. There’s more to this country than you are accustomed to seeing.”

Even Republicans are attracted to his integrity and his willingness to seek common ground. He isn’t perfect, of course, no candidate is. But he offers the best hope of emerging from the 8 years of disaster we call the Bush Administration, and a politics of division.

And this son of the Diaspora, (regardless if his mother is white, he considers himself black) clearly inspires young people to be involved in politics.

So in the final analysis, I am voting for Barack because of the things I have mentioned, and all the reasons that are too much to post on this blog. I am also voting for him because he IS A QUALIFIED BLACK MAN!! And if people don’t like it, they can KICK ROCKS AND BREAK A TOE.

BARACK THE VOTE!!

SHERMAN B. YT, do me a big favor, go stand infront of a bus.

NUBIAN QUEEN, DO ME A FAVOR AND GO TO THE BACK OF THE BUS. I’M FEELING A LITTLE NOSTALGIC FOR THE OLD DAYS WHEN YOUR KIND KNEW THEIR PLACE.

People just vote.

Out of the candidates still in the race, Obama seems to be the best choice. Hillary and Bill’s recent behavior has irked me. This morning she said Americans should support the ‘electable’ candidate. That’s code for ‘not the black guy’. Shame on them! Romney and McCain are a joke. McCain is four years past his prime. Now, he doesn’t make sense. Romney is out of touch and only knows how to lie, lie and lie some more.

OBAMA ’08. There is NO other choice!!!!!!!!!!

SHERMAN B. YT, i’ll go the back of the bus and blow ur ass up.lol

NUBIAN QUEEN

N2U

Good thang his girls don’t look like wifey, she scarey looking. My girl told me she made Stevie Wonder fall.

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N2U, what exactly is scary looking about First Lady Obama? She is a beautiful, strong black woman, and she did not make Stevie fall.

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I guess she ain’t light skindedded like self hating negroes prefer…

I am voting for Obama because of INTEGRITY/CHARACTER

INTEGRITY is a BIG thing with God, and we need INTEGRITY back in the white house.

He is a man of integrity and character.

@ Nwachukwu

You are right, there are other presidential candidates out there other than what we see on TV. But best out of the ones we see in the media is OBAMA. It take money to get your name out there, and a lot of it. These candidate have serious campaign money, that why they are in paper and news. I agree with you that we all should research who we would vote for be for we vote, and from my research OBAMA is the best candidate.

Just to comment on what somebody else said about OBAMA being assasinated, Im sure that situation runs through his head all the time.

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THAS A GOOD LOOK VOTE OBAMA

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“GRIND OR DIE”

I am a light skinned black woman of many colors and I think Michelle is the hottest chick in the game, hands down. She is statuesque, intelligent, strong,eloquent, and elegant. She will represent the US well. Barack makes me proud to be an american.

OBAMA 08! Change the Game

Obama 2008! yes we can! peep that new video by will.i.am!

yes! he is President Obama. thank you!

Michelle is a sun goddess! beautiful! her daughters do look like her! stop hating! get your ass up and go vote!

@ Nah Nah

You raise a lot of good and important points in your rhetoric. (My feeling is that the Democrats have F****D Black folk. As a long-time very active INDEPENDENT organizer, I would support you to Please mature and develop your opinions and you my come-off a little less self-rightoues (that may be what people are responding to)- it is easy to commentate.

Question; What are you actually building? (I would support something subtanstial and meangful beyond words) We need more young people like you to help reform the process – (should you desire to) from the bottom up! -

nahnah

Truth be told…

The Democratic and Republican party are actually one party – sorta like a double headed monster.

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so, with your belief, should we vote? Black people died so we could have that right, but your posts doesn’t reflect that knowledge. I resent it.

VOTE!!!!!!!!!!!!

Make it rain on them hoes Obama!

sigh…

US Democratic Party voters in Indonesia, where Barack Obama spent part of his childhood, handed him a win over Hillary Clinton in the first voting abroad on “Super Tuesday,” party officials said.

Seventy-five percent of nearly 100 votes cast by expatriate Americans just past midnight (1700 GMT Monday) went to Obama and 25 percent went to Clinton, Democrats Abroad officials here said.

Results still need formal verification.

Registered Democrats in Indonesia’s capital Jakarta were the first to vote in person on the day of the US mega-primary, which will select more than half the delegates to the Democratic National Convention in August.

The convention will in turn choose the party’s presidential candidate in the race for the White House.

Democrats are voting Tuesday in 21 states across the United States as well as American Samoa.

Voting for Democrats living overseas has now also begun and will last until February 12. They will send 22 delegates to the convention at which they will have a combined 11 votes.

Arian Ardie, the chairman of Democrats Abroad’s Indonesia committee, said Democratic officials here tried to create a buzz similar to that surrounding the New Hampshire town of Dixville Notch.

The midnight vote in that state’s primary on January 8 was keenly watched by both campaigns and media alike despite its tiny size.

Only 17 people voted this year in Dixville Notch — 10 in the Democratic primary and seven in the Republican primary.

“It was really our idea in order to perhaps differentiate ourselves from the other voting centres,” Ardie said, referring to the decision to open voting at midnight.

Obama moved to Indonesia when he was six after his divorced mother remarried an Indonesian foreign student.

“It was very powerful. I had an Indonesian stepfather. I went to an Indonesian-speaking school,” the Illinois senator has said of his time in the world’s most populous Muslim nation.

“It gave me an enormous appreciation for the magnificent culture and history of Asia. It gave me a great love for the people of Asia,” he said.

The Republican Party, which will hold Super Tuesday primaries in 21 states, does not elect convention delegates from overseas.

From breitbart.com

YES WE CAN! FIRED UP AND READY TO GO! BARACK THE VOTE! 2008!

Barack Obama has taken the lead over Hillary Clinton in California in a new poll, and Mitt Romney is ahead of John McCain there.

The poll showed Obama held a comfortable lead over Clinton, with a 49 percent support to Clinton’s 36 percent, a major turnaround in a matter of days in a state that holds more than one fifth of the delegates candidates are seeking to win the nomination.

Voters in California and 23 other states are heading to the polls to cast votes in Republican and Democratic presidential primaries.

The Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby poll released Tuesday showed GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney with a 7 percentage point advantage over Arizona Sen. McCain even as McCain held strong leads in New York in New Jersey.

The California Democratic poll had a 3.3 percent margin of error; the GOP poll had a3.4 percent margin of error.

In New Jersey, Clinton was tied earlier in the week in the same poll, but has pulled ahead with 46 percent favoring her and 41 percentage favoring Obama.

The two were statistically tied in Missouri, while Obama held a 30-point margin over Clinton in Georgia.

McCain held wide Margins over Romney in some eastern states — 26 points in New York and 29 percent in New Jersey.

And McCain had a narrower lead ahead of Mike Huckabee in Missouri — 34 percent to 27 percent — in a state where Mitt Romney was polling in third place at 25 percent (3.4 percent margin of error).

Reuters

As I have said before, no one is telling anybody who to vote for. This is the United States, where people “bled, fought, and died” for the freedom of every individual. A few people have an opinion and the entire thread wants to call them out. Is that progress? That sounds like slave mentality to me.

I encourage everyone to vote, but make your decision an informed one. I have seen many posts here and it is clear that the majority of supporters are doing so out of emotion. The same thing happened with Bush. People make the mistake of making decisions with their hearts, and not their brains, and it causes many problems afterwards.

kara kor el,

First off don’t comment on anything I say…and telling someone to STFU over a computer…u sound very immature and ignorant…you trying to knock me for my PERSONAL opinion?…that’s my opinion and I’m sticking with it…n I’ll the same statement again and again because it’s how I feel…and as far as Hillary being respected you right she’s respected as far as being Bill’s wife…stop acting like she commanded it everywhere she walked…And your statements are very blank and ignorant about Barack…

@ Nwachukwu

Bush won the election not because people did it off emotion, but he used religion to fool states that won him the election.

And religion does not have emotional ties, how?

nah Bush won because the other candidate said he would allow gay marriage…that’s the only reason Bush won and everyone who voted for him regreted making that decision after.

Lady Architect:

If you claimed you did your research on Obama, then you shouldn’t be threatened by Obama opponents. In fact, you should be fully equipped to counter us with facts.

i say again: i am so sick and tired of black woman bashing all black men! is it any wonder you can’t get one? goddamn! i’m telling the truth! most of you are so programmed to think BAD about a black man!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! this is true!

kara kor el,

First off don’t comment on anything I say…and telling someone to STFU over a computer…u sound very immature and ignorant…you trying to knock me for my PERSONAL opinion?…that’s my opinion and I’m sticking with it…n I’ll the same statement again and again because it’s how I feel…and as far as Hillary being respected you right she’s respected as far as being Bill’s wife…stop acting like she commanded it everywhere she walked…And your statements are very blank and ignorant about Barack…

@Lady Architect

More Dumb-assery . . .Blank and Ignorant? Oh yeah? Prove it! I think I rebutted your foreign policy/ trade stance just fine. I’ll comment on whatever I choose. I dignified your “personal opinion” with the reverence it deserved, hence the STFU. I don’t say that to just anyone, just the truly asinine. You don’t wanna be open to criticism, don’t post in a public forum.

I guess Religion does cause serious emotion, i guess his lies got him in. He had another objective IRAQ.

@sun.goddess,Lady Architect, and others

I like it when we debate. But dont dont talk down on each other. We need to be taking up for Barack on other blog sites like our major newspapers, USA Today for one. You should hear what they be sayin about us, and I know we can prove em wrong. Lets take our opinions to the next level

I JUST VOTED FOR CLINTON !!!! I HOPE SHE WINS THEN SHE CAN MAKE OBAMA HER VICE-PRESIDENT…….THATS HOW ITS GOING DOWN FOR ALL U DONT KNOWS!!!!

@look at me

sorry for the outbursts. you’re right.

i do want you all who haven’t voted, and you’re still confused, to visit youtube.com. type in ‘yes we can’. loo at that music video. maybe that can sway you.

obama is change we can believe in, and i do not think it’s wrong to hope for better, and know we can have it, if we can just stop being afraid. obama is not as shady as some have suggested. check his website out to my link to find out. he’s the only one who addresses poor people-others think poor people are middle class…byt middle class means 50,000 a year, and the median income for most is 20,000, in this day and age, that’s not enough. obama can change that. i know this.

but regardless of whoever you vote for, you have a responsibility to your ancestors to do what they died for. whoever you choose, make a choice. please.

thank you.

Anonymous, so on point and eloquent as usual.

OBAMA 2008!

sun.goddess:

There are plenty of black men who make, or are trying to make something of themselves. I am one of them. None of us need to have a “leader” to tell us that we can rise from nothing. We set out to do it ourselves, because we believed we can. If more black people taught their children that they could be anything, then we would be better off. You don’t think there are black people in power? Have you taken a look at the African continent? These may not be the greatest examples, but these leaders are the same people who descended from black people who were undergoing another kind of slavery: Colonization. Black boys will become black men when and only when they make the moves necessary to do so. No man in the oval office is going to do it, black or white.

You just answered your own question with the other half of your post when called Obama opposers to be sellouts, and for using slavery as a crutch to enforce your opinions. The longer you play those cards, the harder it will be for “black boys” to be come men.

I dont know how many cynics on here have actually attended a rally but I can tell you that what Obama is talking about is REAL CHANGE. You can equivocate about the lack of change that you’ve seen THUS FAR in government because of the partisan divide and the ‘us against them’ thing we’ve always projected to the rest of the World but Obama defies all the old stereotypes. The mere fact that he can become the President says that this nation has CHANGED. Who knows what we can accomplish with a unified country and something other than ‘an old white man’in the Oval office.

I have never in my LIFE, slept overnight in my car to wake up at 3AM to watch the doors so that I could be first in line at 5:30AM, to stand in line for 6 hours, in the rain and the cold, to get into a CAMPAIGN rally. But I did…along with 12,000 other people who showed up with less than 24hours notice, Superbowl or NOT, and PACKED Pauley @ UCLA to see Michelle Obama, Oprah, and Caroline Kennedy. It was the most inspirational event I’ve ever been a part of and as the daughter of a Vietnam Vet/Baby Boomer, I told my father, ‘We’re ready to take the lead Dad’. Its a new day. So to those who hold onto the cynicism of yesterday…go see Obama and see the faces that come to see him. This is ‘that moment’ in history for every person in this country-no matter how much you want to piss on the parade.

YES WE CAN

OBAMA 08

VOTE YES! VOTE WE! VOTE CAN!

nahnah:

You are right. Many people are still not reading and becoming more knowledgeable about the election process. Not the election process in general, but THIS one.

People are either ignoring the facts that are out there, or defending themselves by name calling or playing the uncle tom/sellout/self-hate card.

If you obama/clinton supporters want to argue, feel free to do so, but facts would be greatly appreciated.

@ California for Obama

Your comment should be Quote of the Day. Yes we can!

@Nwachukwu

good point….I would be interested to see what you have to say on politcal blogs. Have you voiced you opinion there before?

You gave your vote to

pass the law

Do you want to take it back

All the bad news we read about today

Is it because our system’s on the rack

Can you make your dreams straight reality

Can you dig the prime interest rates

Do you think you’d meet hospitality

If you went to the White House by mistake

You got the freedom of choice

You got to hold on and speak with your voice

You got the freedom of choice

You got to hold on and speak with your voice

How long I wonder,

People have to wait on equal opportunity

Instead of getting better,

Rain is getting wetter to fair reality

Employment line, jammed up behind

A smiling face with promises

Will all our hopes vanish in the soap

Cause you’ve been washed super clean with jive

You got the freedom of choice

You got to hold on and speak with your voice

You got the freedom of choice

You got to hold on and speak with your voice

Look at me:

I have said a thing or to on most political blogs, but I do not have my own, as I have been so busy with classes and work.

sun.goddess

so, with your belief, should we vote? Black people died so we could have that right, but your posts doesn’t reflect that knowledge. I resent it.

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CORRECTION: black people died so we could have our god-given rights, which include a right to PROTEST what we deem is not in our interest. So, I resent your argument.

The same way you choose to vote is the same way I have chosen NOT to vote. That’s the beauty of freedom.

SEEING HIM WIN THE ELECTION WILL BE AS EXCITING AS SEEING THE GIANTS WIN THE SUPERBOWL…GO GIANTS!!!!

Obama supporters stand strong!!! Don’t allow the “narrow-minded” few on this site who support Clinton shake your ground! Like Oprah said, “Don’t Play Me Small”. Stop allowing these self-hating Negros to discourage you from voting for whom you choose – no matter your reason; it is your inalienable right. After reading some of these comments I am AMAZED! Some of you truly have a slave-mentality – if you didn’t get the memo you ARE free. None of you Hilary supporters have made “self-examined” arguments to support voting for the cry-baby, most of you copy and paste commentary from biased publications. In my opinion and notwithstanding my selection – how could you possibly want to vote for someone who cries as a means to win? Hillary is our biggest threat to national security – because of her timid nature. To you pretentious want-to-be “informed” supporters of Clinton I say – get a clue. She has proven to be less than adequate in most facets of her coat-tail riding life. Hilary’s campaign is nothing more than smoke and mirrors. This conquest to Hilary is a pissing contest to prove that she has a bigger Johnson than Bill and I frankly don’t care. This country is teetering on destruction and WE need a radical contrast to what little she has to offer. Obama is a visionary and vision is what has allowed us to be triumphant thus far. The stark contrast is that Hilary wants to “re-implement” a healthcare package that failed before; which is part of her way to do business as usual and Obama is bringing fresh ideas to the table.

ABC (Anyone But Clinton)

Criticizing the black man is the new hip liberal thing to do. In this election, Billary has made it ok for people to call thenmselves liberal and progressive while slandering a black man. Some people just don’t get that slandering black is counter-civil rights. Billary’s slander of Obama is in sharp contradiction to the civil rights movement they love so much. People can vote for whomever we all choose, but there is no need to slander Obama.

Yes we can!

Obama 2008!

Yes we can!

Obama 2008!

Board

Frankly, I do not care oif some of you think all the candidates are the same. I really don’t. People died for the right to vote to be given to me. If I dediced not to vote to boycott, when i know I can, I am slapping the faces of those who were lynched, shot, maimed, and abused for this right. I do not really care about who a black person votes for at this point of typing THIS post, but I do care if anyone is suggesting that no one votes. I think that is the dumbest suggestion I have ever heard, and I still resent it. Make a choice.

nahnah-

God given rights absolutely. The decision to protest in what everyone says is the most historic election since 1968? I feel for you frankly. 40 years ago you would have been the person who stayed home instead of going to see MLK in DC. What was ‘good’ for ‘us’ and the country took 40 years to materialize. Was it worth it? H*ll yes. I’d rather say I participated in the change-no matter how far in the future its benefits may appear than to sit on my hands. Protest is good, I just believe you are choosing the wrong time to do it-no matter who you choose.

Nwachukwu:

People are either ignoring the facts that are out there, or defending themselves by name calling or playing the uncle tom/sellout/self-hate card.

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Pretty much…;-)

I’m voting today!!! Go Obama!! We can do it People!

@Nahnah

By you not voting, you are not protesting a thing. You can WRITE-IN a CANDIDATE!

Look, if you do not want to vote, don’t. But do not tell others to follow your dubious advice.

There is always an assumed attempt on a President’s life regardless of what he looks like. To assume that he/she would get assasinated because of that is ridiculous. Let’s get real. I hope that that would not deter you from voting for either one of these candidates because of that. That is why you have people protecting them that you don’t even see.

Lady Architect – you are the poster child for the ignorant voters out there. Statements w/zero substance. I’d take down your picture, you’re an embarrassment to our race. I think everyone has the right to their own opinion, but let’s try putting some educated opinions out there.

I feel sorry for the Lone-revolutionist. Since she is passing on her opportunity to vote, let’s see if she passes on tax breaks and anythings else that comes as a fruit of the supporter’s labor. Surely not.

There was a sea of Secret Service blocking Michelle, Oprah and the two Kennedys (Caroline and Maria) @ UCLA Sunday….you can best believe, its not going down JFK style in 2008.

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Don’t tell Lady A to take down her picture.

BA’ROCK DA’ VOTE

ALL DAY!!!

It’s time for change the Clintons are OLD NEWS

Lite&Sweet:

Please respect yourself as a human being and not allow your ignorant emotions to take control.

Like the typical negro who’s been conditioned by the American edukashun sysem, you have no idea what Dr. King stood for. I bet all you know is his “I Have A Dream” speech…Eh?

You don’t know his crusade against militarism?

You don’t know his criticism against the government?

You don’t know he labeled our government as the “greatest purveyor of violence in the world today”?

You don’t know he was highly critical of congress?

You don’t know he had enemies, INCLUDING BLACKS, who turned their backs on him once they found out he moved to what he called ‘the next phase of the civil rights movement’, which was to rally against poverty and what he saw as causes of poverty, which was war and wicked foreign policy?

I posted several paragraphs from Dr. King’s anti-vietman war speech, which very much apply to today. So, read it and educate yourself about the stance of Dr. King, and how my very own stance derives from his teachings of truth, peace, and justice.

Also, as a person who’s been arrested twice in 2003 for protesting this unjust, illegal, imperialistic war, I resent your unfounded speculations of what I would have done during the days of Dr. King.

Again, I will wait till the day when you and your cronies counter me with fact. However, I don’t hold my breath. Peace.

Conservative Democrat

Lady Architect – you are the poster child for the ignorant voters out there. Statements w/zero substance. I’d take down your picture, you’re an embarrassment to our race. I think everyone has the right to their own opinion, but let’s try putting some educated opinions out there.

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It’s time to dismantle this post. Firstly, how can you interject that Lay A’s picture is an embarassment to our race? How? She’s beautiful. Secondly, if you are commenting on her picture, then does that mean your post is not educated, but based on hatred towards her expression of her opinion? How does your posts have substance to insult her picture? I could see if you directly addressed points of her posts, but the fact you insulted the picture totally destroys that notion. You need to think long and hard before you tell other people to put out educated posts and educate yourself to how stupid your posts sound when you put one sentence in to insult someone else.

Let the back and forth begin.

Stop attacking each other people.

How difficult is it to summarize YOUR personal views without “pasting” those of another?

wow

@Nahnah

By you not voting, you are not protesting a thing. You can WRITE-IN a CANDIDATE!

Look, if you do not want to vote, don’t. But do not tell others to follow your dubious advice.

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When did I tell others not to vote? You can call it ‘dubious’ all you want. I won’t lose sleep over your opinions.

And of course you’re going to say I’m not protesting a thing. The two party system in this country have made you their slave slave. So I don’t expect you to speak against them…;-)

I can see nahnah is on here doing what she does best…argue with ppl.

@Sun

“Conservative Democrat” is one of the many personalities of another controversial blogger. Do bother addressing it – she’s at odds with herself.

“None of you Hilary supporters have made “self-examined” arguments to support voting for the cry-baby, most of you copy and paste commentary from biased publications. In my opinion and notwithstanding my selection – how could you possibly want to vote for someone who cries as a means to win?”

@ABC (anyone but Clinton)

She didn’t cry as a means to win. How did she win in Florida and Nevada then, if the only reason why she won the NH primary was by crying. Can’t you shill for Obama without being sexist or falling back on “self-hating” rhetoric? I thought you Obama supporters were such out of the box thinkers. I suppose all whites who vote for Obama are self haters as well. You know what? For that, you get a STFU, too! I’ve explained my “self examined” stance on Hillary in many other posts prior to this, so no, I’m not doing it again. Pollsters and the MSM (mainstream media) were so quick to decry Obama as the winner in New Hampshire that they didn’t bother to take into account that NH has always been friendly to the Clintons. BTW, care to inform us about what fresh ideas Obama has to offer besides his racial background, or is that your way of grandstanding? Much of my opinion has been informed by what I’ve read in various publications. I didn’t know that reading was pretentious. Can you suggest a less pretentious way for me to stay in the know? Perhaps I should just formulate my opinion solely on what comes out of Obama’s mouth and not read about his voting record. Oh Schnizzap! I know. Maybe I should get all my information about him from his music video. Uh-oh, Holla!

Wow so politics sure can bring out the beast in people

IDK about any body else but I wouldn’t want a president that cries when he/she is loosing.

@you know

And when did she cry when she was losing? Don’t you get it? The polls weren’t accurate in New Hampshire. So there’s no way of telling whether or not she was actually losing that primary to begin with. And if this “crying” bit is the best that you Obama supporters can do to attack Hillary, then ya’ll aren’t exactly making Obama proud.

Whatevs, I’m out. This ish is hella lame today.

Hillary 08!

@kara kor el

I never said I supported Obama or Hillary so take a deep breath and calm down before you start attacking someone’s position. Jeez you damn ppl are sooo sensitive about someone else’s OPINION. That’s all it is, an opinion. I know that getting the respect in a male dominated arena is hard enough but crying only makes it worse b/c that give some men another excuse to deny women things. Saying stuff like “they can’t handle it, they’re too weak, this is a man’s job.” If you don’t like my OPINIONS, that’s fine but done read something into that I didn’t type. Oh and FYI, I don’t think her crying hurt her or helped her. I think her crying showed how passionate she was, but again that’s just my OPINION.

Up until last week I was very much undecided about who I was going to vote for. I have taken a look at both candidates equally and I will without a question be voting for Barack Obama. Hillary Clinton has insulted us and our intelligence for the last time. I too watched her this morning on the today show saying she hopes everyone comes out and votes for the “electable” candidate. That pretty much sealed the deal for me. Her underlying racist comments have shown me that she could never or would never have my familys’ best interest at heart.

Go Barack 2008!!!!!!!

just because we are voting for obama, doesnt mean that we should put hillary clinton or bill clinton down. what if hillary does win, there is a chance that it could happen, and how do you think she is gonna feel, knowing that her husband stood up for everybody in office, whether he made a big change or not, and then everybody went from calling him the first black president to calling him a racist. we are all deomocrats here, and we shouldnt be putting anyone down, who has done nothing to us, just because were voting for the other, mlk would not condone this type of behavior, have respect for each other.

Obama 08!!!!

kara kor el,

I have yet to hear you say anything intelligent about anything…the point of all your posts is to knock people and yet you have stated nothin intelligent yourself…Conservative Democrat…I’m a disgrace for having an opinion…you are crazy…what exactly do you mean are educated opinions?…your opinion is below anything considered intelligent…look at the name sweetheart…i’m far beyond intelligent..breaking down barriers and all…so get your facts straight and you push out an intelligent opinion…idiot.

nahnah,

I understand where you are coming from but a lot of my comments just go off what some1 else has said and I’m merely responding…I can sit and write all the reason and facts but then I would probably get attacked for doing that as well…I understand your point of view….but my comments are pretty standard as far as my opinions gop and I have yet to offend anyone yet you have particular idiots that don’t know what to do with their time so they come to curse people out and stuff…I’m not into that…just mere conversation and absorbing opinions.

sun goddess,

I understand what you are saying…and I think people do need to stop arguing in this forum, but you have people that come in and try to downplay a person…I really don’t understand that but then again as a race this is nothing new…many rappers talk about killing eachother everyday, many young men and women get hurt by their own race everyday, etc…not to say that other races don’t do it as well…but I’m black so I’m focusing on mine…I do think people need to stop arguing

Keep your head up, Lady A. We don’t have to agree! And I respect your positive attitude.

I’m out this beeeeeeeeeeeesh!!!

I love you all, even if you all don’t love meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

Peace!

@ nahnah

With all due respect, you need Jesus.

Lady Architect

While Kara was a tad rude, she was coming at you with substance, and you haven’t done that. You’re calling her posts unintelligent, but her posts have way more info than yours do. I think you’re just mad cause you’ve been outdone. How are you gonna come on a blog, post your opinion, and get upset when someone has something to say about it. Kind of hypocritical, don’t you think? If you’ve really done your homework about Obama, then you should be able to respond to what Kara wrote.

everyone in cali go out and VOTE TODAY

I VOTED FOR OBAMA IN CALIFORNIA!!!

I hope all who are old enough to vote will vote for somebody, anybody, just go vote.

If you have the time to click around on this page…

YOU HAVE THE TIME TO VOTE!!!

And… if you think your vote don’t matter, why would you think being on this page matters???

This is a lovely family indeed! I usually don’t post a comment, but I had to! I am so proud of him and his family! It is truly important to get out and vote and support Obama! I voted last Tuesday here in Florida!

Lisa…as I may say again and again..point out a factual point..besides saying foreign policy…tell me about the policy…Kara has done nothin but mention things as well…my problem is not being outdone it’s being disrespected…that is the ignorance I find.

YOU WOMEN HAVE ME YEARING FOR THE DAYS WHEN YOU WEREN’T ALLOWED TO VOTE. SOME OF YOU ARE OBVIOUSLY VOTING FOR OBAMA DUE TO HIS RACE AND SOME OF YOU ARE VOTING FOR HILLARY DUE TO HER GENDER AND THE ISSUES BE DAMNED!

WELL I HATE TO BREAK IT TO YOU FRAILS, BUT NEITHER ARE QUALIFIED TO RUN THIS GREAT COUNTRY…SO ALLOW ME TO GUIDE YOU TO RIGHT DECISION WHILE VISITING YOUR VOTING BOOTH. VOTE FOR MCCAIN.

Done with classes today… what did I miss?

BARACK OBAMA!! ALL THE WAY!!

Sherman you are beginning to urk my nerves…u men can’t survive without a woman…and everything you say to the women and here tell ur mom and see her reaction you disrespectful sorry excuse for a man or boy.

Obama 08!…making college more affordable for middle class workers,having job courses for lower class and young people, better dispersement plan for taxes, funding and better school systems in the poor areas,common grounds for renewable fuel, and clean coals, real help for the people in Darfur instead of stealing their resources (Bush-anounced by Darfur’s president).

Obama 08!…making college more affordable for middle class workers,having job courses for lower class and young people, better dispersement plan for taxes, funding and better school systems in the poor areas,common grounds for renewable fuel, and clean coals, real help for the people in Darfur instead of stealing their resources (Bush-anounced by Darfur’s president).

LADY ARCHITECT, YOU’RE ALMOST AS INSUFFERABLE AS THAT LOUD MOUTH KARA KOR EL. LEARN YOUR STATION IN LIFE. PREFERABLY, THE KITCHEN!

has anyone voted yet?

Black folk just don’t know how to handle cash in the capitalist system. The system is designed by whites for whites and only educated blacks like me are responsible enough for great wealth.

Thats why I shall be voting for Senator McCain.

Lady Architect, why are you backtracking? You said that you didn’t know what you would do if Obama didn’t get the nomination because Hillary couldn’t handle anything but crying and that she would get no respect from foreign leaders and it would affect US trade. Did you not read what kara wrote? If you take out the STFU, she answered you about Hillary’s stance among world leaders and mistakes Obama’s made as she put it (protectionism and the anti-Indian outsourcing memmo). She didn’t make a big generalization about Obama the way you did about Hillary. Then you basically told her not to say anything about your posts and later called her posts unintelligent. What I’m sayind is don’t try to play it off like she didn’t answer you back, because she did. Conservative dem is right. You’re the one that hasn’t been providing facts, not her. And even with your last post, HOW is Obama making college more affordable for the middle class? How is Obama having job training for the lower classes? How is Obama making better schools? You’re not saying anything. You’re just repeating his slogans.

thumbs down on Obama

I voted for Edwards, when he was in the race

i BARACK-ED the vote at 6 am….whoopeeeeeeeeeee!

Tiger, let me guess, you don’t like Obama because he admits that he’s black, right? Let me guess again. You voted for the blonde, white woman, right?

I voted for Edwards too on an absentee ballot a few weeks ago. If i knew then, what i knew now, i would’ve wrote my name in. Obama or Hillary are unworthy of my vote.

Obama is not related to your ancestors. he’s half white.

I’m sick of you Americans. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton ran and you didn’t vote for them even when Diddy asked you to Vote or Die. Now comes a half white guy and you rush to the polls. Is this a can’t beat them, join them deal? Give it all to the blonde white woman, America’s first black lady!

Oh I meant America’s first black first lady!

6.59pm……Polls are now CLOSED. Now let’s wait for CNN to mess up the votes and results like 2000! LOL

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Why do all the females in that picture have white woman hair? Are they embarrassed of their beautiful natural hair? As a black woman I am disgusted with this Obama character and his wannabe white loud mouth gal!!! I’m not surprised about that news that Obama’s ancestor’s owned slaves!!! I’m sitting out this upcoming election!

Kemi in Canada you’re a complete jackass! What happened to his black ancestors?

Lartisha, do you know how many blacks in the ENTIRE diaspora have slave owners in their family tree? And since its relevant to your dumbass Michelle and her two daughters have been on the campaign trail with their naturals.

Hair styles and ancestors, that’s what negroes are talking about in ’08. SMH!

I PROUDLY cast my ballot for Obama (mail-in) weeks ago. Go Obama!!!

A lot of you on this site need to check yourselves, get educated, stop sending out Nigerian email scams, and get it together. If you can’t see the hope and the promise that Obama represents, then NO ONE can help you!

NUBIAN QUEEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You just got me choked up!!!! I dont live in the States, but i’m black and THAT just made my day..No, forgetmy day, That just made my eternity! Thats beautiful!

Aww. How good to see Nah Nah on this board day and night, *still* using “cut and paste” to feign her/his (I still believe Nah Nah is a middle-aged, unemployed computer addict) “intellectualism”. Do you get paid by the post?

And I love the anti-Semetic rhetoric you offer, by the way, it’s good to see you so dutifully studying Ron Paul’s Talking Points. Now come to think of it, I haven’t heard such anti-Jewish talk since…what was his name? Um…oh, yes, Hitler. Yes, the one that shoved cyanide pills down his throat right before he introduced a bullet to his worthless brain. Well, with Hitler and Ron Paul framing Nah Nah’s philosophical and political viewpoints, I’m sure she’ll continue to inspire us all with great vision and ideas for the country, and original thought for this board. Keep it up, Nah Nah.

Bwhaha.

At any rate, it was amazing to see the turnout in my area. When I walked into my precinct, I thought it would be a Hillary sweep, but the roar of Obama supporters was deafening. I think people are so drawn to his willingness to be a catalyst for visionary thinking while at the same time, serve as a grounded voice of mainstream reason.

He demolished the vote in my state and many others. So fantastic!

It is possible for elitist white “academics” and “progressives” to pose as a black people on this site for the sole puropse of being antagonistic, even abusive, to the readers.

I can’t see where calling someone a cunt stupid or uneducated, telling someone to STFU, cursing out Jesus’ name, mocking someone’s belief in God, or dismissing everyone else’s existence and opinion fits into a positive and contructive dialogue for change?

I still feel these are tactics to distract people, specifically Obama supporters, from their focus and momentum. It’s so sad to come on this board and use one’s socially progressive privilege to minimize and attack the sense of hope and inspiration in fellow human beings.

This board used to be like a modern town hall for black people needing to talk, vent, exchange during this historical time. Now, the board is becoming a bitter distraction from sharing and exchanging ideas. I don’t feel this is an accident. This is not an accident. It is intended and instigated and it is working.

The boards used to have informed, humorous, satirical, witty posts. Now, it’s post after post back and forth of attack and defense.

Unfortunately, it’s a sad possibility that elitist white “academics” and “progressives” are posing as black people on this site and are actually at the root of this breakdown in community and communication.

OBAMA 2008!

YES WE CAN!

I stopped coming to this site and reading the comments NOW I remember why.

Most of you that post here are just about the hype. Please educate yourselves. Pick the best candidate based on your best interests. DAMN! It’s just good that more people are voting now, but I doubt that most of these people are educated themselves on anything. If you are voting for OBAMA because “I gotta vote for the black man!” then get a clue.

Just remember…when someone promises you the world you are bound to be disappointed….think about that

O yeah, Until we (black folks) can agree to disagree we aren’t going to get any further as a community. If you believe just because a person is black that they looking out for the next black person then you are fooling yourself.

I’m out…READ A BOOK

A Half-white Half-Kenyan man will never be Black in my mind in this country. The reason why race matters in this country is not just because we have darker skin or look different. The problem of the twentieth century according to DuBois was the color line between Black and White. The reasons for this divide: the social, political, cultural, and pathological effects of slavery, Jim Crow, segregation, etc. If you are not a descendant of these insitutions, then you are not in black in a way that means anything within the context of this nation’s history. Black people are supporting Barack Obama, not because he represents their interests, and not because he is black (remember, before he won Iowa, he wasn’t black enough for most blacks), but rather Black people support him, because white people love him ( they love him beause he is a non-confrontational mulatto who allows them to redeem their inherited sins of racism without doing anything uncomfortable to correct the institutional barriers of disrimination that remain against Blacks). Although we know his half-kenyan ancestry (which he hardly knew), hardly qualifies him as Black AMerican, because the media labels him as such, Blacks jump on the bandwagon, because we have been beaten down so long that we will do anything to be affiliated with what we deem as a winner. It’s the same reason why even though Tiger Woods won’t call himself Black, we will never stop claiming him. We can live vicariously through him, as he dominates a white-dominated world. Obama is the same principle. While one could argue there is nothing wrong with the Tiger or Obama phenomenon, I disagree because the stakes are too high when talking about the President of the U.S. There are no real consequences to rooting for Tiger, but by helping elect Obama, a fake black, we disadvantage generations of Blacks. While the black elite may support Barack, realistically seeing it as an opening for their future advancement, the larger underpriveledged group, will suffer the consequences of a white America who through the election of this half-kenyan, white-bred man, believes that it has entered our nation into a post-racial stage, where racial differences no longer determine outcomes, and the issue of race can be permanently put aside. Barack will not be President by focusing on Black issues, anywhere outisde to the parameters of a black church on MLK Jr. Day. And because that’s the coalition he needs to get elected and stay elected, and because he will count on Blacks blindly following regardless of actual advocacy, the issues of Blacks will be permanently muted, with nothing to show for it. It may be offered, that the first black President will be responsible for this fate no matter when and who, and that argument may be correct. However if this is to happen, let it be the Great Great Grandson of slave, who’s family struggled through all the major oppressions that this nation has placed on our people, and let the candidate have the conviction, at least during the election, to force the entire nation to reckon with it’s past, by electing a true forebearer of it’s strange opressive fruits. There is no secret that a Black man or Black women can rise to great heights in this nation, by agreeing to the behave a certain way for whites. Barack’s ascendancy is not as magical as we think. Colin Powell, could have easily been the first Black president if he had ran in 2000. However, it is not the color of the skin alone, that makes a Black president significant, it is the strength of their convictions and connections to their history and culture. This country elects unabashadly white-acting people to be President. So we will have done nothing, until an unabashadly Black individual is also able to be elected President of the United States. Anything less is charade to placate the Black masses, like so many token appointments before it. It is our sad fate, that as a people, we are so desperate for validation and redemption, that we search for it in the desert, and when we discover a mirage, we are so famished we drink the sand. Of course, maybe we it’s not that we do it out of desperation, maybe it is because we have yet to learn the difference betwen real redemption and false hope. Please think again about your emotions about this candidate. Once you place these racial issues in the proper context, examine the candidate’s records and the experience, and make your decision again. If you still decide Obama, so be it. The increased burden on our people will be great, and therefore your decision should not include an ounce of racial pride. However, that does not make it the worng decision, if you do out of genuine love for your country.

There are plants on this site and they are rude and abusive to Obama supporters. Thet come here just to harass Obama supporters. I think this is unfortunate. The things said to Lady Architecht were just plain awful. Many people have said there are plants on this site and I agree 100%.

damn, them little girls look JUSS like they momma. the older one look like a midget version of her mom. gorgeous family tho! Obama 08!!!