Stupid white men

Matt was a cheap date so Mr. Slick threw him under the bus. But Matt still has a crush so he’s giving up his principles of openness and transparency to be like him. The netroots was so sexist it alienated half the Democratic Party so Chris said the netroots failed. Chris said all that’s left is the medium which his candidate naturally supports. I can’t read OpenLeft any more. Too many stupid white men. Isn’t that Michael Moore’s book that criticizes Republican white men? I unsubscribed from ten stupid white male blogs today. The netroots lost all its principles for Obama. What does that say about Obama? Clinton blogs or neutral blogs are the new progressive blogosphere. What does that say about Clinton?

Feminists

She puts it so well…

A feminist, according to Dictionary.com, is a person whose beliefs are in accordance with “the doctrine advocating social, political, and all other rights of women equal to those of men.”

What I do hear her saying, and agree strongly with, is often anti-racist sites are criticizing feminism, the theory, or making larger generalizations about feminists as a whole, rather than IDing as feminists and critiquing the movement. I think the latter needs to be done, but I’d rather it be done by those, male or female of all colors, who do accept that the basic principle of feminism is critical and who accept the identification of feminist.

Certainly, women need proof and not just words that feminism is anti-racist and anti-classist. I still feel that that means reaching out to and centering WOC and lower-income WOMEN, not pulling in all lefty causes irrespective of gender, hook line and sinker.

Because to repeat once more, these other lefty causes aren’t importing feminism. And we can’t afford to let it get lost.

Obama represents the status quo

Green Consciousness: I am afraid for Hillary

I have said before that there is very big corporate money supporting the untested BO because corporate interests feel they will be able to manipulate him more successfully than the battle scarred Clintons.

Be careful Hillary. They kill uppity women in this country just as they do all over the world. But here they make it look self inflicted.

Be careful my heroine Hillary, you are the hope of the people against the wealthy elite in the US. Big money here, left and right, is unchecked in the US. We have seen over and over, from the women who fought big nuclear to big lumber to big coal that they will kill with car “accidents” and beatings, false suicides and political assassination. Then they will close the investigation files for 50 years for the “good” of the country.

Obama represents the status quo, the old boys club. His staff is 80% male and 60% white. Clinton’s is 43% male, 40% white. That’s why male pundits, boy bloggers and big business like him. When I posted fat cats owned Obama because 17 out of 20 of the biggest contributors to his Presidential campaign were big financial, insurance and law firms and because his top contributors wanted to privatize social security, every firm from London, Geneva, Johannesburg and New York frantically visited my blog for three days even though it’s public information. Forbes Magazine and others still visit. There’s nothing more cruel than privatizing social security and making old people to eat dog food. Nothing. People work their whole lives earned their check for rent, heat and food.

More from Green Consciousness:

Barbarossa’s veterinarian was on TV today. They asked him if going down with two broken ankles was unusual and he said it was very rare - he went on about how unusual this was. He implied something was very wrong with what happened. He said that it happened at the finishing line when she was pulling up made it even more suspicious.

Even though it seems ludicrous and will make me seem crazy, I do believe this was done to send Hillary a message.

Clinton (47%) Overtakes Obama (40%) Nationally On Eve of Indiana And North Carolina Primaries

Poll Shows Clinton Campaign Picking Up Steam With Democrats Nationally

The latest Ipsos poll conducted over the weekend shows that on the eve of the Indiana and North Carolina primaries, Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton has taken over the lead in popular support from Democrats nationally. Among Democratic supporters across the country, 47% say that if the 2008 Democratic presidential primary or caucus was being held in their state today, they would choose Clinton, while 40% would vote for Barack Obama.

Americans were also asked for whom they would vote in a Presidential contest between Hillary Clinton and Republican candidate John McCain, and between Barack Obama and McCain. The good news for Democrats is that in either case the Democratic contender would have a slight edge on McCain. In a Presidential contest between Clinton and McCain, Clinton would garner 47% of the popular vote, with McCain picking up 42% of the vote. Should Barack Obama go up against McCain in November, 46% of Americans say they would vote for Obama compared to 42% who would vote for McCain.

Hillary Clinton Town Hall on “This Week with George Stephanopoulos”, 5/4/08

Part 1 Gas Tax and Honesty

Part 2 Jobs, NAFTA, and China

Part 3 State Of The Black Union, Universal Pre-K, and Pledged Delegates

Part 4 Iran, Iraq, Israel, and the proliferation of Nuclear weapons

Part 5 Food Crisis, Reverend Jeremiah Wright, Answer to Barack Obama Question from his Interview, Joint Ticket

h/t HillBuzz

That’s what it’s about?

Riverdaughter:

I don’t know who’s been giving Clinton advice lately but this was pretty, fricking brilliant. WE know that any gas tax holiday would be short term, made up with taxes on excess profits and those taxes could be structured to take the incentive out of manipulating the markets. The benefit to consumers would be small but not insignificant. And out comes Obama with an ad that essentially tells consumers to suck it up because Clinton is pandering to them. Then he offers them a tax cut. Bwahahahahah! I swear, Obama and his fanbase have no clue. They want so desperately to jettison the working class. They think they can win without them. We’ll see. One thing I know for sure: undecideds make up their minds based on the last thing they heard as they walk into that voting booth and Hillary always has a killer ad on the last day.

Jugheads not eggheads

SUSA IN Poll: Clinton By 12

h/t TalkLeft

Make calls or give to Hillary. I gave $25 though I’m tapped out.

Newsweek: Something Wasn’t Wright. Why Oprah Winfrey left Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s church.

According to two sources, Winfrey was never comfortable with the tone of Wright’s more incendiary sermons, which she knew had the power to damage her standing as America’s favorite daytime talk-show host. “Oprah is a businesswoman, first and foremost,” said one longtime friend, who requested anonymity when discussing Winfrey’s personal sentiments. “She’s always been aware that her audience is very mainstream, and doing anything to offend them just wouldn’t be smart. She’s been around black churches all her life, so Reverend Wright’s anger-filled message didn’t surprise her. But it just wasn’t what she was looking for in a church.” Oprah’s decision to distance herself came as a surprise to Wright, who told Christianity Today in 2002 that when he would “run into her socially … she would say, ‘Here’s my pastor!’ ” (Winfrey declined to comment. A Harpo Productions spokesperson would not confirm her reasons for leaving the church.)

Oprah AND Hillary wouldn’t choose Wright as their pastor. Tsk tsk.

UK Telegraph: Michelle Obama: Barack has hit boiling point

Barack Obama is struggling to contain his anger and frustration over the constant barrage of questions about his character and judgment, his wife has revealed.

C&L: Chris Matthews Show: Doesn’t Matter What You Do, The GOP (And The Media) Will Make Wright An Issue

MyDD: It may seem obvious, but: No Super Delgate has voted yet. They can’t vote until the Convention.

Womanism

is also about women. Not men. Though there’s a theological angle. A women’s theological angle.

Sorry.

Wright also helped organize Million Man March

NYT.

How come we didn’t know any of this? Why did I learn this from FOX News which I was watching because everything else is Obama News? The Taliban is a cultural nationalist movement too. Rosanne was right. We’ll be in burkas soon. Good job, third wave feminists. I’m in the fourth wave. I helped start the fourth wave.

Poll: Flap over pastor hurts Obama

USAToday:

Barack Obama’s national standing has been significantly damaged by the controversy over his former pastor, a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll finds, raising questions for some voters about the Illinois senator’s values, credibility and electability.

The erosion of support among Democrats and independents raises the stakes in Tuesday’s Indiana and North Carolina primaries, which represent a chance for Obama to reassert his claim to a Democratic nomination that seems nearly in his grasp.

In the USA TODAY survey, taken Thursday through Saturday, Clinton leads Obama among Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents by 7 percentage points, the first time in three months she has been ahead. Two weeks ago, before the controversy over comments by Jeremiah Wright reignited, Obama led by 10 points.

In February, Democrats and Democratic leaners by 33 points said Obama had a better shot at beating Republican John McCain in November. Clinton is now seen as the stronger candidate by 5 points.

Most Democratic voters are happy to see the contest between Obama and Clinton go on. One in four say Clinton should concede and one in seven say Obama should do so, but 60% say both should continue to campaign.

They say uncommitted superdelegates should take their time, too. One in four voters say such delegates should make their decision soon after Tuesday’s primaries, but nearly half say they should wait until all the primaries are over. One in four say they should wait until the convention.

Obama attended Million Man March

Everything we learn from FOX eventually hits the primary and general elections.

Biography:

In 1995, along with other prominent black leaders such as Al Sharpton and Barack Obama, Farrakhan helped lead the Million Man March on Washington.

Chicago Reader:

Obama took time off from attending campaign coffees to attend October’s Million Man March in Washington, D.C. His experiences there only reinforced his reasons for jumping into politics.

“What I saw was a powerful demonstration of an impulse and need for African-American men to come together to recognize each other and affirm our rightful place in the society,” he said. “There was a profound sense that African-American men were ready to make a commitment to bring about change in our communities and lives.

“But what was lacking among march organizers was a positive agenda, a coherent agenda for change. Without this agenda a lot of this energy is going to dissipate. Just as holding hands and singing ‘We shall overcome’ is not going to do it, exhorting youth to have pride in their race, give up drugs and crime, is not going to do it if we can’t find jobs and futures for the 50 percent of black youth who are unemployed, underemployed, and full of bitterness and rage.

“Exhortations are not enough, nor are the notions that we can create a black economy within America that is hermetically sealed from the rest of the economy and seriously tackle the major issues confronting us,” Obama said.

“Any solution to our unemployment catastrophe must arise from us working creatively within a multicultural, interdependent, and international economy. Any African-Americans who are only talking about racism as a barrier to our success are seriously misled if they don’t also come to grips with the larger economic forces that are creating economic insecurity for all workers–whites, Latinos, and Asians. We must deal with the forces that are depressing wages, lopping off people’s benefits right and left, and creating an earnings gap between CEOs and the lowest-paid worker that has risen in the last 20 years from a ratio of 10 to 1 to one of better than 100 to 1.

“This doesn’t suggest that the need to look inward emphasized by the march isn’t important, and that these African-American tribal affinities aren’t legitimate. These are mean, cruel times, exemplified by a ‘lock ‘em up, take no prisoners’ mentality that dominates the Republican-led Congress. Historically, African-Americans have turned inward and towards black nationalism whenever they have a sense, as we do now, that the mainstream has rebuffed us, and that white Americans couldn’t care less about the profound problems African-Americans are facing.”

“But cursing out white folks is not going to get the job done. Anti-Semitic and anti-Asian statements are not going to lift us up. We’ve got some hard nuts-and-bolts organizing and planning to do. We’ve got communities to build.”