Try not to be too excited that Barack Obama is motivating America’s youth
History shows that motivated college students don’t always make the best decisions.
1 comment October 26th, 2008
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When Barack Obama said:
“Don’t underestimate the capacity of Democrats to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.”
Do you think he was talking about his plans for Iraq?
4 comments October 25th, 2008
Too bad this is on ABC’s blog and not their broadcast
This fundraising advantage comes directly as a result of Obama’s abandonment of his pledge to enter into the public financing system, viagra sale sale a system creating to squelch the influence of money in presidential politics.And while Obama’s campaign can rightly claim an unprecedented number of donors, and myriad small donations, it has also refused to abide by principles of full disclosure — it does not provide the public with the names of any donors who have given less than $200, for instance.
And amidst legitimate inquiries about some of that money coming illegally from non -U.S. citizens, and some of that money being given — in aggregate — in excess of individual contribution limits, one wonders why it is that the Obama campaign feels this refusal to inform the public where all its money is coming from in any way squares with Obama’s claim to be a reformer.
Just as it’s tough to envision a world where it’s the Obamas who have an unmarried pregnant teenage daughter and conservative pundits are celebrating that fact and demanding that the girl be given privacy, it’s tough to imagine a scenario where the media allows McCain to tiptoe away from his campaign finance pledge, untrammeled, and then drown his opponent in cash, the donors for much of which are undisclosed.
2 comments October 23rd, 2008
I know no one is going to believe me
But I honestly still don’t know who I’m going to vote for: McCain or Obama.
(And I know I should know, viagra drugstore and I kind of know, but sometimes I just don’t know. You know?)
14 comments October 23rd, 2008
Isn’t that just like a liberal?
No matter how much of your money they already have, cialis pharmacy they just need more:
Just to relieve himself of that $150 million before the polls open, Obama will have to spend $12.5 million a day.
But he needs some more.
And, according to an e-mail plea to supporters, tonight’s the absolute deadline to donate $10 more and receive your special edition Official Obama-Biden car magnet.
Having now collected more than $605 million altogether, the freshman senator shows no concern over the appearance of buying the presidency. Imagine for a moment the national political conversation that could be going on now if rich Republicans had raked in that much loot for one campaign.
3 comments October 23rd, 2008
An editorial in a Madison newspaper…
…actually praising socialism.
I know, viagra malady it seems crazy, but there you are.
2 comments October 22nd, 2008
Did I miss a memo?
Where is the idea that Barack Obama is going to govern as a centrist come from?
9 comments October 22nd, 2008
For once and for all
There will be a lot more race-based black votes this election day than there will be raced-based white votes.
4 comments October 21st, 2008
One of the reasons why I think the liberals have completely lost their status as defenders of free speech:
When I was in law school, cialis mind advocatse of weakening First Amendment protections to restrict “hate speech” pointed to Canada as a shining example of how egregious expression could be banned without threatening freedom of speech more generally. At the time, viagra usa here the Canadian Supreme Court was holding that Holocaust denial and violent, misogynistic pornography are not protected under Canadian constiutitional law. And, really, who wants to defend Holocaust denial and violent pornography? Yet, less than twenty year later, we have Canadian citizens being prosecuted for quoting biblical injunctions against homosexual activity, or for merely reprinting the Danish Mohammed cartoons. (For the latest outrage, see here, courtesy of Instapundit). So the Canadian example hasn’t quite worked out as its prior advocates had anticipated. Instead of being an example of “reasonable” restrictions on freedom of expression, it has become an example of the slippery slope problems inherent in allowing restrictions on freedom of expression based on subjective views of what is sufficiently offensive or problematic to be banned.
Add comment October 21st, 2008
Laura Washington of the CHICAGO SUN-TIMES wants Obama to know he’s going to owe black folks:
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Come Inauguration Day, cialis buy pharmacy the pressure groups will be tearing up the playing field to score points with the man. Black folks aren’t going to be any different. Obama’s shadow base is revving up to produce a monumental turnout. That gives them major dibs on Obama.America’s black leadership needs to get steppin’. It’s not too early to start mapping an agenda. Start with equitable educational opportunities for African Americans. Fifty-four years after Brown v. Board of Education, mind black schoolchildren are still relegated to the bottom of the educational opportunity barrel.
Urban schools need more resources than their relatively meager tax bases can support. Expand school choice options like vouchers, build more charter schools, ramp up federal funding. The New Triers are not going to move over for the Simeons. It’s time to jettison the fraudulent No Child Left Behind initiative and replace it with a creative, no-nonsense plan.
Black America should demand that Obama cease his shameless pandering to the People of the Gun and launch a full-throttle crusade for sensible gun control. While he has been out on the campaign trail, dozens of Chicago children have been slaughtered in the streets.
Everyone is for “affordable housing.” Yet the federal government has retreated from its decades-long commitment to housing the poor. The funding is paltry and our political will is paralyzed. For instance, Chicago has spent hundreds of millions of dollars to transform public housing. The national experiment has been a boon for the elites and a bust for the poor.
Job One for black advocates: Back top Obama confidante Valerie Jarrett for HUD secretary. She is well-prepared for the treacheries of the Washington Beltway. Jarrett has stood down an array of Chicago characters, from cranky transit riders, vociferous public housing activists and mendacious aldermen. Her prescriptions will have the president’s ear.
Don’t get me wrong. Obama will prevail precisely because he is the New Black. He is a candidate who knows how to reach across race and ethnicity, to build — and govern — beyond the base.
Still, he will step into the Oval Office courtesy of overwhelming turnouts dug out of the red hills of Georgia and the gritty concrete of Newark.
There will be a debt to pay.
Black folks will be ecstatic about making history, but they won’t settle for history. We are still treading on an uphill climb. A national black agenda is non-negotiable. There may be a New Black coming to the White House, but it’s still the same old USA.
I wonder if someone should tell her that victorious black politicians who win using multi-ethnic coalitions are very unlikely to pay special attention to a black “agenda.”
See, an African-American Democratic President KNOWS black people are going to vote for him no matter what. He can basically take their support for granted. What he can’t afford to do is make the whites and Latinos who voted for him feel like they got a bait and switch.
Trust me, if Barack Obama is our next President, he is going to do everything in his power to make sure it doesn’t seem like he’s carrying out a “national black agenda.”
At least, not until a second term.
1 comment October 21st, 2008