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WHITE GUILT = BLACK POWER
Post Date: 2008-05-07 09:25:35 by Jethro Tull
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WHITE GUILT = BLACK POWER By Shelby Steele. January 15, 2002 The Wall Street Journal - January 8, 2002 THERE SHOULD BE many more imbroglios like the one currently playing out at Harvard University, enough for America to finally understand that white guilt is exactly the same thing as black power. But it is testament to the daunting power of white guilt that confrontations like this one happen so rarely. Harvard's new president, Lawrence Summers, is reported to have rebuked arguably the most famous professor in the university's well known, if undistinguished, Afro-American Studies Department - Cornel West. Even on their face, the reported charges behind this rebuke seem ...
Exit polls: Half of Clinton's supporters won't back Obama [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2008-05-07 08:23:44 by Jethro Tull
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Found 11 hours, 53 minutes, and 8 seconds ago on politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com Hillary Clinton takes a picture with supporters in Indiana. (CNN) -- Just how badly is the Democratic Party divided? According to the exit polls, half of Clinton's supporters in Indiana would not vote for Obama in a general election match up with John McCain. ...Schneider: The troubling racial divide continues Posted: 07:42 PM ET A man votes in Wilmington, North Carolina. (CNN) – It’s the mirror image of Barack Obama’s white working class voter problem – Hillary Clinton’s continuing troubles with black Democrats. Obama pulled in 78 percent of the black vote in South ...
Exit polls show signs that Limbaugh's minions turned out for Clinton
Post Date: 2008-05-07 06:40:04 by Ada
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Rush Limbaugh would like little more than to see Democrats Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama keep fighting each other for at least the next month, if not until the Democratic Convention itself. Before the Texas and Ohio primaries in early March, the conservative talker began encouraging listeners to cross over and cast ballots for Clinton in Democratic primaries. At the very least, he figured, the Democrats would keep fighting each other and let GOP nominee John McCain float above the fray. In perhaps his most optimistic scenario, Clinton would grab the nomination, giving the right another crack at one of their favorite foes in a general election campaign. Limbaugh dubbed his scheme ...
Why Isn't It the End of Hillary?
Post Date: 2008-05-07 05:44:28 by Ada
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Because she's the War Party's favorite With Barack Obama sweeping North Carolina – in part due to massive turnout by students and African-Americans – and Indiana (as of 5:00 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time) very possibly a close call, the numbers should be telling us Hillary Clinton is finished – at least as far as the elected delegates are concerned. The mathematics and the clock would normally doom her campaign, but being the candidate of the Establishment, she's not being counted out. Far from it. The one chance she has, and it's not all that unlikely, is if she manages to convince the "super-delegates" – elected officials and other grand ...
Is Worse Better? Some Surprising White Support For Obama
Post Date: 2008-05-06 22:40:04 by Tauzero
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Is Worse Better? Some Surprising White Support For Obama By Peter Bradley If you pay a visit to Barack Obama's official campaign website, you will find a host of subgroups in the "People" section boosting his candidacy. The man who will help us overcome race has separate categories for Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, Latinos, First Americans (he is not talking about the ancestors of Kennewick Man) and, of course, African Americans. If you are white and racist enough to notice you are not part of Obama's rainbow, don't worry. You can still join groups for students, women, veterans or the LGBT crowd. If you are just what Obama notoriously called a "typical ...
Hillary's Political Funeral? [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2008-05-06 20:00:35 by a vast rightwing conspirator
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I am watching the Indiana/Carolina primaries returns. Hilly is leading in Indiana by some 14% and CNN already gave Carolina to Obama and they don't expect Hilly to do a double-digit in Indiana. All the big heads, including Hilly backers, it seems to me, are discussing Hilly as a has-been. Or, at least, that seems to be the mood. If Hilly loses Carolina big and she squeaks a win in NC, she may turn into the big heads' laughing stock if she keeps insisting that she's in for the win.
Obama Solidly Routs Clinton in N.C
Post Date: 2008-05-06 20:00:02 by christine
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As expected, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., has solidly won the North Carolina primary, ABC News projects, while he and Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-NY, remain locked in a tight race in Indiana. Nearly unanimous support among African-Americans, who accounted for a third of voters in North Carolina, lifted Obama to easy victory, according to preliminary exit poll results. About 91 percent of African American voters in N.C. supported Obama. The Illinois senator also benefited from a surge of new voters; 18 percent in North Carolina said it was their first time voting in a primary, and they favored him by a vast 68-26 percent. Meanwhile, it's too early to call the race in Indiana. The Hoosier ...
Indiana Primary; May 6, 2008
Post Date: 2008-05-06 19:14:39 by TwentyTwelve
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Indiana Republican Primary 6-May-08 Delegates: 57 County Results --- 5% Reporting 1 McCain 19,625 77% 2 Huckabee 2,666 11% 3 Ron Paul 1,839 7% 4 Romney 1,215 5% Indiana Democratic Primary 6-May-08 Delegates: 85 County Results --- 5% Reporting 1 Clinton 43,929 59% 2 Obama 30,557 41%
Here's exactly what will happen today (IN THE PRIMARIES)
Post Date: 2008-05-06 16:56:41 by aristeides
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Here's exactly what will happen today by John Aravosis (DC) · 5/06/2008 04:00:00 PM ET Sadly brilliant. From The Field: The day begins with the Clinton campaign “leaking” something to the Drudge Report to set expectations for the day. That then gets repeated on political blogs and cable news, where Clinton surrogate Terry McAuliffe elaborates. Today’s “expectation”: That the Clinton campaign expects a “15 point” defeat in North Carolina. Clinton’s yapping puppies in the news media repeat the manufactured expectation all day long, in which the bar is supposedly now that if Clinton comes within 15 points in that state that she has somehow ...
[McCain] Raising coin off judges (My frienzzz )
Post Date: 2008-05-06 16:21:31 by Peppa
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Citing the possibility of two Supreme Court vacancies, McCain uses his judicial speech today to raise money: My Friends, We have a lot at stake in this presidential election. As a nation, we face many challenges that will require real leadership from our next president. I have said before that this election will be about the big things, not the small things, and I write to you today about one big issue in particular - the future of the U.S. Supreme Court. If one of my Democratic opponents is elected in November, you can rest assured that given the opportunity to appoint judges, they will appoint those who make law with disregard for the will of the people. There may be at least two ...
Indiana nuns lacking ID denied at poll by fellow sister: Nun working Ind. poll turns fellow sisters away for lacking photo ID under state's new law
Post Date: 2008-05-06 16:06:04 by aristeides
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Indiana nuns lacking ID denied at poll by fellow sister Nun working Ind. poll turns fellow sisters away for lacking photo ID under state's new law DEBORAH HASTINGS AP News May 06, 2008 14:46 EST About 12 Indiana nuns were turned away Tuesday from a polling place by a fellow bride of Christ because they didn't have state or federal identification bearing a photograph. Sister Julie McGuire said she was forced to turn away her fellow sisters at Saint Mary's Convent in South Bend, across the street from the University of Notre Dame, because they had been told earlier that they would need such an ID to vote. The nuns, all in their 80s or 90s, didn't get one but came to the ...
McCain courts right wing
Post Date: 2008-05-06 12:01:04 by aristeides
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McCain courts right wing By Alexander Bolton Posted: 05/05/08 07:59 PM [ET] Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) will launch a new push Tuesday to ingratiate himself with social conservatives who mistrust him but whose support is vital to his hopes of winning the White House. Right-wing leaders, who know he needs their backing, are working on a list of demands to pin him down on choosing judges with a conservative philosophy. The two sides are engaged in a minuet that will determine the shape of this year’s Republican presidential platform. Seeking to overcome the right’s persistent mistrust, McCain will speak Tuesday on the importance of nominating conservative jurists to the ...
Former prosecutor testifies that Guantánamo military commissions are show trials
Post Date: 2008-05-06 11:40:28 by richard9151
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6 May, 2008 In a damning exposure of the US military trials of Guantánamo Bay detainees, Air Force Colonel Mo Davis, the former chief prosecutor at the American prison camp, told a pre-trial hearing on April 28 that senior government and Pentagon officials had corrupted US military justice and that former Australian prisoner David Hicks should never have been charged. Davis was appearing as a defence witness for Yemeni prisoner Salim Admed Hamdan, who has spent six years in Guantánamo, mostly in solitary confinement. His testimony further highlights the criminal conspiracy between Washington and Canberra to demonise and incarcerate Hicks for almost six years and the lack of ...
MAN FOR ALL SEASONS: CHUCK BALDWIN GARNERS NOD FOR PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2008-05-06 10:30:21 by FOH
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To some, Chuck Baldwin is the consummate Christian minister. To others, he's a one-man think-tank studying, researching and analyzing the human condition within today's American society. One minute he's leading a church service for one a large Christian congregation in Florida. Next minute, you'll hear Rev. Baldwin telling his audience why he's against killing innocent, newborn babies on his radio talk show. Or perhaps you'll hear him discussing the US Constitution's close relationship to the Christian Bible and Christian faith. As if preaching and teaching aren't enough to fill anyone's plate, Pastor Chuck is a prolific writer and columnist who's ...
GOP seeks order to primary chaos (wants nomination rules change this year)
Post Date: 2008-05-06 09:44:12 by Peppa
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In past elections, most of the stuff discussed would have been considered “deep in the weeds,” but this year there has been an intense concentration on the process itself. Is our current system of selecting presidential candidates doomed? It certainly is under attack. And that’s because it has become so messy. It often starts with a fight over whether Iowa and New Hampshire will go first, and then the rest of the states jostle and elbow each other to move up close behind them. This year has been downright chaotic. We have two “rogue” states on the Democratic side that have been stripped of all their delegates, and five “semi-rogue” states on the ...
McCain: "we've got to have comprehensive immigration reform"
Post Date: 2008-05-06 04:53:36 by nolu_chan
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http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0805/05/ldt.01.html LOU DOBBS TONIGHT Primary Showdown for Democratic Candidates; McCain Seeks Hispanic Vote; Human Smuggling Ring Busted Aired May 5, 2008 - 19:00 ET THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. * * * DOBBS: As the presidential campaign intensifies, the war in Iraq goes on. Insurgents have killed five more of our troops, four Marines and one soldier. Six of our troops have been killed so far this month in Iraq; 4,071 of our troops killed since the war began; 29,911 of our troops wounded; 13,344 of them seriously. Senator McCain, a strong supporter of the war in Iraq, today focused on ...
What John McCain Told Me, and What it Says About How Far He's Fallen
Post Date: 2008-05-06 03:47:34 by nolu_chan
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What John McCain Told Me, and What it Says About How Far He's Fallen Arianna Huffington Posted May 5, 2008 | 04:43 PM (EST) Update: Through a spokesperson with the colorful name Tucker Bounds, McCain has denied telling me he didn't vote for Bush in 2000. "It's not true," Bounds told the Washington Post, "and I ask you to consider the source." My sentiments exactly -- because John McCain has a long history of issuing heartfelt denials of things that were actually true. He denied ever talking with John Kerry about his leaving the GOP to be Kerry's '04 running mate -- then later admitted he had, insisting: "Everybody knows that I had a ...
Poll: Obama still tainted by his pastor
Post Date: 2008-05-06 03:01:42 by RickyJ
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Most Americans say Sen. Barack Obama has failed to distance himself from his former pastor"s incendiary remarks, the new Fox 5/The Washington Times/Rasmussen Reports poll finds. In the poll, 66 percent said the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. hurt Mr. Obama and an overwhelming majority said Mr. Obama's repudiation of his former pastor did not rescue his presidential campaign. Only 24 percent said Mr. Obama's denunciation made them "more likely" to support the senator's presidential campaign, compared with 27 percent who said they were "less likely" and 43 percent who said his explanation had "no impact" on their decision. Mr. Obama had to field ...
Koch: If Obama wins on May 6, he is the nominee and will lose in November
Post Date: 2008-05-06 02:36:10 by RickyJ
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Tomorrow evening we will know the outcome of the Democratic primaries in two important states that could decide the political fates of Senators Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. In Indiana, a primarily white state, we will know whether white voters, who are close to 75 percent of the population of the U.S., accept Senator Obama's explanation of why, after first stating, "I can no more disown him [Wright] than I can disown the black community. I can no more disown him than I can disown my white grandmother," he now rejects Wright after Wright's appearance before the NAACP and the National Press Club. Obama went on to explain: "The person [Wright] I saw yesterday was ...
THE MATH ~Chuck Todd & Keith Olbermann<br>
Post Date: 2008-05-06 00:05:15 by nolu_chan
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJKuAWLdxCI THE MATH ~Chuck Todd & Keith Olbermann Run time: 07:12 May 5, 2008
Countdown: Olbermann Defines Hillary's Goalposts
Post Date: 2008-05-06 00:03:56 by nolu_chan
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9qd-P2bIiY Countdown: Olbermann Defines Hillary's Goalposts Run time: 04:15 May 5, 2008
Obama damaged by Wright flap: USA Today/Gallup poll
Post Date: 2008-05-05 20:42:57 by RickyJ
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By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama's standing has been significantly damaged by the controversy over his former pastor, according to USA Today/Gallup poll published on Monday. The poll showed Hillary Clinton leading Obama 51 percent to 44 percent nationally among Democrats and Democratic-leaning independent voters, in contrast to a CBS News/New York Times survey released on Sunday that had Obama leading Clinton by 12 points. Clinton and Obama face voting contests on Tuesday in North Carolina and Indiana, the next steps in their battle for the Democratic presidential nomination to take on presumptive Republican nominee John McCain in ...
The Gospel of Consumption -- And the better future we left behind
Post Date: 2008-05-05 20:05:07 by richard9151
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05/05/08 -- - Published in the May/June 2008 issue of Orion magazine--- PRIVATE CARS WERE RELATIVELY SCARCE in 1919 and horse-drawn conveyances were still common. In residential districts, electric streetlights had not yet replaced many of the old gaslights. And within the home, electricity remained largely a luxury item for the wealthy. Just ten years later things looked very different. Cars dominated the streets and most urban homes had electric lights, electric flat irons, and vacuum cleaners. In upper-middle-class houses, washing machines, refrigerators, toasters, curling irons, percolators, heating pads, and popcorn poppers were becoming commonplace. And although the first commercial ...
Clinton Camp Says It Will Use The Nuclear Option
Post Date: 2008-05-05 15:06:47 by nolu_chan
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Clinton Camp Says It Will Use The Nuclear Option Thomas B. Edsall The Huffington Post May 4, 2008 03:03 PM UPDATE | May 5, 11am ET : Hillary Clinton's campaign today acknowledged plans to try to win seating of the disputed Michigan and Florida delegations to the Democratic Nation Convention at a meeting of the party's Rules and Bylaws Committee on May 31. In a statement issued in response to a story on The Huffington Post ("Clinton Camp Considering Nuclear Option," see below), the campaign declared: "There is no secret plan.... The Clinton campaign has been vocal in stating that the votes of 2.5 million people must be respected. Hardly a day goes by when a ...
CBS Poll: Support for Obama Rebounds
Post Date: 2008-05-05 12:08:42 by ghostdogtxn
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