DISQUS

@ Bri
"Great"? Holy shit your an idiot...

I think is better to shop at Sim Lim Square as the people there are still quite honest. Only the second storey, those shops that sell digital cameras, the sales person are quite rough.

Why should she change? I say be yourself Michelle. The majority of Americans will appreciate that.

Last response and then I have to go all.


Regarding:Anonymous said...

Where was all this self responsibility and family values during slavery when the slave masters were raping black girls and selling off their children and not allowing black men to be men? What about the women who couldn't recieve aide for this dependent children if there was a man in the house? Obama needs to get his history straight.





One word . . . BULLSHIT

oh please.


I don't have a problem with it at all and I certainly do not interpret it as "Its like saying that you never heard someone ridicule young people for using the "n-word" garbege."



Apples and oranges. I don't see the connection. I really don't.



I say the same things to my nieces and nephews all the time. I say it to the folks in my neighborhood, to teens I mentor at my church and at teen community forums, I especially say it to the teen boys in my outreach program, and I say it when hanging out in groups with my adult friends. I don't have a problem with it. It is the truth.



This isn't the first time Obama talked about these issues and he didn't just say these things to blacks. Go to youtube or google his speeches on fatherhood and parenting. He says pretty much the same thing to ALL parents in all walks of life. This speech was more specific because it was tailored to the attendees. I have no problems with it.

I don't have a problem with the speech. I think it is warranted and long overdue. Who better to give it than a black man (even if he is half white) who was raised without a father. So there is no better time than now. Obama touched upon fatherhood in a broader scope so in areas of his speech he touched on all fathers, however his focus in this setting was on the black community as his speech was given to a mostly black forum and spoke to those needs. He pointed out that there are great fathers, ones who stand up and take responsibility and who are active in the lives of their children. Then he turned his attention on the ones who needed it . . . the children without fathers. I have no problems with him calling a spade a spade. None at all. I understand the context of the speech and I understand and agree with it. I wouldn't change one word.


I hear the ones who say, well this is going to give "whites" the feeling that they have a pass at saying whatever they want to the black community. So what. Who cares what others think . . .One has nothing to do with the other and you don't have to accept negative statements if untrue. What is more important to me is that this speech could give dead beat fathers a wake up call to push them into taking a more active role in their children's lives. You never know . . . the child you reject may just be the next President of the United States.



Long overdue.

"I'm counting down the moments it takes for someone to demand that Obama reject and denounce R. Kelly, being that they're both from Chicago."


lol stop it! lol

Who has no Fundamental Understanding of the Surge?


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/max-bergmann/who-has-no-fundamental-un_b_106493.html

D said - I wish the war really had been about oil; maybe I wouldn't be paying as much for gas as I do. Fact is, though, that it wasn't.




Your candidate McCain said it was. Twice.

Apologies if anyone already posted. Interesting read:


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/06/06/angry-clinton-supporters_n_105653.html



Excerpt:

They're mad as hell, and Hillary Clinton's supporters aren't going to take it anymore.



Some Clintonites are so mad about Barack Obama's Tuesday victory that they've launched a web site to build support to launch a lobbying group to support Republican John McCain.



"We're going to run campaign ads to defeat Obama," says Ed Hale, a 63-year-old rancher and a Clinton supporter from Wellington, Texas. "We have doctors, lawyers, CPAs, the blue bloods, and then we have rednecks like me. It's a very diversified organization."



The split illustrates the difficult task the Democratic party now faces in rallying the troops behind Obama. Open dissent within party ranks provides Republicans with openings to exploit.

All - the road is going to get even steeper and more dangerous as we move closer toward the November election.


Barack asked that we:

'Please cover me with your prayers...cover me, Michelle, and my family with your prayers'. 'A blanket of prayer to cover us all, that is what I am asking of you. Pray for me'.



- A Prayer For Barack -

'Father, in the Name of Jesus, we lift up your son Barack Obama on our prayers. We thank you for a time such as this and for sending a man such as Barack to fulfill your work in our land. We blanket Barack, Michelle, and his family in our prayers, our love, our warm thoughts, our positive energy, and our spiritual forces. We ask that you cover him and his family with your precious blood. We stand resolute in prayer and in absolute power against any and all negative forces or spirit's of darkness, ignorance, and hatred that would seek to destroy Your handiwork. O Lord, Barack is Your Handiwork. And we praise, worship, and honor you for the great things you are doing and will do through his hands. In Jesus' Name ... Amen.'

S - you are 100% right. Only Hillary Clinton can fix the situation with her supporters. It is her mess to clean up. Any intervention from Obama will only escalate hostility until she resolves it.

D - I deliberately included a link where the commentators were arguing both sides.


Yes he did say it. See the like includes the entire commentary. It is in context. Open ended 100 years is fine with him.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=-VRAshmSdps



McCain on Iran

http://youtube.com/watch?v=o-zoPgv_nYg



Last from me on this one.

D - he did say 100 years of war


http://youtube.com/watch?v=jujPbQxChIY

Is McCain's *100 YEARS IN IRAQ* Statement Fair Game?

D and S - saw your notes to me from last night under the SPEECHES blog and responded to it. Take a look when you have a sec.

S - come on now! This is not about the Huffington Post. Look at the facts itself. We are talking about what McCain said as far as his support for the Katrina he knew he voted against it. He also said Obama did not contribute substantially in anyway on Iran or Iraq. Lieberman could have helped the brother out. So it isn't about Huffington - instead it is about the man himself.


So don't make excuses like that for him. We aren't stupid. McCain is human and certainly is not perfect. We shouldn't expect him to be. I still like the man. Again, I say the problem is his advisors. They need to let the man run the campaign using his own instincts. Play on his strengths instead of trying to adopt ways that just does not work for him. Look, you can't know everything. You just can't. Which is why you surround yourself with experts in all areas. Now based on their input, McCain can make sound decisions. But they set him up everytime when he goes out there and says something in one venue and forgets what he said about the same subject in another. They are setting him up for failure.



I am so looking forward to this election it is very exciting. I want him to catch his stride. Then may the best man win.

D -- STOP IT!!!! ROTFLMAO.
hahahahahaahahahaha



It has been a bad day for McCain but it will get better I am sure. The trouble is McCain's folks are trying to force him into a mold that just does not fit. They need to let McCain be McCain and let the chips fall where it may. He is a good guy but they are stifling him and he comes off as fake. McCain's advisors are doing him a disservice. They need to trust the man's instinct and let him do his thing.



Although you know I still want Obama to win but . . . would prefer a fair fight.

Again for D and S


McCain acknowledged he was not aware that Obama had introduced a bill that called for international divestment from Iran.



Reporter: Are you familiar with his disinvestment bill?

McCain: No, I am not familiar with it at all. I do not know if it passed the senate or had any hearing or anything else. I had, so, literally thousands and thousands pieces of legislation are proposed every year. I know what he did. He voted against the Iranian revolutionary guard being declared a terrorist organization.





The admission could prove damaging for a variety of reasons. For starters, Obama's bill, which passed overwhelmingly in the House of Representatives, is currently being held up in the Senate by Republican Sen. Richard Shelby. More significantly, two McCain surrogates, Sen. Joseph Lieberman and Rep. Eric Cantor, are co-sponsors of Obama's measure despite, on Wednesday, ripping the Illinois Democrat for not having the experience to deal with Iran.



But a more worrisome issue for the McCain campaign may just be that a theme is emerging, both within the media and political circles, that the Arizona Republican has a penchant for playing lose with the facts. Indeed, last week, McCain lost crucial news cycles after he falsely claimed that force levels in Iraq had been drawn down to pre-surge levels and then, instead of admitting he misspoke, said the whole thing was a debate over verb tense. This, in turn, came after the Senator claimed, again falsely, that Iran was training al-Qaeda in Iraq, when in fact the two groups are religious and political adversaries.

D & S -


Appearing at a press conference in Louisiana on Wednesday, McCain claimed that he had supported "every investigation" into the flawed response to Hurricane Katrina, when, in fact, he had twice voted against creating a commission to inspect the tragedy.



The remark immediately bounced around political circles and websites. After all it was just a few months ago when McCain defended those very votes on the back of his campaign bush, casting them as part of a broader campaign against wasteful spending.



"I'm proud of my support of American citizens regarding the taxpayers," the Senator said in April. "I will not vote for projects and programs and bills that are laden with pork-barrel projects that waste taxpayers' dollars."



The entire episode elicited a scathing rebuttal from the Obama camp.



"Whether he simply wasn't aware of his voting record again or he was intentionally misleading the people of Louisiana, John McCain certainly isn't offering us 'leadership you can believe in,'" wrote aide Hari Sevugan. To which, McCain's aides accused Obama of negative campaigning, saying the Senator wasn't familiar with the specific votes and had always supported Senate investigations, just not commissions.

D - this one is for you and S.


McCain's Day Marked By False Statements And Gaffes



http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/06/04/mccains-day-marked-by-fal_n_105283.html

Hey Jack - you forgot to include my FAVORITE excerpt from this story. I posted it in two of the posts below but I have to post again it tickles me so bad. Sorry . . . can't help it. Okay here goes. Check out the last sentence.


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“We pledged to support her to the end,” said Representative Charles W. Rangel, a New York Democrat who has been a patron of Mrs. Clinton since she first ran for the Senate. “Our problem is not being able to determine when the hell the end is.”



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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/05/us/politics/04cnd-campaign.html?_r=1&hp;&oref;=slogin

Obama's team just announced that Hillary is not a choice for VP pick.


- MSNBC

Obama's team just announced that Hillary is not a choice for VP pick.


- MSNBC

"Hold on, I'm bout to put on some Blackstreet "Good Lovin'" after that photo. Suki suki. Damn, Quiet Storm in the White House."


Nita - I thought it but I didn't say it. LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

My favorite part in the NY Times article.


http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/05/us/politics/04cnd-campaign.html?_r=1&hp;&oref;=slogin



Excerpt:

“We pledged to support her to the end,” said Representative Charles W. Rangel, a New York Democrat who has been a patron of Mrs. Clinton since she first ran for the Senate. “Our problem is not being able to determine when the hell the end is.”