DISQUS

Craig,
Michelle seemed kind of cagey on Q&A; as if she wasn't prepared. Admittedly, some of the questions were minor league for someone of her stature. Brian Lamb, host of Q&A;, sounded inpatient with the way she skirted around and glossed over some topics. It seemed that he was trying to flesh her out to get a robust interview going but she remained rather shallow and unthoughtful in some of her responses.

Many of her replies rang hollow and sounded canned and Party line.



I'm not sure that she's looking to be appointed as an Obama cabinet member but his coattails are so anointed that anyone would be well served by clinging to them.

OT: Michelle Bernard, President and CEO of The Independent Women's Forum and a political analyst on MSNBC, was tonight's guest on C-SPAN's Q&A.; She considers herself right of center and politically independent but some of her expressed viewpoints sounded extremist (she referred to certain feminists as "silly women"). I was struck by her lack of candor and her broad brush approach and lack of clarity or depth on some topics raised in the interview.
She sees herself as a feminist of the Sojourner Truth era. It was a fairly vacuous, yet revealing, interview.



When asked if she read blogs, specifically if she was aware of the following comment posted on "Conversations with an Unapologetic Black Liberal," Michelle dismissed all blogs w/"I don't read any of them" and poo-pooed the commenter's cowardice for hammering out what she (Michelle) called a lie on a blog vs. calling her (Michelle) up. Michelle claimed to not know who the commenter is but did admit to being very close friends with Mr. Vernon Parker. Strangely enough, when the discussion moved to her family, although she mentioned her two children, she did not mention her reported husband, Joe Johns of CNN, nor was she wearing a wedding ring.

I went to law school with Michelle and was a member of her wedding party (her first wedding). The reason why Michelle is a supporter of Obama is that she is an opportunist. In law school she was a liberal democratic and supported the party. A black male friend of ours Vernon Parker, changed his party to become a Republican. He got a political appointment and shot up through the administration. Michelle thought this was a great way to move up the ranks in politics…fewer black conservatives gives her higher visibility. So she went for it. She is supporting Obama because she wants a political appointment and this is the easiest and fastest way to get there now that she sees that the Republicans have no shot at regaining the White House.



Trust me, I know Michelle.

Mr. Turner,
This morning on MSNBC, Harold Ford corrected himself and said that he was praising the purpose of McCain's speech not its delivery or necessarily all of its content.

As the adage goes, keep your friends close and your enemies closer. Hill and Barack are not sworn enemies but they are/were opponents.

Barack may not need Hillary, per se, but he certainly needs her supporters. To that extent, if she can help him garner support among her core then he should use her for that express purpose.

OT but did anyone catch the talking fools at faux laughing about a double hit (yes, the "a" word) on osama and obama?
FoxNews Jokes About Obama Being Assassinated (w/ video) [Updated w/ Full Segment]





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LOL @ squarepeg.

Harold Ford, Jr's advice for Senator Obama.


Go Meet Them, Senator