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Re: Inauguration Day Open Thread

barry4obama — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 11:46:23 -0000

HAPPY BELATED HOLIDAYS 2 U AND YOURS

Re: Inauguration Day Open Thread

barry4obama — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 11:41:11 -0000

HEY EVERYBODY!!!!

Re: http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com/2008/12/tuesday-open-thread-22/

barry4obama — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 14:43:33 -0000

i'm sorry you guys but i'm a big west wing fan and this made me laugh

Re: http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com/2008/12/tuesday-open-thread-22/

barry4obama — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 14:42:52 -0000

Now that he’s finally fired up on the soup-line economy, Barack Obama knows he can’t fade out again. He was eager to talk privately to a Democratic ex-president who could offer more fatherly wisdom — not to mention a surreptitious smoke — and less fraternal rivalry. I called the “West Wing” creator Aaron Sorkin (yes, truly) to get a read-out of the meeting. This is what he wrote:

BARACK OBAMA knocks on the front door of a 300-year-old New Hampshire farmhouse while his Secret Service detail waits in the driveway. The door opens and OBAMA is standing face to face with former President JED BARTLET.

BARTLET Senator.

OBAMA Mr. President.

BARTLET You seem startled.

OBAMA I didn’t expect you to answer the door yourself.

BARTLET I didn’t expect you to be getting beat by John McCain and a Lancôme rep who thinks “The Flintstones” was based on a true story, so let’s call it even.

OBAMA Yes, sir.

BARTLET Come on in.

BARTLET leads OBAMA into his study.

BARTLET That was a hell of a convention.

OBAMA Thank you, I was proud of it.

BARTLET I meant the Republicans. The Us versus Them-a-thon. As a Democrat I was surprised to learn that I don’t like small towns, God, people with jobs or America. I’ve been a little out of touch but is there a mandate that the vice president be skilled at field dressing a moose —

OBAMA Look —

BARTLET — and selling Air Force Two on eBay?

OBAMA Joke all you want, Mr. President, but it worked.

BARTLET Imagine my surprise. What can I do for you, kid?

OBAMA I’m interested in your advice.

BARTLET I can’t give it to you.

OBAMA Why not?

BARTLET I’m supporting McCain.

OBAMA Why?

BARTLET He’s promised to eradicate evil and that was always on my “to do” list.

OBAMA O.K. —

BARTLET And he’s surrounded himself, I think, with the best possible team to get us out of an economic crisis. Why, Sarah Palin just said Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac had “gotten too big and too expensive to the taxpayers.” Can you spot the error in that statement?

OBAMA Yes, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac aren’t funded by taxpayers.

BARTLET Well, at least they are now. Kind of reminds you of the time Bush said that Social Security wasn’t a government program. He was only off by a little — Social Security is the largest government program.

OBAMA I appreciate your sense of humor, sir, but I really could use your advice.

BARTLET Well, it seems to me your problem is a lot like the problem I had twice.

OBAMA Which was?

BARTLET A huge number of Americans thought I thought I was superior to them.

OBAMA And?

BARTLET I was.

OBAMA I mean, how did you overcome that?

BARTLET I won’t lie to you, being fictional was a big advantage.

OBAMA What do you mean?

BARTLET I’m a fictional president. You’re dreaming right now, Senator.

OBAMA I’m asleep?

BARTLET Yes, and you’re losing a ton of white women.

OBAMA Yes, sir.

BARTLET I mean tons.

OBAMA I understand.

BARTLET I didn’t even think there were that many white women.

OBAMA I see the numbers, sir. What do they want from me?

BARTLET I’ve been married to a white woman for 40 years and I still don’t know what she wants from me.

OBAMA How did you do it?

BARTLET Well, I say I’m sorry a lot.

OBAMA I don’t mean your marriage, sir. I mean how did you get America on your side?

BARTLET There again, I didn’t have to be president of America, I just had to be president of the people who watched “The West Wing.”

OBAMA That would make it easier.

BARTLET You’d do very well on NBC. Thursday nights in the old “ER” time slot with “30 Rock” as your lead-in, you’d get seven, seven-five in the demo with a 20, 22 share — you’d be selling $450,000 minutes.

OBAMA What the hell does that mean?

BARTLET TV talk. I thought you’d be interested.

OBAMA I’m not. They pivoted off the argument that I was inexperienced to the criticism that I’m — wait for it — the Messiah, who, by the way, was a community organizer. When I speak I try to lead with inspiration and aptitude. How is that a liability?

BARTLET Because the idea of American exceptionalism doesn’t extend to Americans being exceptional. If you excelled academically and are able to casually use 690 SAT words then you might as well have the press shoot video of you giving the finger to the Statue of Liberty while the Dixie Chicks sing the University of the Taliban fight song. The people who want English to be the official language of the United States are uncomfortable with their leaders being fluent in it.

OBAMA You’re saying race doesn’t have anything to do with it?

BARTLET I wouldn’t go that far. Brains made me look arrogant but they make you look uppity. Plus, if you had a black daughter —

OBAMA I have two.

BARTLET — who was 17 and pregnant and unmarried and the father was a teenager hoping to launch a rap career with “Thug Life” inked across his chest, you’d come in fifth behind Bob Barr, Ralph Nader and a ficus.

OBAMA You’re not cheering me up.

BARTLET Is that what you came here for?

OBAMA No, but it wouldn’t kill you.

BARTLET Have you tried doing a two-hour special or a really good Christmas show?

OBAMA Sir —

BARTLET Hang on. Home run. Right here. Is there any chance you could get Michelle pregnant before the fall sweeps?

OBAMA The problem is we can’t appear angry. Bush called us the angry left. Did you see anyone in Denver who was angry?

BARTLET Well ... let me think. ...We went to war against the wrong country, Osama bin Laden just celebrated his seventh anniversary of not being caught either dead or alive, my family’s less safe than it was eight years ago, we’ve lost trillions of dollars, millions of jobs, thousands of lives and we lost an entire city due to bad weather. So, you know ... I’m a little angry.

OBAMA What would you do?

BARTLET GET ANGRIER! Call them liars, because that’s what they are. Sarah Palin didn’t say “thanks but no thanks” to the Bridge to Nowhere. She just said “Thanks.” You were raised by a single mother on food stamps — where does a guy with eight houses who was legacied into Annapolis get off calling you an elitist? And by the way, if you do nothing else, take that word back. Elite is a good word, it means well above average. I’d ask them what their problem is with excellence. While you’re at it, I want the word “patriot” back. McCain can say that the transcendent issue of our time is the spread of Islamic fanaticism or he can choose a running mate who doesn’t know the Bush doctrine from the Monroe Doctrine, but he can’t do both at the same time and call it patriotic. They have to lie — the truth isn’t their friend right now. Get angry. Mock them mercilessly; they’ve earned it. McCain decried agents of intolerance, then chose a running mate who had to ask if she was allowed to ban books from a public library. It’s not bad enough she thinks the planet Earth was created in six days 6,000 years ago complete with a man, a woman and a talking snake, she wants schools to teach the rest of our kids to deny geology, anthropology, archaeology and common sense too? It’s not bad enough she’s forcing her own daughter into a loveless marriage to a teenage hood, she wants the rest of us to guide our daughters in that direction too? It’s not enough that a woman shouldn’t have the right to choose, it should be the law of the land that she has to carry and deliver her rapist’s baby too? I don’t know whether or not Governor Palin has the tenacity of a pit bull, but I know for sure she’s got the qualifications of one. And you’re worried about seeming angry? You could eat their lunch, make them cry and tell their mamas about it and God himself would call it restrained. There are times when you are simply required to be impolite. There are times when condescension is called for!

OBAMA Good to get that off your chest?

BARTLET Am I keeping you from something?

OBAMA Well, it’s not as if I didn’t know all of that and it took you like 20 minutes to say.

BARTLET I know, I have a problem, but admitting it is the first step.

OBAMA What’s the second step?

BARTLET I don’t care.

OBAMA So what about hope? Chuck it for outrage and put-downs?

BARTLET No. You’re elite, you can do both. Four weeks ago you had the best week of your campaign, followed — granted, inexplicably — by the worst week of your campaign. And you’re still in a statistical dead heat. You’re a 47-year-old black man with a foreign-sounding name who went to Harvard and thinks devotion to your country and lapel pins aren’t the same thing and you’re in a statistical tie with a war hero and a Cinemax heroine. To these aged eyes, Senator, that’s what progress looks like. You guys got four debates. Get out of my house and go back to work.

OBAMA Wait, what is it you always used to say? When you hit a bump on the show and your people were down and frustrated? You’d give them a pep talk and then you’d always end it with something. What was it ...?

BARTLET “Break’s over.”

Re: Wednesday Open Thread #2

barry4obama — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 19:25:23 -0000

the sad thing is that they are rite...blacks in california didn't support our gay brothers and sisters

Re: Wednesday Open Thread #2

barry4obama — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 17:51:39 -0000

I STILL THINK I'M DREAMING!!!!

Re: Wednesday Open Thread

barry4obama — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 02:29:05 -0000

I CRIED LIKE A BABY!!!!

Re: President-Elect Barack Hussein Obama

barry4obama — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 00:44:58 -0000

i still can't believe it...somebody please tell me that i'm not dreaming!!!!

Re: Tuesday Open Thread #2

barry4obama — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 14:06:13 -0000

hey nate thanks for directing me 2 that TPM site

Re: Tuesday Open Thread #2

barry4obama — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 14:05:06 -0000

hey u guys i came across this and i had 2 repost it 2 make sure it got read.....if u don't get emotional or teary eayed then something is wrong with u.....................

I have a confession to make.

I did not vote for Barack Obama today.

I've openly supported Obama since March. But I didn't vote for him today.

I wanted to vote for Ronald Woods. He was my algebra teacher at Clark Junior High in East St. Louis, IL. He died 15 years ago when his truck skidded head-first into a utility pole. He spent many a day teaching us many things besides the Pythagorean Theorem. He taught us about Medgar Evers, Ralph Abernathy, John Lewis and many other civil rights figures who get lost in the shadow cast by Martin Luther King, Jr.

But I didn't vote for Mr. Woods.

I wanted to vote for Willie Mae Cross. She owned and operated Crossroads Preparatory Academy for almost 30 years, educating and empowering thousands of kids before her death in 2003. I was her first student. She gave me my first job, teaching chess and math concepts to kids in grades K-4 in her summer program. She was always there for advice, cheer and consolation. Ms. Cross, in her own way, taught me more about walking in faith than anyone else I ever knew.

But I didn't vote for Ms. Cross.

I wanted to vote for Arthur Mells Jackson, Sr. and Jr. Jackson Senior was a Latin professor. He has a gifted school named for him in my hometown. Jackson Junior was the pre-eminent physician in my hometown for over 30 years. He has a heliport named for him at a hospital in my hometown. They were my great-grandfather and great-uncle, respectively.

But I didn't vote for Prof. Jackson or Dr. Jackson.

I wanted to vote for A.B. Palmer. She was a leading civil rights figure in Shreveport, Louisiana, where my mother grew up and where I still have dozens of family members. She was a strong-willed woman who earned the grudging respect of the town's leaders because she never, ever backed down from anyone and always gave better than she got. She lived to the ripe old age of 99, and has a community center named for her in Shreveport.

But I didn't vote for Mrs. Palmer.

I wanted to vote for these people, who did not live to see a day where a Black man would appear on their ballots on a crisp November morning.

In the end, though, I realized that I could not vote for them any more than I could vote for Obama himself.

So who did I vote for?

No one.

I didn't vote. Not for President, anyway.

Oh, I went to the voting booth. I signed, was given my stub, and was walked over to a voting machine. I cast votes for statewide races and a state referendum on water and sewer improvements.

I stood there, and I thought about all of these people, who influenced my life so greatly. But I didn't vote for who would be the 44th President of the United States.

When my ballot was complete, except for the top line, I finally decided who I was going to vote for - and then decided to let him vote for me. I reached down, picked him up, and told him to find Obama's name on the screen and touch it.

And so it came to pass that Alexander Reed, age 5, read the voting screen, found the right candidate, touched his name, and actually cast a vote for Barack Obama and Joe Biden.

Oh, the vote will be recorded as mine. But I didn't cast it.

Then again, the person who actually pressed the Obama box and the red "vote" button was the person I was really voting for all along.

It made the months of donating, phonebanking, canvassing, door hanger distributing, sign posting, blogging, arguing and persuading so much sweeter.

So, no, I didn't vote for Barack Obama. I voted for a boy who now has every reason to believe he, too, can grow up to be anything he wants...even President.

Re: Tuesday Open Thread #2

barry4obama — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 13:10:20 -0000

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Re: In case you were wondering, he IS human

barry4obama — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 22:32:39 -0000

tex_girl and justice i'm gonna let u both know what it was like when i vote tomorrow, so be looking for me 2 hit u guys up and share this experience

Re: Monday Evening Open Thread

barry4obama — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 21:55:46 -0000

i'm with u on that...i love Rachel, but i haven't been able 2 watch her the last couple of nights.....she's been 2 damn depressing for me ...lol

Re: Monday Evening Open Thread

barry4obama — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 21:52:42 -0000

yes msmartin i peeped that.....i almost threw my shoe at the tube but then i remembered that i need it tomorrow 2 watch the results tomorrow nite and listen 2 tavis hate on how it should have been somebody who is for campaign finance reform that should have won.......tavis is a joke

Re: In case you were wondering, he IS human

barry4obama — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 21:40:49 -0000

thanx Justice.....these last couple of days i've been wondering how am i gonna act or feel when it's my time 2 go into the voting booth.....will i be emotional knowing that my mom's not here 2 see this or because i never thought this day would come, where i would be voting for a black man from the southside of chicago(my hometown..born, bred, and raised)for POTUS....well i'll find out at about 6:30 in the moring when i cast my ballot for Barack Hussien Obama for President of the United States of America!!!!

Re: In case you were wondering, he IS human

barry4obama — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 21:09:52 -0000

tears while typing this:..that dianne reeves song always made me a lil emotional..........i lost my mother in 96 when i was just 16, i'm still lucky enough 2 have both of my grandmothers still around, and i can't picture this world or my life with out either one of em , one of my paternal grandmother's friends made the comment a couple of days ago that "my grandmother would walk a mile for her grandkids, and thats the way is should be". yesterday while talking with the same grandmother over sunday dinner she made the comment that she had went and voted early and that the line was real long, but she did it anyway. now my maternal grandmother who i have 2 get up at 4 in the morning chitown time 2 take her 2 the polls tomorrow so that she can be an election judge at the tender age of 89 is "fired up and ready 2 go", has a saying that carry's me through my trails or wheneva i am feeling down...whenever we come 2 her with a problem she has 6 words for us "put it in the lords hands" and thats what i would like 2 say 2 the Obama family and 2 my JJP fam who if it wasn't for this election i wouldn't have found and after this election i'm not going anywhere, before u go 2 bed and u still not feeling good about tomorrow or before u vote or when u are sitting with friends or family watching the results tomorrow nite......rikyrah,greenlady,val,town,and cpl....."PUT IT IN THE LORDS HAND!"!!!

Re: Madelyn Dunham Passed Away

barry4obama — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 21:07:42 -0000

Re: Wednesday Open Thread

barry4obama — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 23:52:34 -0000

dang it ms martin!!!, now why did u have 2 go and tell me this story......as a momma's boy who lost his mother at the age of 16 to breast cancer, i wish she was here because i know she would have me and my brother doing all we could 2 get our fellow southsider elected POTUS....it's her spirit and wisdom that i remember and is what made me really get involved in this election

Re: Charles Alexander, Born 1922, Meets Obama

barry4obama — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 23:22:55 -0000

i feel u on that Justice!!!!

Re: Charles Alexander, Born 1922, Meets Obama

barry4obama — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 22:58:45 -0000

i originally saw this on rumproast.com and i tried 2 hold my tears but when charles started crying near the end i had 2 let loose

Re: Friday Open Thread

barry4obama — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 16:44:30 -0000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pq40hzmzTyo

Re: Friday Open Thread

barry4obama — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 16:40:59 -0000

Michelle Obama speaking early today in Ohio....she is beautiful and powerful....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pq40hzmzTyo

Re: Friday Open Thread

barry4obama — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 15:25:21 -0000

dammmmnnnn!!!! gurl, Tavis must have really pissed u off...LOL

Re: Friday Open Thread

barry4obama — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 14:31:43 -0000

waving my Martin Luther King Jr. church fan and yelling "preach preacher"

Re: Friday Open Thread

barry4obama — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 13:40:38 -0000

i totally agree with u on the be all and end all of black journalism......being here in chicago i was able 2 catch rowland martin before he was on cnn for the election and at first i was skeptical about him but i go 2 him first for news and opinions