DISQUS

I've yet to hear a convincing argument for the continuation of the CBC. Their collective behavior during the primary season pitted the core of their existence, which is to promote and expand the number of African American elected officials. We were merely asking that they adhere to this mission. By not supporting Senator Obama (and continuing to show retiscence), they violated their mission and abandoned their integrity, and, as far as I'm concerned, revealed their uselessness.

Let's start with the Clinton supporting women in the CBC, namely Sheila Jackson Lee. They used their recent meeting with Senator Obama to continue to gripe about the perceived mistreatment of Senator Clinton, but yet they collectively remain silent on the more obvious and vicious mistreatment of Michelle Obama with whom they have much more vested interest. When will they let go of Hillary Clinton's corset strings and stand with Michelle Obama?

It's time for black folks to get off of the sidelines now! I know we've been afraid to make any 'noise' for fear that it would scare white voters and some of us may have made a bargain with God if he just let's this happen, we'll keep our mouths shut.:-) But with Bob Johnson and many Black Clinton supporters now trying to cover their own behinds by forcing Senator Clinton on the ticket, it's time for Black folks to start using our congressional voter clout to tell them to back the hell up. In their congressional district, we are the equivalent of the so-called White working class voter.


It's time to place a call to Clyburn and tell him that his talking points should be "it's Obama's decision." Nothing more, nothing less. No more of that "well, I don't know...we have to see" nonsense. We need to get on the phone with ALL CBC members and let them know in no uncertain terms that they better stand down or we will stand up against them in their upcoming elections if they try to force Senator Obama's hand.



It's bad enough that white women are trying to emasculate him and dictate a decision that should be his and his alone like every other White male nominee that has preceded him, but we can NOT and should NOT tolerate this from the CBC!

" s said...
A really interesting theory about the alleged Michelle Obama tape, which could explain a lot, from the blog Booman Tribune. Michelle, offering a speech critical of President Bush, offers a refrain of "why'd he" — the words "why did he" mushed together — that sounds like "whitey" on the tape.



Apparently, if the tape ever comes to light, her words will sound something like:



Whitey cut folks off Medicaid?

Whitey let New Orleans drown?

Whitey do nothing about Jena?

Whitey put us in Iraq for no reason?



...when the intended message is,



Why'd he cut folks off Medicaid?

Why'd he let New Orleans drown?

Why'd he do nothing about Jena?

Why'd he put us in Iraq for no reason?



Mon Jun 02, 08:27:00 AM 2008"



You're missing the point...why in the hell would a Harvard educated attorney and professional and the wife of a US Senator and presidential candidate sit on a panel alongside one of the most controversial figures in the United States to discuss highly charged racial issues and speak in a manner beneath the dignity of herself and her own accomplishments and position but especially her husbands?! It doesn't matter if she was ranting "whitey" or "why'd he", it would be an act of sabotage or mind-blowing stupidity!



I've had friends/family suggest that she has been attempting to undermine his candidacy, perhaps subconsciously, with her numerous ill advised comments, but this would be inarguably deliberate and completely unforgivable.



While I join the chorus of Black voices who decry the undue scrutiny and double standards the media has subjected Senator Obama to with respect to his church, I would be lying if I said I wasn't more than a little pissed with the Obamas for not realizing what scrutiny the church and other associations would bring.

More of my amateur polling analysis. Unfortunately, Survey USA is one of the few (often the only) that provides cross tabs free to the public. But it's received the highest score card of any pollster this primary season, so it's as good a marker as any. It seems that where it has failed (as well as many other pollsters) is measuring African American support for Senator Obama.


Interestingly enough, I notice it has has Senator Obama performing below Kerry '04 among African American voters in a number of states that Senator Obama expects to be competitive. It is just inconceivable that Senator Obama will garner less African American votes than John Kerry and/or the turnout among African Americans will be lower or only marginally better than in '04 if Senator Obama is the nominee. I don't need a poll to tell me that if Senator Obama is the Democratic nominee blacks folks from Sugar Ditch Mississippi, with no reliable transportation or sewer system, to the 'pro-black' brothas in Harlem who've sworn on the "Biography of Malcolm X" they would never vote will be in the voting booths in November.



Kerry, Georgia 2004: 88%

Actual Percentage of Overall Voters: 25%



Obama, Georgia 2008 (Survey USA): 84%

Projected Percentage of Overall Voters: 26%





Kerry, Ohio 2004: 84%

Actual Percentage of Overall Voters: 10%



Obama, Ohio 2008 (Survey USA): 76%

Projected Percentage of Overall Voters: 10%





Kerry, Virginia 2004: 87%

Actual Percentage of Overall Voters: 21%



Obama, Virginia 2008 (Survey USA): 92%

Projected Percentage of Overall Voters: 18%





Kerry, North Carolina 2004: 85%

Actual Percentage of Overall Voters: 26%



Obama, North Carolina 2008 (Survey USA): 89%

Projected Percentage of of Overall Voters: 20%

I've noticed a consistent trend throughout this primary season: pollsters have been underestimating Senator Obama's support among African American voters. A MI poll released today by Survey USA, which has been scoring well on pollster report cards for its accuracy--except in states with large African American populations--is predicting that Senator Obama will receive less support among African Americans than John Kerry. We're supposed to believe that Senator Obama is only going to receive 62% of the African American vote in MI and John McCain is going to receive nearly a third. On what planet?!


http://www.surveyusa.com/client/PollReport.aspx?g=52d98ca6-6c14-4f4a-9180-4e7f1fce8a1a

What clarification do you need when this is the THIRD time she has said it in the last few months! It just never received coverage before!

"Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June." A quote from Hillary Clinton "rationalizing" why she's continuing her campaign. Moreover, it's the 2nd time she has said this.

The Clinton Campaign is proposing that nearly 100,000 African Americans who voted "uncommitted" in Michigan for Senator Obama should not count. Where the fuck is John Conyers and other MI African American supporters to protest this?!

Rhondacoca,


I can't STAND Johanthan Capehart!!! Listening to him co-sign criticism of Senator Obama as coming off as elitist and out of touch with 'working class' whites was excrutiating! Come the fuck on, a black gay man with a fake Madonna like English accent sporting a $200 silk tie with a windsor knot calling another black man out of touch with white folks!

"I can neither scream any louder nor spew profanities more vile than those I've already uttered aloud and to myself."


I've cussed her name in so many ways I'm now simply saying "that bitch!" at the mention of her name.



She reduced the greatest genocide and injustice in world history to a political quest for individual power!



How can any negro that continues to support her looks themselves in the mirror?!

Rather than focusing on and condemning Michelle's ill advised comments, we need to be asking ourselves where is our collective outrage and voices to the latest offense and ridiculous statements from Hillary Clinton. She now compares her quest to seat the FL and MI delegates to slavery all the while contending that the thousands of black voters in MI who voted "uncommitted" for Senator Obama should NOT count!

" rikyrah said...
after praising Bernard this entire election cycle, I have to say that this was irresponsible of her.



But, I'll only say this, dnA, Bernard has defended Obama way more than other Black folk, including those supposedly on his side."



Co-sign! With the exception of Rep Adam Smith of WA, Senator Obama has the absolute worse surrogates!

I agree that she should not have said there would be "race riots", but it is important that someone for the African Americans to balance the white feminist outrage that is expected from Clinton's fair and square loss.


I would not want Black folks rioting in the street, but I most certainly would expect us to take the streets in civil protest if Obama is denied the nomination which he earned.

I'm so sick of hearing about white working class people! Where are Obama's surrogates to spread the FACT that Bill Clinton NEVER got more than 43% of the white vote?! Obama is doing as well as Clinton and will do better generaly because he'll garner far more of the African American vote.


P.S.: Voter turnout in West Virginia was lower than expected. She didn't do much better than John Kerry in 2004 who received 175,065 votes, 69%, well after the nomination was decided. She was expecting to net about 200,000 votes, but she'll only net a little over 100,000. This can not be accurately characterized as an outpouring of support to salvage her campaign. Moreover, it's utter bull shit that a primary is a reliable predictor of the general. If it was, John Kerry would have won West Virginia.

Rikyrah,


Jack Johnson is from my neck of the woods,and a low down dirty piece of shit!

The more I think about Senator Hillary Clinton's blatant pander to the dixicrat roots (and continuing bloom) in the Democratic Party and the lack of outrage from the Party elders, the more pissed I get. If Senator John McCain had uttered those words, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi et al would have been knocking each other down to hold the first press conference condemning him!


How the hell did we, as people, become so complacent, tolerant, and willing participants of this disprespect over the last 4 decades?



George Bush has deservedly earned the disdain of Black folk, but the one thing you can NOT say about him is that he has any fear of putting Black folks in positions of authority unlike the Democrats who are supposed to be the Party of racial justice and equality. The Black folks he selects may be to the Right of us, and deaad wrong on every policy front, but you can never say that he feared their race would be an impediment to his goals. Secretary of State is the 2nd most powerful position in the world, and he not only put two Black faces out there to represent this country, but a Black woman.



And here we are rolling with a Party that would actually give consideration to denying the nomination to a man who has earned it b/c poor White folks don't seem to be ready.

" rikyrah said...
Ms. Martin,



I have to disagree with you. There is no way that I put Clyburn in with Tubbs-Jones."



The only fair comparison to Stephanie Tubbs-Jones is Mammie from Gone with the Wind, and Kendrick Meeks is the slave we saw marching off to war for the confederacy.



They both signed that fuckin' 'George Wallace' inspired letter to super delegates contending that Hillary Clinton can take the Party back to its dixicrat roots.

"Consequnces"? Hell, more like wrath!

He won Indiana, period! Not just because of Limbaugh Republican influence, but the provisional ballots. If those provisional ballots were counted; he would be the clear winner.

No, that's not all that she said in the essay. She expressly attributed "black" qualities to him and declared that he was the closest thing to an actual Black president we would see in our lifetime. She can backtrack all she wants. She said it, and over these many years this is the first time she attempts to clarify it. Please!

It's about time the MSM picked up on her Dixicrat '08 strategy. If John McCain's campaign said this, they would be blasting him, as much as they love him. It's time for the Democratic leadership to stand up and stay enough, unless they subscribe to this racist bull shit!

It's 'bout damn time! I'm glad I'm not the only negro tired of have my vote reduced to 3/5 of white folks. Another important point that undermines the 'importance of the white working class vote' argument is the the FACT that Bill Clinton did NOT win these so-called Reagan Democrats. He won on the strength of the black vote, which was the product of the historical black voter registration drive when Jesse Jackson ran.

It's one thing for Obama or us to criticize Reverend Wright, but not this bitch!


I cried myself to sleep last night, but I woke with a renewed spirit to fight like hell for this nomination, and this only makes me more fired up! This bitch went on O'Reilly's show of all places to criticize Reverend Wright and Senator Obama. Hell NO!



http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/04/30/clinton-tweaks-obama-on-wright/

It's being reported that the NYT is publishing an editorial tomorrow asking why and when McCain will be ask to account for Hagee.