Applause to Lamont.

Dijamo, I worked in the WTC, I get hauled out of line at every airport, my husband "looks" Muslim, so he had to look down the barrel of a gun after 9/11, while I was still traumatized ...

Where were all these people who are screaming about the constitution now when as a kid I couldn't drink from a white water fountain or use the closest place to pee?

I'd like to take every troll that posts this dreck out to a good old fashioned wood shed.

And any person who withholds money over this FISA vote is a quisling, and a traitor to the main objective - getting Barack elected.

Check out that oldie but goodie tune on you tube - "backstabbers", cause that's just what you are.

Posted at June 21, 2008 10:03 PM in response to July is "no campaign contributions for FISA voters" month.

I wandered over here in search of a sane diary, and found this one. Thank you. And a special gracias to the bunny cat. I have an intense headache from FISA overload, chicken littles and the wimp brigade threatening to sit home, boycott Obama funding for a month "to teach him a lesson", and even worse those who are storming off shrieking as they go to McCain-land.

I hope I don't offend anyone here, but having lived through McCarthy, Jim Crow, COINTELPRO...knowing that my phone has been tapped, being able to listen to your own apartment over a specific radio frequency because its bugged, being followed, tapped, taped and monitored for much of my life, I'm amazed at this frenzy of activism over privacy. I've never had any. Actually, it's not been at the top of my list of priorities in America - food, police brutality, housing, health care, getting a huge portion of my community out of prison seems a bit more pressing.AIDS funding is being cut - people dying very unprivately in Darfur and folks want to lynch Barack Obama. A very junior Senator, who is a presumptive nominee. I don't know whether I should applaud or weep.

Oh yeah - and about that war that people slept through. It just "happened". Hmmmmm. No draft. So who cared.

This outcry about the Constitution and the hand wringing is almost funny. The government has been using the Constitution as toilet paper for years and years and now folks are pissed? Amazing.

So I looked up this year and there was this young guy full of Hope and Dreams and vision, and he was not Bush, or Bush, or Nixon, or the Clintons, or Reagan - and I thought - this looks like a good thing. Not a very radical thing - but what the hell, I'll be a Democrat and fight to get him elected. Looks like folks are waking up. I can unbend from my rigid leftist stance and join hands with the nice folks who are liberal enough to listen to this guy and not just see a black guy. So maybe Americans are starting to grow up. Things were rolling along smoothly and then this FISA war became the important war and all of a sudden the black guy is not a hero and they start killing him before he even gets nominated and I'm like "what the fu*k?". Are these people stupid or what? Nobody in my old neighborhood even knows what FISA is. And these Democrats want to derail Obama over this? Did I make a big mistake? My kids got me to join these blogs and become a part of this netroots movement but I think I'm regretting it, and I have high blood pressure.

So, I'll just send the man another check. A small one cause I don't have alot of money, and I'll wander over to another blog to see if anyone else has good sense. Glad I dropped in here - hope what I've read here infects a few more folks, but I have my doubts about this army of supporters, cause they sure don't know how to watch somebody's back - and that's what struggle is about.

Posted at June 21, 2008 9:29 PM in response to Excessive Handwringing

The TM has so much to say about Michelle Obama - and does very little digging into Cindy McCain's background. Interestingly, much of the background detail was published years ago - in her home state.

http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/1994-09-08/news/opiate-for-the-mrs/full

A very interesting read, without the current spin.

Posted at June 19, 2008 9:22 AM in response to McCain Campaign Falsely Accuses DNC Of "Attacks" On Cindy McCain

Love it!

Hey - I'm over 60 and was in the Black Panther Party and we didn't call white folks "whitey".
Musta been some other group. Now we did call several President's "Pigs", and pigs are pink - not white...

During my beatnik days in the West Village I believe the term we used was "gray's".
Thanks Invictus for reminding me of "Ofay's" - haven't heard that one in the last 40 years.

Posted at June 12, 2008 10:22 PM in response to Getting Whitey: Michelle Obama's Secret Negro Agenda

Well if you are going to support McCain - suggest you change your nick to Wheelchair Guerilla.

Posted at June 5, 2008 7:16 PM in response to Armchair Guerilla Concedes; Endorses Obama

After the disgusting remarks she made today - she's toast.

Posted at May 23, 2008 8:00 PM in response to Hillary's Top Fundraising Official Says There's "Risk" Of Obama Loss If She Isn't Invited To Be Veep

Awesome.

Posted at May 19, 2008 2:03 PM in response to Sen. Robert Byrd Endorses Obama

Thank you for raising the question, and it's a good one. We are already beginning to see change in America - since the majority of votes Barack Obama has received have been from whites (primary + caucus), even though the TM likes to spin it another way.

Die-hard racists will just have to die-off. A few have changed, slowly, but just as there are die-hard anti-semites, anti-feminists, homophobes - who are part of our political landscape - all of these "isms" and phobias will take time to eradicate.

The best way to eliminate them is to out-vote them. And once out-voted, begin to address institutionalized racism and classism in the society. On this point I agree with John Edwards.

Poverty in America breeds discontent, and in many cases fans the flames of racism. Education is also a key.

I was ready to take on the posts from the Y***a person, but won't waste the bandwidth.

Posted at May 12, 2008 9:28 AM in response to Obama and racism. READ.

I think what influenced me the most to investigate and then support Barack Obama was the fact that his mother - his most important early influence - was an anthropologist. Have to admit to bias, since I'm one too. She was not an academic anthropologist but worked in applied development projects that were focused on empowering women. This type of nurturing is certainly a large part of the reason for Obama's world view, foreign policy perspective, and his feminism.

I'm tired of the ethnocentric, xenophobic rhetoric that is passed off as "debate" in this country, and is a driving force behind our position on the world stage.

Hopefully Obama can begin to change that.

Posted at May 12, 2008 9:06 AM in response to How did you choose your favoured candidate?

Thank you Tena for your comments.

Well - it's not dog whistles anymore - it's out and out "race", plain and simple. And those who can't hear it need to get ear wax removal treatment.

Posted at May 7, 2008 6:22 PM in response to Hillary Chief Strategist: North Carolina Loss Represented Progress Because We Won Among White Voters