ABC is hurting? So are the American people!

ABC wanted ratings real bad as host of the Philadelphia Democratic Debate, but has since received failing grades.  Good!  I hope they suffer as many of us are. This was the worst presidential debate in my lifetime.  Hiliary Clinton threatened Iran (supporting the administration’s faulty logic) and promised a NATO-like umbrella for the Middle East—sounding more far-right than G. W. Bush or John McCain—and there was no follow-up question for her. Yet debate moderators, George Stephanopolous, a former, senior advisor in the Clinton administration, and Charles Gibson, a capital gains tax guru, devoted 40 plus minutes to non-issues and attacks on Barack Obama.  It was unfair, absurd, and an insult to the American people.  I was never a fan of Charles Gibson anyway…he’s always come across as an overpaid elitist.  I WAS a fan of George Stephanopoulos, however, faithfully watching This Week with George Stephanopoulos on Sundays, but no more!  He lost all credibility with me when a recording was released proving he took dictation from Fox News’ Shawn Hannity on the Ayers matter then  put the exact same question to Obama during the debate.  Stephanopoulos also repeated the Bus administration and Senator Clinton’s Iran faulty logic claim. ABC deserves to take the heat for the entire industry.  Why were these hosts heckled following the debate? Millions of voters believe the media sucks because they just don’t get it!  I’m pulling the plug after I say: God bless America and Barack Obama. 

 

P.S.  If you feel as I do, you can do what I did and call 1-212-456-7777, the ABC switchboard, to voice your complaint. 

 

It’s a matter of trust!

Pope Benedict XVI’s U.S. message of hope and reconciliation has been Barack Obama’s message throughout his campaign for the presidency.  Rather than bring any real change to last night’s Democratic Debate from Philadelphia, ABC host, and moderators, Charles Gibson and George Stephanopoulos chose instead to devote the first 40 minutes or so festering negatives, feeding wedge issues, and playing the guilt by association game.  What a travesty, especially since, after grilling Senator Clinton on whether or not Barack Obama could win this fall, she emphatically admitted: “Yes, yes, yes!”

 

Millions of voters have figured out—no matter what the media or the Clintons have thrown at Barack Obama—that he connects with the People.  Polls show Senator Clinton high on baggage and negatives and low on trust and honesty.  Last night, she said:  “What’s important is what we stand for!”  Millions of Americans agree. 

 

Barack Obama believes we can solve today’s real issues by changing the culture in Washington, D.C., or as Senator Clinton said:  “We’ve got to come together!”  Voters will elect Barack Obama president because only he has the 21^st century mindset to solve the issues we face today.  Under his leadership of reconciliation, the hopes and dreams of millions of Americans will be realized.  Together, we will end the Iraq War, rejoin the world community, restore economic and social justice here at home, and break the mold of the Bush-Clinton Era.  God bless America and Barack Obama!

MSNBC promotes white America’s sexist-racism!

On April 16, white American sexist-racism is alive and, well?  MSNBC’s Nora O’Donnell and guest commentator, Mike Murphy mentioned Michelle Obama’s “tone or attitude in her voice,” as she defended elitist charges in today’s “Spouse Fires Back” segment.  These voices may have just as well said: “As an Afro-American, she was being downright uppity.”  When segments of the media parade bias this way, they feed right into the hands of the white supremacists.  Millions of Americans are sick, tired, and bitter about the tone of this campaign.   Throw the kitchen sink at the Obamas!  They’ve proven—as always—they’ve had to be better at everything.  Keep it up, media, Bill, and Hiliary!  You make them better.  We anticipate real change tonight at ABC’s Philadelphia Democratic Debate.

You play loose, you play lose!

The Clintons are losers, and they can’t stand it.  Whatever made them think the People would allow them to continue their travesty?  Their self-destructive behaviors have finally caught up with them.  They have been blind for far too long.  They have no shame; therefore, no one to blame but themselves for their implosion.  It’s payback time!  “What goes around, comes around.”  As a white, Boomer, parent, grandparent, and retired teacher of English and American history, I respect where Reverend Wright is coming from because I’ve despised the white supremacy chapter.  We cannot turn the page to a new chapter because it still exists 40 years after Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King’s death.  I believe the Clintons have done the Republicans’ dirty work and have also furthered the white supremacist message in the process. If millions of voters are ready to turn the page, we cannot have the Clintons dragging us down.  “Pride goeth before a fall!”  And we bid adieu to the liars, revisionists, phonies, and losers. After this election, the Clintons, no doubt, will recover yet again, ready to suck up the next time too.

We can be a part of something bigger!

Old prejudices still thrive, but we can be a part of something bigger. Barack Obama is a phenomenal candidate for president.  Hiliary Clinton and John McCain aren’t.  Like vultures in a feeding frenzy, they see their opening with Barack Obama’s latest gaffe: ”telling the truth about America.”  For the next week, they will feed on the fears and hurt feelings of white Americans before the next primary. 

Out of context and out of line, Clinton and McCain, with help from surrogates, will make their case of old, dirty politics.  They will exemplify white American prejudices and divide the People as always.  I doubt Senators Clinton or McCain watched the MSNBC documentary, “Meeting David Wilson,” hosted by Brian Williams.  Were they too busy reinforcing White American prejudices?

Black Americans are ready to have a conversation with White Americans about race.  Until now, the conversation has been one-sided, in Black American homes and churches, ever since white America refused them membership in their churches.  Barack Obama has attempted to tell us the truth, and move the conversation forward, in his address: A More Perfect Union.  White America needs to come to the table and start talking about White Supremacy in America.  It still exists.  This is why we still have two Americas—one rich and one poor—in essentials, education, and justice. 

Barack Obama, of the current candidates, has the 21st century mindset to solve 21st century problems.  Senators Clinton and McCain don’t, and need to go feed on themselves, and let the rest of us turn the page. 

 

Give them that old time religion?

The Clintons are hardly “of the People.”  They live in their own bubbles, have entourages wherever they, and have made millions since the White House the first time around.  Barack Obama is addressing the larger picture of white supremacy, which still exists 40 years after the death of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The Clintons continue to play the fear card on this while millions are still disenfranchised from reaping the benefits of the American dream.  And what comes out of their mouths about Obama is totally disingenuous and difficult to prove.  Voters can easily search Obama’s roots and compare them to those of the Clintons. Meanwhile, Senator Clinton has overplayed her hand.

 

Truth in politics is not dead.  Voters have the proof they need.  The words of the Clinton are never golden.  Their raison d’ etre is based on ulterior motives, as found in reaction formation.  Their abnormal psychology is void of ethics.  Even after many public prayer breakfasts and private Bible study sessions, they have told so many lies Americans—and the world for that matter—should be convinced another White House stint will be no different.

 

Faith aside, lies are their cover.  And their road to recovery has always been at our expense.  Their survival and restoration require bringing opponents down, to their gutter level. Millions of Americans and Barack Obama choose the high road.  How candidates run on the road to the White House is very revealing to people of faith and compassion.    Whenever Senator Clinton says politics is not a game, she lies.  For the Clintons, it has always been a game of winning at any cost.  The stakes are too high for Americans to continue the era of Bush, Clinton, Bush, Clinton dirty politics, that old time religion.

The Clintons haven’t changed!

 

Mark Penn reinforces the double standard the Clintons have always practiced, or how the rules of the game have always applied to everybody else but them.  They don’t know how to play fair.  They’re as bad as the Republicans they’ve whined about.  I laughed out loud when Senator Clinton, speaking about President Bush’s latest stance on Iraq this week, said something like: “I will face reality and bring our troops home.”  I’m a staunch Democrat and a Boomer for Obama…why?  One reason is I can never believe anything the Clintons say.  They’ll say anything!  They live only in their reality, which is pretty fantastic.

 

Forget Mark Penn!  Senator Clinton hasn’t let him go anyway. And there stands President Clinton out on the trail lying about his wife to his audiences.  He blames the media for revving up her Bosnia lies, and then he tells a bunch more lies in the process.  Mon Dieu!  The American people need to fire the Clintons, as they’re no better than what they seek to change.

High crimes and misdemeanors revisited!

 

Harsh interrogation techniques OK’d by Vice President Cheney and approved by President G.W. Bush are just the icing on the cake. “All high crimes and misdemeanors” committed by members of this administration must be pursued.  This president’s poll numbers are low, but the Congress has even lower ratings because they do nothing the People request!  “Where there’s a will, there’s a way.”  One thing everyone knows how to do there in Washington, D.C. is shift the blame.  The Congress and the Media are just as guilty if this matter is not pursued.  Haven’t we learning anything since Watergate and the Clinton impeachment?  No president or administration is above the law!  The appropriate congressional committees must hold hearings. The Media must be the watchdog and uncover then expose these crimes for what they are.  A president failing to execute and/or breaking our laws, trampling our Constitution, denying our civil rights and liberties, and obstructing justice are very serious indeed, and we must act!

 

P. S.  The media needs to also stop going easy on McCain.  Forget that he’s a maverick.  He’s a flip-flopper and his character, since Vietnam and especially since the Keating Five and lobbyists, has been compromised.

The surge ahead with a new president!

Another week of President G.W. Bush’s surge publicity of mixed messages and fake debate, plus a complete mess on the Iraq War aside, our next commander in chief inherits a game where the rules have been changed yet again, a sloppy Iraq occupation, a general who supports and speaks for the former-president’s policies there, a permanent mission with benchmarks still unmet, Iraqis who have not stepped forward and want us out, no plans to draw down our troops there in the short term, no surge diplomacy at work in the area, and a frustrated legislative branch and American public. 

 

G.W. has truly screwed things up and left us completely drained!  So much so, our next president must rally the entire nation, if not the world, to the proposition that we are all in this together, and—as we turn the page to move forward—it will take sacrifice to make things right again. To accomplish this will take some time, but if we are united, we can get it done!

 

Let history judge the current president. We must not settle for success that is fragile. With a surge in international diplomacy, our next president must calm down the world, bring this war safely to a close in real time, and restore trust and economic justice here at home.  This is no small order, indeed.

We do not suffer fools gladly!

As I listened to the latest round of Petraeus-Crocker congressional hearings, I asked, “Which nations really are our friends today?”  Americans wonder. Certainly, comparing George Bush’s War in Iraq to our own Civil War, and the struggles of Abraham Lincoln, or our own War of Independence, and the struggles of George Washington, as Senator Wicker (R-MS) did, was so totally absurd, my lower jaw dropped in disbelief. Americans have grown tired of a government that treads on the rights of the people.  Obviously, we have differing interpretations on the ethics, justice, and necessity of the invasion of Iraq to fight terrorism. Our right to fight for our opinions, in any event, is as strong as ever, no matter which government retains power. No matter how hard they try, today’s Bushwhackers and revisionists of American history will never be revered by a majority of the people ever!

 

Another staged, highly-charged, White House Medal of Honor ceremony in the East Room, in junction with General Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker’s appearance to the Congress, is symbolism that too late and highly suspect.  Not since the Viet Nam War, have there been more Medals of Honor awarded posthumously.

 

To date, we have not had an honest debate about the Iraq War. Any dissent has been ignored or labeled un-American. Our mission has not been defined.  Our legitimate questions, Mr. President and Senator McCain, still go unanswered.  And still, you will stumble through yet another speech, Mr. President, convincing us of nothing.  We already know the hallmark of this presidency is to brutalize our troops rather than support them.