Do We Really Want Another Black President…

“I’m not suggesting that President Freeman was directly responsible for the creation of the Wolf-Beiderman comet or its Earth-bound path. That would be ridiculous. What I am saying is that under the watch of a black man that comet destroyed the entire Eastern seaboard. So, if history is any indicator, a vote for Barack Obama in 2008 is essentially a vote for the complete and total obliteration of the human race.

“Need I even mention that former President Chris Rock and his administration’s slogan was “The only thing white is the house”? Though this attitude broke down the stuffiness typically associated with proper White House decorum, President Rock’s laissez-faire approach not only made a mockery of the office at home, but made the United States look like a joke abroad.”

“At a minimum, a head of state should have a head,” Putin said.”

Is it Jim R’s poor reading comprehension or ideological desperation that better explains his ignorance of that rather obvious fact.

“Kodachrome view?” What on earth is Jim ranting on about now?

I wonder if this was “Hilary Approved”. Who knows, but who would ever have guessed it would be the white Democrats doing all the race raising…….and at the expense of one of their own candidates for heaven sake.

I rather think this was just another democrats off-hand kodachrome view. It’s all about the colors, the ethnicity, the culture, the language, the dumb-ass differences………and keeping it this way for the survival of the party.

I think that in 60 years of the revoltuions existence, there hasn’t been as many human rights abuses as commited by the United States in the past four years. Has there been arbitrary imprisonment, racism and homophobia? Yes. The death penalty for foreign agents? Yes. International torture camps? No.

Cuba is a work in progress, and even at its worst could not by any standard approach – all things told – the level of human righs abuses in any of the right wing economic miracles in Latin America.

I’m not a booster of the Cuba model for other nations, and would like to see more pluralism adn democracy within a socialsit context. This doesn’t mean electoral democracy (or doesn’t only mean it – as there already is eletroal democracy within neighbourhood councils, etc. -) but free speech, civil liberties, encouragement of small busniness development, etc. Alarcon, etc. are moving this way. I fear Raul prefers Hu’s China.

“The current pattern is that Obamian enthusiasts go the caucuses and delivery fiery speeches about their man and his dream of change, rack up a substantial victory and head back to campus, aglow with victory. But then the party regulars regroup, the labor organizers confer, and the party establishment strikes back at the state convention, where those delegates pledged at the caucus are “authorized” in a series of backroom deals.

“Gary Hart learned this the hard way in 1984. Hart had won his political spurs in a famous mutiny of the Democratic base, when Hart managed George McGovern’s successful drive to the nomination in 1972. In the early states of the 1984 campaign Hart won a dramatic victory by ten points over Walter Mondale in New Hampshire. Short on money, Hart then aimed, exactly like Obama, at the caucuses to show momentum. After Super Tuesday, Mondale and Hart were neck and neck. Then Hart cleaned up in the caucuses, just as Obama is now doing. The two split the big states. Mondale won New York and Pennsylvania. Hart won Ohio and California. Then, in the weeks before the Democratic Party convention Mondale and the Democratic Party machine went into action at the various state conventions. Hart watched aghast as his hard-won delegates melted back into the smoke-filled rooms and emerged with Mondale buttons on their lapels. The coup de grace came with Mondale’s efficient capture of the Super Delegates, who went to him almost en bloc.

“There was another powerful challenge in 1984, from Jesse Jackson. At the early part of the campaign for the Democratic nomination Jackson won five primaries and caucuses ­ Louisiana, Washington DC, South Carolina, Virginia and Mississippi (which duly reversed Jackson’s singular triumph at the state convention.} Altogether, Jackson got 3.3 million primary votes, 21 per cent of the total votes cast in the 1984 primaries and caucuses. He ended up with precisely 8 per cent of the delegates. Jackson bitterly denounced the process as a rigged affair that should be reformed. Nothing has changed.

“So although Obama has pulled even and on some counts is ahead in delegates pledged to him thus far, these numbers are far from conclusive. “

Forget about your views on Castro positive or negative for a moment – he is incredibly interesting.

On the other hand, the rest of us can and we already knew that.

What’s particularly saddening is the way many Obama supporters seem happy with the application of “Clinton rules” — the term a number of observers use for the way pundits and some news organizations treat any action or statement by the Clintons, no matter how innocuous, as proof of evil intent.

Well, aren’t they?

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Want to know why Castro would support Obama? See this LINK

jc Fidel’s ramblings mean what? He’ll jump on Barack’s bandwagon? Maybe, I hear the wingnuts in Texas have their knickers in a twist because someone from Obama’s Lone Star HQ put up the Cuban Flag and a portrait of Che!

(Either that ot we’re having a sixties flashback!)

“The current pattern is that Obamian enthusiasts go the caucuses and delivery fiery speeches about their man and his dream of change, rack up a substantial victory and head back to campus, aglow with victory. But then the party regulars regroup, the labor organizers confer, and the party establishment strikes back at the state convention, where those delegates pledged at the caucus are “authorized” in a series of backroom deals.

“Gary Hart learned this the hard way in 1984. Hart had won his political spurs in a famous mutiny of the Democratic base, when Hart managed George McGovern’s successful drive to the nomination in 1972. In the early states of the 1984 campaign Hart won a dramatic victory by ten points over Walter Mondale in New Hampshire. Short on money, Hart then aimed, exactly like Obama, at the caucuses to show momentum. After Super Tuesday, Mondale and Hart were neck and neck. Then Hart cleaned up in the caucuses, just as Obama is now doing. The two split the big states. Mondale won New York and Pennsylvania. Hart won Ohio and California. Then, in the weeks before the Democratic Party convention Mondale and the Democratic Party machine went into action at the various state conventions. Hart watched aghast as his hard-won delegates melted back into the smoke-filled rooms and emerged with Mondale buttons on their lapels. The coup de grace came with Mondale’s efficient capture of the Super Delegates, who went to him almost en bloc.

“There was another powerful challenge in 1984, from Jesse Jackson. At the early part of the campaign for the Democratic nomination Jackson won five primaries and caucuses ­ Louisiana, Washington DC, South Carolina, Virginia and Mississippi (which duly reversed Jackson’s singular triumph at the state convention.} Altogether, Jackson got 3.3 million primary votes, 21 per cent of the total votes cast in the 1984 primaries and caucuses. He ended up with precisely 8 per cent of the delegates. Jackson bitterly denounced the process as a rigged affair that should be reformed. Nothing has changed.

“So although Obama has pulled even and on some counts is ahead in delegates pledged to him thus far, these numbers are far from conclusive. “