As Americans, we expect certain liberties and rights that were granted us by our forefathers, who wrote documents like the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. “We the people” expect that these fundamental rights will always be protected. However, in the current Democratic Presidential Primary, this has not been the case. We believe that the The Democratic National Committee (DNC) made a grave error by depriving American voters of their choice of Hillary Clinton as Democratic nominee. Senator Clinton, by all accounts, except caucuses, won the Primary Election and, therefore, should be the 2008 Democratic Nominee. That didn’t happen, due largely to illegitimate and illegal acts. We have interviews of many accounts from caucus states recounting threats, intimidation, lies, stolen documents, falsified documents, busing in voters in exchange for paying for “dinners,” etc. There are at least 2000 complaints, in Texas alone, of irregularities directed towards the Obama Campaign, that have lead to a very fractured and broken Democratic Party.

The preview, all 33 minutes of it, is compelling. In essence, it is a visual companion to the work of Dr. Lynette Long at Caucus Fraud and Peniel Cronin on Primaries and Caucuses (which will appear at NQ shortly). In short, it is disturbing not just how this happened, but THAT it happened in our country. (more…)

Why, if a big huge stink is NOT made about the cover, people might actually read the ARTICLE inside! And they might, just might, see that this Emperor, just like George Bush, is wearing no clothes.

So instead, let’s just ratchet up the furor because heaven knows, NO other politician has EVER had a satirical cartoon done about them in the history of politics - ever! That’s why this one is so shocking! And no doubt, RACIST! Because they are making fun of Obama!!!!! How COULD they?!?! Don’t they know that this is unprecedented?? Oh, wait - it’s not.

You can go to this website, Political Humor, and see cartoons about all KINDS of politicians. The difference there is that the cartoons are mocking the actual people pictured, not the nebulous blogoshpere and its potential for rumor-mongering. (There are far more sites than this one - I just found this one first, and quite easily.)

But that wasn’t the point. Well, it is kinda the point with Obama - to blow something completely out of proportion and twist the message behind it. (more…)

There is discussion that by moving the Democratic National headquarters to Chicago, he is not only increasing revenue for these characters, he is setting up Chicago as a site for the Olympics. Knowing Obama’s associations in the Windy City suggests that this move is not altruistic.

Now we are hearing that Obama will once again break with tradition during the Democratic National Convention to give his acceptance speech at a huge rally in the stadium of the Denver Broncos, known as Invesco Field. (See NewHampster’s post for some financial information on Invesco.)

The New York Times describes it this way: (more…)

Once again, I am in the minority. While I stood and still stand as a member of the 18 million strong majority of Hillary Clinton’s supporters, I represent an infinitesimal minority as a member of the less than 10% of African Americans who did not vote for Senator Obama. In this peculiar, yet familiar position, I find myself reflecting on the current state of race relations as it applies to the candidacy of Senator Barack Obama.

I have been shocked and saddened by the leeway and passes, concerning transgressions no non-black person would be permitted, that the black community, by and large, has given to Senator Obama, all in the name of “the struggle” (read: getting him elected). He has been allowed to blatantly discriminate against religious and ethnic groups.

Had it been McCain or Hillary doing the same to African Americans, there would have been outrage, and justifiably so. However, too many brushed it aside as “something he has to do to get elected.”

Senator Obama was allowed to defame the black church by conflating it with the racist rants of Rev. Wright in order to save his political career, and the majority of the black community acquiesced, some nodding their heads, others looking the other way.

Senator Obama has been allowed to ignore our community on several occasions.

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As Obama loses his grip on the nomination and the momentum of his candidacy slows, his campaign is reviving its race-baiting tactics heading into North Carolina.

We’ve seen this played out before: The Obama campaign hints that whites are unwilling to vote for Obama because he’s black, an Obama surrogate claims the Clintons are using race, and the Obamablogs, Keith Olbermann, and finally the MSM pick it up as “truth.”

The day after Clinton’s surprising victory in New Hampshire, Obama supporter Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. — in words which will live in infamy –said that Hillary’s tears in New Hampshire will “have to be looked at very, very carefully in light of Katrina and other things Mrs. Clinton did not cry for, particularly as we head toward South Carolina where 45 percent of African Americans will participate in the process.” (more…)

Give Barack Obama his due.  He has revived feelings and emotions that recall the Sixties.  But not all of the feelings and emotions of that era are good or decent.  Unless you are at least 53 years old, you have no real clear memory of the struggles of the period.  So I am guessing that most folks reading this blog only know the Sixties through movies and TV shows.

We are proud to present Flineo’s latest work.  It is brilliant.  It combines images of today with the words of yesterday.  

It is important to acknowledge that Barack is able to run for President today because of the civil rights movement that came to full flower in 1968.  It was a movement born in blood—Medgar Evers, Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy are among the most prominent and best-known martyrs.  But the Sixties also stands as the Ying and Yang of good and bad political movements.  On the one hand, King and Evers preached non-violence and defied the racists to attack them with clubs, dogs, guns, and mobs.  On the other hand there were groups like the Weather Underground, the Students for a Democratic Society, and the Black Panthers.  They advocated violence. (more…)

In this YouTube posted on April 5th, Helen reminisces — with her typical great wit and her insights — on the presidents since JFK. From Helen Thomas’s latest column:

“Obama has captivated the enthusiastic support of America’s youth and ignited their interest in presidential politics. His eloquent speeches are designed for the bully pulpit. But does a good speech make a good president?

“Obama stresses he was against the invasion of Iraq, but he doesn’t say he was not in the Senate when it was initiated. Since become a senator, he has twice voted to fund the war.”

You know, Helen Thomas has been a reporter and columnist — and hanging around Washington, D.C. — longer than most of us have been alive. But it hasn’t ruined her keen eye or her abilities of perception and insight. She’s proof that not all pundits are unable to think clearly “inside the bubble.”

Here’s more on Barack Obama from Thomas’s latest column via the Seattle P.I.:

I am still trying to find the key that has made Obama a prime candidate for the presidency, and to understand what he has done for the country beyond his middle-of-the-road political moves to make his name known and to steer clear of hot-button issues.

The Rev. Martin Luther King had a dream, too. But he acted on it. He went to jail, he marched, he led.

There’s more “Essential Helen” below. (more…)

We pointed out, in Fleaflicker’s story, that he “is also a friend and close associate of Obama’s national Co-Chairman, Jesse Jackson Jr. and he attends the Salem Baptist Church of Reverend James Meeks, another of Barack Obama’s spiritual advisors.” (We hoped that CNN and Roland Martin would take note of our concerns. That was the point of the story.)

We are pleased to find this YouTube of CNN’s Roland Martin interviewing Hillary Clinton yesterday in Memphis, following her speech:

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Lessons we learn when we are young tend to stick with us throughout life. Especially when those lessons are learned from people we respect and admire. Hillary Clinton learned a few important lessons from a very great man whose death we both mourn and celebrate on this day.

At the tender age of 14, Hillary had her first “Awakening” when a pastor took her to see the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. speak in Chicago. The sermon was named: ‘Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution.’ And no sermon could have been more appropriate or more effective in determining the future of this young woman. Because what she learned that day was that there are issues more important than any of us. There are injustices we must confront because solving them expresses our morality and validates our humanity.

As Hillary spoke today [PHOTO] at the 40th anniversary of Dr. King’s death she paid tribute not only to the man she once met but to the dream he literally gave his life for. [VIDEO UPDATE AT END.]

Hillary’s Remarks on the 40th Anniversary of Dr. King’s Death

As a young woman, I was privileged to be taken to hear Dr. King speak by a youth minister who opened my eyes and ears and my horizons. Dr. King’s call to action that evening in Chicago led me to confront a world bigger and broader than the one I inhabited. He had a way of doing that, of pushing us outside our own comfort zone, of making it clear that we had to be part of the revolution that was going on. It wasn’t a revolution of guns. It was a revolution of hearts and minds, of attitudes and actions.

When one heard Dr. King speak, and I stood in line for a very long time that night to shake his hand. And he was gracious, and he was kind to lean over to shake the hand of a 14-year-old girl from the from the suburbs of Chicago, who went to an all-white church and an all-white school, and lived in an all-white suburb. But he didn’t ask me, as I reached out my hand, where do you live, what is your experience? He just took it and looked in my face and thanked me for coming.

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Can you imagine another prominent African American politician using this language? Can you see the dignified Colin Powell using this dog-whistle? How about the politically moderate Chairman of the Democratic Leadership Council, Harold Ford, Jr.? Or the passionate Congresswoman Sheila Lee Jackson? Never. To truly transcend race is to reject the use of race in a divisive manner. Not only has Obama not rejected using race divisively, he has given birth to a whole new justification for the use of bigoted and racially divisive language and innuendo. In fact, Obama is exploiting the pain of racism experienced by African Americans to manipulate the emotions of anger and guilt as rallying cries for his ambitious assent to power.

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