Just watching it on the BBC now, had me for the first part and lost me when he sorta blames stuff kids do now on racism. It's down to the parents not teaching them right from wrong. (up to the part of him talking about black people not getting the same education)
Don't you just love little Ashley's story. Doesn't it just pull on your heartstrings and if it doesn't you must be one of those evil, heartless conservatives.
The early bit was something of a take on John Edwards' "Two America's"..call it Obama's "Two Constitutions". Obama is pandering for Edwards' endorsement...ZOMG!
Twenty more nonsuperdelegate delegates all falling Obama's way would pretty much eliminate whatever last bit of hope Clinton has.
Even the 10-15 point lead Hillary has in Pennsylvania will probably be largely erased, delegate-wise, in North Carolina, where he leads by a similar margin. And with northwest Indiana being both Chicago suburbs and heavily African American, Obama has at least a 50-50 shot at winning Indiana outright, but even a marrow to modest loss won't be enough for Hillary. And if Michigan revotes, this time with Obama on the ballot, Detroit and Flint will ensure that Hillary gets at best a very modest win, if she wins at all. Unless she can get Michigan and Florida counted as they voted in January, which is pretty much a dead notion, she simply can't pull it out.
The ability to win and the hope of winning can exist separately from each other. I fully agree that Clinton can't win at this point barring revelations that Obama's been dealing coke out of his Senate chambers or some such--and Clinton continuing her campaign is irrelevant in that case because Obama would be forced out and the nomination thrust upon Clinton even if Obama had already "won"--but she clearly still hopes to win.
Has something changed? Last I saw, neither one of them had hopes to win, and it was going to have to be brokered. Unless a huge number of superdelegates break one way or the other, and we haven't seen indication of that yet.
I don't see how they can possibly let Michigan and Florida back in, even with a revote, without risking chaos in 2012. Any state that wants to could schedule itself ahead of New Hampshire, and if the DNC threatens to disenfranchise them, they can just point and laugh.
I can't imagine that happening...it's about the only way they could dig themselves even deeper into the hole they're in. Superdelegates will start to break for Obama as it gets closer. It'll be the best way to save face. As it is, Clinton hasn't really budged in superdelegates since Super Tuesday, while Obama has surged.
Translation: "There's nothing to see here people, just politics as usual, move along." The Holy Avatar of Hope and Change can try bury this story all he wants with "eloquent" speeches but nothing will change the fact that this isn't just any other 'political distraction,' his 20 year personal relationship with a racist hateful fuck of a preacher, a man whose taped sermons he took with him Harvard, isn't just like an off-color comment made by the supporters of one of his opponents or a crazy Christian endorsing his potential Republican opponent, it is a troubling glimpse into the personal life and beliefs of a very hollow politician.
It was a very powerful speech, one that had me on the verge of getting a bit misty eyed. If this speech doesn't put him back to where he was before this whole Reverend Wright thing erupted, then nothing will. Time will tell, though. We'll see if we're still talking about Wright a week from now.
For fuck's sake! Plenty of poor immigrant Asians and Hispanic men don't abandon their children and families, and they certainly don't go about create more babies with the next girlfriend they get with. I'm sure that did contribute to it, but when the hell are we going to get over it and try to do better? aside from that, I think he does make some good points about race issues, but that up there just pisses me right off.
Yeah, because every other race is disparity-free which is why you can clearly point to the troubles in the black community and know that they are because of slavery 200 years ago.
I'll give him half a point for this. Welfare policies have worsened it. But the "erosion" of black families didn't continue with welfare; it started with it. Legitimacy rates for blacks were very high (higher than whites, IIRC) in the 1950s. Welfare subsidized illegitimacy and in so doing destroyed the black family.
I am less and less worried that Obama will be undefeatable in November. His skeletons are starting to come out and it won't take a Karl Rove to shine the spotlight on them. Truth be told, a lot of America is far more conservative than the media would have you believe. And Obama is on record as being a cokehead. I have a hard time seeing someone who doesn't really believe in evolution voting for a black coke fiend.
Yep. Obsess on the past, forgo the future. And, of course, it probably helps your chances of success in America if you don't hate it with a barely contained rage.
Async could go bigger. I'm fairly sure that, given the oppritunity, Async could take up the better part of the next four years explaining the pros and cons of offshore wind farms.
You didn't actually read the speech, did you? I keep hearing people say this, but those people are never talking about themselves. Where are these closet conservatives, and why do they so rarely speak for themselves? He's on record as using coke. That's a far cry from being a "cokehead." As opposed to a pot-smoking, draft dodging, white trash adulterer? Or an Ivy League cokehead/alcoholic? Or a divorced former actor?
What have the Obama's done differently than the rest of the black community? They sure have seemed to have figured out how to take advantage of this country economically speaking.
To which Obama said, in that very speech : Obama seems to recognize it's not a picnic for Whitey either.
Yes, he did point that out, although, if he plays the 'black' race card without some counterbalancing rhetoric to mollify fence-sitting whities, what do you think would have been the result? Moreover, look at the length of this thing. Windy rhetoric that sounds grand is often a mask for spine problems. Obama is doing what slimey politicians have been doing perpetually: He's saying just enough so that he's able to claim that he's actually "taking a stand", but not actually taking one in such a way that displays commitment, character or resolve. We're back to, "If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit."
Obama is trying to talk out of both sides of his mouth on this. I don't think it is going away anytime soon either.
Funny, I thought the civil rights act was passed in 1964. Oh wait, it was. So it must be 2164 then right?
You just knew you were going to get repped for that one, didn't you? Admit it, that's the only reason you wrote it!