Yes We Can

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But here’s what I know.  I know that when people say we can’t overcome all the big money and influence in Washington, I think of the elderly woman who sent me a contribution the other day – an envelope that had a money order for $3.01 along with a verse of scripture tucked inside.  So don’t tell us change isn’t possible.

When I hear the cynical talk that blacks and whites and Latinos can’t join together and work together, I’m reminded of the Latino brothers and sisters I organized with, and stood with, and fought with side by side for jobs and justice on the streets of Chicago.  So don’t tell us change can’t happen.

When I hear that we’ll never overcome the racial divide in our politics, I think about that Republican woman who used to work for Strom Thurmond, who’s now devoted to educating inner-city children and who went out onto the streets of South Carolina and knocked on doors for this campaign.  Don’t tell me we can’t change.

Yes we can change.

Yes we can heal this nation.

Yes we can seize our future.

And as we leave this state with a new wind at our backs, and take this journey across the country we love with the message we’ve carried from the plains of Iowa to the hills of New Hampshire; from the Nevada desert to the South Carolina coast; the same message we had when we were up and when we were down – that out of many, we are one; that while we breathe, we hope; and where we are met with cynicism, and doubt, and those who tell us that we can’t, we will respond with that timeless creed that sums up the spirit of a people in three simple words:

Yes.  We.  Can.”

The Media?

Lately, the media believes they are trying to play “god” in this election.

The media should feel ashamed at their NH polls. Their predictions have all been WRONG.

“White voters have walked away from Obama because of the black issue.” – who do they think they are? Frusteration.

This week’s democratic debate was a brawl between Obama and Clinton — but unfortunately Edwards won, solely because Obama & Hillary did not go after his superficial behavior only their backgrounds. Obama had every right to go after Hillary – she’s lied, Bill has lied. It’s time someone has said it.

After the debate: the media slams Obama & Hillary for attacking each other during the debate and stating “this is not what the American people want to see.”

And then, the republican debate. A petty discussion about how “great” the war is going. All in all, the candidates were playing nice.

After the debate: The media “the American people were looking for fight”.

Actually, what we’re looking for – is for the media to stop trying to play god.

A Great Line

An Op-Ed by Gail Collins ends with

(referring to the Clinton Campaign)

“Only it’s not change, it’s not a breakthrough moment in history. It’s just a nervous decision that we’d rather go back than risk going forward.”

Stunned.

Normally, the Republican debate gets me riled up, but today was just absolutely unbelieveable. These white, conservative, “christian”, fear mongers lied to the American people tonight, in hopes of getting elected this November. First – Romney? Are you kidding me here? He literally spoke about this “change” Washington desperately needs, but he supports the war? Which is basically the king of corruption in DC right now. He said we need serious change, but then says he hopes to bring back the old fashion Reagan policies? I am so, so sorry Mitt. But you are riding the wrong train for “change”, you’re actually in a time traveler machine. So we can just reverse this wonderful mess.

McCain, retire. You can’t drop tax rates, spend another trillion dollars on this war, and then expect the American Troops to come home, alive. You can’t. You can’t. Wake up!

Guiliani, your own people hate you? And then you expect to win the hearts of strangers? Hmm.

In the debate, Clinton bashing was endless. In a way, it really made me realize how important nominating Obama would be – because we would have a fighting chance against these egotistical men who claim to have morals.

Tim Russert I beg of you to ask the question, “Why should we have gone off to war in Iraq?”

Although I do have to compliment them on one thing. Nice job with playing safe with one another, I wish the democratic party took note of that, because this primary is tearing us a part.

Rant of the Day

First Things first,

Congress approved Bush’s economic proposal, which is now going to send our country into an even bigger deficit.  And we have a war going on – which they are willingly funding. I can’t handle the Dems right now. Where did their backbone go? Am I missing something? Because all I have witnessed is them crumble to this administration’s demand. And this war continues, something they promised they would get us out of – and that is exactly what is butchering our economy. They have had so many opportunities. When will they finally make this all stop?

Secondly.

Check out McCain :http://youtube.com/watch?v=Ajm5JTf7jZs&feature=related

Yeah, he’s just completely ridiculous.

Two Against One

By: Maureen Dowd

“If Bill Clinton has to trash his legacy to protect his legacy, so be it. If he has to put a dagger through the heart of hope to give Hillary hope, so be it.

If he has to preside in this state as the former first black president stopping the would-be first black president, so be it.

The Clintons — or “the 2-headed monster,” as the The New York Post dubbed the tag team that clawed out wins in New Hampshire and Nevada — always go where they need to go, no matter the collateral damage. Even if the damage is to themselves and their party.

Bill’s transition from elder statesman, leader of his party and bipartisan ambassador to ward heeler and hatchet man has been seamless — and seamy.

After Bill’s success trolling the casinos on the Las Vegas Strip, Hillary handed off South Carolina and flew to California and other Super Tuesday states. The Big Dog relished playing the candidate again, wearing a Technicolor orange tie and sweeping across the state with the mute Chelsea.

He tried to convey the impression that they were running against The Man, and with classic Clintonian self-pity, grumbled that Barack Obama had all the advantages.

When he was asked yesterday if he would feel bad standing in the way of the first black president, he said no. “I’m not standing in his way,” he said. “I think Hillary would be a better president” who’s “ready to do the job on the first day.” He added: “No one has a right to be president, including Hillary. Keep in mind, in the last two primaries, we ran as an underdog.” He rewrote the facts, saying that “no one thought she could win” in New Hampshire, even though she originally had had a substantial lead.

He said of Obama: “I hope I get a chance to vote for him some day.” And that day, of course, would be after Hillary’s eight years; it’s her turn now because Bill owes her. “I think it would be just as much a change, and some people think more, to have the first woman president as to have the first African-American president,” he said.

Bad Bill had been roughing up Obama so much that Representative James Clyburn of South Carolina suggested that he might want to “chill.” On a conference call with reporters yesterday, the former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, a national co-chairman of the Obama campaign, tut-tutted that the “incredible distortions” of the political beast were “not keeping with the image of a former president.”

Jonathan Alter reported in Newsweek that Senator Edward Kennedy and Rahm Emanuel, the Illinois congressman and former Clinton aide, have heatedly told Bill “that he needs to change his tone and stop attacking Senator Barack Obama.”

In the Myrtle Beach debate Monday night, Obama was fed up with being double-teamed by the Clintons. He finally used attack lines that his strategists had urged him to use against Hillary for months. “It was as though all the e-mails were backed up,” said one.

When Hillary tried once more to take Obama’s remarks about Ronald Reagan out of context, making it seem as though Obama had praised Reagan’s policies, he turned sarcastic about getting two distortionists for the price of one.

“I can’t tell who I’m running against sometimes,” he snapped at Hillary, obviously entrapped and psyched-out by the Clinton duo.

On a conference call with reporters yesterday morning, Obama did not back off from his more aggressive, if defensive, stance. The Clintons, he said “spent the last month attacking me in ways that are not accurate. At some point, it’s important for me to answer.” Recalling that Hillary had called mixing it up the “fun” part of politics, he said: “I don’t think it’s the fun part to fudge the truth.”

Bill has merged with his wife totally now, talking about “we” and “us.” “I never did anything major without discussing it with her,” he told a crowd here. “We’ve been having this conversation since we first met in 1971, and I don’t think we’ll stop now.” He suggested as First Lad that “I can help to sell the domestic program.”

It’s odd that the first woman with a shot at becoming president is so openly dependent on her husband to drag her over the finish line. She handed over South Carolina to him, knowing that her support here is largely derivative.

At the Greenville event, Bill brought up Obama’s joking reference to him in the debate, about how Obama would have to see whether Bill was a good dancer before deciding whether he was the first black president.

Bill, naturally, turned it into a competition. “I would be willing to engage in a dancing competition with him, even though he’s much younger and thinner than I am,” he said. “If I’m going to get in one of these brother contests,” he added, “at least I should be entitled to an age allowance.”

He said, “I kind of like seeing Barack and Hillary fighting.”

“How great is this?” he said. “Neither of them has to be a little wind-up doll who’s supposed to behave in a certain way. They’re real people, flesh and blood people. They have differences.”

And if he has anything to say about it, and he will, they’ll be fighting till the last dog dies.”

Hello!

This is going to be my sanctuary for the political world I live in. Democrats AND Republicans are welcome to read on, but republicans need to be warned, I do not play “the independent” role, especially when it comes down to this election. I will most likely ramble, post articles on various political matters, and of course, write extensively on my deep admiration for Barack H. Obama. So welcome!