Democrat with a Spine West Virginia Morning Open Thread

Good Morning, West Virginia!

Almost heaven :-).

Didn’t you guys get the memo? West Virginia doesn’t count. It’s not like it’s Kansas or Idaho or Wyoming, after all. If Hillary doesn’t win by at least 4-1, she has to withdraw. West Virginia isn’t important to Democratic success in November. West Virginians are Racists. The Election is Over. Hillary is hurting the party. Up is Down. Black is White. Did you say “Black?” You are a racist.

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I will order a t-shirt as soon as I get paid on Friday! No Quarter Hillary! No Quarter!

Will the MSM even report the results tonight - other than an aside in one of their shows?

Last week CNN had a “new year’s eve” countdown so they could all shout Obama wins NC!

Meanwhile, in Oregon…you MUST see this portrayal of Obama…it will make you laugh…or make you fearful..

Williamette, Oregon Weekly’s HILARIOUS Portrayal of Obama

http://insightanalytical.wordpress.com/

I’m serious, you MUST SEE THIS!!

I wish he would have put the heart of gold on the front.

Heard Chris Matthews on MSNBC this morning say to David Axelrod, as they were cutting to break, “West Virginia’s going to be a problem, isn’t it?”

Axelrod: “Yes, it is.”

I could not stand Bob Barr during the Clinton impeachment hearings. I do not agree with many of Bob Barr’s right-wing positions.

I do know, however, that Bob Barr loves his country.

I do know that Bob Barr believes in upholding the Constitution.

I do know that Bob Barr believes in a balanced budget.

Obama won’t wear a flag lapel pin.

Obama doesn’t know how many states there are in the U.S.

Obama associates with Anti-American (”God Damn America”) religious fanatics who spew racial hatred against “white Europeans.”

Obama is a friend of militant Louis Farrakhan.

If I thought Obama loved his country I would vote for him should Hillary lose, but Obama and his militant buddies spew anti-American hatred.

I would vote for Bob Barr LOOOONNNNGGGG before I would ever, ever vote for Barack Obama.

It is about Anti-American hatred, not race.
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In the mean time, GOOOOOO Hillary!

I am going to keep repeating this, and I would love to hear what others think.
I agree it is early, and know anything can happen. However - it’s not too early to begin thinking about this:

Hillary running as Independent or, even better, as third party. How about as Women’s Party - that includes men, of course - but that recognizes misogyny in this country and need for change in women’s voices being heard. Maybe with AA woman as VP. (Sheila Jackson-Lee, Shirley Tubbs Johnson, Maxine Waters). Bring in AA voters who are being used by Obama.
This would be real change - and would show DNC in a strong way NOT to take us for granted ever again, that we are not the abused woman stereotype, that we don’t go back to our abuser when he calls and offers us - Nothing?!!! That we have power and they need us more than we need them, that they better make us very happy, give us what we need, LISTEN when we talk. Or f— that, that we are in charge. There are more of us than men. It would be a powerful coalition. Repub women would join, too. What group has higher numbers, more potential power, and would work for life-affirming values for all people because it is in our DNA because of giving birth to life.
There was a time when women ruled, and the cultures were life affirming, peaceful, productive, and intelligent.
When I think of the situation of the world today and think of Obama or McCain trying to fix it, I want to laugh - but mostly cry.
I think such a ticket could beat both of those boyz.
Or, if not (too dreamy? maybe) - then how about Hillary and a male VP. Maybe AA male. Or white. That’s okay, too.
Either could win.
This country - and world- cannot afford Obama or McCain now.
I don’t want those to be my choices.

The WV vote will only give the MSM another grand “Hillary bashing” night of slapping the Hillary pinata.

Don’t forget, they don’t need us because the college boys will get more college boys to register to vote and everything will be peachy for Obama in the GE. No, really. Many red states will magically turn blue because Obama is The One. And soon Obama will control the entire Democratic party because he’ll have all the money from all the grateful people in the USA.

My ass. In fact, Obama and all his little Otrolls can start practicing… waving goodbye.

As the obscenities have continued to be hurled at Hillary, and about Hillary, I have sometimes wondered at the silence coming from the Obama supporters who are so quick to yell, “Racist” every time someone says anything at all critical about Obama.

I hope the Obama supporters are not as stupid as they seem, because it is perfectly okay to criticize a politician in America (as I have relentlessly criticized Bush) and such criticism is NOT racist unless it IS racist.

If someone says Obama is dishonest about something and provides the reasons why that statement is true, it is absolutely nuts to call that person a racist. Yet, that is what Obama supporters do.

But back to the insults that have, daily, been hurled at Hillary Clinton, a former First Lady and currently a twice-elected senator from New York.

I have to wonder if Randi Rhodes had called Barack Obama a f_______ n______, what kind of commotion that would have caused.

Let me tell the Obama worshipers something. Women consider being called a whore or a “ho” or a bitch every bit as bad as a black person considers being called a n_____.

So, where has been the outrage from the Obama supporters?

Silence.

In fact, it IS the Obama supporters who have been calling Hillary Clinton a bitch and a “ho” and a whore.

Shame on the Obama supporters who do this.

Shame on them for joining in the name-calling directed at Hillary AND at her supporters, and shame on them for their silence when others did the name-calling.

I think they are all disgusting.

I will not miss seeing advertisements for T-shirts that bear the slogan “Bros before Hos.” The shirts depict Barack Obama (the Bro) and Hillary Clinton (the Ho), and they are widely sold on the Internet.

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/05/13/8917/

And any woman who says she does not mind being called a whore or a “ho” or a bitch ought to seek psychiatric help.

USAToday

Of the 29 Democratic Party primaries held in states since the New Hampshire contest on Jan. 8 from which delegates have been allocated, Obama has won 15. But in doing so, he got a majority of the white votes in just five of the 29 contests. And while winning three of the eight primaries held since March 4, Obama won a majority of the white vote in only one — Vermont.

Last week, Obama got 40% of the white vote in Indiana, a state he narrowly lost to Clinton, who received 60% of the white vote. That same day, Obama beat Clinton by a 14-point margin in North Carolina, but managed to win just 37% of the state’s white vote. Clinton got 61% of the white vote. Obama’s margin of victory in contests where he has gotten less than a majority of the white vote has been produced by the overwhelming support of black voters.

Open Thread

A Fish in a Tank of Multi-Cultural Obama Kool-Aid;
(able to swim but unable to escape.)

Up until today, I was the local chapter president of my union. As Chapter President, I was invited to attend a “retreat”, in order to learn how to better perform the duties and obligation of the position I was elected to.
Everything was going great, learning how to do a better job, meeting all kinds of new and interesting people, exchanging ideas and experiences, until the Tuesday morning session.

That morning, the Keynote speaker was a person with an “expertise” in multi-culturalism and “diversity” training and has given presentations for many government agencies and major corporations.

(Authors note: To tell this story, I am required out of necessity to use ethnic distinctions, which as a normal rule I would refuse to do, out of a strong belief, that it is the content of a person’s character and the people they associate with, that is the measure of a human being. I ask for your forgiveness in advance. I have also changed names out of respect for the individuals involved. )

There where roughly 180 Chapter presidents in attendance, as well as the top elected state leadership, for my union, present for this event.

The keynote speaker was of Chinese decent and claimed to be a Buddhist.

He began by stating his full name and asked the audience which was his surname and which was his given name. After explaining the order of a Chinese name, he stated that one should always use the proper name of a person. He then asked an Asian union member what here name was. She responded, saying “Ellen”. “No, your Chinese name”, he says. The woman then volunteered her Mandarin “ethnic name”.

“How does that make you feel, that a person of Western European decent, gave you a name that they could pronounce?”, the keynote speaker asked rhetorically. She was notably uncomfortable.

He then, started going around he audience acting like a subtle misogynist. Asking the members of the audience to stand if they noticed what he was doing, mistreating the women in the hall, a dozen women stood up. I was the only man in the hall to stand up.
Turning back to the podium he said I was an “enlightened male”. A women I was sitting next to felt embarrassed and said “I knew what he was doing emotionally, but only afterwards realized it and I did not stand up.”

Through out the rest of his speech, he placed blame on people of “Western European extraction” for all the racial injustice in United States. I was growing increasing uncomfortable, being of “Western European extraction” and the target of this “white bashing”. I was made to feel like I was personally responsible for all the civil and racial injustices on the planet, due to the keynote speakers’ repeated inference, that white people were the cause of racism.
Asking a Latino American what bad names they were called as a child. Asking an African American what names they called. On and on it went, piling on the “white guilt”.

As this keynote speaker was closing, he asked groups of six to join hands and said the following;
“Just think of how we can change things. Do you realize we could have a woman, or a black person as president? McCain, Hillary, and Barak Obama, and Reverend Wright who was misquoted, and Barak Obama’s beautiful speech on Race, I hope we have this conversation…I hope we have this conversation.” (on race)

Something inside me “snapped”. This speaker had just used the Unions platform to endorse Barak Obama. As I can not convey his tone using words, I would ask the reader to keep in mind, the keynote speaker himself, said that one should use a persons full name. Notice he said “McCain, Hillary and Barak Obama. While he was saying this, my urge to walk out, which had been building for the entire presentation, reached a crescendo. I was trapped, however, because I had joined hands and was torn between leaving or not breaking the circle.

After everyone had filed out of the hall, and being agitated by the inference of “white guilt”, I approached the keynote speaker. Introducing myself, I said “I just wanted to show your family shines respect. I want you to know, I describe myself as a “meat eating Taoist”, since the age of 13 and I have a bone to pick with you. You never once mentioned indifference! And I would not, as a Taoist, wish to leave you with the impression I was an “enlightened male”, just a person who saw your attitude for what it was, nothing more.
He looked shocked and made the excuse that it was due his “cultural perspective”.
His chaperone then said they where due elsewhere and whisked him out of the hall.

At this point I raised several points with two members of the senior Union leadership. I asked if the Union had endorsed a presidential candidate, and was told they had not. If not, will the president repudiate the intentional inference that I was a racist and a historical bigot? I explained that Barak Obama had 11 of 30 low income Rezko housing units in his state senate district and claims he did not know the tenants were without heat and water for 6 weeks in a Chicago winter. These two people did not know any of this. I asked that he set the record straight and publically disavow the keynote speaker’s racist remarks. They returned several minutes later, saying the State President of the Union would talk to me about it.

Throughout the rest of Tuesday evening and all of Wednesday, the President of the Union did not even, so much as say ‘TeakWoodKite’ lets talk at such and such time about your concerns ” or I understand you are upset….”. He had many opportunities during this time and could have taken the initiative as President, to address the concerns of a constituent. He never did.

Late on Wednesday evening, I ran into the two people I had raised the issue with originally and asked where the President was, as I wished to speak with him regarding these issues.. I was told he was at unavailable and then I asked them “well, who was his boss”?. They responded he IS the boss.

Sound the buzzer! Wrong answer! The members of the Union are his boss, or at least I thought so up until that point.

The point being, that the union is about the workplace rights of union members and should have nothing to do with the political preferences of the members.

Since the president, an elected official, would not do me the professional courtesy and meet with me, I have resigned as Chapter President and will leave the union all together, based on the principled conclusion, that as a “meet eating Taoist”, the three most important values one can have are
1) Always view people as human beings and not the assertion or emphasis of cultural differences,
2) To ALLWAYS reject indifference, where ever it is found.
3) That service to others is “the way of the Tao”.

So I ask, What do Senator Barak Obama and Neo-Multi-culturalism have in common?

I wake up this morning to the L.A. Times front page, “Hanging on to Clinton Dream,” an article to set up that even though she’s going to win today, she still doesn’t have the “numbers” to win the nomination. It goes on to tell how “sad” all the women are who wanted to have a woman “President” and how our “dream” will never happen. And quotes one woman saying that she will never vote for…then her sister interrupts and says “a black man.” Like we’re all racists for not voting for him! Not because she’s the stronger candidate! This is the same drumbeat from the Press that got us into the Iraq war! I’m so f**king angry that I just snapped at my loving husband.

I feel like I can’t read ANYTHING! Are we in an episode of the Twilight Zone?

She doesn’t have the numbers, BUT neither does he! Are we going to have a DICTATOR leading our country, a man who takes the highest position by declaring he has won? What is wrong with everyone? I used to wonder how Germany got caught in the rule of Hitler, but I don’t wonder anymore.

Oh boy it is not about the numbers. It is about brokering a candidate. So long as it is not a woman and not a Clinton.

Amazing how much a strong woman scares some men.

aol straw poll, ran every monday……hillary is at 60% ohummer 40%…… this is a national poll for aol. how does the media and the press explain this ? the bloggers on aol do their best to bash hillary, but are unable to move that poll ! ha ha ha

There’s mention, on Riverdaughter, of SD’s being threatened with with-holding of money and support if they don’t endorse Obama. Has anyone else heard this?

Well, mom and I went out today. While on the bus there was an elderly Black lady who was talking with the bus driver about being a pollster. She was summoned by some party to apply (Obama’s campaign?), and the conversation was more about the money the pollster job would bring in (not a peep about duty or country, it’s “Mo’ money!”

Meanwhile, the bus goes through the projects. Now I don’t go downtown much, so while the bus weaved through one of the projects I remember from yet another bus ride (remember enforced intergration bussing?) one that I saw going to elementary school via the same route and same project. As the bus turned down the old school street, I saw 2 community centers; a Boys and Girls club; a huge playground, and a new elementary school within 2 blocks of the project.

Those families have been living in that project for over 40 years folks. Every decade they get some new MAJOR perk (I wish our neighborhood had even HALF that project has…hasn’t been a playground here for 60 years, until very recently, after a black kid was killed when hit by a car playing in the only area he could — the street). Guess what? They’ll remain in that project for yet another 40 years. Why leave when the roof is repaired; the lawns cut; the faucet and toilet is fixed; and the project has more perks than a $700/mon apartment complex?

The bus continued down the road past abandoned shotgun houses, and run downed cottages that littered the place. Turning down another street I saw homes with increasely more iron bars on the windows (one had black wrought iron so tight that the space between bars was about 1 inch apart and covered all windows all the way to the top). At this point I was getting angry about all what’s wasted on folks who’ll just keep on going downhill on some payback and hangout teet, and the thought those other folks will die in a house fire to protect their inside property. Then, in a blink of an eye, the bus passed this pretty little oasis in a sea of urban decay. Not only was the house painted; lawn mowned; flower beds attended; windows even shaded with blinds; there was a GARRISON SIZED AMERICAN FLAG IN THE FRONT YARD [on a proper flag pole even]!!

That made my day, folks. Out of all that generational misery I saw — even in the middle of it — someone defied the norms of “Entitlement Theology”, and planted a king-sized Stars and Stripes in a beautiful yard with care.

Why can’t Obama wear a simple flag pin to show he cares about a home he want’s to inherit (the White House)?