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Category Archives: Presidential Politics
Say No to military intervention in Syria
Congress must defeat President Obama’s War Powers resolution authorizing military action against the Assad regime in Syria. Continue reading
2012 voters: The deepest racial split since ’88
Talk about voting against your economic and class interests in favor of racial fears. The unrelenting torrent of code words and innuendo about President Obama’s heritage, competence, intelligence and legitimacy to hold the nation’s highest office is giving license for … Continue reading
Posted in African Americans, Presidential Politics, RAce Relations, The Economy
Tagged Mitt Romney, President Obama, Tea Party
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Who was Obama’s ‘hype man’ last night?
H/T to TVOne‘s Roland Martin for alerting Team Obama to the need for a pre-debate ‘hype man’ because the President walked onto center stage last night with a winning ‘tude. I imagined that President Obama had NFL linebacker Ray Lewis‘s motivational … Continue reading
Posted in African Americans, Elections, Presidential Politics
Tagged iPod, Mitt Romney, NFL, pissed off for greatness, President Obama, Ray Lewis, roland martin
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Rumble, young man, Rumble
Rumble, young man, Rumble
Honey Boo Boo endorses Barack Obama on Jimmy Kimmel Live – latimes.com
Bubba has done it! Last night on Jimmy Kimmel Live, pint-sized reality child star Alana Thompson (aka Honey Boo Boo) declared her support for President… “Marack Obama” Apparently, like President Obama and Bill Clinton, HBB’s thinking is also evolving on … Continue reading
Posted in Media, Presidential Politics
Tagged Alana Thompson, Bill Clinton, Honey Boo Boo, Jimmy Kimmel Live, Mitt Romney, President Obama
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Libya Attack: Clinton Claims Responsibility For Libya Consulate Security
Last week, I asked if President Obama would throw Secretary of State Hillary Clinton under the bus as a consequence of the tragic errors that left US Ambassador Chris Stevens vulnerable to attack in Libya. Today, on the eve of … Continue reading
Hey Roland, I’ve found Obama’s ‘hype man’ for next presidential debate
On today’s Washington Watch, the host Roland Martin said that President Obama (Was Obama Scared of Romney) needed a “hype man” like Bundini Brown to walk him into the next debate. After the show, I switched to ESPN’s Sunday … Continue reading
America’s middle class (and our prosperity) is eroding in full view
The Middle Class — the foundation of American prosperity is eroding in full view says Jeff Madrick in Our Crisis of Bad Jobs. Despite the reported drop in unemployment from 8.1% in August to 7.8 last month, President Obama is still … Continue reading
Rev. A.R. Bernard Sets the Record Straight on Voting This November
The Daily Beast recently published, Is the Black Vote Really in Play?, wherein Brooklyn mega-church pastor Rev. A.R. Bernard sets the record straight on an AP story linking him to an alleged movement by black ministers to boycott President … Continue reading