Damn thats messed up! How ever will we keep up with Sonny, Jason, and Elizabeth as long as Obama is in office!

McCain would never have been so insulting to the American house wives(and house husbands)!

So i was watching MSNBC on election night and i see a guy named Cory Booker come on to talk.

He was asked something to the effect of ...do you think the election of Obama means the country is beyond race, post racial?

This is what he had to say:

“I reject the idea of a post-racial America. I want to luxuriate in the racial deliciousness of our country: the Italian-Americans, the Irish-Americans, the Mexican-Americans. I mean, that’s what makes America great. We are a nation that celebrates racial diversity. We’re not Norway. We’re not South Korea. We are the United States of America. The story of America is bringing such differences together to manifest a united set of ideals, not a united culture, not a united language, not a united religion, but a united set of ideals. That was what made America dramatic when it was founded, the first country of its kind in humanity. So I reject that [the idea of a post-racial America]. I want to celebrate all of America: its richness, its diversity, its deliciousness.”
Mayor Cory Booker, (D) Newark, New Jersey:

I wish i could find the video because it is really quite amazing, Mayor Booker's passion is something to behold. The clarity of his speech is beautiful.

here is something you can watch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQofaTe3eEk

As an African American i am pleased to see the inteligence of my people being displayed all over the world rather than just the vulgarity of our adopted gangster culture.

I agree with the gentleman from Newark. Our goal in America is not to be post-racial, it is not to get away from the recognition that I am a black man and that you may be a white person. The goal is to understand that our differences in culture are not walls that divide us. They are experiences to be shared and united towards a common ideal that is the American dream.

I think Mayor Booker has a bright future... look for him to be on capitol hill one day.

I know a lot of you have been watching the news lately, who do you think, regardless of party, is a rising start in politics?

We were indeed attacked during the clinton years. thing is Clinton wanted to attack Afganistan and it was the republican congress that wouldnt let him. The best he was allowed to do was launch missiles into the terrorist camps.

I dont hate Bush, i think i finally understand him now. He hasnt had the best of luck. He wins in 2000 but its by supreme court decision and 500 votes. The left thinks hes not the prez.

Then some aholes fly planes into the WTC. Then Anthrax. Afganistan and then the Iraq gamble. then no WMD's found. Katrina, loosing the war.... Finally the surge helps after some presidential cabinet retooling. Then he looses the majority in the house and senate in '06 then the housing bubble burst.... it hasnt been a good run for o'l GWB. Hes just trying to keep himself and the country above water.


I feel bad for him.... so much so i am willing to go to DC and help him pack his ****! UHAUL is on me!!

i love this line of logic

its like saying "HEY! I havent been punched in the face! 'Cept for tha one time when i got punched really hard!"

Fact is we got punched.

let me remind you of history

Secretary Rice testifies to the 9/11 commission

"RICE: I remember very well that the president was aware that there were issues inside the United States. He talked to people about this. But I don't remember the al Qaeda cells as being something that we were told we needed to do something about.

BEN-VENISTE: Isn't it a fact, Dr. Rice, that the August 6 PDB warned against possible attacks in this country? And I ask you whether you recall the title of that PDB?

RICE: I believe the title was, "Bin Laden Determined to Attack Inside the United States."

Now, the...

BEN-VENISTE: Thank you."


So yeah we havent been punched in a while but when you get a memo titled "Bin Laden Determined to Attack Inside the United States." you have to ask... could we have avoided being punched in the first place???

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2008

Texas Mom says: Thank You Sarah Palin

I would like to take a moment thank Sarah Palin. I would like to thank her for being a perfect example for my bright and creative 11 year old daughter.

Thank you, Sarah, for helping open a dialog between us to discuss the mockery of pseudo-equality and the men who hide behind a woman, putting her in a leadership role not because she exemplifies the qualities of a leader but because she *is* a woman and their denial of their own misogyny demands they nominate a figurehead with breasts.


Thank you, Sarah, for illustrating so perfectly for my ambitious 5th grader how wrong things go when one participates in spreading ugly rumors and for making my point that what you don't stand up against is just as bad as what you spread yourself.

Thank you, Sarah, for giving my intuitive and perfect girl a glimpse of understanding into how much she could lose if she allows someone else to make her decisions for her - she's already her own advocate for access to sex education, prevention and choice for both herself and for any vicitimized woman/girl who would suffer under your preferred policies on women's reproductive rights, because even a child is horrified at the thought that suffering an attack or abuse could lead to the additional mandatory mental anguish of 9 more months of suffering.

Thank you for being an example of insensitivity in office and inability to empathize with victims of atrocities.


Thank you, Gov. Palin, for being a great example that people in power can make statements opposite of the truth in an effort to put money ahead of global good since she's already understanding that no amount of money made in oil fields can insure the promise of a planet to live on for her future children.


Thank you, Gov. Palin, for being the ideal example of how maliciousness, pettiness, manipulativeness, and viciousness can hide behind an appealing, friendly smile and look and sound a lot like people you can trust.

You've been the best example I could ask for to give her the tools to evaluate the actions of someone and their effects on those around them over how they sound, what they look like, and who their friends are.


As a woman, a mom, a troop leader, a rare disease patient, a volunteer religious educator, a community activist, a believer in humanity, a struggling environmentalist, and most importantly - as a human - I do thank you, but now I want you to go back to AK and stop giving us both nightmares. Please.


-Dawn M.
, 31, Cedar Park, TX

cut him a little slack he was simply being polite.

if anything the premise that it takes one ethnicity to clean up another's mess is insulting for all involved but that would be parsing words a bit much for someone who is obviously a supporter of the same cause.

its not patronizing it is somber and a sober realization that we as a nation have a lot to deal with.... i would add regardless of the skin of our president.

...Shout out to Marget Thatcher! woot woot!

you are absolutely right. i think black America is going to be jumping for joy for a while it is a good thing for you to remind me that this is for all of us equally. I have white friends who are even more excited than i am. I am very proud of my country. im glad the world is getting to see that the USA stands by its creed. The symbol this gives us is huge


now the real work begins. the country is in a tough spot. its time for us to stick together.

the sad thing is Alaskan Senator and CONVICTED FELON Ted Stevens might get re-elected to the senate. The race is tied even the day after the election. If Ted "The Crook" get re-elected he may face expulsion from the senate leaving the senate seat vacant... if that happens guess who gets to appoint the new senator???

she will have the power to appoint herself to the senate!!!!

Oh give me a break! I have sat and listened to the hate spit out of Palins mouth since september and i have heard people yell "Kill Him' about Obama at Palin rallies. She said nothing to stop it! What a great American!

Come off it. You two are acting like we are attackin your mother. We are talking about a woman who was sheltered from the media for weeks! She is a governor of a state you would think she would take the shelter time to get to know the policies of her country and that being able to see Russia is not a qualification on national security.

She didnt get mistreated by the media! She got vetted by the media! More than McCain did it seems.

If you are a public official it is the peoples right to test them. She failed. She can take her 150,000 dollar shopping spree gift card and a duffle bag and hit the road. shes Alaska's problem now.

that is fair but really there is no way to talk about this election and ignore how huge this is for a black man to be president.

The white house was built with black slave labor. President Obama, a black man, will now run this country from that house.... you are not black so i dont expect you to see it my way but you have to face facts, this is beyond huge!

They left him a gift. if he fixes this mess he will go down in history bigger than it is already written. remember there is still space on Mt. Rushmore

i think most Obama supporters like McCain, just didnt want him to win. That lends itself to bi-partisanship. however, no one likes Palin. how do you respect "i can see russia from alaska"?

sorry to ruffle your feathers but oh well

Sarah palin is the breathof freshly licked ash tray

White indeed dont own racism. that is no opinion it is a fact. i just hope that racism itself took a real shot to the head yesterday and that it is even weaker that is was before we knew President Obama.

Oh and i wouldnt be hesitant to say to young women they can be president Hillary Clinton showed you that it is possible and even Palin on some level. If there Where no Obama we might have seen Madam President Clinton last night.

i agree with everything you have stated. this election will go down in the history books in big bold letters not just because of the African American aspect but because of the phenomenal race that was had. From the primaries to the debates to Nov 4 2008, just epic. Every twist and every turn made yesterday all the more cathartic

is it a guy or a girl?

ah, yes i agree

if you are talking about me. i didnt take that lightly

ummm.... what the heck are you saying???