That speech was one of the most direct and honest approaches to one of the difficult issues our nation faces; and even Hillary supporters should acknowledge it as a start rather than attack. What do you think should be done to deal with old civil rights leaders who are angry at the speed of progress in all of the manifestations of discimmination, from poor schools and prison population disparity and disproportionate unemployment? brush it off as "hate speech". I remember Katrina. Hillary needs to join with Obama on this issue and her supporters need to hear themselves in their predjudice and join the dialogue, not stoke flames of division.

Judith wrote "Hillary's life has been, almost exclusively, in the political arena. She has the demeanor and wisdom required to lead, effectively!!"

Well it's pretty certain she's not going to give a speech.  From her comments, she appears to regard them as little more than ephemeral window dressing.  Maybe you're aware of what she, as a candidate, will do about the problems.

Obama doesn't "lack the wisdom that comes with life's experiences". He has demonstrated wisdom by first taking his own life experiences of racism and reconciling them to his life and in his work.He didn't turn his back on  his grandmother because she expressed fear of blackmen. He could have had a comfortable life in middleclass America without the trials of working in social services, which is truly some the most heart rendering work you can do. It has a very high burnout rate.

Bi-racial children struggle with identity conflict.The most well-adjusted ones learn to accept their uniqueness and become quite skillful at reaching out and bringing others together. Barak has done this in his past.We have had so much divisivness these last 15 years.It's time we had someone who could show us how to put aside the anger and the cynicism and work with one another. Barak has done that for black youth who felt disinfranchised.I think he can do it for white and black America, if we allow him too. 

Where the Money Leads

Media Transparency follows the money fueling the right-wing movement, to show how conservative philanthropies, through their tax-exempt funding strategies, shape public discourse.

The big givers include Milwaukee's Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, the Smith Richardson Foundation, and the Scaife, Koch, Coors, and Walton family foundations. They alone have poured $28 million into the American Enterprise Institute. That kind of money buys a lot of "experts."

With coordinated giving on a grand scale, they've led the way in funding a movement to radically alter the social, legal, educational, media, political and religious landscapes of the United States, building a supply-side machinery for implementing a hard-right agenda.

Media Transparency follows their money and what it buys with a unique database -- 50,000 grants to 9,000 recipients for $3.5 billion -- and 60 to 70 original articles per year that connect the dots between the money and the movement's radical public policy goals. .... http://www.mediatransparency.org/whereth...

Hillary's path to the nomination.....

Barack not Barrack.   Sheesh.

There are so many things wrong with this post. Makes me shudder.

Anyway, who knew Richardson is such a fighter?

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/3...

He's giving the Clintons a little bit of heck.

Judith - You're showing your ignorance with the hate speech line in your post. Apparently, you've not read the full text nor seen the full video of Rev. Wright's sermon. Please do yourself a big favor and check them out. In the interim, turn off Fox News.

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Huron John
Fri, 03/21/08

The fact is, most African Americans agree with Rev. Wright.
But the common and ordinary wisdom of Black America is inadmissible in mainstream US discourse. In the reality-defying bubble of US corporate media, one must never speak of the genocide and dispossession of Native Americans as “terror”. Comparing the atomic bombings of hundreds of thousands of civilians in World War 2, the snuffing out of two million Vietnamese lives in the sixties and seventies or one million plus Iraqis and counting in the current war is, in mainstream media, strictly off-limits. And any suggestion that US imperial policies in the Middle East, Africa or elsewhere might provoke justified resistance or understandable retaliation is deemed beyond-the-pale anti-American hate speech.
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The other fact is that Obama himself (though gently and carefully) denounced “some” of the Rev. Wright’s statements. Which ones exactly? Nobody knows, apparently the ones that are the most “inflammatory” (?!). Still not completely clear, but let’s leave at least something to guess..., especially when it is not so hard, lol.

I’m not surprised that Republican Ron Paul allowed himself to tell the truth not only shocking but about as twice, at least, “beyond-the-pale anti-American hate speech” as the half-truth allowed by Obama. If he decided to run for President and win, neither his supporters should expect nor should himself yield “too much truth” but instead zero ““beyond-the-pale anti-American hate speech To delivery BOTH at the same time one really have to be grand-master with words manipulation, the quality he is perfectly comfortable with.

Rev. Wright said the truth; Senator Obama said half of it, may be hoping to say another half after nominated. The risk is he may lose nomination nevertheless without letting Americans know the second half of his own truth.

Compromise as a policy is not the way to win.
American People expect from Obama full and the only truth whatever rough, it is long overdue!

Mark Halperin's painful list of 14 things...

http://thepage.time.com/halperins-take-p...

Wonder what the *solution* is for Hillary's unpaid campaign bills.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/3...

Hillary needs to spend more time with her family.  Jessica, thanks for all you do ,and hope to see you and your mom in RutVegas.    Wage Peace.        Impeach !    

Happy Anniversary to Pam & DeAnn ♥

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But I think New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson's endorsement of Obama this morning will help, if only symbolically. Here are a few reasons why:

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Meet Vice President Richardson. He's got foreign policy experience from the White House, negotiated with dictators and freed hostages, knows how to run things as a Governor, represents a crucial swing state, served in Congress, has been on the trail before, etc, etc. He almost made the ticket with John Kerry in '04. Obama-Richardson? There'd be nothing more historic than that.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/thenation/20080321/cm_thenation/45301248_1

That these people haven't been paid is disgusting. 

NUMEROUS other bills were apparently received after the end of December, but were unpaid at the end of January, and still unpaid at the end of February.  These included the following:

Amana Colonies RV Park & OCF, Amana, IA, $700.00 Catering/Venue
Depot Deli, Shenandoah, IA, $615.25 Catering/Venue
Des Moines Art Center Restaurant, Des Moines, IA, $1,000.00 Catering/Venue
Gallagher Bluedorn, Cedar Falls, IA, $1,505.00 Catering/Venue
Gateway Hotel & Conf. Center, Ames, IA, $1,856.45 Catering/Venue
NUMEROUS Hy-Vee Stores all over Iowa for food and beverages
MP Security Services, West Des Moines, IA, $788.38 Security
National Cattle Congress, Waterloo, IA, $2,964.00 Catering/Venue
North Scott Comm. School Dist., Eldridgem IA, $630.00 Catering/Venue
Sioux City Art Center, Sioux City, IA, $3,450.00 Catering Venue
Solon Comm. School Distric, Solon, IA, $1,984.20 Catering/Venue

The Yacht Party: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AISA-Rj2m...

MLK had "solutions" as well as "forgiveness"...which is NOT AN OPTION for Christians. He inspired to non-violent protests over specific injustices.
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Is this actually *English*? Is this the quality of Hill's followers? YIKES!

Happy Anniversary to Pam & DeAnn ♥
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I second that!!

Happy Anniversary to Pam & DeAnn ♥

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spread the love

I'd like to weigh in on wishing happy anniversary to Pam and DeAnn.  Gosh, names from the not too distant past. 

HQ's PLEASE CORRECT THE SPELLING OF BARACK'S NAME!

Message from the California Yacht Assocation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooajAt-lz...

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The Luxury of Yachting http://www.navis-yacht-charter.com/yacht...

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...Larry Ellison, the chairman and CEO of Oracle Corp., gave $5,000 to the Every Republican is Crucial PAC, which has raised $447,500 and, true to its name, gives all of its money to Republicans. ...


Inside look at a billionaire's budget
Larry Ellison's spending worries his accountant

...Oracle and other tech companies were headed for further declines. This is something Simon, if not Ellison, saw coming. As the stock market ran to a fever pitch in 2000, Ellison's undiversified portfolio increasingly worried Simon.

"Query -- have you seen the reviews on Robert Shiller's new book 'Irrational Exuberance?' " Simon wrote in a March 29, 2000, e-mail urging Ellison to start a sales program that would divest him of 0.5 percent of his Oracle stock each quarter.

As usual, that didn't result in a big change in Ellison's behavior. The CEO finally did start a regular diversification program, but not until 2004. In his most recent sale through this plan, Ellison sold more than a quarter of a billion dollars worth of stock earlier this month.

Getting back to the scary days of 2000, when the tech stock market was imploding, a list of Ellison's debts as of July 13, 2000, showed that he owed $1.022 billion to five banks: JP Morgan, Bankers Trust, CMB, Merrill Lynch and UBS. At that time, those loans came from credit lines that had a combined limit of $1.35 billion, putting Ellison a mere $328 million from maxing out.

By 2001, when Ellison made the stock sales that triggered the lawsuit, that debt was up to $1.22 billion.

At the bottom of a document that detailed Ellison's 2000 debt load, Simon had scrawled a rough accounting of Ellison's lavish spending, according to deposition testimony:

"1) Life Style -- annual $20m

2) Interest Accrual -- annual $75m

3) Villa in Japan -- $25m

4) New Yacht -- $194m -- over 3 yrs

5) America's Cup -- $80m -- over 3 yrs

6) UAD -- 12m over 3 yrs."

It's not clear what UAD refers to. Since this rough budget, Ellison has reportedly spent $200 million building a Japanese-style estate in Woodside, which includes a reproduction of a 17th-century Kyoto teahouse. He has also bought multiple properties in Malibu -- $180 million worth, by one report.

Where does it all go?

from January 31, 2006 article: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cg...

Rising Sun - Larry Ellison’s yacht: http://gadgets.fosfor.se/rising-sun-larr...

http://www.blogforamerica.com/view/24360...
new one already

Just got through watching my weekly Michigan politics program in which the main topic was the possible re-do. Well, the Michigan newspaper talking heads royally dissed the national media for their coverage of the possible Michigan re-do.

They said the national media failed to listen to the Michigan media because if they would have, they would have reported it dead in the water last Tuesday. But, they pointed out, not one of the national media bothered to call to get the facts from Michigan.

So, I'm here to report, THERE WILL NOT BE A RE-DO IN MICHIGAN! Hope someone from the national media sees my post!

Did Martin Luther King's speech contain a solution?

Yes it did, just as Obama's did. The solution is for people to overcome their prejudices. Perhaps it's too simple for some.