It's On & Crackin'!
What a debate!
Barack Obama came out swinging in a way I've never seen him before, the Clintons are engaged in a game of good cop (Hillary)/bad cop (Bill) and Edwards has got the fortitude of a prize fighter.
Unlike last time, I didn't blog the debate. However, I hosted a special edition of the Content Black Woman Show.
Allow me this opportunity to say thanks to the site visitors because you made this most recent show - my third - the most listened to show to date.
Back to the debate. Senator Obama told Good Morning America's Robin Robberts he wasn't taking any more stuff off the Clintons.
And by the looks of things tonight, he meant it:
And to top it all off, Hillary messed around got booed by the crowd:
Well, folks, all I can say is, it looks like we have got a race. I told you all don't push Mr. Nice Guy too far because still waters run deep.
Let me know what you think.
5 comments:
In listening to Tavis Smiley this morning, he expressed how upset he was that Barack Obama would reference the “transformative power” of Ronald Reagan’s candidacy when “Ronald Reagan kicked off his campaign in Philadelphia, Miss., essentially tap-dancing on the graves of the 3 civil rights workers who were killed there.” This is factually accurate, however, it is a direct quote from what Bill Clinton said in an interview with Tavis Smiley last year during a media event in Little Rock, Arkansas (celebrating the Little Rock Nine). Now the part that upsets me isn’t that Tavis wants us to take a hard look at each candidate and hold them accountable(presumably his motivation for being so hard on Senator Obama), but rather that he, without any reservation because he thinks no one will know the origination of his words, attacks Barack Obama with the same words used by his beloved Bill Clinton. Now boys and girls, can we say, “I want a job as the White House press secretary, and the Clintons will give it to me if I help deliver the black vote.” We have got to stop undermining our people for our own profit. Finally, Tavis said that of the Republican candidates, he though Mike Huckabee best represented the interests of black folks. While campaigning here in SC, Huckabee said, “You don't like people from outside the state coming in and telling you what to do with your flag. In fact, if somebody came to Arkansas and told us what to do with our flag, we'd tell 'em what to do with the pole; that's what we'd do;” a direct appeal to racist, knuckle-scraping, Klan-loving ignorance. And what did Tavis have to say about Huckabee’s remark... not a damn thing. My people, my people, we have got to do better.
"I told you all don't push Mr. Nice Guy too far because still waters run deep."
SO RIGHT about that. A lot of the toughest people I know are nice, gentle folks on the surface, but if you pull crap against them the way the KKKlinton campaign has been trying, they'll hit you harder than an angry Marine fresh out of boot camp. If there's one thing I've learned, it's that you never, ever get on the bad side of a strong yet amiable person like Barack Obama, because if you try to pull any BS with them, they will take you to town and back.
And anon, I hear you about Tavis Smiley, I have trouble finding words for how much I despise that fool. As people point out, Tavis is desperately jealous of Obama's capabilities and intellect, and he's too stupid to just shut up and improve himself rather than attacking people like this. Also, Tavis in comparison to other recognized voices in the community (and his lame radio show has about squat for an audience anyhow) does not actually do anything, he never seems able to get off his sorry tail and do jack for the African-American community. A waste of airwaves if there ever was one.
Anon & Amelia:
Thanks so much for your passions and e-mails.
[sigh]
Let's be careful not to allow this election to divide us as a people. I know for a fact Tavis absolutely loves Black people. He does take a hard line approach on certain issues when it comes to us. It's his right.
He has done - as you well know - the State of the Black Union. What other place do you know where Black people can get together to address our issues for 8 hours and have it covered minute by minute by C-SPAN.
Also, he worked extremely hard to put out the Covenant with Black America - and as I understand it, relunctantly, because he felt there were enough "black" organizations that were better positioned and equipped to put together a document of our issues important to Black people for elected representatives to address - but he did it anyway.
It's hard to watch us not support each other maybe the way we like. However, the reality is we are not always going to agree.
In addition, I don't believe Tavis would be a press secretary. He's probably making too much money doing what he loves. Writing and speaking to Black folks.
I hate to see the scewing and the apparent added pressure by other Blacks on my choice Obama too. However, if he can handle this, let's pray he'll be able to handle the craziness of the Republican party who stood behind Bush for 8 years.
With God, with God, we can do and be anything.
Blessings to you all. Visting and comment again soon.
Peace,
CBW
Another thing too, Bill Clinton is so pathetic with all his attack-dog BS against Obama, that he and Hillary Clinton are showing their true colors (pun intended)-- the patronizing, condescending White authority figures who act nice and toss some crumbs toward African-Americans yet, when the chips are down, demonstrate the profound bigotry of their inner racist against Black people.
Like people are saying, it's the Clinton plantation in all its most disgusting forms, and in the KKKlinton plantation, Blacks and Latinos are welcome so long as they're sell-outs, pit themselves against each other or happy with the table scraps tossed down from the massah's table, but they'd best never even think about taking control of the plantation.
You know, considering the KKKlintons' techniques thus far, it's almost look like they're asking for urban riots to start up again. Let's see, we got major disenfranchisement attempts-- suing to close down Black caucus sites in Nevada, giving caucusers incorrect directions, closing caucus sites down early, interfering with Obama voters in New Hampshire, working very hard to block college students from voting in Iowa.
Oh, on top of this, in South Carolina the word on the street is that some jerkoff from the Clinton campaign got busted trying to hack a voting machine in a district there. That's basically a formula to start rage and riots worse than what we saw in 1969.
All of this, naturally, in the wake of the Clintons' utterly repugnant race-baiting-- the shuck and jive comment by Andrew Cuomo, the kid and fairy tale comments by William Jefferson Clinton himself, the Muslim Manchurian candidate comment by Bob Kerrey, Hillary Rodham Clinton's attacks on the MLK legacy, the hip black friend comment by the staffer, the drug-dealer comparison by Bill Sheehan and Mark Penn.
Seriously, what else could the Clintons possibly do at this point to offend African-Americans more? Go and grab some white hoods? Again, the Clintons are fomenting so much civil unrest with their actions, that I wouldn't be surprised-- very upset, but not surprised-- if it soon comes uncorked. After what our people have been through, after how far we've come, you just do not pull the crap that the Clintons have been trying to do.
If the Democratic Party wants to remain a viable organization, then they'd better not nominate Hillary. I've been talking to my friends, most of them Democrats ever since they started casting votes, and none of them-- not one-- would vote for Hillary in the general election if nominated. Most African-Americans I know would sit the election out, vote for Congress but leave the Presidential field blank, write in a name on the Presidential ballot, vote for a Third-Party candidate such as Cynthia McKinney, or even vote for a moderate Republican such as John McCain.
But if the Democrats nominate Hillary, then they're finished as a party and going the way of the Whigs. They will lose us en masse, because we will not continue to back a party that pretends to support us, but then turns its own guns upon us when we move to seek leadership and earn some long-overdue respect for the uncompensated, unpaid, unappreciated contributions of our people!
Amelia:
Girl, you need a blog! You are passionate! Believe me, I feel you.
One of the things about this election, no one can ever say again that Black folks are a monolith.
BTW, I would love to get more info on the Clinton worker trying to mess with voting machines in Nevada. Was there really an arrest, or were they caught and just let go?
Whew!
Let's see if we can get through this relatively unscathed.
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