She’s a very dangerous woman. Most of these people whose outside persona is all about ‘helping people’ are often the opposite. She claims to care about kids. But she stood by as her husband’s admin killed by starvation half a million children. Then, Clinton, someone who thinks of herself as a saint, voted for the War in Iraq which is killing more innocents including helpless children. She is pro-abortion, on the side of killing, killing, killing. If she is an ‘angel’ she is an Angel of Death.

During an April 17 press briefing, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said, “I don’t think we’ll discover anything, myself. I think what will happen is we’ll discover people who will tell us where to go find it. It is not like a treasure hunt, where you just run around looking everywhere, hoping you find something…. The inspectors didn’t find anything, and I doubt that we will.” Imagine if Rumsfeld had said that before the war: We’re invading another country to eliminate its weapons of mass destruction, but we won’t find them unless people there tell us where they are.

Bush had maintained that Saddam Hussein was a danger partly because he was close to possessing nuclear weapons. The US military, though, did not bother to visit Iraq’s number-one nuclear site. A Washington Post story noted that before the war the vast Tuwaitha Nuclear Research Center held about 4,000 pounds of partially enriched uranium and more than ninety-four tons of natural uranium, as well as radioactive cesium, cobalt and strontium. This is stuff that would be valuable to people seeking to enrich uranium into weapons-grade material or merely interested in constructing a dirty bomb. Yet, the paper reported, “Defense officials acknowledge that the US government has no idea whether any of Tuwaitha’s potentially deadly contents have been stolen, because it has not dispatched investigations to appraise the site. What it does know, according to officials at the Pentagon and US Central Command, is that the sprawling campus, 11 miles south of Baghdad, lay unguarded for days and that looters made their way inside.”

And sacrifice??? I want Diane to count every single Black body that died from the Middle Passage up until the end of slavery and then talk to me about sacrifice. I also want Diane to count every single Black soldier who fought in every war prior to 1970 before their was even a semblance of freedom/equality in this country then talk to me about sacrifice…

I want Diane to calculate the cost of all the labor that was exploited, calculate the social costs to all the Africans who were orphan when captured, all the families that were split up… All land Blacks had stolen from them, not just lost, after Emancipation.

Oh and speaking about land… I want to hear Diane talk about the Homestead Acts that the U.S. government gave to Whites 160 acres a pop while 40 acres and a mule was something Abe Lincoln would guarantee “freed slaves” even as he moved to compensate slaveholders for their loss.

Also, I want Diane to talk about all the textile workers, etc. the slave patrollers and all white men on deck militias for slave control that were present and a part of America’s slavocracy.

More than anything, though… I want a complete list of everything Diane refused to pay federal taxes for under the pretense that it was “theft.”

Well a man come on the 6 o’clock news
Said somebody’s been shot, somebody’s been abused
Somebody blew up a building
Somebody stole a car
Somebody got away
Somebody didn’t get too far yeah
They didn’t get too far

Grandpappy told my pappy, back in my day, son
A man had to answer for the wicked that he done
Take all the rope in Texas
Find a tall oak tree, round up all of them bad boys
Hang them high in the street for all the people to see that

Justice is the one thing you should always find
You got to saddle up your boys
You got to draw a hard line
When the gun smoke settles we’ll sing a victory tune
We’ll all meet back at the local saloon
We’ll raise up our glasses against evil forces
Singing whiskey for my men, beer for my horses

We got too many gangsters doing dirty deeds
We’ve got too much corruption, too much crime in the streets
It’s time the long arm of the law put a few more in the ground
Send ‘em all to their maker and he’ll settle ‘em down
You can bet he’ll set ‘em down ’cause

I would like to comment it with the words of one popular pressman:

Mostly on the racism joint, I give people the benefit of the doubt. I think a tin-ear is more common than straight bigotry. But that said, the more things change the more they stay the same. Keith may not be a racist, but he shares the racist’s need to make Lex Luthor out of lilliputans. The white lynch mobs of old desperately needed to believe in the narrative of villanous black men obsessed with a collective deflowering the South’s virginal white womenhood.

If you cheer for the Dallas Cowboys, then you want Brett Favre wearing a Green Bay Packers uniform this season.

That’s because he’s one of the most overrated, overhyped, good quarterbacks of this generation.

Yes, he’s a first-ballot Hall of Fame quarterback based on his record-setting statistics and one Super Bowl championship, but no one can deny Favre was as capable of throwing the game-winning touchdown pass as he was the gut-wrenching interception.

As half-Cubana, and an early supporter of Obama, I can’t say I’m surprised.

A lot of older generation Cubans tend to swing conservative, but we younger folks aren’t following their lead!

Both parties are controlled. Obama was selected by the globalists because he could be presented as a saviour figure. Obama will make allot of promises but will offer no fundamental change. The elite and the federal reserve will still controll and manipulate the world.

Michelle Obama’s treatment by the media is a reminder to every black woman that in 2008, if we don’t fit into the slut, Sapphire, or Mammy roles, then they’ll try to cut off pieces until we do fit into the appropriate box.

It’s interesting. I saw the articles completely different. I’ve been waiting for Black women to step up to the plate and defend Michelle Obama, and they did this. I see where you’re coming from, T-Nehisi, but when Barack Obama is called ‘ Affirmative Action Run Amok’, and Michelle Obama is bitched about because she’s not ‘ GRATEFUL’, I believed both pieces were on point. I believe Whites are quite comfortable with Blacks, as long as they conform to Black pathologies. The trouble ensues when the Black person does NOT conform to Black Pathology.

And, there’s nothing about Michelle Obama that can fit into any Black pathology.

I was very pleased to see the articles written about Michelle by Black women, sharing the complications of the Invisible Black America.

Obama voted—a parliamentary error, Obama says—to block funding for a child-welfare facility in Hendon’s district. Hendon rose and criticized Obama for the vote. The two men became embroiled in a yelling match on the Senate floor that looked as if it might become physical; they were separated by Courtney Nottage, then the chief of staff for Emil Jones. Nottage led Obama off the floor to a room that legislators used to make telephone calls. “It looked like two men that were having a serious disagreement and they had walked up to one another really close,” Nottage told me. “I didn’t think anything good could come of that.”

Hendon told me, “He’s the one that got mad, because he said I embarrassed him on the Senate floor. That’s when he came over to my desk.” Before Nottage broke them up, Obama, who had learned to box from his Indonesian stepfather, supposedly told Hendon, “I’m going to kick your ass!” Hendon said, “He said something like that.”

Chicago politics is never as simple (though maybe as black & white) as national journalists want to make it. To survive and prosper, you have to carve your niche (sometimes with a bloody tool) and be prepared to make enemies out of supporters & vice versa. To rise quickly, you have to be smart enough to assess all the options, know all the players and then get the job done. You also have to be a pretty hard nosed individual.

That’s one reason why I think Senator Obama can become a great president who may be able to actually lead the country, and solve some problems we have. He probably won’t be this fantasy progressive pushover that most of the media, and conservatives think he is. Even though he wasn’t born here, he’s more 79th Street than Lake Shore Drive.

One other thing about Lizza’s piece, as somebody who was in Daley Plaza at that antiwar rally, believe me, Obama was THE STAR speaker that afternoon (regardless of what the Tribune wrote). The buzz in the crowd was all about this State Senator who could some day be President. It’s true, he made that kind of impression.