I just listened to this broadcast on NPR. I have my own take on this issue. Milwaukee is amazingly liberal. Amazingly. And it has an amazing racial segregation problem (for a variety of reasons that are mostly stupid). In all the people I know in Milwaukee, and all the places I've been of late, I have to say that Obama has a chance. The hateful white community in Milwaukee hasn't spoken against Obama. The black community hasn't yet made any sort of comments about Obama's light-skinnedness (which is apparently a true test of blackness among certain pockets of the black community). This is a testament to Obama's charisma.
We might elect the first black president and never truly know his opinion on any matter, simply because we should all just get along. And insofar as Milwaukee is concerned, that might be what we need.
skip to main |
skip to sidebar
Blog Archive
-
►
09
(37)
- October (2)
- September (9)
- August (6)
- June (4)
- May (3)
- April (4)
- March (1)
- February (1)
- January (7)
-
►
08
(47)
- December (2)
- November (2)
- September (1)
- August (3)
- July (1)
- June (2)
- May (6)
- April (4)
- March (11)
- February (7)
- January (8)
7 comments:
So Obama made the really big "official" official official announcement that he's really running for President and not just forming yet another exploratory committee... did you get a chance to see it? He's easily the best speaker of any of the Democrats, and it was a far cry from Hillary sitting around in her living room having some sort of bizarre "conversation" with her voting public about the problems in the nation.
Have any of the Republicans other than Brownback actually made the "yes, I'm running" announcement, or are they all on exploratory committees? It occurs to me that I actually have no idea...
Thank goodness for cnn.com. I didn't actually see his announcement, but they had the clip on the website. I think he's the best so far. And, I really don't want the first female president to be Hillary. For so many reasons. I'd rather see Pelosi, who knows she's a bitch and wears it well, go for it.
And cnn.com says that some guy I've never heard of has also announced candidacy among the republicans. That's not a good sign for that dude:)
I love Pelosi. She doesn't take anything from anyone. Hillary drives me nuts because half of me wants her to divorce Bill for the 60,000+ times he's cheated on her and half of me is really impressed by her commitment to her marriage and sticking it out with him through all of that, and half of me again feels like she's doing the latter for political reasons and really should get a bit stronger in telling Bill where he should and should not be sticking cigars...
Condi would be interesting as well, I think, if she took about 10 years off to rid herself of the stench of the current administration - that woman is amazing in a lot of ways, and one hell of a pragmatist (which is probably necessary in that job)...
I like Rice. Particularly because she's been featured in Vogue for being beautiful, strong and just downright amazing. In fact, I believe Hillary's only had one feature in Vogue to Rice's two or more.
Bad segue.... Have you been keeping up with Obama vs. PM Howard from Australia? I'm SO entertained!
Oh, the Obama/Howard thing is great. I've been dying laughing. I'm not sure why the Aussie PM thinks ANYONE here really cares what he thinks about who we elect as President for anything other than the comedy factor...
Do you watch the Daily Show and the Colbert Report? DS did a great job lambasting the Anna Nicole coverage last night and Stephen went off about the Aussie during the Tip of the Hat segment -it was fabulous. I suspect you'd enjoy ;.)
No cable:( I remember enjoying those shows in college (when cable was free in the res halls). Meh, I'd rather buy shoes!
look on Comedy Central.com, go to the 'motherlode' section, ignore the commercials, and then look for last night's stuff. They always put the whole show up for about a week. After that it tends to migrate to youtube. The Daily Show bit from last night really was priceless...
Post a Comment