Arkansas Blog

I digress.

While Obama's choice of words may have not been the best in the Era Of Soundbites And Cable News, he was right on.

The sizeable number of residenst of Lincoln County AR does "cling" to guns, uses religion as a beard for their hatred of those not like them.

I have no beef with Deer Hunting, or private gun ownership. I also have no beef with those who choose to believe in religious hearsy (I'll leave that up to God). My beef is those that get in my face and put their damn foot on my neck. My beef is also with the two-faced hypocrites that claim to love all of God's children but would **** a brick if their daughter brought home a Hispanic or God-forbid a African American date.

Just another white GLBT Arkansan with boots on the ground in South Arkansas and seeing the reality of life.

re: Brummet's "The better general election candidate is the more overt and shameless panderer..."

The better generic corporate columnist is the more overt and shameless panderer...

Hilary, Obama, McCain and Brummett have the same name on their paychecks.

Rushing off for last tax day but wanted to get this tidbit in.

"The IRS's scrutiny of the nation's biggest companies is at a 20-year low," according to a study conducted by Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, which called the trend a "historic collapse in audits." The study "found that major corporations -- defined as those with assets of at least $250 million -- have about a one in four chance of being audited, down from about three in four in 1990."

How the Rich Get By:

A) Net worth of the wealthiest 1%: In 2001 ($186 B) Vs 2008 ($816 B)

(Bush tax cut benefits to the top 1% (2001 - 2007) $546 Billion

B) The Number of billionaires: In 2001 ($186) Vs 2008 ($415)

(Average salary of top 500 Corp CEO's in 2007 (15.2 M)

C) Combined wealth of the 1% & Billionaries: In 2001 ($816 B) Vs 2008 (3.5 Trillion)

Now we know who 4 more years of Bush clone McCain would benefit the most and why the last thing the media network billionaire owner club wants is Hiliary!

This could be his "Dean scream"... who knows? It could always be around the corner for any candidate. I'll admit, I didn't vote for a half-black, Harvard educated man named Barack Hussein Obama because I thought he was white middle-America's dream candidate.

But I'm also not as sure as some on this blog (and Brummett too apparently) that Clinton is the stronger general election candidate. The idea seems to be that the Republicans have been hunting down the Clintons for years and couldn't possibly find anything new or damning to throw at her. I respectfully disagree. There's always something. It seems like we play the "vote for who you think will do better against Republicans in the fall" game every four years. Don't we lose that game as much as we win? Just like the Republicans lose the same game in reverse - half the time. You can't predict what will happen in politics. So if there are no safe bets, why argue for one?

Of course, I'm guessing most of us on the blog have already voted and none of us are super delegates, so this is all academic.

Brummett "The better general election candidate is the more overt and shameless panderer, the more dishonest, the one cynically and brazenly redefining herself to seize any and all opportunities, the one who agrees with Obama, but has entirely too much discipline ever to get caught revealing the sentiment."

here JB's experience and proximity to Arkansas (and self-interest?) blurs his vision. for what he is saying WAS true, during the past 28 years, but TIMES HAVE CHANGED. after 7 elections featuring those kind of candidates, the electorate (especially the young) are heavily inclined to try something different. votes/money/new voters etc. indicate that millions of voters under 35, indeed want something as "different" as they can get.

during the last 16 years, they've been subjected to one POTUS who was so articulate as to be revealed as disingenuous, followed by another who was so very inarticulate, for the same purpose. thus many have concluded that a candidate who talks to them as if they were adults, and who can explain himself when he says something disconcerting, that doesn't require them to "suspend disbelief", seems not only 'refreshing' but almost "saintly".

yet Obama is no saint, he just looks like one compared to what's gone before, and what's available to choose from now. he is only the most capable politician in a generation, the right new man at the right new time.

To answer the post question re is this the Scream? I say no, not by a long shot. Obama actually ticked up a point or so in some polling over the weekend.

My only disappointment with Obamas remarks is that he backed off of them.. because in terms of American politics, hell yes, I'm bitter... war criminals and robber barons run amok and torture with post it note permission slips written by fools.. we are a nation that spends a trillion bucks a years on death...but nooooo, we're not bitter! Our ex president runs around wheeling and dealing in uranium and hawking American labor for trade agreements... to his own financial benefit.. and there is hardly a peep.

And how on earth can anyone claim Hillary is the strong candidate in a General election? Polls are not the be all to end all for me.. but they have never placed Hillary in a winning position against the GOPer, never placed her as the strongest contender (except perhaps in a rare glitch).. Barack Obama and John Edwards always polled better than Hillary in a match with the GOP nominee, always!

Obama actually addressing issues is a huge difference between Hillary and barack... He still addresses issues.. while Hillary adresses talking poiints and slings mud.. When Obama wants to re phrase something he does an excellent job most of the time.. When Hillary wants to re phrase something she is still dodging imaginary bullets or running to the GOP pundits (Rush, Murdoch, etc.) for sleazy assistance... What on earth is she going to do when all the sleaze merchants of Bills choice are working for McCheney in a few short months?

So Hillary is the third tier Dem candidate our party had to choose from for the Nov. general fight.

I would say nice try with the question but overwhelming and consistent evidence has all but proven this question to be moot.

And remember Hillary has to win by landslide numbers to even have a chance of catching up in all of the remaining Dem primaries.

All good Democrats need to seriously consider signing the petition to hold McCain accountable for his ongoing violation election law... laws he wrote himself. (at my name) The DNC is working on a lawsuit now.

more info here:

http://firedoglake.com/2008/04/14/dnc-files-lawsuit-about-campaign-finance-weasil-john-mccain/

OH YES, we know all about Obama...we're just too STUPID to understand his 'greatness/truthiness'!

OH YES, Hillary's a WITCH we're just STUPID and under her spell!

Obama seems to have that same teflon coating as Reagan, something sadly missing from Gore and Kerry, and Hillary, for that matter.

This is an unbelievable story, but last weekend at a party I actually heard the N word used to describe Obama. This was not a redneck party, but an upscale Chenal party, and person who made the comment was a soccer mom, the kind you'd find on all the PTA committees and so on, whose kid goes to a Christian private school. She's also a Republican.

And here's the worst part -- the Hillary backers at the party sat back and said nothing. Only Obama's supporters took offense.

Democrats, my ass.

Then we all agreed to not talk politics anymore.

Hmm...hold McCain accountable? How are we going to do that when we couldn't hold President Shit for Brains accountable for anything...much less his numerous un-Constitutional acts. I've signed more petitions during the last seven years than in my whole life...and that's a considerable amount of signatures. The only way to stop this administration and its enabling clones, McCain for one, is to get them out of the White House.

Good thing we can always count on the Dems to hold wayward Republicans accountable...

Well, Levee, seems the cocky Rethuglican Soccer mom has found her an uppity Negro to bash. You know there are millions more like her.

And Ark Democrats with ethics or principles? You're kidding. They have "beliefs", the stuff you take to church once in a while just in case there's some truth in it.

This is an unbelievable story, but last weekend at a party I actually heard the N word used to describe Obama. This was not a redneck party, but an upscale Chenal party, and person who made the comment was a soccer mom, the kind you'd find on all the PTA committees and so on, whose kid goes to a Christian private school. She's also a Republican.

Too bad, this wasn't on tape. Now, we know what goes on behind close doors at "Uppity parties". The person that made the comment, must have been describing herself. Did she not know that Barack's mother was white? Oops! Or, is it now with mixed races called N word light?