Arkansas Blog

White woman? Black man? President?

"The Yankees is comin', Miss Scarlett! The Yankees is comin'!"

Oh, wait. We're beyond all that 1865 racist / sexist crap.

To lump "white rural voters" in with multimillionaire corporate farmers is a bit too disingenuous
even for one with MISTER Brummett's fasonority.

There are more farmers than the "big corporate/family,large acreage farms in east Ar...Iam a farmer"s daughter from the region, we certainly were not wealthy, just middle class, but certainly wealthy in the things that really matter.
My late father worked his ass off so my brother and I could "do better", I so wish I could talk to him about this election, He was a real God and Country man a true member of the Greatest generation, but I don't think he could stomach Grandpa Munster. Obama? Probably not... I think Hillary would have been his choice....I just wish he was here so we could have had the conversation.

TPM is live blogg the DNC Rules Committee meeting blu name

The media rushing to finish the nomination contest is the self same media who assured us that Bush was right and we had to invade Iraq - NOW!!!

Their judgment was suspect then and it's terribly suspect now.

I think I would prefer the live blog coming from the Conflucians http://riverdaughter.wordpress.com/

Most farms are not rich, and when you consider how much money they have tied up in land and equipment, they get a very low return on investment. Even with government subsidies most barely get by. Most people who farm do not do it for the money.

Thank God for the Delta and the government subsidies that enable rich white farmers to continue Southern traditions. We love having "help" around. The Delta is the ONLY sophisticated region in Arkansas. It´s like traveling the English countryside, with much more COLOR.

There is something wrong when a family cannot make it on 500 or 1000 acres of highly productive land... Mid size real family farms are and have been a dwindling exception... this has got to change.. so must erosion, chemicals and a lot of the new genetics.

When we look to Arkansas plantation owners when deciding who's going to be President, can the end of the world be far behind? If it were up to them Hillary would be barefoot and pregnant, and Obama would be out in the fields.

I know a family that started farming a couple of years ago, growing organic crops. I think they're doing OK. As awareness grows of the environmental costs of corporate farming and the financial costs of shipping vegetables halfway around the world, things will change.

There ought to be a different word to describe the huge conglomerates that grow crops. They aren't "farmers." They're managers of a highly capital intensive industry.

Levee, you are no better than those you claim to talk about. To suggest all farmers are "plantation owners" who have owned slaves or supported it is just ignorance. I come from a farm family that has farmed since coming to this country and NONE of them owned a single slave.

These "corporate" farms as you call them first of all don't grow vegetables, and they are family owned small businesses. Very few farms in Arkansas are "huge conglomerates that grow crops."

Ignorance just doesn't stop people from having opinions on everything I suppose.

Barack Obama has done a good job of equating opposition to him as racism, and John Brummett, a smart enough fellow who surely knows better, falls in step. There are voters who won't vote for Obama because of his race, no doubt, but there are millions of others who won't vote for him for the same reason their fathers and mothers didn't vote for George McGovern. Obama comes out of the '60s blame-America for everything culture that first nourished McGovern. Obama knows this, which is why he won't talk about his past, preferring to bloviate about "change" and "looking forward" and other fuzzy, ill-defined concepts. He's throwing Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Bill Ayers, Louis Farrakhan and his other Chicago friends (and his white grandmother) under the bus, but that won't work when the real campaign gets under way and all the people the left is so contemptuous of start paying attention. We had a slam dunk this year but I fear we have thrown the chance away.

>>We had a slam dunk this year but I fear we have thrown the chance away. <<

I also think we threw it away, but I vow to do all I can to see that it's the Democrat in the WH next January and not McCain. It's too late to do anything else.