Hope you had a great weekend. I sure did. Let’s get caught up in the continuing “Barack Odrama”.
1. The big news from the weekend: ”Obama Picks Biden As Running Mate”. This was a smart/prudent choice on the part of Brotha Obama. Why? I’ll tell you…
- He’s experienced (sat on/chaired the Senate Judiciary Committe and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee)
- He’s liberal
- He oozes middle/working class values
- He is one of a few non-millionaires in the Senate
- He is an attack dog. He can/will talk shit with the best of ‘em. True, he can go overboard/off-message at times, but I believe Barack can manage him effectively.
- He believes in and supports military service to the country (in the coming weeks his son, a National Guardsman and the Atty. General of Delaware, will be deployed for military duty in Iraq).
- And most important: to everyday, working-class, middle-America White folk, Biden has “whip-appeal”. Along with his voting record, his working/middle class ideals, and his numerous off-color/racist gaffes (see here), what lunch-pal carrying White American wouldn’t love this guy?
2. Hillary/Bill and their supporters are really getting on my damn nerves. Hillary and her loyal Klan are still popin’ off at the mouf (mouth). I mistakingly assumed that after Obama announced Biden as his running mate that Hillary’s folk would shut the fuck up. Nope. They where quiet for a minute and then they were right back at it with all the zeal and fervor of an old-school southern style jim-crow lynch mob. The latest polls are saying that 30% of Hillary’s backers – life long Democrats - are not going to Vote Obama/Biden come November. I’m not mad at ‘em though. Given the state of race in this country – this behavior is expected. The problem is Hillary and Bill. If they really wanted to, they could, with one short highly publicized cleverly-worded speech, put an end to all of this. They choose not to. And now, both of them get to speak/have a huge presence at the convention… If I were Barack, I would police the hell outta those speeches. After that vile back-stabbing concession speech that Hillary gave a few months back, I wouldn’t trust them Clintons at all. I can’t wait to see how this plays out.
3. The media. I keep hearing the media talking about how Barack has failed to connect with everyday White Folk, or how he hasn’t done a good job of making himself known to small town America. They just don’t get it. The headlines/sound-bites should read: “Small town (White) America adamantly refuses to embrace Democratic Presidential nominee because he is Black”. Relatedly, where are the stories/features about the 18-34 yr old White Americans that are overwhelmingly and excitedly throwing their support behind Obama?
That’s all for now.
Rock Steady;
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