BET Founder, Bob Johnson sez: " When they have been involved, to say
that these two people would denigrate the accomplishment of civil
rights marchers, men and women who were hosed, beaten and bled, and
some died..."

Go to. http://www.afamreport.com/

Click on: 'News Stories' at the top, scroll to Bob Johnson Criticizes
Obama

And:

8%% in Germany
13%% in Britain
19%% in Italy
13%% in Spain

Depending on the country, Dubya would have to gain quite a few points
just to get up even with Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez and Vladimir Putin.

http://www.iht.com/pdfs/europe/f24poll1107.pdf

It sort of gives the term "ugly American" a whole new dimension
doesn't it?

On Jan 12, 6:07 pm, Hal Womack 3-dan gmail.com> wrote:

How has he done that?

Dispatch from the North Country: Of Hamsters New, Hope In Blue, and 'Change'
Out the Wazoo

By David Michael Green

Created Jan 11 2008 - 9:38am

Anybody up for some change?

That's the operative word in American politics this week. Of course, change
can mean a whole lot of different things. Loose change. Chump change. Change
of heart. Quick change artist. Change of underwear.

And, really, it's not at all clear what it means in this context - or more
importantly, if it really means anything at all. It's more than a little
probable that a whole bunch of grossly over-priced Bob Shrum types looked at
what happened in Iowa and arrived at the same brilliant conclusion that any
alert eighth-grader could have provided for the price of a skateboard rather
than a McLean McMansion. Namely, that the American public is unhappy, and is
looking for something different. You don't need a graduate education or a
consulting license to figure that one out.

The Comeback Cry: Hillary Reconnects With Her "Feminine Side"

By Robert Weitzel

Created Jan 11 2008 - 9:35am

In the 1972 New Hampshire primary, the late Edmund Muskie choked back anger
and was reportedly on the verge of tears because of articles-one of which
proved to be a hoax-that appeared in the Manchester Union Leader attacking
him and his wife.

During a campaign stop, Muskie challenged the Union Leader's editor William
Loeb, "By attacking me, by attacking my wife, he has proved himself to be a
gutless coward. And maybe I said all I should on it. It's fortunate for him
he's not on this platform beside me. A good woman . . .[chokes up]"

This emotional moment came to be regarded as the collapse of his
presidential campaign because, instead of being seen as a strength-defending
his wife from slander, it was viewed as a weakness. But then, Muskie was
male and this was still only 1972. Men were not yet allowed to get in touch
with their fabled "feminine side."

Das Coopital: A Chicken and Egg Story of the Economy

By Zbignew Zingh

Created Jan 11 2008 - 9:27am

IN THE BEGINNING roving bands of people gathered fruit and plants and
hunted proto-chickens, until one day they discovered that they could eat
more regularly if they cultivated the plants that they ate and domesticated
the chickens. Thus was born agriculture, more or less, and everyone
contributed their labor in equal measure to the number of chickens they
wanted to eat. It was hard work, but there was a chicken in every pot, and,
perhaps, a little pot in every farmer. Life was good (except for the
chickens).

Fixing the Broken Presidential Nomination Process

By John W. Dean

Created Jan 11 2008 - 9:16am

- from FindLaw [1]

Only those living in caves, or maybe more interested in the travails of
Britney Spears, are unaware that the presidential primary and caucus season
has arrived. As one who has followed this quadrennial event closely for many
years, I find that it never ceases to amaze that rather than simplifying
this process - not to mention making it less expensive - with the passage of
time, we have done just the opposite. In the larger scheme of problems, the
broken nominating process is certainly not our most serious. Yet the failure
to resolve it is indicative of the attitude of today's political leaders.

This year, some thirty-four states will determine their presidential nominee
before March 1; in 2000, by comparison, only eleven states took such action
so early. Everything has been front-loaded and compressed. The process may
well exhaust the candidates, not to mention the voters. Given the current
system, moreover, few Americans will actually interact with the candidates
before the process has ended.

The Deflation Time-bomb

By Mike Whitney

Created Jan 11 2008 - 9:06am

"Is there anyone who still does not understand that talk of 'inflation' by
officialdom is just a red herring intended to distract us from the far more
dangerous dragon of deflation?" Mike Shedlock; Mish's Global Economic Trend
Analysis

We are to about see how much George Bush really believes the "supply side"
mumbo-jumbo he's been spouting for the last 7 years. Last week's Labor
Department report confirmed that unemployment is on the...

Oh shit!

By Stephen Pizzo

Created Jan 11 2008 - 8:53am

I am beginning to get the same feeling in my gut that I get when the roller
coaster nears the top of the first drop.

Until then it had been all anticipation, anticipation that builds as the
cars -- click, click, click -- inched up the steep incline towards the first
crest. Then there's that singular moment, when the cars reach the top and I
get the first look down the drop inches ahead. At that moment the cars seem
to pause for second -- before they hurtle downward in an uncontrolled
rumble.

That's how I feel right now about the economy. I've known for a long time
that a helluva drop was coming. But the ride to the top has been so slow, so
unthreatening and comfortable that the inevitable drop seemed more
theoretical than than anything I had to worry about immediately.

But suddenly here I am -- here we are -- paused at the top for, who knows
how long, peering down an abyss without a clear bottom in sight. And like
that same roller coaster moment, we know it's too late to change our minds,
too late to turn back. We are on for the ride -- the ride of our lives.

The Speech McCain Should Give

By David Swanson

Created Jan 11 2008 - 8:41am

I am not a United States Senator today. I am not a candidate for President.
Today, on the 6th anniversary of the first incarcerations at Guantanamo, I
am a man who has been tortured.

There are two key types of people in the world, and I am both of them. I
have been tortured, and I have tortured. I have suffered man's inhumanity to
man, and I have turned on my fellow human beings. I am a victim and a
criminal. I am a victim who has turned against the victims. I have done the
worst possible thing in the world to my brothers and sisters. I am the
modern incarnation of the curse of Cain, tailored to the needs of the
television networks, presented like a Mcjob, a McSenator, a McHero. I am
nothing of the sort.