The Randomness of It All

This past weekend, news just happened so fast that I couldn’t even begin to keep up with all of it. Listed below are some recent events that have me completely baffled.

• Attacks on Mumbai
  Okay, the attackers disrupted the city with their selective attacks on symbols of Western culture, five star hotels, Americans, Brits and Jews but to what end? We already know these Muslim nihilists are angry and miserable but must they terrorize the rest of us?

  I’d really like to see these guys and gals get together on some isolated island so they can blow themselves up and leave the rest of us the hell alone. No paradise and 99 1/2 virgins for these infidels, they should just go straight to hell.

• Plaxico Burress
  First of all, who names a child Plaxico!? I wish black people would stop giving their children ridiculous names and wondering why they do stupid shit like shooting themselves with their own unregistered gun.

• Naming your child Dalcapone Alpaccino Morris
  Yes, that’s his real name. See what I wrote about Plaxico above. Looks like someone watched ‘Scarface’ one too many times and thought it would be cute to name their son Dalcapone Alpaccino. WTF!? Everytime I see an airbrushed oversized t-shirt of Al Pacino as Scarface my ass puckers. Okay, I’m exaggerating and being vulgar.

  When will the fascination with the dumbassness that is Tony Montana (played by Al Pacino) and that stupidass movie ‘Scarface’ end? Is it any surprise that a child named Dalcapone would grow up to have a criminal record? I hope Dalcapone works this out because crime does not pay.

• Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State
  Yes, I’m still complaining about this one. I’m very disappointed with President-elect Obama’s choice. Miss Hillary is all wrong and anyone who says she would make a great Secretary of State is straight up lying. Her and her husband Bill are going to bring Obama trouble.
• Puff Daddy, P. Diddy or Diddy as the black James Bond!?
  Oh, hell to the naw! When will he go away? I heard he just dropped a ridiculous sum of money making an audition tape in the South of France to convince the producers to cast him as the first black James Bond. Aaaargh!

  It would help if you could act and were halfway nice looking Diddy but it ain’t so! Spare us from your bathroom mirror fantasies. I know I don’t care. Why not devote your time to some other endeavor that needs your attention like your growing brood of children. I think that’s a great place to start.

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The Clinton Kool-Aid

Hillary Clinton (2), originally uploaded by Nrbelex.

On MSNBC’s ‘Hardball‘ today, Chris Matthews asked political columnist Christopher Hitchens what he thought of Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State. Hitchens called it a “ludicrous embarassment” and cited Miss Hill’s use of the race card during the Democratic primaries and her lie about dodging bullets in Bosnia as the major disqualifiers. I’m riding with Hitchens on this one because he’s right.

Besides the glaringly obvious fact that Miss Hillary has no foreign policy experience, she and hubby Bill will bring too much drama to an Obama administration. Do you really expect Bill to remain quiet if he disagrees with President Obama’s foreign policy decisions? Think again!

I’m already feeling there’s not much you can tell either of the Clintons. Obama is asking for trouble with these two provided he really wants Miss Hillary to be Secretary of State.

Miss Hillary is Bill’s wife and I roll my eyes everytime someone talks about how experienced she is for the job. Since when does traveling alongside your husband as First Lady qualify as foreign policy experience? The idea that Bill Clinton’s foreign policy is somehow is going to help his wife as Secretary of State is asinine. This idea is sexist and simple-minded. I’m also aghast at the notion that since Miss Hillary proved herself as a worthy adversary in the Democratic primaries against Obama that she deserves a plum cabinet position in his administration. Uh, I don’t think so.

On her own merits, Miss Hillary has very little foreign policy experience. If Condoleeza Rice were married we wouldn’t expect her husband to help formulate foreign policy or help with diplomacy because he accompanies her on diplomatic trips so why does this qualify for Miss Hillary for Secretary of State?

For now, I’ll pass on that pitcher of Clinton Kool-Aid and hold out for something better.

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Hillary Clinton For Secretary of State? Keep Your Enemies Closer?

Ever since news surfaced that Hillary Clinton is being consider for Secretary of State, I’ve shrugged my shoulders and shook my head, mostly in disbelief. Surely the press is getting overzealous in their reporting. President-elect Obama has also met with New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson too but you don’t hear reporters speculating about Richardson’s meeting with Obama. Richardson is obviously more suited to be Secretary of State than the bullet dodging Miss Hillary.

Until it’s official, I’m going to write off Obama’s meeting with Miss Hillary as political strategizing, nothing more. AAPP, a blogger over at the Independent Bloggers’ Alliance is also skeptical about the news that President elect Obama is considering Hillary Clinton for Secretary of State. Read the post here: Independent Bloggers’ Alliance: Hillary Clinton For Sec. of State? Keep Your Enemies Closer?

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Is He Serious?

Say it ain’t so. President-elect Barack Obama is considering Hillary Clinton (my pet name for her is Miss Hillary, you know, like Miss Daisy, as in driving. . .) for Secretary of State!? After an ugly campaign where she was bested by the upstart Obama, I can’t believe he’s seriously considering her for such an important position. With Miss Hillary, you get Bill and that’s going to be a problem for Obama. The Clintons don’t know their place, never have.

Toward the end of the Democratic primary, it turned quite ugly with Miss Hillary questioning Obama’s blackness, playing the “he’s not electable” card and being a sore loser. Personally, I don’t think the Clintons ever got over having Obama beat them at their own game. Their support of Obama has been lukewarm at best, even when they campaigned for him, it never seemed to me that they were very sincere. That’s why I find it hard to believe that he would offer her such an important position within his administration.

Miss Hillary as Secretary of State is not the kind of change I can believe in. She should not be the face representing America to the world. She’s better known as former President Clinton’s wife than she is for her foreign policy experience. She was wrong on Iraq and refused to admit it plus she has some of those unnerving George W. Bush-like qualities that I don’t think would benefit an Obama administration. She never admits to her mistakes.

If President elect Obama wants to put Miss Hillary somewhere, I think she’s better suited for the Supreme Court should a position become available or better yet, give her a lesser cabinet position, like Health and Human Services but please, not Secretary of State.

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Haterade: The Bill & Hillary Version

Bill Clinton, originally uploaded by Mark from Cincinnati.

I see Bill Clinton is still salty about his wife Hillary losing the Democratic presidential nomination to Barack Obama. Although the contest between the two got pretty heated when Clinton, campaigning on behalf of his wife Hillary, started questioning Obama’s blackness during the South Carolina primary and it backfired and essentially pushed African American voters over to Obama’s camp.

The next Clinton misstep was Hillary’s attempt to play the race card and portray Obama as an elitist who is unable to appeal to blue collar and rural whites. Hillary took this even further by insinuating that she was the only Democratic candidate capable of winning in states like Kentucky and West Virginia. Even at the last moment when it was apparent that she didn’t have enough delegates to win the nomination, she refused to drop out of the race.

I don’t know what the Democratic National Committee promised the Clintons but their support of Obama has been lukewarm at best. Last week, Hillary made a half-hearted attempt to campaign for Obama but I wasn’t convinced, girlfriend is still pissy and it shows. Then Bill had the nerve to show up on “The View” and talk about how he liked both John McCain and Barack Obama. Oh really Bill!? That certainly isn’t saying very much.

One thing I can credit the Republicans for, at least they circled their wagons around John McCain’s ill-fated choice of Sarah Palin as the Vice Presidential nominee. Few if any have come out and publicly expressed concerns about McCain’s judgment or Palin’s obvious lack of experience. Unfortunately, all the Clintons can manage to do is give Barack Obama lukewarm support. I don’t know why but I imagine them secretly wishing that Obama loses the election to John McCain so they can say “I told you so.”

P.S. Where in the heck is Joe Biden?

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It’s Finally Over!

If you could see me right now, I’m doing the happy dance. Miss Hillary has finally decided to step her big head aside and let Barack Obama shine as the Democratic Party’s presidential candidate. I don’t know what they said to old girl to get her to go away but I’m glad she did. Now she’s going to give a concession speech on Saturday to her supporters, wonder what that’s going to be about? After all of the crap her campaigned has pulled, I don’t believe for one minute she truly supports Obama.

As we’ve seen over the past few months, that Clinton Bag-o-Tricks is just as relentless and ruthless as ever. If you’d ask me before yesterday, I would swear that old girl was staying in the race long enough to dig up some dirt on Obama and emerge as the only electable candidate between the two. My second theory had to do with the possible assassination of Obama, the first black man to win his party’s nomination for president. Of course, Hillary brought that up during an interview a few weeks ago and she was rightfully chastised for invoking Robert F. Kennedy’s assassination during the 1968 California Democratic primary. How tasteless and crass but she was serious.

I’m looking forward to seeing who Obama will pick to be his running mate. He can’t pick Hillary because if he did, I would be very disappointed in him. I’d like for him to pick someone like John Edwards who could strengthen his credibility with Southern voters but also provide some much needed political experience to the ticket. An Obama-Edwards ticket would definitely be easy on the eyes too. Other possibilities, Bill Richardson who is mega-talented in diplomacy and has some excellent experience as an ambassador, cabinet member and governor. As much as I’d like to see that ticket, I really don’t think people are ready for a black man AND a Hispanic on the same Presidential ticket; the racists would have a field day in the name of racial solidarity.

Between now and November, we’re going to hear enough about Obama’s blackness. Too bad the media can’t get beyond Obama’s race (and his former preacher Reverend Wright) and let him just deal with some real issues. No one ever holds John McCain accountable to other white people because he’s white yet Obama can’t go a day without mention of his race. And we know, he has the black vote on lock just by virtue of his blackness ! NOT!

I’ve said it before and I’ll continue to say it: black people are not monolithic. Sadly, some people will never give Obama a chance just because he’s a black man and they can’t get beyond his skin color. I look for the disgruntled Democrats from Hillary’s campaign to side with John McCain for this very reason; they can’t bring themselves to vote for a black man in 2008.

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Why I Won’t Be Voting for John McCain, Part 2

Poor John McCain. He either bumped his head or had his brain sucked out with a straw because nothing George Bush has done as president is worth continuing. Today he releases pounds upon pounds of his medical records today when most people have gone on vacation for Memorial Day. I’m not interested.

By all accounts, this hasn’t been a good week for him. He’s had to repudiate John Hagee, the fundamentalist preacher who was bound to slip up and say something stupid sooner or later. I’m sorry but fundamentalists and zealots of any ilk are very dangerous. Actually Hagee has been saying stupid things all along but in a desperate but unnecessary attempt to woo the religious conservatives, McCain hooked his wagon to Hagee’s star. So God created Hitler and the Holocaust to hasten the creation of Israel!? He should have seen this coming, but desperation can put you in all kinds of embarrassing predicaments, just ask Hillary Clinton.

Now that’s some scary crap but what’s even scarier is that McCain intends to continue many of the policies that make President George Bush, the most unpopular president of my time. Bush is only unpopular with us poor working stiffs who pay $3.99 a gallon for gas and are forced to make hard decisions about what we buy at the grocery store each week. If McCain is trying to win my vote, he’s going to have to do much better because right now, I’m not impressed.

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Barack Obama Brushes Off ABC News Philadelphia Debate

Here’s one reason why I love Barack Obama.

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Time to Sit Down Miss Hillary!

After more than dozen straight losses in the Democratic presidential primaries, it ain’t looking so good for Miss Hillary. If any other candidate had lost eleven straight primaries, the media would have written them off, but Miss Hillary isn’t being written off yet. Last year this time, she was touted as the Democratic candidate to beat. Things have certainly changed and Miss Hillary is sounding like the neighbor’s annoying little chihuahua that won’t stop yapping.

While refusing to declare her down and out, the media is now fabricating some kind of false hope that she can still win the nomination if she wins the Democratic primaries in Ohio and Texas. **blank stare** In the oft chance that she does win these two states, she still won’t have enough delegates to catch Obama. It’s time for her to step aside because firing campaign managers and reshuffling her campaign staff isn’t going to win her the Democratic nomination.

The biggest problem with Miss Hillary’s campaign is Hillary. She bought into her own hype too early and that coupled with her arrogance has likely cost her the nomination. She’s losing her core supporters to Obama because as barren as she claims his rhetoric is, most people find it much more inspiring than her experienced, “ready on Day One” oratory.

Now that her ship is sinking, look for her supporters, many of whom are members of the civil rights mafia to dump her for Obama. Yesterday, John Lewis, Democratic Congressman from Georgia and super delegate, switched his support to Obama. Look for more defections when Obama wins Texas and Ohio. After all, everyone wants to be with a winner.

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Anybody but Hillary, Please!

Yesterday’s Democratic primaries failed to yield a clear winner between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. While it’s too premature for me to do my “anybody but Miss Hillary” dance, I’m hoping John Edwards will throw his delegates to Obama so we can end this ridiculousness for once and for all. Behind in fund raising, Miss Hillary had to dip into her personal fortune and loan herself $5 million to keep up with the $32 million Obama raised in January. If you can’t raise enough money to run for president then you can just buy your way in?! Let’s hope not! That just gives me yet another reason to dislike Hillary Clinton.

I bet folks like Bob Johnson and Rev. Calvin Butts are disappointed that their girl didn’t emerge as the front runner after yesterday’s primaries. As much as they tried to help Miss Hillary, it didn’t materialize into votes for her. Tsk, tsk. On the other hand, look for the Obama bandwagon to swell with more supporters and even more haters. The Clintons are going to have to make a bigger pitcher of that haterade and invite all of their civil rights cronies. The latest reason why Miss Hillary should be the Democrat’s presidential candidate, according to the folks that run her campaign, is that she’s been tested by the media; seems we know all the Clinton’s dirty laundry but don’t know Obama’s? Oh, really? I guess we’ll have to wait for Miss Hillary’s people to dig it up or maybe she’ll call Bob Johnson again.

It’s still a long way to the Democratic primary and many things can happen between now and then. The blabbermouth politcal analysts and pundits will be deconstructing Obama’s victories which they will attribute to the large turnout of black folks (as expected) in such remote places as Alaska and North Dakota. Can these analysts and experienced news reporters ever get beyond race? Not one candidate in the Republican primary has to contend with issues of race, ever.

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