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Senator Barack Obama has taken a lot of heat for his “bitter” statement, but I, for one, am very bitter about what has happened to our country. This bitterness may not be driving me to buy a gun or start going to church again, but it exists nevertheless. I also feel betrayed — by the Bush Administration, the Republican Party, the Democrats in Congress, the candidates for President, and the news media.
1. I’m bitter about the way that the Bush Administration... Read Full Story
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To my readers and friends:
Red Zone Blogitics is taking a short hiatus from the blogosphere until the Democratic nomination process for president is decided. Basically, with all of the hot-air speculation around the election, I got tired of hearing my own writing — along with everyone else’s. But I offer a few nuggets here in brief:
Who’s TRULY ‘Elitist’? The PRESS – Even the Comedians
In the wake of the recent clutsy rhetoric by Barack Ob... Read Full Story
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In an online version of article in TIME, titled “Obama Plays Catch-Up in Pennsylvania,” posted March 25, the editors note that the Clinton campaign initially informed the reporters that their Pennsylvania state director, Mary Isenhour, was the granddaughter of President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Between Hillary Clinton’s apparently hallucination about sniper bullets whizzing over her head on a trip to Bosnia to her insistence that she was an active policymaker during the C... Read Full Story
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All this talk of “Hillary’s” voters and “Obama’s” voters threatening to abandon the Democratic ticket in November if “their” gal or guy doesn’t get the nomination makes me wonder, yet again, if the Democratic Party is EVER going to be ready for political prime time.
I’ll admit that, as an Obama supporter and Hillary skeptic, I’ve had moments where I’ve pointed my finger at the tube – after hearing about yet another desperate ploy by the Clintons to undercut Obama so they can... Read Full Story
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My dear friends and fellow Americans:
Barack Obama’s “big speech on race” was great, but it won’t erase the negative impressions of the black separatist mindset inspired by the words and images of Wright and even of all-black congregations generally. People are rightly asking why the candidate would want his young, impressionable children exposed to Wright’s invective. Those of us who believe Obama is a true integrationist are mystified that he and his family do not belong t... Read Full Story
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I don’t know about you, but I still don’t understand how the Democratic Party could have allowed itself to fall into a situation where presidential primaries in two major states, Florida and Michigan, would be rendered null and void. I mean, how dumb can Party leaders be?
Really dumb, it seems. There seems to be a general consensus among people I’ve polled that if either party is capable of botching its election process, it’s going to be the Dems. This just points to the ove... Read Full Story
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With the resignation of Gov. Eliot Spitzer and the ascension of Lieutenant Gov. David Paterson to the governorship of New York, the state government moved quickly beyond former Spitzer’s spectacular fall from grace after the now former governor was caught indulging in regular services from a high-priced call girl affiliated with an upper-echelon prostitution ring.
What made the Spitzer saga so dramatic was that he had stormed into office as a reformer with a reputation for a... Read Full Story
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Barack Obama took a big perceptual hit this week, as videotape came to light showing his former pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, in full inflammatory, “fire and brimstone” mode. Obama has catapulted himself to the front of the Democratic presidential primary race on his strength as a black candidate who transcends race. As one white male voter told me at an Obama rally in New Hampshire, in contrast to personalities such as Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, Obama “doesn’t shove the... Read Full Story
In honor of the racially-charged dynamics of the Democratic presidential primary, I offer this series of excerpts from my book, “Democrats in the Red Zone: an Independent voter’s take on the game of political perception.” I hope people will feel inspired to comment as we all consider the challenges facing the Democratic Party in general, and Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton in particular, when it comes to the political impact of race-based perceptions in America. Read Full Story
