IT'S A MOVEMENT YA'LL.
IT'S A MOVEMENT YA'LL.
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Damn, the Clinton's have got Congressman John Lewis shook. In his interview with NBC's Andrea Mitchell he looked and sounded like he needed to be in the witness protection program. Changing your mind about endorsing Hillary is worse than getting the hell beat out of you by racists in the south? Wow!! If he's doing it to save his congressional seat in Georgia, he may be to late. Evidently he has been unchallenged for some time. Not anymore. A young Black minister is going to run against him this year.
Lewis said that the Barack campaign is a movement he did not recognize at first. He sure didn't. At the debate in Myrtle Beach, SC I could swear I saw Lewis and Hillary super supporter, Stephanie Tubbs-Jones, giving each other high fives when Hillary snapped at Barack about his affiliation with "slum lord Resko".
Maybe he's just going to miss being invited to the Clinton house parties where Hillary dances down the Soul Train line that Andrew Young described a few months ago.
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No I'm not going to gloat about Obama's latest triumph. 10-0 pretty much speaks for itself. Hillary is toast and not even worth talking about right now.
A few days ago I watch the Dame Dash produced documentary, Mr. Untouchable. When I was a preteen in the South Bronx, Nicky Barnes name rang out every where. He was THE ghetto rock star. Everybody knew somebody who had professional or personal ties to Barnes. After watching the documentary twice I decided to check out the DVD extras. There are interesting interviews with some of Barnes former associates, his lawyer, the informant that helped take him down and Thelma Grant, the mother of his two daughters.
His rationale for snitching is iffy. He cites the most pressing reason as being his fellow council member, Guy Fisher, screwing his favorite woman, Shameka. Nicky Barnes views himself as Machiavellian. Hell has no wrath like the fury of 'the king.' His crew left him for dead essentially after they realized he was never going to be released from prison. No money for lawyers. No respect for his word. When his main muscle refused to put Guy and Tito, the guy screwing Thelma, 'in the dirt', Barnes exacted vengeance. Okay. Everybody went down. Guy, Thelma, Tito, everybody. Shameka was murdered.
I was most struck by the audio special feature. There's no video, just Nicky rambling about his life and the people who have been a part of it. He insinuates that Guy Fisher is an open homosexual in prison and has a life partner. When he talks about Shameka is when he really reveals his crassness and coarseness. He disgustingly discusses her female anatomy. I'm surprised this was included. Shameka as shown in the documentary was indeed a very attractive woman. Nicky leaves nothing to the imagination as he asserts the attractiveness of every part of her. His description and tone were sort of shocking to me. I wonder if he knew this would be included. He expresses no real sorrow over her death acknowledging only that it was done to send a message to him as he prepared to testify against everyone he knew. In the documentary he discusses thug love as it pertained to Thelma. The talk of Shemeka is all about her beauty. In the audio portion its all about her vagina. He apparently showered her with expensive things and enjoyed sex with her a great deal. Maybe that's how thugs express love. Associates say as Shameka came on the scene, Thelma faded to the background. "You could see he really felt something for Shameka," the wife of a former associate says. Maybe you had to be there.
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Let me just say I don't at all believe the Clinton campaign has raised the money it claims since Super Duper Tuesday. If they now have the professed amount in their coffers, I doubt if it came from a grassroots effort. All of a sudden Hillary has grassroots appeal to raise 7 million dollars? I think not. Follow the money. The Clinton's won't make that easy. She is refusing to disclose her income tax returns unless she wins the Democratic nomination. Hmm.
What a political weekend. Obama sweeps 3 states and the US Virgin Islands. Hillary did not even have the class or good sportsmanship to acknowledge must less congratulate her opponent during her speech in Virginia Saturday. As she left the stage and walked through the crowd she was surrounded by ecstatic chants of "O bam a, O bam a."
Next big political headline? "Clinton Campaign Manager Calls it Quits." Maybe she did quit but I just have this image in my head of an angry Hillary storming around like Joan Crawford in Mommy Dearest. Cold cream smeared all over her face, eyes bulging out of her head, screaming, NO MORE LOST PRIMARIES!!! I think she fired old girl.
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When the Obama camp announced they had raised $32 mil. in January alone, the Clinton camp remained strangely silent. At the end of January, Hillary lent her campaign $5 mil. from her personal funds. According to various articles on the net and several news reports, Hillary's campaign has been under a financial crunch since the Iowa primary.
This information puts several things in a whole new light for me. Hillary serving peach cobbler to reporters on the plane for one. No wonder. Due to a lack of funds, Mrs. Clinton is no longer traveling in a Gulf Stream, she is now riding on the press plane. No wonder Bill was so testy in South Carolina. He must have felt a great deal of pressure to undermine the Obama momentum. Hillary's tears in New Hampshire were real! Her campaign finance manager had over spent in Iowa and funds were low. Then she lost the primary there. Going in to NH Obama seemed to be on the brink of blowing her out of the water. Hillary had been preparing herself for a run at the presidency probably since Bill was elected. No wonder she cried. She was heartbroken and disappointed.
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I am a huge Obama supporter. His message of hope touches me to the core. I don't remember ever being this invested in any political campaign. Until about around Sept/Oct 2007 I was a Hillary Clinton supporter. That started when she purposed her health care plan some years back. Ever since I held the opinion that Monicagate was all about Republican subterfuge. I thought Hillary was a strong competent woman that intimidated political men. Then Obama came to focus on my radar. My son came back from his barber with a handout advertising that Barack would hold a meeting there. Now I know the barber and like him well enough but I scoffed at what I believed was just some barbershop bluffing. Guess what? He really came. Sat in one of the chairs, got a haircut and just talked to the people gathered. Now I currently live in a small rural SC town. Most people have never even heard of it. But Obama had. That did it. I signed up as a volunteer. Any candidate that made it his business to connect personally with small town folks, well this was something different. This was someone that was reaching out and touching the masses. Figuratively and literally. At the Obama campaign office in town the campaign workers were impressive. They were young people who had left the familiarity of their home states, Ohio, New Hampshire, etc. to come to a rural southern town to convince us how great Obama was. Some were Black and some were White. There were males and females. They all had Obama fever and they spread it. I'm proud to say I caught the fever. When he won Iowa I was ecstatic. When Bill Clinton started talking smack, I was livid. I didn't think Bill and Hillary would stoop so low. They did time and again. I made a personal resolution to work tirelessly to get Obama's message out. When he won SC, trouncing Hillary in a major way, I was so proud I could burst. Barack Obama has an intelligence and vision for a new America that is truly inspiring.
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