The reason we have the economic confusion you speak of is because we have the blind leading the blind in this country with censorship of  the press to keep it that way!  Click here for an example of what I mean: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080317/ap_on_el_pr/democrats_economy  The answers to these problems is being ignored by those in public office and those running for public office!  Let's click on to the following to see the answers: 1) http://www.blogforamerica.com/view/19375  2) http://www.blogforamerica.com/view/19604  3) http://www.blogforamerica.com/view/22547  If you look at the dates posts 1-3 it is evident that the DFA management is not contacting anyone regarding what you just read.  Click on to the name David Reed when clicking on to said messages for the rest of the story!  I know for a fact that the involved information has been posted extensively on the internet web site of John Edwards for President and later on the internet web site of Barack Obama for President!  Click here to see what I mean: http://www.blogforamerica.com/view/24119  So now you see the actual price for folks being lazy cowards who won't intervene (an e-mail here, a letter there or perhaps a phone call)!  "For whom the bell tolls...it tolls for thee!"

Homeowners of course!

Good morning everyone.

Chuck Todd gets it right. Media bias is keeping Clinton in the race.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23679299/

I hope Obama hits his speech out of the park.

9:53 AM EST

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Huron John
Tue, 03/18/08

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Even if Obama doesn't win the general election, even if he doesn't even win the dem nomination, he will have done more to shed light on racism and religion here in America

Excuse me--only a short time ago, Obama was loudly proclaiming that racism was not a factor in this election, and that blacks were "90% of the way" toward equality with whites--that there was no "Black America or White America"--just one America

Talk about flip flops!

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Huron John -

In all due respects, yes Obama has woken up to the fact that racism is alive and well in America, just like my African-born wife has found that out.  Just like my white male self has too.  Sometimes it takes a situation like this, where one puts the pedal to the metal (ie. the first real chance for a AA to become our President), that true feelings of voters come out -- usually manifested behind the privacy of a primary voting booth.

He's adjusting to the situation, just like I am and a lot of other BO supporters are.

Of course, since you have no involvement (no horse in this race), throw the barbs if you feel you must. 

Others of us will be doing what we can to help progress America along.

9:59 AM EST

it's every single American's burden to talk about race today, every man woman and child.

We are ALL in this together and IMO it's time to start scaling this seemingly insurmontable wall of racism.  We've been pussyfooting around long enough in this country.

(this parallels very much like what John Kennedy had to do in 1960, talking about his Catholicism; well the burden actually fell not just on him but on every Protestant, Catholic, Jew, atheist, etc. to talk about religion; and ironically enough, a pastor is part of what Obama will be talking about today -- in approx 20 minutes or so)

10:00 AM EST

and, of course, Howard (Dean, not Wolfson) is first

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sunlight
Tue, 03/18/08

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That's the trouble. Clintonomics was the start -- of Bushonomics.
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No, it was Reaganomcis that started it.
Bush and Clinton just continued it.
Continue the present course or change?
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...lol, Yep, the “present course” has started l-o-o-o-n-g ago, long before even Reagan.

The question is not either we should continue it or not, we simply CAN NOT continue it even if we’d want to.
The question now is HOW should we change it.

wow, Joe Scarborough has three anti-Obama folks (including Pat Buchanan) on his show prior to Barack's speech. No bias?

10:28 AM EST

sorry, speech not obviously starting at 10:15 AM EST, just MSNBC and CNN talking heads

Pat buchanan is impugning Barack's character this morning. I'm so outraged - I'm sending MSNBC an email complaining. In my mind he is slandering Barack. How does Pat know what Barack thinks. He's accusing him of being a racist phony.

here's the speech:

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0...

 Latest N.Y. governor cheated on wife
Newspaper says Paterson and his spouse both admit past affairrs

the spouse says, "well he's got a good excuse.  he's almot blind and he can always say the other woman smelled like his wife and sounded like his wife, so it was hard to tell the difference."

i keep telling you all he's got a quirky sense of humor.  But, what seems to be obvious is that this David paterson is an habitual truth teller.  Sort of refreshing, don't you think?   

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mary vb
Tue, 03/18/08

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wow, Joe Scarborough has three anti-Obama folks (including Pat Buchanan) on his show prior to Barack's speech. No bias?
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Btw, I’m personally not considering Pat Buchanan of been particularly anti-Obama, but that’s not the point.

Obama can not afford continue to be silent about fundamental factor which truly divide People, and that is, of course, not the race, not the gender, not the religion, etc.

He may try not to name that sole factor this time around...again, but it won’t help his (and American People’s) cause and will continue hunting him.
We’ll see.

I just read the speech. It is absolutely incredible.

I pray that this man, Barack Obama, will be our next President.

got the tv on mute til obama's speech.

how many talking heads can u have on saying nothing??

go for it obama

america is a racist country.

ever been to a black church?

a pentacostal church?

seen pat robertson on his free tv show?

there you have a church with people telling what they believe?

how bout mccain's friend? why not go after him.

get em barack.

america is racist and has lost it's moral ground. if it ever had one.

pat buchanan is a racist immoral pale white nazi like hate monger.

he needs to go to the old age home.

Obamas speech............wont change a thing.............this back asswards party has to start going after Mccain and pointing out what a waste military spending is as the nation decays from within.................they wont tho........idiots

linda b,

I have my tv on mute too.  Does anyone really believe a word that comes out of Buchanan's mouth?  He has always been a racist, always.  I agree he needs to go the old age home, the sooner the better.

I also remember him being a sexist.  I guess the racist part of him is stronger than the sexist part.

It's hard for people to understand something they haven't experienced.  I didn't understand how racism works until the day somebody, a nice white lady, called me up out of the blue to berate me because she considered it my fault that a couple or three black teeneage girls were standing in front of her house talking.  It took a while for it to register with me that black people standing and talking on the sidewalk in front of her house was an unforgivable affront which I had facilitilitated by promoting the designation of the neighborhood as an historic district worthy of national recognition.  Which I did and which it was and which was appropriate because the same people had lived, worked, worshiped, built churches and educated their families there  for over a hundred and twenty years.

Sorry if this doesn't make sense.  I've for flashing lights that make it hard to see.  And i have to get a larger font. 

linda b
Tue, 03/18/08
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Great post Linda..take note of several of your facts which are true.....and why peole like Linda and me just dont buy this "bring people together" stuff Obama has been spouting.......it sonds pretty........not realistic tho.................if it aint ever happened for 200+ years........it aint gonna happen now.........move on and go around it i say.............thats what JFK did

Obamas speech............wont change a thing.............this back asswards party has to start going after Mccain and pointing out what a waste military spending is as the nation decays from within.................they wont tho........idiots  

Mike, I agree..............

Obama is carrying enormous weight on his shoulders, all the weight that for decades Democrats were trying consciously (!!!) to avoid to carry, the weight of true People’s leaders, the weight of being their guide and telling them the rough (not smooth) truth.

Can he handle it?
We’ll see.

If not him, this time around, then him, or somebody else, next time around.

barack obama is a hero.

just his manner is amazing.

Obama's speech read very well........... until he got to the point of absolving Israel for all responsibility for the mideast mess, and blaming it all on "radical Islam"

Following AIPAC's bs, unfortunately.

10:56 am

perfect our union. for our children and grandchildren.

son of a black man from kenya and a white woman from kansas.

please take away the crawl on the bottom of the screen.

I am not a conventional candidate.

america is looking for change.

race has not been and issue in campaign.

press has looked everywhere for polarization.

yep they have.

press is widening the racial divide.

yep they have.

white racism is there folks.

we need unity.

good luck on that.

be nice if we had some type of power.

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linda b
Tue, 03/18/08

pat buchanan is a racist immoral pale white nazi like hate monger.
he needs to go to the old age home.
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I’ve heard a lot of similar opinions on this blog about Ron Paul too.

I may just say that Ron Paul contribution on the path of progress this country inevitably, sooner or later, will set itself up can even roughly get compared to that of ANY Democrat (including Obama) so far.

May be (I hope, just may be) it’ll change today with Obama’s speech.

why not join another church.

Peddled by some commentators

go get em barack.

I just read the speech. It is absolutely incredible.

I pray that this man, Barack Obama, will be our next President.

mary vb~ ditto everything you said!

gee if we condemned someone for what they say and do we might have gone after bush instead of a black preacher.

gee, barack is human.

the next president of the united states.

he strengthened my life.

his pastor enbodies the good and the bad.

wow he is taking on race head on.

I can't disown my white grandmother.

the news media needs to be taken head on.

we used to call it "diarehha of the mouth". that's the news media.

the most segregated hour in the week is the hour in church on sunday morning.

why are our churches seperate?? I never understood this.

Looking forward to reading the Obama speech, since I don't have cable.

As for Gov. Paterson, here's the backstory on that. He and his wife were, effectively, separated for several years in the late 90s. This was no secret in Albany. He was living in a hotel with another woman and his wife had another man. They didn't think their marriage could be rescued.

Then finally they agreed to give counseling another try, and it helped them and they reconciled.

He decided to talk about it right away because it was such common knowledge in Albany (a VERY small city) and the national media was already sniffing around it.

As Monica said, refreshing for someone to just come out and say what happened. And since they both transgressed, I don't have that bad feeling that his wife just let him have a free pass.

David Paterson is going to be great for New York.

-- volney

america has disowned it's citizens.

giving billions to banks and letting people suffer.

what are you and can you do???????????????????

linda at 44 on churches

Churches are segregated mostly because of peoople's worship styles and also because it's uncomfortable being a trailblazing minority.

Jimmy Carter did all he could to integrate his church in Plains with the black church right down the road. The black church declined to merge.

I believe because in their church they could be the majority, unlike any other area of their lives. This is also the root of black separatism and while I don't agree with it I sure do understand it.

-- volney

new thread

NOT THIS TIME. WE WON'T LET THEM TAKE OUR ELECTION THIS TIME.

not this time should be his new motto.

Barack Obama is one amazing dude.

linda b~ thanks for the narrative!

btw, hubby and I agree with everything Rev. Wright said!

Yep, the Chuck Todd piece is pretty much straight-on.

But the reasons he gives for Clinton getting the media's attention are not exactly the way I see it. It is, after all, all about money -- the bottom line for the airwaves, rather than any illusion thay have about voters and Clinton.

Nevertheless, a great piece of work for Todd.

BTW, there are even Republicans saying how terrific the speech was.

why are our churches seperate?? I never understood this.

linda b

Maybe it has something to do with convenient churches.

The church Obama goes to is far from segregated. BO has talked about its diversity of blacks, whites, gays, etc.

I don't find this unusual. I grew up in the Chicago area suburbs and worked in Chicago many moons ago. Much of the area was much more integrated than people seem to remember. I went to high school with some very intellectual blacks that I found tough to compete against, though their numbers were small and we were in an upscale area. We all got along fine.

Florida Democrats
Putting Floridians First Because Security Begins At Home

From: Karen L. Thurman
Sent: Monday, March 17, 2008 5:05 PM
Subject: 537


Dear,

For a year now, the Florida Democratic Party has tried to comply with the Delegate Selection Rules of the Democratic National Committee.

We researched every potential alternative process - from caucuses to county conventions to mail-in elections - but no plan could come anywhere close to being viable in Florida.

We made a detailed case to the DNC Rules & Bylaws Committee, but we were denied.

Our Democratic legislators in Tallahassee tried to set the Florida primary on Feb. 5, instead of Jan. 29, but of course, their proposed amendment to House Bill 537 was greeted with laughter and derision from the Republicans who control the state government.

Does '537' ring a bell? It should. It's the number of votes that separated Texas Gov. George W. Bush and Vice President Al Gore in Florida in 2000.

It's the number that sent this country and this world in a terrible direction.

We can't let 537 - or the Republicans - determine our future again.

President Bush plans to stop in Florida tomorrow to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for the Republican National Committee's efforts to elect his successor in November.

The last thing America needs is a third Bush term. Despite the widespread anxiety that working families feel, not to mention the broad agreement among economists that we are in a recession, President Bush and John McCain blindly believe that the economy is strong.

And let me remind you that John McCain endorsed President Bush's decision to deny health care to thousands of Florida children by vetoing an expansion of the successful SCHIP program. McCain also promises to jeopardize the financial security of Florida seniors by privatizing Social Security. He continually threatens to push Florida's military families to the brink by keeping American troops in Iraq for "100 years" or more.

This is why we are Democrats, and this is why we must stick together, no matter where this ongoing delegate debate takes us.

Last week, the Florida Democratic Party laid out the only existing way that we can comply with DNC Rules - a statewide revote run by the Party - and asked for input.

Thousands of people responded. We spent the weekend reviewing your messages, and while your reasons vary widely, the consensus is clear: Florida doesn't want to vote again.

So we won't.

A party-run primary or caucus has been ruled out, and it's simply not possible for the state to hold another election, even if the Party were to pay for it. Republican Speaker of the Florida House Marco Rubio refuses to even consider that option. Florida is finally moving to paper ballots, which is a good thing, but it means that at least 15 counties do not have the capacity to handle a major election before the June 10th DNC primary deadline.

This doesn't mean that Democrats are giving up on Florida voters. It means that a solution will have to come from the DNC Rules & Bylaws Committee, which is scheduled to meet again in April.

When this committee stripped us of 100% of our delegates last year, some members summed up their reasoning by saying, "The rules are the rules." Unfortunately, the rules did not apply to Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina when they, too, violated the DNC calendar by moving from their assigned dates.

As the late great Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt once said, "We must adjust our ideas to the facts of today... Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are."

The Florida Democratic Party has stuck to its principles throughout this debate. We've remained open-minded while never wavering from our commitment to an open and fair election that would allow all Florida Democrats to participate, whether serving in Iraq, retiring in Boca, studying abroad or entertaining at a theme park.

Another late great President -Abraham Lincoln, a Republican - said, "A house divided against itself cannot stand."

If Democrats heed this wisdom, we will win in November.

America needs a great president again, but a President McCain will settle for the status quo and carry on the disastrous Bush tradition.

President Clinton or President Obama will make history and lead this nation in a new direction.

Let's remember this as the delegate debate continues. We must stick together as Democrats. The stakes are too high and the opportunities too great.

I will keep you posted on any major developments. Thank you for your concern and your commitment.

Sincerely,

Congresswoman Karen L. Thurman
Chair, Florida Democratic Party

Exceedingly Greedy Usury by Wall Street Bankers and High End Capitalists have put the United States economy in a recession giving the lower 70% of the population of the United States, the Common Population the Right to "NEVER" HAVE Happiness -- ONLY to Pursue Happiness.

The United States government should be supporting the population, rather than the Wall Street Bankers --- Bear Stearns Bank, being the 1st collapsed domino.

The United States government is using the tax resources of the 70% MAJORITY COMMON POPULATION to bail out the Wall Street Bankers, and saddle the 70% MAJORITY COMMON POPULATION with paying for the bail out, plus the effects on the 70% MAJORITY COMMON POPULATION from a recession caused by the free market schemes of the Wall Street Bankers, without benefit to the 70% MAJORITY COMMON POPULATION whatsoever, and burdening the 70% MAJORITY COMMON POPULATION with ALL the resulting principal and interest losses from the greedy free market schemes of the Wall Street Bankers.

The extremely over priced assets of the over-inflated economy that have been sold to the 70% MAJORITY COMMON POPULATION, for which the 70% MAJORITY COMMON POPULATION is obligated to pay --- are going to be maintained by the government as an obligation by the 70% MAJORITY COMMON POPULATION to have to pay, while the losses suffered by the Wall Street Bankers, who originated the problem are being absorbed by a policy of United States government CORPORATE WELFARE; burdening, subduing and forcing the taxpayers of the 70% MAJORITY COMMON POPULATION to suffer paying for the Wall Street Bankers' greedy free market losses. The 70% MAJORITY COMMON POPULATION'S taxpayers will get soaked from both ends --- from their own losses as well as the losses of the Wall Street Bankers' free market schemes.

It is ludicrous that the people will allow themselves to carry the burden of both the Wall Street Bankers as well as their own losses as a result of the majorly greedy "usury actions" of the Wall Street Bankers without any help from the government for the people of the 70% MAJORITY COMMON POPULATION.

The Wall Street Bankers have life, liberty and happiness, while the 70% MAJORITY COMMON POPULATION have ONLY the right to pursue life, liberty and happiness. The 70% MAJORITY COMMON POPULATION have the freedom of the field, the freedom of cows in the field without the liberty to go outside of their field that is owned by capitalists and Wall Street Bankers, but when it comes time to pay, the 70% MAJORITY COMMON POPULATION, with only the freedom of cows in the field, are always sent the bill for the GREEDY ACTIONS of the capitalists and the Wall Street Bankers that own their field. What more could the 70% MAJORITY COMMON POPULATION want than freedom of the field with the right to pursue life, liberty and happiness? Can you say, "moo"?

I notice that neither barack of hill are at the TBA conference this year.

I know Jim Dean is there, but no sponsorship from DFA.

This year does not seem to be as exciting.

Maybe a report from Jim would be in order.

Congresswoman Thurman, no matter how you spin it, you violated the rules.

Maybe you should resign. You made the DNC and Howard Dean a laughing stock.

Why, cause you wanted to make a statement. You did . YOU DISENFRANCHISED YOUR VOTERS. YOU DID IT.

NOW RESIGN.

3:31 PM EST

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1723302,00.html?xid=rss-nation

Usually when politicians pose those kinds of either/or options to an audience, the choice is deliberately devoid of real tension. Either we move forward or fall backward, either we let the economy falter or we help it grow, either we succumb to our enemies or we defeat them — the choice is up to you, America! Obama's either/or formulation is not nearly so banal. Explicitly asking Americans to grapple with racial divisions, and then transcend them — that's a bold request. Will they comply? Obama's presidential hopes depend on it.