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Why Barack Obama Is GOP Enemy Number One
The first time I saw this video, I was not surprised at all.What I wanted to know was where the directive came from that had all of these voices repeating the same type of phrases over and over, as if by the sheer force of their vocal cords and the m...
Watching By The People: The Election of Barack Obama
I've been toying around with some comments on the Obama campaign documentary that aired last week, but every time I got started on them, something else came up. Election Night. The Fort Hood shootings. The healthcare bill passing in the House of R...
Has Anyone Seen Any Dems Besides Obama This Week?
Or last week, for that matter?I know why you haven't seen me until now this week - between my sick, my shut in, and my recently departed family members, I really haven't been able to really get into the swing of things. But now that the sick and the...
Obama On America's Mind
Barack Obama at lunch in the White HouseBarack Obama almost made me forget my mother's birthday was today. It is a date that is hard coded into my memory banks. But even though I've talked to my mother several times this week, it wasn't until Frida...
Inauguration Show And Tell
The Great Uploading of all the pictures that were taken at the inauguration of Barack Obama earlier this week has been going on since Tuesday.I've been tooling around the blogosphere, checking them out. A couple of photo essays stood out over at Dai...
The Steps You Take Are Not Yours Alone
The mass of people on the National Mall who gathered to watch the inauguration of Barack Obama as president of the United States on Tuesday was simply stupendous. The anticipation seemed to reach around the globe. The announcers were all falling al...
America Is Finally Growing Up
Inaugurating Barack Obama as the 44th president of the United States of America was like being in a civil rights march without an opposing force; like watching the Apollo moon landing without the need for a telescope; like the end of apartheid, with ...
Baracksploitation Is In Full Effect
Baracksploitation is in full effect, and I'm not talking about the vendors in Washington who are selling Obama memorabilia. The major networks and cable news outlets are working overtime to manufacture one Obama story after another. As I watched co...
The Trifecta: King, Obama, and You
If he is nothing else, your new president is TV ready. Obama works a camera like he's Denzel Washington,one of the many celebrities who feted the new First Family last night at the Lincoln Memorial. I am dusting off the DVD player today. We need ...
Interview: Author Of "Inaugration Ball" Email
Illustration By John MavroudisThere is an email circulating around the internet has been forwarded to me almost everyday this week called "Inauguration Ball 2009". It is one of those emails that you have to scroll down through five levels of email a...
Comedian Paul Mooney Sums Up Christmas
"Santa Claus was good to everybody this year. He gave the black folks Obama and he gave the white folks O.J." Paul MooneySometimes it takes a comedian to tell us what's really going on. Right now, if you watch the news, it seems like we live in two ...
Obama Will Be Split Screen President
The best thing about this Tuesday is that we will only have to hear the phrase “there’s only one president at a time” for one more week. Mr. Obama, it seems, is still swaddled in the folds of his gift wrapping, while Mr. Bush appears to be rea...
Our Magic Wands In The Age Of Obama
I was cooking up some pancakes yesterday morning when S. turned Meet The Press on. Bill Cosby's face filled the screen as he stared at the camera while David Gregory, the show's new host, asked him a question about his book Come On People. When I s...
Even Obama Must Be Getting Tingly These Days
This is getting to be like the week before Christmas, when you start to have presents lying under the tree - watching Barack Obama get off of the presidential plane on Monday, then seeing him yesterday, meeting with all the ex-presidents at the White...
Rick Warren Invocation Doesn't "Speak Volumes" To Me
I’m tired of reading the phrase "______ speaks volumes." I’m weary, by the time I finish reading the paper these days, of the phrase "_______ sends a message", or "_______ sends a clear signal."Barack Obama’s choice of Rev. Rick Warren to say ...
When You've Got The Name And The Looks
The children of Martin Luther King Jr. have always said “Marty got daddy’s name, Dexter got daddy’s looks.” Jessie Jackson Jr. got both.I myself got two colorful monikers, one Arabic, one Hindu, preceding my English surname, two names as far ...
I Might Have To Take My Shoes Off
My buddy calls me yesterday, during the game.I don’t answer the phone.He calls back later. S. comes looking for me. “Can you call him back? That’s the second time he’s woken me up looking for you.”I pretty much only talk to my parents an...
The Swords Are Being Sharpened
I read the crazier parts of yesterday’s indictment of Governor Rod “Whatever His Name Is” to my buddy when he was driving home and he thought I was pulling his leg. Then he fell back into lawyer mode, his voice dropping an octave to his seriou...
Obama Backs Labor In Chicago Layoff Dispute
Barack Obama has done something today that I can't see any other recent president-elect doing. He put out a statement yesterday about the workers who are staging a sit-in in a Chicago window manufacturer where they were recently laid off. From the C...
The Answer Is Two Trillion Dollars
The question is "how much will the economic recovery plan that Barack Obama will propose when he becomes President in January cost?"My buddy and I have been tossing this idea back and forth lately. Well, actually, I've been the one pushing the idea,...
Obama Says Big Three Exec Pay "Out Of Line"
When executives in any industry start leaping tall buildings in a single bound, then I'll be the first to back their Superman sized pay packages. Everyone of these guys claims he is indispensable, until the next guy shows up, who proceeds to trumpet...
Send In The Clowns
This isn’t a lame duck session, this is a damn clown show. The Treasury Secretary and President Bush team up to scare Congress into handing out $350 BILLION dollars to shore up/bailout/subsidize the financial sector, and now the son of a biscuit-e...
The Most Influential Black Man In America
Ebony magazine and its weekly counterpart, Jet news magazine put faces with the names of so many of the rest of black America – local politicians, lessor entertainers, up and coming sports stars – for young children like myself who grew up in the...
A New Kind Of Hope
When I visited my relatives in the D.C. (Deep Country) areas of South Carolina, one thing I always noticed when I was younger was that in practically every shotgun hovel, cinder block house, and mobile home we went to, they all had three things in co...
When Do Rags Do Wrong
Normalcy.That’s what everybody who ascends from obscurity to fame says they want – a chance at living a normal life, without the demands and pressures that stardom brings. Plaxico Burress is the latest superstar to succumb to the rigors of celeb...
Do As I Say, Not As I Do
It just so happened that I watched the movie Charlie Wilson’s War last night, while reports coming out of Mumbai began to get beyond the grisly descriptions of the deaths caused by Pakistani terrorists and started focusing on what kind of retaliati...
