Michael Fisher said...
I think it is time to gather all the black bloggers around a statement. Namely this:(1) The Democratic party base has spoken. The numbers show that Mrs. Clinton has lost this race for the nomination.
(2) Mrs. Clinton's increasingly shrill attacks against Mr. Obama has taken on the airs of racism.
(3) That is regrettable because via the candidacy of Mr. Obama for the first time in the electoral history of this nation, the vast majority of African-American stand united with untold millions of white Americans and Americans of all colors.
(4) It appears that Mrs. Clinton is about to shatter this historic unity.
(5) We therefore call on Mrs. Clinton to face the reality of the numbers, concede defeat and thereby heal this wound which she has opened and continues to widen.
(6) It is clear that Mrs. Clinton can not be considered for the Vice-Presidential slot on the Democratic ticket. Mrs. Clinton has denigrated Mr. Obama to the point that any possible praise she would heap on him as a member of the Democratic ticket would ring hollow and hypocritical.
(7) If the Democratic Party leadership were to nullify our votes by giving Mrs. Clinton the nomination despite the popular vote, we call on all African-Americans to withdraw their support from the Democratic Party and to stay at home. We have survived eight years under President Bush, we will survive four years under a President McCain. We will NOT survive the nullification of our most hard-fought for right - our votes.
20 comments:
i will vote mccain if she "wins"
Sorry to say i won't vote at all if she cheats for the nod.
Jasai, you aint the only one.
You know ... like ... fuck it.
No doubt, it's goin down. Not the way millenarians would have expected but it's gonna happen any day now. I thought economic collapse would do it it but Hillary Rodham Clinton is the political version of Typhoid Mary. She has toppled the first domino.
All'a'y'all who are stuck on the superficial dynamics of populist political theater are behind the proverbial 8-ball.
My people suffer from a woeful lack of knowledge.
Minister Farrakhan said that around the time that the United States State Department compelled him to reject an $8B loan from Libya. Remember that?
Stupid racial calculations are most definitely at work in the theater, but they're just flickering illusions on the screen used to distract, hoodwink, and bamboozle the rubes while the real governance "great game" carries on in earnest, in the background...,
I said over on TSO that I am considering not voting is she gets the nomination. Crazy thing is, I wasn't the first in my office to make this declaration. My white female feminist partner boss was. If that aint proof of Mike Fisher's third point, I dont know what is.
Props for that post Mike! I'm copying it and forwarding it to folks.
yeah, well, please correct the typos first.
thanks
I hear you CNu ... what Americans want, what they respond to, what compels them ... is of little significance. At the end of the day all in life is determined by some omnipresent, all powerful "invisible hand", that we can't do shit about.
Nah.
Obama is dangerous as long as he has a voice and people have ears.
Brothers are a little more complex than simple "dopamine uptake inhibitors"... we got game. We got soul. That's more precious than Arab oil.
Obama has the attention of the world. A campaign without Barack Obama is like a golf tournament without Tiger Woods. Nobody tunes in ...
Mike is right. We got something to leverage. Use it.
Yeah well, them people who are attached to that invisible hand gotta take a shit just like everybody else.
Having now received the presidential endorsement, we can conclude that McCain represents operational managerial continuity from the purely warsocialist G-Dub/neocon perspective - for the next 100 years.
DV, isn't the challenge now one of understanding exactly what geostrategic position the Obamamandius camp represents?
Because that geostrategic position will determine a very great deal of what happens within the domestic economy and by extension, what happens to us.
CNu,
Brzezinski has been a family favorite of ours since I was a kid. However, the age of "geostrategic" tit for tat is behind us.
The world is the inexorably connected. What happens to the American economy is as important to China as what happens in the liver is important to the colon.
The planet is a boat, much like the Titanic after it hit the iceberg. Whether you are in steerage of first class you gonna drown in the icy cold Atlantic.
Unless a man with the uniquely universal characteristics of Barack Obama is able to remind and mobilize the world around the principle that we have much in common and that our destinies are united.
Only a cat like that can save the world .. which is why I know he is a prophet.
His timing is impeccable.
The powers-to-be may be doing whatever and precisely what Nulan is claiming they are doing. That ain't the point. The point is that the people are being mobilized and educated to at least try to act in their own interest. That in of itself is a blow against Nulan's boys and girls wit de "invisible hand".
DV,are you still confusing a statesman for a prophet? But I agree with your overall assessment about mutual assured destruction.
If we look at Clinton's tactics objectively one thing is clear. It's about 2012.
The point is that the people are being mobilized and educated to at least try to act in their own interest. That in of itself is a blow against Nulan's boys and girls wit de "invisible hand".
David Brooks assertion that the Obama campaign has an emergent, open-source flavor should be taken with an immense grain of salt. That said, the threat posed by the Obama enterprise to the bi-cameral status quo represented by Clinton and McCain more than warrants support of his candidacy.
I just wish that people knew in far greater technical detail exactly what it is that they're rooting for, instead of just the rorschach projection of what they think they see....,
Yeah, if obama loses the nomination no way i'm voting. I mean lets be real here, on foreign policy Hills and McCain aren't really all that far apart. If McCain wins I get to save a few thousand on my tax bill...
Oh lord, I'm actually agreeing with something coming out of Mike Fisher's mouth! If she wins, I'll just have to vote for Nader hopefully it won't come to that.
I can't believe all the togetherness this Obama campaign is fostering. I mean I could understand white folks in Iowa voting for Obama, and I can see how all those people of different backgrounds coming together at the Obama rallies might be feeling the spirit of cooperationlike never before.
But when I see DV and Mike Fisher engaged in a mutual internet hug-athon, well let's just say, I become more inclined to believe in the second coming of the Lord than ever before.
Then I wake up and realize y'all is really trippin. Go with CNu on this one.
DV, I got some anti-plantation shit for you.
Rally around this:
1. The electorate spoke in 2000 and 2004, but by various well documented methods, the electorate was effectively disenfranchised. You didn't raise up then and you don't have the balls to do it now.
2. This government is much more about class than race at this point. The haves vs the have-nots is the prime struggle. The racial division that still exists is exploited to the ends of the haves. And even knowing this, you still fall prey to the same old tricks time and time again.
3. The "unity" expressed in the mass appeal of the Obama campaign is laudable, but regrettably that unity is being directed at a patently empty goal. The office of POTUS is only as powerful as the man in the chair is willing to make it. Do you actually expect Obama to pull a George W. Bush and roll with the unitary executive theory? That's the only way he's likely to get any real change accomplished.
4. Mrs Clinton is a non-factor in this historic moment. She is now and always has been a surrogate for Bill and the Democratic party machine. Addressing Hillary is akin to applying Neosporin to cure Cancer; completely and totally off the mark.
5. We call on all the candidates to denounce the current two party system as corrupt and no longer responsive to the will of the people, or at a minimum to honestly confirm that our representative republic is far less 'democratic" than we have been led to believe.
6. Hollow and hypocritical are appellations that should be applied to all campaign rhetoric.
7. We will not survive continued support and acquiescence to a governing system that has been totally corrupted by financial interests whose agenda is inimical to the interests of the vast majority of the world's population. We have been led to believe, quite erroneously, that the current system is the best possible compromise and the only system the majority of people will accept. We are bombarded with irrational reasoning like we must vote because our ancestors fought and died for the right, when they actually fought and died for freedom and a better world for their progeny that we still do not truly enjoy. We are all but incapable of imagining, much less fashioning a better solution until we acknowledge that the old ways of governing and managing the world have outlived whatever usefulness they may have once had. Much more is at stake than simply the hollow exercise of an increasingly irrelevant right to participate in the electoral process.
Pass this on if you dare. Be prepared to be roundly ridiculed, ostracized, and perhaps even violently attacked for having the unmitigated gall to speak the truth and exercise an Exodus Mentality.
Free Your Mind And The Rest Will Follow.
Dwight...
"But when I see DV and Mike Fisher engaged in a mutual internet hug-athon, well let's just say, I become more inclined to believe in the second coming of the Lord than ever before."
LOL
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