Ok.. call me concern troll.. or watever you would like to call me.. but I hope senator Obama dissuades himself from appearing like an elitist. Mocking americans will not take you very far senator. I hope you learn that lesson earlier than later. We have done more with just our English language as mode of communication than any other country has achieved over past century. dont tell us what we have to do.. and please dont fall into this trap of being an alitist.. I totally understand your "exotic" upbringing and your supersmart acumen and applaud you for that. But please dont lose this election by making rookie mistakes. dont make americans look inferior to Europeans, especially French.

this election is not about you senator, this election is about civil liberties which have been stomped over by bush administration, this election is about womens right to choose, this election is about supreme court which is just one vote away from turning ultra conservative.. this election is about our soldiers who are sacrificing their lifes for purpose of satisfying bush's and cheneys ego.. this election is about affordable healthcare for every man, woman and child of the country.. this election is about compassionate immigration reform.. so much rests on your shoulder senator.. please dont call fellow americans ignorant or inferior compared to either mexicans or europeans.. we have done more as a country than what they could all do as a continent..

now go on and start bashing this concern troll!

Now that Iraq's PM is demanding a US pull out time table it would be interesting to see how Sen McCain and the Bushes spin this after years of saying If Iraq wanted us to leave we will leave... intriguing. Since PM Nuri al-Maliki is now calling what appears to be Bushes, the repugs and McSame's bluff.  Sit back and enjoy peeps...

McCain, Obama at odds over Iraqi withdrawal demand

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5icMg 7uJLrzdcOx0lcwi9lv2TA9LQ

WASHINGTON (AFP) -- Iraq's hardening demand for a pullout deadline for US troops on Tuesday sent shockwaves through the White House campaign, putting Republican hopeful John McCain on the defensive.
McCain, who says it is too early to leave Iraq, said US pull-backs must be dictated by security conditions, after Democrat Barack Obama said the Iraqi government now shared his desire for a timetable for withdrawals.
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said on Monday that Iraq was seeking such an arrangement in talks with Washington on the future US force structure in the country.

Adam Serwer of the National Public Broadcasting System (PBS) has written an important piece of afrosphere history about Black bloggers demands to be included in the state blog corps that will cover  the 2008 Democratic National Convention.  He quoted or cited and linked a number of members of the afrosphere, including L.N. Rock (African American Political Pundit), Pam Spaulding (PamsHouseBlend), Gina McCauley (What About Our Daughters?), Oliver Willis, Liza Sabater (of Culture Kitchen) and the Francis L. Holland Blog.

One aspect of the article I found very interesting was the juxtaposition between the Black bloggers demanding inclusion and the opinion of Markos C.A. Moulitsas Zúñiga, asserting that we are not included because we don't deserve to be included:

Markos Moulitsas Zuniga, who founded the popular liberal blog DailyKos, rebuffs bloggers who allege the meeting deliberately excluded bloggers of color, describing the blogosphere as "about as close to a meritocracy as you can get," adding "while there are accomplished bloggers of color in the netroots ... too many bloggers are quick to use their sex or race to demand access that they may not necessarily merit based on what they've built." Moulitsas, who is Latino, declined an invitation to the Clinton meeting.  PBS.ORG

This portends a struggle that will become increasingly obvious to Black bloggers and to the mainstream white media, between Black blogs and our readers demanding our inclusion, while white bloggers like big (white) dog of the whitosphere, Moulitsas Zúñiga, offer excuse after excuse why Blacks need not and should not be included at all.

This will play itself out at the Democratic National Convention as well as in the staffing of the Obama campaign and the Obama Administration that will be inaugurated next January.  Are Blacks to be excluded because whites are better than us (according to white criteria as applied by white judges),  or are Blacks to be included because we are 20% of the Democratic Party, we aare more loyal Democrats than are whites, and we refuse to allow ourselves to excluded?

Remember my definition of the "white male supremacy paradigm":

White male supremacy is the conviction that white males, no matter how much and how often they fail, are still inherently superior to women and Blacks, no matter how much and how often we succeed.

More than half of whites voted for Bush in 2000 and 2004, while 90% of Blacks voted against him.  So all of the whiteroots new-media "progressive" liberal  efforts to convince the white public are trying desperately to achieve half the level of commitment to the Democratic Party that Blacks have maintained consistently at least since 1968.  White progressives fail over and over again, and yet they think they have achieved more than Blacks have.

 

What happened to Jerome Armstrong and Natasha Chart?  Haven't seen anything from Natasha in quite some time; we could use less water-carrying on the front page.

Articles titled "Obama Donors Aren't Rushing to Aid Clinton" to be published in tomorrow's New York Times are probably not too helpful to the cause of unity at this time.  I have no idea why one of Obama's donors, who wished to remain anonymous, decided to show some snoopy NYT reporter the e-mails he had received in response to his plea to other Obama donors that they help Hillary with her debt.  Read the article yourself:
http://nytimes.com/2008/07/09/us/politic s/09debt.html

So, Obama donors have only coughed up around $100,000, excluding pledge amounts, to Hillary's debt.  I thought that the number would be around $500,000 by now but then again, there's a lot of juicy stuff in the article, probably by people with an axe to grind because none of these people should be disclosing these details to some scumbag reporter looking for a story.

Donors from both sides should probably learn how to shut up and keep their inner bitterness to themselves rather than expressing it to the press; they should take a page from their respective candidates.  Obama donors should ask themselves what more do they want out of Hillary Clinton and Clinton donors should probably ask themselves what more do they want Obama to do about her debt, considering that he has to raise money for himself at the same time.  

Everyone says its common for the winner to help out the runner-usp with their debt; I'd like someone to find out how much John McCain has helped out Rudy Guiliani or Mitt Romney with their debt.

because we all need a break.

because we all need to have fun.

because we all need to smile.

because we all need to laugh.

because we all need to cry.

because the world is big.

because the world is small.

because sometimes we just need to just say fuck it, and dance.

Christian Defense Coalition: Are you **** serious? Readers, Admins, please pardon my language. I'm so upset at these rightwing loony crazies right now. I'm dumbfounded at the hate of these folks. Are these folks part of our dear country? Do they live in 21st Century? I'm sorry but can't say much. Isn't there a law against these hateful websites? I'm not linking up their hate site but linking the news that came out on the ABC weblog. Didn't McCain promise that his side would be doing a new campaign? No matter what the Republicans Conservative rightwing nutcases would have to preach racist hatred hiding behind the oft repeated slander against abortion....Next i'm expecting gay marriage, gun control et al..typical rightwing hate trash with overt and sublimal racist contents. Please read on if you care to know that these folks still exist in this country.

The Christian Defense Coalition held their anti-Obama press conference today -- "An Appeal to Catholics Regarding the 2008 Presidential Election" -- complete with the "I want you to pay for abortions" Obama-as-Uncle-Sam picture we told you about Monday as well as some other interesting material.

Such as: this image of slavery, invoked in the CDC's literature to argue that there is nothing wrong with Catholics being "single issue" voters on abortion.

Argues the CDC: "if that issue involves a fundamental right, such as the right to life for a certain group of human beings, and there is only one morally legitimate position on that issue...no faithful Catholic would vote for a candidate who, although 'personally opposed to slavery,' supported 'a white man's right to choose' to own slaves."

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/ 2008/07/conservative-ch.html

Are you angry, upset, tired of this racist bullshit rearing its head over and over during election cycle and wanna make a change? I say Do Something..Take our Country Back!!!!

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I wrote about this as a comment in another diary that was deleted. The past week I been here on Mydd I watched a herd of really immature bloggers ranting away at any and all who have opposing views. You have painted everyone with the same broad brush and have inundated their diaries with foul comments, mockery and childish images.

You have in effect become the very trolls you call the other diarist. Answer trolls is what you have subjected yourselves to be now. Stop and think, if you do not comment in their diaries they won't have a crowd to rile up. Simply send the admins a private email about a particular diary.  The more you dance for them the more they will come out of the wood work and keep posting their anti Obama diaries. Do not mistake policy driven oppostion as anti Obama.

I'm appalled to see the level of immaturity here and wonder how you conduct yourself in real life and in your jobs.  You can slap each other on the back for stooping to the level of the very diarist you love to complain about.

I challenge you to go one week of ignoring a dairy that you find troublesome. Just turn the page on it. Do you think the small band of people who post such diaries are going to change anyone's mind? I ask you-- do you see anyone among you dropping and rolling into McCain's camp over any opposing view diaries. Or do you have such an egotistical view of yourself that you think your misbehavior and immaturity is actually going to convince people to alter their views of opposition.

What do you think you are achieving by behaving like spoilt brats?

In my eyes you are bringing down the caliber of bloggers and reputation of MyDD.  I ask you to think,ignore and turn the page. Don't be an answer troll anymore. I really hope you can atlest give a few seconds to think about what you have become online.

This new McCain ad is very powerful and therefore very scary.

Opposition research:

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They're trying to make this a culture war election as they successfully have many times before (68, 72, 80, 84, 88, 00, 04). At this point, I'm more for Obama than many of the Kool Aid kidz, as I see all of his FISA, campaign finance reneg, etc., as the old politics Obama's been successfully playing all along. I always felt 'politics is politics,' and I took the "I'll change the culture of Washington" with a grain of salt, so Obama's current moves don't dampen my wish for a Democratic president.

But I'm struck by the irony of how all of the 'change we can believe in' and 'yes we can' worked on [a minority of] Dems but he'll need more than that to beat McCain nationally. Unfortunately.

I think he'll win, but it's going to be close.