TUESDAY
hello world, i took these quotes from a webite called
is barack obama the messiah which basically postulates
in spite of its satirical intent that barack obamas candidacy represents a spiritual movement
they spoofing him but you see my translation
under a sidebar called heretics and nonbelievers, it has a piece by glen ford over at black agenda report, who is stridently antiobama
got that radical purity thing going and missing
out on the frontline of struggle today
and all i can think is there but for
the grace of maturity in struggle go i
this qoute is from an daily news column by stanley crouch
rare that me and stanley on the same side of any issue
if barack has helped transcend old verities there is
that - me and stanley both believe in the power of the blues to purify:
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Opponents want to dismiss that optimism as "false hope" because they think - or pretend to think - that Barack Obama represents no more than a charismatic political slogan that has even less value than one of the worthless products brilliantly hawked around the clock throughout our media.
Barack Obama is actually a bluesman from Chicago whose big stage is not in a nightclub or a concert hall but the huge national podium on which politics are argued. Obama knows that the blues always present the unvarnished problem and provide a solution through the rhythms and tones of engagement. It is, as the writer Albert Murray has observed, a music of confrontation, and is presented in what amounts to a purification ritual
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the latest from the clinton campaign is that obama is stealing lines
spare me, clinton uses his lines, so does mccain - is that stealing
when hillary say she fired up and ready to go is that stealing
no thats respect, obama got it from some south carolina organizer
he spose to give her credit everytime he use it
what kind of speech that be
as a oral tradition person myself, i can tell you that aint stealing
but the charge is indicative of the way the clintons fight
they have come up with all kinds of negative campaign strategies and this is
just the latest - but ima tell you the only one in this campaign who hadnt
pandered and adjusted his rhetoric to follow polls and others is obama
clinton changes her rhetoric and promises according to weekly polls it seems
and so has the straight talk express guy, the only one who has been consistent
has been obama - the only one who sincerely believes what he has to say
(as much as a politician can sincerely anything)
and their charge that he is a talker, not a doer is belied by his campaign
hes outorganized them on every front and built a juggernaut of a campaign
we would like to see that kind of competence brought to the presidency - based on her campaigns chaos and blowing her early lead im not seeing evidence of this day 1 competence she keep talking about
and as for her experience, would you let the wife of a brain surgeon cut your head open cause she been
the wife of a brain surgeon x years - i dont think so - her experience is about the senatorial equivalent
of obamas - and when she says im tested and ready, she means tested fighting dirty w/republicans, not
tested running the country, and quite frankly we're tired of fighting dirty, or we ought to be
is that the only way we can win this, fighting dirty, if so what have we won - thats the
way bush and cheney feel, like guantanamo and torture are okay if the cause is just
look where that attitude got us
and the same kind of sleezy campaign strategies weve seen coming out of the clinton camp
is the same way that they will conduct themselves as president, kinda underhanded
do we really want to go back to all that, or rather stay in all that bush/clinton drama
are we really so afraid of taking a chance on a better way
that we willing to endure more of the politics of personal destruction the clintons so
embody - if hillary wins i will probably vote for her but i will not be a happy democrat
it will be like america is still not ready to move on
from what has become a national nightmare
like we no longer believe the dream of an america that could be is possible -
the clintons want to denigrate vision but w/o vision the people will perish
well hillary been tested by the republicans, obama been tested by the clintons
and if he cant handle clintons he wont be able to handle republican sleeze either
hopefully he can maintain his basic vision of
getting beyond all that but best he be able to
work w/both hands
personally im ready to
turn the page
im outta here
buried in the mfa admission process
300 applicants, 2 stories per applicant
we choose 6, its intense
all my love
rdoc
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