she didnt self immolate, which is what i was hoping, she slip, she slide, she got away
no big thing, so its back to the trenches, i always expect struggle to be trench warfare, i wouldnt trust a gift if you gave it to me
it was clear she was out of her league, but not clear enuf to tear away conservative support - about what i expected
but old boy joe biden put in a stellar performance didnt he
in fact he could have been a little rougher on her, challenged her a little more but he was clearly on lockdown, i know he had a hard time not touching the general mcclellan bit (who is that)
and ive had enuf of that fake folksy you betcha, what i do thats folksy, that other thing thats theater, george bush was folksy enuf thank you mam
so i didnt get what i wanted but i came away satisfied, joe biden held the line and we clearly won on substance, final analysis always got to go with substance
by the way that student i said chose sarah as a change agent upon follow up question "do you think it will work, if not why" said:
"i absolutely do not think this woman belongs anywhere near the presidential office her religious views and asinine policies will only cause problems"
now thats what im talking about rickydoc dont have no lame students
rickydoc dont play that, way to go meridith
okay, one more: excavators have found a bowl on which they believe is the earliest reference to christ it says DIA CHRSTOU O GOISTAIS which the excavation team translate as
christ the magician
as he was apparently perceived in the early days (you could call this holy grail if you so inclined)
that jesus was considered a magician is not news to me, high magicians have always recognize jesus a fellow traveler
pretty good at what he do
rdoc
THURSDAY
hello world, old boy just barely hanging on, dont have time for this post just feel like i should, last one was tuesday morning
tueswedthurs its just straight up schoolhouse cause i should have prepped for class that weekend
but i take the weekend so its crunchcity during the week
didnt do no work this weekend, burning thru palf and manuscripts - got to clear my decks of obligations
when i throw down on this redpen i dont want any distractions gon get thru these manuscripts and my palf obligations this weekend
get started on my critical redpen, if i get thru this 1 i have a novel
8 years now on the real side i been working this novel
20 if you count starts and stops, hardcore since about 2000 its hard to believe i got so little to show for it
okay this aint your concern, im feeling a little under the gun one of my 1st year forum students today said when the
questions of blogs came up, nobody reads anybodys else blogs and she said it with authority, class kind of agreed with her
and i had to acknowledge myself, i dont read the blogs i enjoy blackpotmojo, rawdawg, prometheus6, bookerrising, blackagendareport et al
who got the time, i go by every once in awhile, see if they still there take a quick look, see if they said anything worth stealing lately
who got the time for more than that, i do my daily newscan, nyt, washpost, googlenews, latimes, wsj, timemag, newsweek - basically in that order and hopefully i didnt get obsessed with some trail
that has led into the thicket of the internet, googlenews good for that, i can either do my obligatory daily newscan in a disciplined manner or spend half a productive day, who got time for ofp
other folks blogs
so im real appreciative of my little 100 a day, sometime i get jealous of those 1000s a day sites and then i think of how many billions of blogs there must be out there and
im satisfied with getting enuf play to stay in the literary game, 21st century stylee
i appreciate it dear regulators, ima always do my best for you
okay a couple of quickies and its back to manuscripts (not pages lord) interesting article here about mccains strategy lately if you can call it that
say the only chance they got are these disruptive moves that shake it up say you can expect more of them, say mccain as recently reported is a gambler
"ima a betting man" mccain say, i bet you are, but the question is do we want a gambling man for president
each move bring him shorterm gain but longterm it leave him looking flaky look to me like he the one dont know the difference between tactics and a strategy
you can see that in the steady downward pressure on his numbers lord knows i shouldnt bring up numbers but numbers different for a politician
and a visionary
so much riding on this debate tonight, i am concerned that biden will blow it cause he not a disciplined mack, i hesitate to call him a mack at all
all palin got to do is not blow it, like bush in his debate against kerry, came out of it without mangling his sentences and folk called it a win
we need a mangle from her, need it desperately, if we dont get it, no problem its back to the trenches and the trenches is where we belong anyway
cause its all on the groundgame now, early voting has already started, i plan to do absentee myself cause i dont want no adversity keep me away from the polls
somehow on nov 2nd, aint gon leave that one up to god, im taking steps on this one lord
but a good mangle will give us some breathing room
had ishmael baeh for a shared reading at syracuse, i gave my students an assignment, write a save the world manifesto, in the discussion after we were talking about all the different approaches they took
one of the axis was changing individuals and shaping policy instruments, we had already agreed that difficult to change the world thru individuals but often all the regular person could do, change one person
and youve changed the world, but sigificant change is more difficult i gave them a quiz to make sure they had read each others works
i knew i shouldnt but 1 question was what change agent was in the news lately and asked about that changes agents tech in terms of indiv influence and policy
was gon use subsequent discussion to explore his frustration with affecting one person, one community as a community organizer
and how that lead to trying to be a policy insturment to achieve more significant and lasting change i wasnt even thinking overtly political, thought it was a great way to illustrate the point, a teaching moment
bonnie told me i shouldnt but i was fired up and willing to take the hit
of course the discussion did not go in the direction i intended, some students chose obama some diplomatically chose both presidents, one said
sarah mccain was the most significant change agent in america
and all i could do was sit there and accept that w/the same grace i accepted other positions
it was kinda funny but kinda eye opening, palin god i hope she mangles something, sooner or later she gon
get her footing, other political dummies have done it i just hope its too late for this election
i was in my office preparing for class when i heard fellow facutly members in the hall arranging to watch the debate together because they say they afraid to watch it alone in case biden stumble
i fell out laughing, i thought that was so cute i understand, i feel you
may the ancestrals who truly love what america could be watch over us tonight
i had something else to say but ive wandered afield and dont recall now
i got to go, i got to get thru these manucripts lord, got to clear my decks
rickydoc got to throw down
whether palin and what she represent win or not, whether obama pull it off or not
win or lose i got to keep my hoodoo perspective
win or love i got to be dong my part
to make a better world
all my love
rdoc
TUESDAY
i think will i am produced it, this zoe kravitz, daughter of lisa and lenny:
palin preparing for that debate, epectations so low she might slide like bush did
she went back to couric with mccain riding herd on her this time, i would put that interview
up but this snl one is much better
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdDqSvJ6aHc
so, the house voted the bailout bill down, im conflicted
i will accept that the economy needs something but i wouldnt
trust bush and his with a discretionary nickel, they ranked me
when they came out talking about 700 billion with no insight and
its got to be done by friday or else, well friday has come and gone
and aint been no else, and the loopholes in the rewritten bill could
have let wall street bull thru without much help for regular folk
who are expected to fend for themselves whatever happens to wall street
bush has just cried wolf too many times
as cover for rapacious power grabs, not inclined to give him benefit of the doubt
im concerned but conflicted, i suspect if i check my retirement account
im runniing low, but i dont retire for 10 years or so, it will be fixed by then
unless we fool enuf to elect mccain palin, either way im hunkering down
either way its going to be rough and you best pinch your pennies children, pinch them till they hurt
america is about to pay the price for living beyond its means
me and mine bracing for the hammer
colored folk use to finessing the hammer, least oldtime colored folk was
dont know about this new post colored batch, guess we will see
what they made of, struggle aint nothing but a hump
rdoc
SUNDAY
some speculation mccain/palin pushing daughters boyfriend to marry her before the election in shotgun marriage as november surprise hailmary
surely they dont think the american voter would fall for such
most surely they do and surely they might
obama not depending on the good sense of the american voter, he hoping on it but he depending on a good ground game,
two traditionally underrepresented constituencies, blacks and young voters, been registering in record numbers,
that dont mean they will turn out
the black vote is historicallyvunderrepresented but this remind me of the voting rights campaign and what we went thru in the apartheid south to get the vote
how i vote every election to honor the dues we paid as a people
not only do we have to ensure the black vote turnout for obama but we somehow have to leverage the moment so it becomes the watershed moment the 60s civil/voting rights campaign was for my generation
so those numbers come out in force forever informed and engaged
winning this election come november thats the shortgame, the longgame is
turning the black vote into a gatekeeper voting block that engages every election whether they got a champion in it or not
then you will see more champions more policy influence, more power
its unlikely, life just dont work neat like that but that dont mean we dont try, win or lose we
move the board
you know what tickle me, i know obama know that cause that boy a player, that boy do longgame real sweet
it tickle me to see him treat this election like its some ramped up community organizing project, tickle me whenever i get one of those corny hello arthur emails
you go boy, play on
one son to the other
a luta continua
rdoc
SATURDAY
this is who mccain wants to put a heartbeat away form the presidency the couric interview of sarah palin trying to explain her foreign policy creds
this country facing some of the most serious challenges ever the economy has tanked, america under the gun all over the world
okay, so mccain throws a monkey wrench into negotiations which may be for the best, i dont much care for the plan myself
feel like mccain and the house republicans setting up some sort of mccain coup we will have to see how it plays out, but too much politics on it will turn americans
off on this one, folks against it and bush aint convince nobody w/his weak mackology
as for the debate:
“With new polls showing his campaign dead in the water among
California Republicans, Arizona Sen. John McCain has pulled out of a
long-scheduled debate with Texas Gov. George Bush, set for Thursday in
Los Angeles. ”
--San Francisco Chronicle, Monday, February 28, 2000
---------------- didnt work then, wont work now
i know i know, i used doc snake yesterday didnt i but the good dcotor speak to me
i got a couple of days, have finished rebuild on rest - ima try to redpen it again
redpen is i print out the manucript (i read better hardcopy) sit down w/a redpen - or blue, green
purple - i like doing different sessions in different colors cause it look pretty) and read thru rewriting
the 1st redpen i actually get thru is a brutal process of bleeding all over the page
but at the end of that 1st redpen ive got my real draft, from that point its just polish
problem is you start redpenning you get halfway in and find structural problems
then its back to the drawing board, last redpen i attempted was about two months ago,
last couple of months been cleaning up structurals, so lets try it again, dont really expect to get
thru, im willing to bet ima find structural problems but im sure going to try to forcemarch thru
gon stonewall all these student manuscripts and take fri & sat poss sunday for my novel
went to see juno diaz last night, he spoke here at syracuse, kinda interesting because juno
used to teach here and left not under the best conditions, must have felt good coming back w/a
pulitzer under his belt, he gave a reall strong presentation and talked about the 10 year span it
took him to write oscar wao, talked about how you had to have the courage of your literary convictions
and now be susceptible to the external pressures and give your book whatever it take
when juno was here we were the ones working on forever novels and it really meant a lot to me
when he finally finished his and got acclaim and putlizer for it, it was like okay rick, juno did it you can
too, then he talked all that literary courage at the presentation and im liked fired up and ready to go
but later at the house he told me that mit had jacked him up and forced him to do it cause of tenure
and like some reformed junkie out to clean up the rest of the world he start jacking me up talking about
just close it down and call it a deal and bonnie susceptible to this argument you know and he real
insistent about it and im feeling kinda under the gun and had to tell him you got to back up off me on this
man, told him i might have been more susceptible if he had jacked me up before he gave his manifesto
on literary courage, start dropping his own words on him - if it take me 10 years to do the next one thats
what it take - he had laid out some wonderful mackology at the presentation, talked about how he had
to write 200 (his count) versions before he hit on the write one, and he had to be wiling to walk into
uncharted territory to come up with something new and fresh and be impervious to external pressures,
it took me a couple of years just to get comfortable with this language im using, this colored mackology i be trying out here in rootsblog, this the voice of my novel, i be using rootsblog to trialrun, work out the kinks but i struggld with it years before i accept it as my rest voice, years i try to force rest into conventional narrative strategies but the novel wont accept being told in no other way with licks so strange i cant judge them but am forced to accept on faith cause novel just wont tell no other way
so i just got to make it work, i do not accept failure in this regard
juno say he could probably do another novel real quick if all he want to do is reprise oscar wao but he gon want to stretch and i felt that in my soul, i remember some years ago as in maybe 2 when i realize i was just rewriting another good loving blues and i couldnt do that, this novel saying something different and so i had to sitdown and refocus it and that cost me a couple more years
i got segments, my historical one for instance, that i thought to invest a couple of months into that turned into investments in the case of the historical section of about 4 years, actually a novel in a novel, a story in a story - it cost me years
and i still fear this novel doesnt and never will be the wondrous tale i have in my head to tell, i just really have reached that point in a work where its like okay, time to close it down
but that aint like a switch where you just stop and its done, that mean okay we driving toward closure here, whatever aint been said aint going to be said with this one, polish this bad boy off take what i get
but at the same time there is my mentor, john o killens, the great griot master of brooklyn,
i followed john killens from school to school for 13 years (sometime that amaze to this day) i was his chief acolyte and went to workshop every sat for 13 years as john grew older and finally died and there are certain precepts of john that have been burned into my literary soul because he said them over and
over and over with total conviction of life experience as a literary visionary
i remember when he told me i was a brilliant writer but with a little compassion i would be profound
i been trying ever since i figured that out to manifest the compassion of o klllens in every thing i do
i remember john used to tell us a writers name is sacred, that you never sell your name
i remember johns constant rejoinder for us to be long distance runners, long game players
i remember how much john considered literature a sacred calling, being a writer meant something to john killens
he passed that sense of literary responsibility on to us, he taught us to be literary visionaries
i remember his generosity to young students, he gave so much to pass it on, i can do no less
i have so internalized john o kllens precepts on what it mean to be a writer that they guide me to this day
and one thing i remember he used to tell us is that all future generations will have is your work, they wont
care that you were pressed for time, for money, for tenure, for nothing, all they will have is your work,
john o made us to understand you better leave something worthy of the struggle, that you give your work
whatever it take, john o made us understand that the 1s thing you must learn as a writer is patience,
that is if you would be a writer of historical stature and significance, if you would be a voice of destiny,
if you would as as penda aiken once said, move a novel from bad to good to great
juno basically say the same thing last night, course he say it like the dominican mackologist
he is and im sorry they didnt tape it, even though i know as he saying it some of it presentation it
was damn good presentation and presentation count when you a mack, the boy mackdown last night
hadnt seen juno in years and he was still juno but he a mature juno now and sharp as ever
and his presentation spoke to me, made me that much more assured im on the right
track but i got to be on it to justify my stubbornness in this matter, i want a moneydraft by the
end of the year do or die,
fri and sat im taking for sure, sun i might have to give to palf, depend on how much i get done tomorrow
and day after, okay forgive me, the minutiae of production, my apologies cause i know this a personal,
its just where my mind is at my mind my heart and my soul
all my love
rdoc
THURSDAY
im probably my biggest fan, i think im so good it amaze me the world dont was just reading over my latest posts and im thinking i wish
i was getting paid for what i do, i put as much time in as any columnist my mack just as strong - it perplex me sometime why life treat me so hard
only thing speak in my favor is i got no gatekeepers, nobody to please
but you dear regulators, i like that freedom of movement i guess say what i want and how i want to say it - i like that, i like that a lot
and i feel like im in tune with my literary times, anything that force words for my legacy im down with that, it dont cost me a lot to do this, i just sit down and
start typing and usually something interesting come out words that have value and perhaps historical/destinical substance
that kind of time investiture i can live with that
ima delta mack - got to mack to live
okay some quick commentary, got to prep my 330 class - so what do you think about this campaign suspension, smell like another hail mary pass by john mccain to me
numbers start falling and he suspend his campaign say he want to delay the debate (and palins by the way)
goes back to dc to inject presidential politics into an already toxic mix then when it becomes clear just how much of a bungle this move is
bush pull him out of the fire by calling leaders to whitehouse (at mccains request) otherwise mccain would have been just standing there looking like a fool
he is not even part of the committee considering this rules say he cant even be in the room
this is a transparent even clumsy stunt and will be ridiculed as such, also show that him and his hug buddy bush working as a team, need to spotlight that
then mccain diss letterman, canceled out on him then show up at courics joint, letterman diss back
WEDNESDAY
as expected, economic meltdown increasing obamas numbers
white w/o college education favor mccain by 17 points, whites w/college ed favor obama by 9%
(rootsblog management has no comment on these number, well maybe one comment, it has been made abundantly clear that we have to educate whitefolk)
palins unfavorable numbers have risen from 28% to 38% and she is still being shielded from press (becoming obvious even to whites w/o college ed)
palins support among independent women dropped 65 to 43%
84% of obamas say fervent, 46% of mccain (was 50 50)
tied among men, whitevoters 50% mccain 45% obama
african american voters 96% to 3% (ima let you guess who got what)
50 50 white women but black womens 90 something put him ahead w/women
independent 53 obama 39 mccain (reversing mccain lead after repub conv)
who do you trust on the economy: obama 53% mccain 39% (whoat planet they been on)
shift toward obama on iraq, foreign policy and who can be trusted to deal with major crises
among 'economy voters' obama leads 2 to 1 these some good numbers dont you think
numbers that dont support my case im not interested in but right now numbers across the board looking good
im outta here, mcarthur awards broke my heart again, how is it they keep missing me
show some love
rdoc
TUESDAY EVENING
the more the bailout terms become known the more problematic they become
stocked with passage like this one:
“Decisions by the Secretary pursuant to the authority of this Act are
non-reviewable and committed to agency discretion, and may not be
reviewed by any court of law or any administrative agency,”
they expect us to give bush and cheney and their operatives total power beyond any precedent
review or control of any court of law or agency
“The Secretary is authorized to take such actions as the Secretary
deems necessary to carry out the authorities in this act without regard to
any other provision of law regarding public contracts.”
this is breathtaking, they must think we fools, absolute fools, worthy of nothing but contempt
“Any funds expended for actions authorized by this Act,
including the payment of administrative expenses, shall be deemed
appropriated at the time of such expenditure.”
they must be kidding me, we aint talking millions or billions, we takling trillions here
they can do whatever they want to do, with no recourse if we dont approve
they must think we forgot how quickly iraq became a giveaway to war profiters (an all purpose disaster)
they must think we forgot how quickly the medicaid bill became a welfare program for big pharma
how quickly the patriot act became a violation of civil liberties and breeder of the imperial presidency
how all of these were sold as too urgent for measured review, trust us
last time they sold a bill as too urgent for review we got iraq - we got the patriot act
how many times we gon fall for bush okeydoke #1
they aint never done nothing that wasnt about the imperial presidency and taking care of the rich
they aint never cared about governing, they let a whole city die cause of bad weather
once again bush shows his disdain for governing in favor of using a crises to forward his ridiculous agendas - hasnt he done enuf damage
agendas and a disdain for governing that has left us in most perilous circumstance
then we got the financial companies lining up to manage the trillions to be spent fixing their own mess - their latest proposal
is that other bad paper be included and a threat that they will reject any federal offer they consider too low - well aint that nothing
reject this whydont you
emperor say he dont need no stinking clothes
then we got the congressional democrats focused on mortgages and ceo salariies
instead of facing down a constitutional power grab of bodacious proportion
focus people please, work with me, i cant do this by myself
obama in a tactical bid for party leadership say he will approve it if 4 conditions met
taxpayer payback plan bipartisan oversight board making sure bailout doesnt become wall street payday help homeowners with trouble mortgages:
this the gist of his statement on it, this the good part:
Given that fact, the President's stubborn inflexibility is both
unacceptable and disturbingly familiar. This is not the time for
my-way-or-the-highway intransigence from anyone involved. It's not the
time for fear or panic. It's the time for resolve, responsibility, and
reasonableness.
And it is wholly unreasonable to expect that American taxpayers
would or should hand this Administration or any Administration a $700
billion blank check with absolutely no oversight or conditions when a
lack of oversight in Washington and on Wall Street is exactly what got
us into this mess.
Now that the American people are being called upon to finance this
solution, the American people have the right to certain protections and
assurances from Washington.
First, the plan must include protections to ensure that taxpayer
dollars are not used to further reward the bad behavior of
irresponsible CEOs on Wall Street. There has been talk that some CEOs
may refuse to cooperate with this plan if they have to forgo
multi-million-dollar salaries. I cannot imagine a position more
selfish and greedy at a time of national crisis. And I would like to
speak directly to those CEOs right now: Do not make that mistake. You
are stewards for workers and communities all across our country who
have put their trust in you. With the enormous rewards you have reaped
come responsibilities, and we expect and demand that you to live up to
them. This plan cannot be a welfare program for Wall Street
executives.
Second, the power to spend $700 billion of taxpayer money cannot be
left to the discretion of one man, no matter who he is or which party
he is from. I have great respect for Secretary Paulson, but he cannot
act alone. We should set up an independent board that includes some of
the most respected figures in our country, chosen by Democrats and
Republicans, to provide oversight and accountability at every step of
the way.
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it seem to be a done deal but i want some hard bargaining, dont want this to be no giveaway to wall street, i aint feeling that
its a shame the way bush cheney, mccain and palin and all their ilk treat us they act like the american people aint got a lick of sense, and too often they
seem to be right
my position is just say no
last 50 days of their administration they gon come up with this imperial power grab
and its so urgent they have to have it passed by friday or civilization
as we know it will fall
buck up democrats
buck the fuck up
im gone
rdoc
TUESDAY MORNING
hello world, ive discovered the lazy mans way of blogging, use other folks words, with attribution i might add, that wise piece obviously hit a nerve
wise did another piece addressed to white women but it basically says the same thing and that the only reason they would vote for mccain, a man that so embodies the antithesis of all they have struggled for is - right, you got it
but we dont want to make this about race do we, then obama lose for sure oxford american just ask me to do a piece on race in the south and it feels
like foreign territory to me, my race thoughts for some 20 years now have been how to advance blackfolk, not particularly concerned with race relations, thats another issue
one thoroughly connected to be sure, just not my turf
as a hoodooman and a cultural nationalist child of the black arts movement i started addressing myself to empowering blackfolks, to working their spirit, their culture, their souls a long time ago - i believe its on us to flip this script, to be stone cold achievers, to be exemplary in every way, then racism will take care of itself, got to force folk to respect us thru the quality of our game
like obama
but i will come up with something, obamas run has kinda raised the curtain off race in america okay so anyway, as i was saying, frank rich still my boy, did a hellvua column sunday on truthiness
but mareen dowd took the mackdaddy prize this week, a column written by aaron sorkin i think of president bartlet from westwing giving obama advice, edgame is obama asking how do he hit hard w/o being considered angry, elite or heaven forbid uppity
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OBAMA The problem is we can’t appear angry. Bush called us the angry left. Did you see anyone in Denver who was angry?
BARTLET
Well ... let me think. ...We went to war against the wrong country,
Osama bin Laden just celebrated his seventh anniversary of not being
caught either dead or alive, my family’s less safe than it was eight
years ago, we’ve lost trillions of dollars, millions of jobs, thousands
of lives and we lost an entire city due to bad weather. So, you know
... I’m a little angry.
OBAMA What would you do?
BARTLETGET ANGRIER!
Call them liars, because that’s what they are. Sarah Palin didn’t say
“thanks but no thanks” to the Bridge to Nowhere. She just said
“Thanks.” You were raised by a single mother on food stamps — where
does a guy with eight houses who was legacied into Annapolis get off
calling you an elitist? And by the way, if you do nothing else, take
that word back. Elite is a good word, it means well above average. I’d
ask them what their problem is with excellence. While you’re at it, I
want the word “patriot” back. McCain can say that the transcendent
issue of our time is the spread of Islamic fanaticism or he can choose
a running mate who doesn’t know the Bush doctrine from the Monroe
Doctrine, but he can’t do both at the same time and call it patriotic.
They have to lie — the truth isn’t their friend right now. Get angry.
Mock them mercilessly; they’ve earned it. McCain decried agents of
intolerance, then chose a running mate who had to ask if she was
allowed to ban books from a public library. It’s not bad enough she
thinks the planet Earth was created in six days 6,000 years ago
complete with a man, a woman and a talking snake, she wants schools to
teach the rest of our kids to deny geology, anthropology, archaeology
and common sense too? It’s not bad enough she’s forcing her own
daughter into a loveless marriage to a teenage hood, she wants the rest
of us to guide our daughters in that direction too? It’s not enough
that a woman shouldn’t have the right to choose, it should be the law
of the land that she has to carry and deliver her rapist’s baby too? I
don’t know whether or not Governor Palin has the tenacity of a pit
bull, but I know for sure she’s got the qualifications of one. And
you’re worried about seeming angry? You could eat their lunch, make
them cry and tell their mamas about it and God himself would call it
restrained. There are times when you are simply required to be impolite. There are times when condescension is called for!
OBAMA Good to get that off your chest?
BARTLET Am I keeping you from something?
OBAMA Well, it’s not as if I didn’t know all of that and it took you like 20 minutes to say.
BARTLET I know, I have a problem, but admitting it is the first step.
OBAMA What’s the second step?
BARTLET I don’t care.
OBAMA So what about hope? Chuck it for outrage and put-downs?
BARTLET
No. You’re elite, you can do both. Four weeks ago you had the best week
of your campaign, followed — granted, inexplicably — by the worst week
of your campaign. And you’re still in a statistical dead heat. You’re a
47-year-old black man with a foreign-sounding name who went to Harvard
and thinks devotion to your country and lapel pins aren’t the same
thing and you’re in a statistical tie with a war hero and a Cinemax
heroine. To these aged eyes, Senator, that’s what progress looks like.
You guys got four debates. Get out of my house and go back to work.
OBAMA
Wait, what is it you always used to say? When you hit a bump on the
show and your people were down and frustrated? You’d give them a pep
talk and then you’d always end it with something. What was it ...?
BARTLET “Break’s over.”
SUNDAY I THINK?
hello world
dont really have anything to say, just figure it was Wednesday i last posted numbers been going up, want to keep them that way
kinda working kinda not, putting hours in just not enuf of them, behind on manuscripts, got to focus on that one weekend, just burn thru them
all the laudatories coming out on davidfoster wallace have been moving, i have a radical idea, how about showing writers a little love while they living
okay, you came here for commentary, let me give you commentary - mbeki going down - shame how that went down, in spite of being an mbeki doubter i thought he deserved a little more respect than that, zuma faction played him hard
zimbabwe, still waiting, still trying to give that benefit of the doubt - just like the rest of th world
as for the big news of the day, the bailout, dont quite know what to say about it, instinctively against it, bailing out the banks, do they get to keep the ridiculous profits, salaries, bonuses, options et al they been raking up
or do they get to start all over on the next get ruthless rich scheme, whats the penalty, what new regulations set in place to insure this doesnt happen again with a different set of exotic instruments, a different playing field next time
and let me get this straight, we spose to give bushs treasury secretary unbridled power over trillions of dollars and the economy, the imperial presidency/vice presidency, politicized bush administration
i dont think so, whatever bush doing its a trick he aint never been serious about governing
and i am not willing to give him or his benefit of no doubt
paulson and bernake made a presentation to congress about it consisted of 9 pages that bush admin pushing to get done by friday or else they claim civilization as we know it will fall
ie another blank check for bush, remember the last time we gave him a blank check, a lot the same rhetoric, same playbook
i dont think so, no more blank checks for you buddy, sound too much like the okeydoke they brought to trick us into iraq
bailing out the bankers, giving more imperial powers to the bush administration - that have to be looked at w/all deliberate speed
been interesting to see de regulation republicans claiming biggest government failure/intervention since the depression, cute to hear mr de regulation mccain transformed somehow into a raging populist
they are signs all this face paint not working, the lipstick neither, im detecting i hope signs the fascination w/sarah palin starting to wear thin, depend now on how mccain and palin handle themselves
in the coming debates, whether they can maintain the illusion they are a viable option under the glare of the spotlight, whether they can sustain the okeydoke
dont even have to gaffe though that would be nice, just the exposure will help, which is why palin dont do interviews that havent been thoroughly vetted (unlike her own selection),
now todd say he will ignore the subpoenas too - what exactly was todd palin elected to, is enforcer a job definition that allows you to ignore the law
like cheney bush et al, do they get to determine which laws they will obey too, howcome they get to do what would land us in jail
is this the way they gon do government business
been there done that
yet and still in spite of all the factors working against the republicans i still fear racism will be decisive come november
this is a very unique moment, a unique political landscape
wasnt for bush and the republicans total loss of credibility neither obama nor hillary would have had a chance in hell, its only because of national weariness w/republicans
that a black democrat has the slightest chance of beating the mccain palin farce
the financial crises been an opportunity for the obama campaign, keeps the focus on whats real and what republican policies, shameless de regulation and unbridled support of the wealthy, have wrought
i like seeing them wiggle, i feel guilty about it cause i know folk suffering but it will be worth it to get entrenched republicans out of office
only way we will foil the assassins they have put in charge of regulatory agencies, whose primary responsibility is to kill the agencies they are supposed to head
i dont expect this bailout to do what it says its going to do, no more than that 600 check they sent us,
this move suppose to make the bankers loosen up credit, restore their shattered faith in the system by buying up their bad debts
we will see, they will probably just pocket it like i did that 600, that 600 did not change my newfound determination to cut back the inessential
times are going to be hard for awhile and everybody knows it bankers will stay bunkered and if you got any sense at all so will we
got to live within your means, stock away savings and prudent investments, help your family members get solvent, hunker down children, the rootdoctor call for defense
the easy credit party is over and probably for the best it was an illlusion and you know what the old rootdoctor
think about illusion
the pendulum has swung and concentration on the fundamentals is required, position yourself for the comeback
hello world, now you know me, i like to think ima champion, not no victim and i shy away from addressing myself explicitly to pointing out whitefolks peculiarities
however this white privilege blast been getting around, bonnie forwarded it from black anthropology list
its been getting around
one darlene gray post it w/o attribution on newsweek stumper article on palins falling favorability numbers
true author seem to be tim wise, author of white like me and speaking treason fluently
kinda unethical not to attribute it, whoever wrote it its good to go: ima account it whole:
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For those who still can't grasp the concept of white privilege, or who are
constantly looking for some easy-to-understand examples of it, perhaps this
list will help.
White privilege is when you can get pregnant at seventeen like Bristol Palin
and everyone is quick to insist that your life and that of your family is a
personal matter, and that no one has a right to judge you or your parents,
because 'every family has challenges,' even as black and Latino families
with similar 'challenges' are regularly typified as irresponsible,
pathological and arbiters of social decay.
White privilege is when you can call yourself a '***' redneck,' like
Bristol Palin's boyfriend does, and talk about how if anyone messes with
you, you'll 'kick their ***' ass,' and talk about how you like to 'shoot
***' for fun, and still be viewed as a responsible, all-American boy (and a
great son-in-law to be) rather than a thug.
White privilege is when you can attend four different colleges in six years
like Sarah Palin did (one of which you basically failed out of, then
returned to after making up some coursework at a community college), and no
one questions your intelligence or commitment to achievement, whereas a
person of color who did this would be viewed as unfit for college, and
probably someone who only got in in the first place because of affirmative
action.
White privilege is when you can claim that being mayor of a town smaller
than most medium-sized colleges, and then Governor of a state with about the
same number of people as the lower fifth of the island of Manhattan, makes
you ready to potentially be president, and people don't all piss on
themselves with laughter, while being a black U.S. Senator, two-term state
Senator, and constitutional law scholar, means you're 'untested.'
White privilege is being able to say that you support the words 'under God'
in the pledge of allegiance because 'if it was good enough for the founding
fathers, it's good enough for me,' and not be immediately disqualified from
holding office--since, after all, the pledge was written in the late 1800s
and the 'under God' part wasn't added until the 1950s--while believing that
reading accused criminals and terrorists their rights (because, ya know, the
Constitution, which you used to teach at a prestigious law school requires
it), is a dangerous and silly idea only supported by mushy liberals.
White privilege is being able to be a gun enthusiast and not make people
immediately scared of you. White privilege is being able to have a husband
who was a member of an extremist political party that wants your state to
secede from the Union, and whose motto was 'Alaska first,' and no one
questions your patriotism or that of your family, while if you're black and
your spouse merely fails to come to a 9/11 memorial so she can be home with
her kids on the first day of school, people immediately think she's being
disrespectful.
White privilege is being able to make fun of community organizers and the
work they do--like, among other things, fight for the right of women to
vote, or for civil rights, or the 8-hour workday, or an end to child
labor--and people think you're being pithy and tough, but if you merely
question the experience of a small town mayor and 18-month governor with no
foreign policy expertise beyond a class she took in college--you're somehow
being mean, or even sexist.
White privilege is being able to convince white women who don't even agree
with you on any substantive issue to vote for you and your running mate
anyway, because all of a sudden your presence on the ticket has inspired
confidence in these same white women, and made them give your party a
'second look.'
White privilege is being able to fire people who didn't support your
political campaigns and not be accused of abusing your power or being a
typical politician who engages in favoritism, while being black and merely
knowing some folks from the old-line political machines in Chicago means you
must be corrupt.
White privilege is being able to attend churches over the years whose
pastors say that people who voted for John Kerry or merely criticize George
W. Bush are going to hell, and that the U.S. is an explicitly Christian
nation and the job of Christians is to bring Christian theological
principles into government, and who bring in speakers who say the conflict
in the Middle East is God's punishment on Jews for rejecting Jesus, and
everyone can still think you're just a good church-going Christian, but if
you're black and friends with a black pastor who has noted (as have Colin
Powell and the U.S. Department of Defense) that terrorist attacks are often
the result of U.S. foreign policy and who talks about the history of racism
and its effect on black people, you're an extremist who probably hates
America.
White privilege is not knowing what the Bush Doctrine is when asked by a
reporter, and then people get angry at the reporter for asking you such a
'trick question,' while being black and merely refusing to give one-word
answers to the queries of Bill O'Reilly means you're dodging the question,
or trying to seem overly intellectual and nuanced.
White privilege is being able to claim your experience as a POW has anything
at all to do with your fitness for president, while being black and
experiencing racism is, as Sarah Palin has referred to it, a 'light' burden.
And finally, white privilege is the only thing that could possibly allow
someone to become president when he has voted with George W. Bush 90 percent
of the time, even as unemployment is skyrocketing, people are losing their
homes, inflation is rising, and the U.S. is increasingly isolated from world
opinion, just because white voters aren't sure about that whole 'change'
thing. Ya know, it's just too vague and ill-defined, unlike, say, four more
years of the same, which is very concrete and certain.
first the mccain campaign claimed that mccain was responsible for the invention of the blackberry
they tried to back up off that one with the quickness but the damage was done
then mccain flack fionna carly was asked if sarah palin was qualified to run a major corporation
in a moment of candor and probably stunned that anybody could consider such a thing she said no,
she tried to back up off it with the quickness but the damage was done
times hard like this we take what we can get
obama using the wallstreet meltdown to bring the focus back to the economy
who is trying to back off years of supporting finanacial deregulations but the damage is done
we take what we can get
but this financial meltdown is a direct result of republican adversity to regulation of business in
any shape form or fashion, chain him to deregulation with an anchor, let him go down
with lehman, merrill, aig and bush - he doesnt have a clue - and tell palin to take her folksy fixing back to anchorage, and take her folksy buddy bush with her, been there done that, still paying the cost
we aint taking that
rdoc
MONDAY
like i say i dont want to obsess over mccain or palin, they not worth noveltime, but i am encouraged
by the press' willingness to call mccain out lately for playing them so shamelessly, and as for
palin, im encouraged there too, let me do my part to repeat/amplify some of the strikes arrayed against her:
husband is subpoenaed for troopergate, seems he was part of her administration, unelected enforcer
won her office by introducing divisive hardright politics into what had been a smalltown affair
once in used her office to punish those who hadnt supported her, and places cronys in office (sound familiar)
fired pubic safety director when he wouldnt fire her ex brother in law (but you knew that one didnt you)
turns out she didnt go to iraq after all, she went to the kuwait/iraq border, they are now revising that lie
same secrecy/subversion agenda cheney employs, staff uses personal emails for gov business so wont leave official records
foreign policy claim seems to be she lives across bering straight, i can see russia from island in alaska she say - okay
i will play with this one more during the day, right now i got to clock some pages
in struggle
rdoc
SUNDAY
hello world, just sat down to do todays shift, started checking my news and 1st thing i run up on is that david foster wallace has killed himself hung himself at 46 and at the top of his literary game
man that perplex me, why would he do that, he had everything im looking for, literary acclaim and respect
a masterwork under his belt, ima have to digest this one raise questions about life and blessings
the nature of satisfaction the value of serenity
i like to think as a hoodoo practitioner that serenity is my forte, like to think im good at calming troubled souls
of all my skilz it is soul doctor i pride myself most capable of bringing rest to the weary
but i have not been able to assuage my sisters grief at the loss of her son and i am often not able to help folk i want most to help
i have often wondered when its time for me to go will i go fighting or at peace, i am by nature a fighter but i dont know i want to hold on desperately when its time to go
there are times when im feeling like im tired and ready to rest, there are times when i feel like ive blown this life, id like to start all over please - but suicide, i aint feeling that
ultimately i judge it a personal and you have to accept when somebody chose it but suicide you wonder what kind of pain they been carrying -
once read that a writer is judged by their worst work while they live, their best when they dead- death is not necessarily the end for a writer - just another phase
in the eternal search for work that will live forever
was unable to read infinite jest, those
1000 page doorstoppers strike me as indulgent and precocious but david foster wallace one of the literary giants of our times, one of the few folk on this planet i respect
and it hurt me personal to see him check out like that, 46 years old
ima get a little work done today in honor of david foster wallace: the infinite jester may you find the peace you were searching for, may the gods of literature be good to you
on perhaps a lighter note perhaps not my boy jackman pleased w/recent accord in zimbabwe ask what the mbeki haters gon say now, i suspect he account me one
mbeki hater i am not, mbeki doubter maybe, i have been disappointed in mbekis stewardship mostly his response to aids and zimbabwe, other than that got nothing against him myself
in fact backed mbeki over zuma who come off kinda clownish sometime to be so deftly riding a wave of popular discontent to power - he concern me but i hope he can grow into the role
now if you calling me a mugabe hater, i might have to plead guilty on that it is an abomination when venal leaders cloak themselves in struggle
rickydoc dont approve
but i too am hoping this accord play out, i am concerned its shaky, true that, not clear how presidential powers will be allocated and this council/cabinet system sound shaky to me
but the co presidency move seem to have worked in kenya so far, i will reserve judgment - but win or lose im not much concerned how it affect mbeki
or mugabe for that matter, i do care about zimbabwe, my chillen have suffered enuf
its like mugabe has suicided zimbabwe - or would that be considered murder
hello world, after all those wolftickets i sold yesterday i aint going in no trenches, who got time for trenches
until this novel done i aint taking on no campaigns, none, whatever discretionary time i can beg borrow or steal got to go to this novel
boy obama gon have to pull this one off w/o me
i will do what i can when i can
been a longtime since i had to do gruntwork back in the 60s i was s straight up trooper
round about the 80s im a lieutenant in killens kommandos, spent the me 90s a footlose mercenary, and lately fieldgrade officer in allens africana corp
been strategos for rickydocs regulators for about 10 years now i just dont do gruntwork, i give instructions, that dont mean i dont
work hard, i just aint been called to gruntwork in years (well, days at least)
but its only 60 days rick, surely the world wont fall apart if you refocus for 60 days, we will see
after all those wolftickets yesterday it behoove me to follow thru but the most important game in all the world to me is still my novel
rest for the weary
i suspect this will be a quandary
as for the wolftickets, dont know what it is about me when i get to macking i just dont know when to quit
all my love
rdoc
THURSDAY 11 AM
you know what im thinking, im thinking i might have to go to the trenches who got time for the trenches, ive gon to the trenches before, starting to
feel like thats what called for now, posting on rootsblog thats costeffective i can always find time for an occasional post, but the trenches, thats a commitment
not only of time but you opening yourself to abuse, being buked and scorned, i hate being buked and scorned, all that abrasion of my deflection shields
rootsblog i dont have to put up with that, i say what i want to say and go on about my business
for instance i should go onto black agenda report and start posting there mount a spirited defense of obama there and i would pick up a
couple of believers, couple of voters, couple of activists, maybe neutralize that campaign they running against him and elevate they game in general
o but the abuse
i need to do comments on media blog like the washposts fix et al, do op eds and listserves, been on mybarack.com since i been donating, need to find their blog, i know they got one
start laying strategics on them, reactivaterootsletter mailinglist, been thinking about that anyway get aggressive about entering the dialogue, looking for people to play, roots to work, avenues to influence
i know how to do the trenches
i just dont wanna, i aint got time for no trenches god help me im already swimming underwater
but boy obama do seem to be in trouble dont he america seem to be in trouble - the whole world
i been trying to help him on the cheap, money and some rather fine if i do say so rootsblog posts
but rootsblog so longgame armchair work, my favorite
what i call myself doing is inculcating a longgame perspective, a strategic posture into my players and activists, my warrior clans, into the culture and its influentials
thats you dear regulators
i would you all be masters of strategy
the key that opens all locks
those that see come get a little something something occasionally, keep their game sharp aint a lot of them but im comfortable with that, by definition the best of the best
aint spose to be a lot of them god dont work like that
over the years we both grow in the game and before its over, give me a good 10 years or so and i will have trained a generation of players in the longgame - im comfortable with that
but rootsblog such a passive orchestration, so minimum maintenance, i got to get busy, mount some initiatives, ohwell, one good thing about the trenches,
it gets your name out there, builds your infrastructure, your power network
liable to pick up a couple of new regulators seed an institution or two
ima toss it around a little bit, cause god
help me it will cost me noveltime
but i believe ol trickmaster gon have
to go to battle, cant you hear the warhorn calling
and in my mythic heart of hearts
let it be said he was a warrior born
word by trickmaster
wouldbe prophet of
the hoodoo way
THURSDAY
hello world, hope things okay w/you
dont have anything real to say, just felt like i should do a post on sept 11 cause im feeling real serious about america these days what with this election
and the potential of mccain palin pulling it off
mccain palin, its a nightmare
its like when folk shrugged after the supreme court gave the election to bush , decided it didnt really matter
but it was because bush in charge on sept 11, what could have been an opportunity to unite the world
became a politicalized authoritarian government, a blood bath in iraq, a farce in afghanistan, cheney, an economic meltdown, the imperial presidency and god knows what else
having bush in charge on sept 11
was a tragedy
now folk talking about giving the presidency to mccain and god help us palin if mccain falter - i just dont know what to do, i can call her out on the okeydoke but for my readership thats
preaching to the choir, i guess just keep chipping away,
i can comment on the ongoing battle to define her but im reluctant to spend noveltime on what feel like inessential commentary, it offend me to spend worktime obsessing over palin or mccain
i expect revelations but i dont know they will be enuf, she got that teflon apron on
im banking on the debates and the ground game, im banking on her charm wearing thin with the american people as she become more well known
i can only hope the press is not intimidated as they were w/bush, with iraq, as they have been so many times when the repubs get to bashing them, get to playing them
team mccain obviously think she ready for the public finally, she doing her 1st media interview in a couple of days, she been prepped and primed to the nine, i dont foresee
no major stumbling, no game changing, its been a pretty adept rollout, this will be a major challenge to obamas political skilz and i can only hope he is up to the test
that lipstick comment was an invitation to target practice
o i got to go, im woefully behind, didnt work yesterday, schoolhouse took it all, should take it all today, its 5am now, 3 hours novelwork would be 8, domestics about 2, say i
get to work about 10, class at 330, that give me about 5 hours to critique 2 stories at about 30 pages of manuscript, thats cutting it little tight, mean my critique wont be as thorough as i would it be,
mean 3 hours of performance anxiety in front of a tough audience - undergrads - should have read these stories days ago but im in a crises mode here, doing what i can when i can
i had my grads give me manuscripts of their mature stories so i can get a better idea of their body of work their aesthetics and aspirations - good idea but the reading load is killing me - averaging 2 manuscripts a week here
i got to keep my own novel going no matter what the load, and god help me i just cant miss 2 days straight, not 2 days in a row lord, either way ima be zombie tired at the end of the day
i got to muscle thru
or should i get straight to manuscripts, 8 hours prep mean i get thru class with my honor and my rep intact
inadequate class prep is a curse either way im gone
ima big fan of op ed commentators, i love them dearly but im like some serial monogamist, one at a time
little while back krugman was my boy but that economic slant sometime bore me and i didnt like the potshots he took at obama during the primary, hes okay but i dont love him like i used to
my favorite columnist these days is frank rich, every sunday its the highlight of my sunday reading i save him till very last, and this sunday he came thru like the trooper he is - a viable and effective attack on mccain palin - i was green w/envy
i once upon a time loved bob herbert, but then decide bob too soft and moved on but his saturday column made me a little just a little teary eyed proud and ima account it whole
a shoutout to my warrior children where my warriors at:
Ignorance must really be bliss. How else, over so many years, could the G.O.P. get away with ridiculing all things liberal?
Troglodytes on the right are no respecters of reality. They say the
most absurd things and hardly anyone calls them on it. Evolution? Don’t
you believe it. Global warming? A figment of the liberal imagination.
Liberals
have been so cowed by the pummeling they’ve taken from the right that
they’ve tried to shed their own identity, calling themselves everything
but liberal and hoping to pass conservative muster by presenting
themselves as hyper-religious and lifelong lovers of rifles, handguns,
whatever.
So there was Hillary Clinton, of all people, sponsoring
legislation to ban flag-burning; and Barack Obama, who once opposed the
death penalty, morphing into someone who not only supports it, but
supports it in cases that don’t even involve a homicide.
Anyway,
the Republicans were back at it last week at their convention. Mitt
Romney wasn’t content to insist that he personally knows that “liberals
don’t have a clue.” He complained loudly that the federal government
right now is too liberal.
“We need change, all right,” he said. “Change from a liberal Washington to a conservative Washington.”
Why
liberals don’t stand up to this garbage, I don’t know. Without the
extraordinary contribution of liberals — from the mightiest presidents
to the most unheralded protesters and organizers — the United States
would be a much, much worse place than it is today.
There would
be absolutely no chance that a Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton or Sarah
Palin could make a credible run for the highest offices in the land.
Conservatives would never have allowed it.
Civil rights? Women’s
rights? Liberals went to the mat for them time and again against ugly,
vicious and sometimes murderous opposition. They should be forever
proud.
The liberals who didn’t have a clue gave us Social
Security and unemployment insurance, both of which were contained in
the original Social Security Act. Most conservatives despised the very
idea of this assistance to struggling Americans. Republicans hated
Social Security, but most were afraid to give full throat to their
opposition in public at the height of the Depression.
“In the
procedural motions that preceded final passage,” wrote historian Jean
Edward Smith in his biography, “FDR,” “House Republicans voted almost
unanimously against Social Security. But when the final up-or-down vote
came on April 19 [1935], fewer than half were prepared to go on record
against.”
Liberals who didn’t have a clue gave us Medicare and
Medicaid. Quick, how many of you (or your loved ones) are benefiting
mightily from these programs, even as we speak. The idea that
Republicans are proud of Ronald Reagan, who saw Medicare as “the
advance wave of socialism,” while Democrats are ashamed of Lyndon
Johnson, whose legislative genius made this wonderful, life-saving
concept real, is insane.
When Johnson signed the Medicare bill
into law in the presence of Harry Truman in 1965, he said: “No longer
will older Americans be denied the healing miracle of modern medicine.”
Reagan,
on the other hand, according to Johnson biographer Robert Dallek,
“predicted that Medicare would compel Americans to spend their ‘sunset
years telling our children and our children’s children what it was like
in America when men were free.’ ”
Scary.
Without the many
great and noble deeds of liberals over the past six or seven decades,
America would hardly be recognizable to today’s young people. Liberals
(including liberal Republicans, who have since been mostly drummed out
of the party) ended legalized racial segregation and gender
discrimination.
Humiliation imposed by custom and enforced by
government had been the order of the day for blacks and women before
men and women of good will and liberal persuasion stepped up their long
(and not yet ended) campaign to change things. Liberals gave this
country Head Start and legal services and the food stamp program. They
fought for cleaner air (there was a time when you could barely see Los
Angeles) and cleaner water (there were rivers in America that actually
caught fire).
Liberals. Your food is safer because of them, and
so are your children’s clothing and toys. Your workplace is safer. Your
ability (or that of your children or grandchildren) to go to college is
manifestly easier.
It would take volumes to adequately cover the
enhancements to the quality of American lives and the greatness of
American society that have been wrought by people whose politics were
unabashedly liberal. It is a track record that deserves to be
celebrated, not ridiculed or scorned.
Self-hatred is a terrible thing. Just ask that arch-conservative Clarence Thomas.
god help me i went back to bed and now i got to go to the office and wade thru manuscripts w/the quickness now im behind novel and manuscripts, thats when it get ugly, schoolhouse got me humping yall
forgive me, dear regulators, feel like i let you down but the weary just had to get a little rest
such is life
WEDNESDAY 3:47am
trying to decide if i should do my 3 hours or just get straight to schoolwork i got a pile of manuscripts yea high to work thru, but if i dont do my days pages i will
feel bad all day, best do my 3, keep the desperation at bay
everyday the same old old grind, some writer once said
i love being a writer, its the paperwork i cant stand
speaking of desperation surely the gods the ancestors have
some great mission in mind for haiti
why else would they be tempered so thru fire and storm and history
this season its back to back hurricanes and 100s dead
i been hoping the voodoos would be up to the task of guiding
haiti to a greater destiny - but apparently they still too oldschool
rickydoc might have to take a hand
got my hands full trying to take care of my own tribe, but haitis troubles
just break my little hoodoo heart, i suspect ima have to put it on my long list of things to do
organizing voodoos even more challenging than organizing hoodoos, artists and cats
at least hoodoos flexible practioners, anymethod anytime practitioners, atr folk think they already know it all
let me get this straight, the republican position is that the repbulicans have made a mess of government lets throw the bums out
so we can send some more republicans in to clean up the mess those other republicans made
i believe i got that right
mccains position is im going to be post partisan soon as i win this election by going low as i can flow
i believe i got that right
and sarah palin further extreme right than bush or mccain
i believe i got that right -
only republicans could find or want a female cheney
so alex, got me a 3 yesterday, going for a 6 today (yeah right) so whats your count dawg - when it come to production
alex yates (3rd year fiction) is a beast, bring to mind that saying:
every dog has its day, but its the bulldog get the weekend
life love and lit
and a bag of chips
rdoc
THURSDAY
okay, she didnt stumble, so much for the magic bullet its back in the trenches, i was hoping for a slam dunk
but in the realworld its always the trenches, step by step inch by inch, its the dailygrind that win
we lost ground last night,a new contender has entered the fray - we raised some issues but barring new revelations and/or stumbles theyve gotten her thru
cool, one just knuckle down, struggle aint never come easy,
my tubman theme has kept me focused on the longgame, i been tempted to use contemporary images this week but harriet keep it in context
like the conductor say: only one way to go and thats forward
now matter how intense the moment you got to stay focused on the longgame - leveraging your moves - thinking ahead
and you never let the passions of the moment throw you off your game
also ima use this as inspiration to get some work done today, otherwise i will have the blues,
getting a little work done is always good for setbacks in the realworld
cant control what happens in the realworld like you can your fictional one, your magical one
im my world in my america the republican agenda wouldnt have a chance they had a good time spewing contempt for community organizing last night didnt they
its indicative of the choice we facing indicative of the stakes - americas soul
ohwell, we will all do what we can, the weak point is still mccain, the embrace of rightwing extremism
this choice entail will energize his base but surely that is a shrinking base and hopefully mccain will be forced
to continue to pander to his base and alienate regular folk and she is still vulnerable on the issues, we will chip away at her
step by step and inch by inch - there is a flatearth extremist hiding under that charm
and we gon put a spotlight on it before we wake up one morning to a flatearth president
win or lose she a national force now and the world just got a little rougher
my numbers have spiked lately, im not gon get excited, theyve spiked before, you
often perplex me dear regulators
btw: do i get a vote on that billion for georgias military - i guess not
class is at 330 and it is now 9:09, a 3 hr shift will put me in at 12:30, i can do that
i can do that
rdoc
WEDNESDAY
the republicans pushing hard on this palin thing
like everybody else i been floundering trying to find an angle of attack
that dont allow them to claim she being persecuted
this will be a delicate maneuver
cause she got to be attacked, not her personal but what the republicans trying to do with her
we got to call them on it, point out discrepancies to folk on the fence
we know she gon get up there tonight and speak untruth,
they gon be the right words, they all know how to say the right words
but it will be untruth
we cannot allow the okeydoke this time, not this election, cannot allow it
hopefully there will be more revelations, hopefully she will stumble but we cant depend on political fortune
let barack stay above the fray, rest of us got to rumble
mccain call himself being slick but he likely dont realize just how extremist she is, imagine her as president, all too likely with mccain
really think about it it give you pause
the republicans think they can finesse bush, iraq and the economy with this move - and lord help us they just might
then again, they might not
what they got to do now is get the press (and democrats) to back off, they got to intimidate the press, classic repubs under pressure tactic
so check out the okeydoke, all the republicans on message right, how dare you treat her so this is what peggy noonan got to say in the wsj, slavishly following the partyline:
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“Because she jumbles up so many cultural categories, because she is
a feminist not in the Yale Gender Studies sense but the How Do I Reload
This Thang way, because she is a woman who in style, history, moxie and
femininity is exactly like a normal American feminist and not an
Abstract Theory feminist; because she wears makeup and heels and eats
mooseburgers and is Alaska Tough, as Time magazine put it; because she
is conservative, and pro-2nd Amendment and pro-life; and because
conservatives can smell this sort of thing — who is really one of them
and who is not — and will fight to the death for one of their
beleaguered own; because of all of this she is a real and present
danger to the American left, and to the Obama candidacy. She could become a transformative political presence. So they are going to have to kill her, and kill her quick. And it’s going to be brutal. It’s already getting there.”
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but this live mike account in nytimes the caucus lay out what they really think:
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ST. PAUL — Two prominent Republicans — one of them a close ally and
former aide to Senator John McCain — were caught on a live mic on MSNBC
bemoaning the selection of Gov. Sarah Palin and the controversy
surrounding her.
Mike Murphy, who worked on Senator McCain’s campaign in 2000 but
declined to join this year’s, citing tensions with top campaign staff
members, can be heard in near-anguish talking about the fallout from
her candidacy. “I come out of the blue, swing-state governor world,
Engler, Whitman, Thompson, Mitt Romney,” he said. But the McCain
campaign just decided to run with Palin, he said, adding “It’s not
going to work.”
Peggy Noonan, speechwriter for Ronald Reagan and columnist, interjects: “It’s over.”
Asked whether Ms. Palin is really the most qualified, Ms. Noonan
responds rather incredulously, “The most qualified? No. I think they
went for the — excuse me — political (expletive) about narratives. …
Every time the Republicans do that, because that’s not where they live
and that’s not what they’re good at, they blow it.”
Mr. Murphy then dives in with a rejoinder: “The greatest thing about McCain is no cynicism and this is cynical.”
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a farce, all this heat on the media to back off thats a farce too
mccain 72 and they treating the presidency with the same contempt and cronyism they have brought to the justice dept
and homeland security and everything they touch and we wonder why things are falling apart
they have no shame and they do not really care
about america
they have asked a flatearth extremist to be 1 beat away from the presidency creationism, succession, turning back the clock on gender and i suspect civil rights
extremism, geobullyism, impulse wars, supreme court judges, pampering the rich and abusing regular folk, privatizing social security, sanctioning official torture, the politicalization of government
and on and on and aon, everything we hope to put behind us with the end of bushs tenure - possibly taken to a newlevel by a flatearth extremist
o its showtime
it aint even about obama no more, its showtime we standing at the crossroad
gambling with americas soul
rdoc
TUESDAY 10PM
regarding palin, the focus has moved to mccains vetting process, cool, its a safer line of attack, less blowback, and we dont have to bring her down necessarily, we got to bring mccain down
and already the republicans are trying to bogart the media into backing off - straight out of the okeydoke playbook
i feel like harriet tubman, only direction i know if forward, aint no turning back
the republicans are not going to okeydoke this election, not if i have anything to say about it
i sent off money to the obama campaign a couple of days ago, ima send them a little something something when i can
about to send some money to moveon.org
what the hell might as well give some to color of change too,
maybe even give some to black agenda report,
i dont hold with that oldschool hardleft approach but i believe in their sincerity
time and focus i do not have to spare money i can give
money dont mean a lot to me, got an artists attitude toward money
might as well start trying to leverage it politically thats a sign of a cultures maturity isnt it
but i believe i will hold off on black agenda report till after the election, they trying to bring obama
down too, cant support that they pushing mckinney, a good person
but only role she can play in 2008 is spoiler cant support that, not here not now
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