taking it back with barack jack

TUESDAY; e - day

man i dont know what to do with myself or rootsblog today
i suspect barack gon take it home but i want it done

what i will be looking for is that senate 60
give him a chance to show his moves

im sorry his granma died before she could see it happen
this campaign just gets more and more mythical by the day

A New Kind of Pride - Eugene Robinson, Indianapolis Star
What Will Be Left of the GOP? - Paul Krugman, New York Times
What Makes a President Great? - Steve Coll, The New Yorker
The End of Roves Dream - Dan Froomkin, WashPost
McCain is on the Verge of a Defeat That Marks the End of the Republican Era - Sidney Blumenthal, The Guardian

allow me to quote from that one:

"Almost every aspect of the Republican ascendancy has been discredited and lies in tatters - its policies, politics, and even its version of patriotism. . . .

"Now, certain factors that have dominated US politics for 40 years seem destined to recede to the far corners. In economics, supply-side panaceas and deregulation created the worst crisis since the Great Depression, requiring a conservative Republican administration to part-nationalise banks, something unimaginable under any Democratic administration. In foreign policy, neoconservatism led to the morass in Iraq and Afghanistan while undermining the western alliance. In social policy, the evangelical right battered science, the separation of church and state, and the right to privacy. Finally, the conservative principle of limited government has become a watchword for incompetence, cronyism, corruption, hypocrisy, and contempt for the rule of law."

one can only hope  -  dave malosh turned me onto this scholars and rogues site article
What Makes Obama Black  - Jim Rotholz, Scholars and Rogues - found another while i was there
Obama's Victory and its Consequences, for the US and the GOP - Scholars and Rogues

What We Know About Obama - Stanley Kurtz, National Review Online

now this one i really like, the conservative pundits are all in a tizzy bout what this means
a lot of questioning about which way the repubs will turn, will they assess themselves

or decide they havent been rightwing enuf, krugman say the rump party will be even more so

this guy talks about how much obama playing the community organizer role on a larger
stage and he makes it an accusation while i for one think its a wonderful thing

i gotta go, hate that i got to schoolhouse today but such is life

i will be back, you can bet on that, this is a special day

rdoc

MONDAY

The New Mainstream - Orlando Patterson, Newsweek
Sudan, Battle On Two Fronts - Sky Wheeler Juba, All Africa
Protect This Election - Andrew Gumbel, The Nation
Bush-O-Crats Burrow In - Daniel Schulman, Mother Jones
Scramble for Africa: Darfur Intervention and the USA - Kevin Funk/Steven Fake, Foreign Policy in Focus
Ballots vs Bullets in Kenya and Zimbabwe - Briggs Bomba, Foreign Policy in Focus
The Opening Obama Saw - E.J. Dionne, Washington Post
Guess Who is Coming to Dinner - Frank Rich, NYTImes

still dont know what im doing w/this tech, probably some of these i would have used to generate commentary
that one about bullets and ballot in kenya was interesting, the darfur and intervention, the bush o crats

man you know bush laying mine fields for obama - iraq, bailout, politicized government, late regs, et al
but im so confident that obama gon be able to handle it, im confident obama got this

frank richs piece not as pointed as some of his previous but he still my
boy, might be i object to that guess who coming to dinner frame

finally drafted that piece on race in the south for the oxford american
its going to be an interesting piece, got till january to deliver it so it will be

sharp by the time im through with it, need it to be profound cause my name
gon be on it and its a profound subject, only time i do pieces for mags, etc

is when folk ask me to, cause otherwise its all going to novel and personal projects
so i dont get published a lot and my name aint out there like i like, so when i do something

for the public (and the paycheck) its got to be sharp, let folk
know what they missing, little promotion of the real thing

speaking of which i got to go, i been clocking pages all morning, got about 12 so
far redpen - which means its already a good day but i want to do more

i will get back on this later, give you something more focused

all my love, im gone

rdoc

SUNDAY

3 days before election somebody leaks that baracks half aunt is an illegal alien
is this the best october surprise the republicans can come up with - try again you

incompetent bastards - forgive my language but this is beyond pitiful

as are reports that a 13 year old girl was stoned to death in somalia for adultery

this stoning was the response of the kismayo militia when she reported that she had been raped - WTF

she was killed in a stadium before 1000 people, when some attendees tried to rescue her they were fired upon and a 12 year old boy killed

what kind of world these people trying to impose on africa

some folk say give somalia to the islamists, say its the only way to stablilize somalia

i believe i said it myself here on rootsblog, even i can be wrong

god deliver us from fundamentalists of all persuasion

palin types or islamists, rickydoc declare war on them all

i will be a ruthless with them as they are with the world

rdoc

Obama's Winning Argument - Joe Conason, Salon
Why Obama-McCain Race Deserves 'Historic' Label Carolyn Lochhead, San Francisco Chronicle
Obama's Victory Would Transcend Politics Kevin OBrian Chang, Jamaica Gleaner
Black Voters Warm to Politics Susan Saulny, NYTimes
Four Big Questions of the Presidential Election: Peter Wallstein and Janet Hooks, LA Times

SATURDAY

rod jackman dropped this one on me, this for the swing voters
takes a little time to load: patience puppy, its worth it

for the aurally challenged here the lyrics:

Hate to see the nation being run by a hack
Dig the situation that he dug in Iraq
Half the population wants to give him the sack
And now he’s lookin’ round for somebody else to attack
We need somebody great to get us back on the track

So we’re takin’ it back with Barack, Jack!

Choo Choo, Change to believe in
Woo woo, we can achieve it
Choo Choo, Change to believe in
Takin’ it back with Barack, Jack!

Now that global warming is a matter of fact
The only real question is just how to react
The new administration needs the guts to enact
Drastic legislation, leave the planet intact
We can’t be foolin’ round with some Republican Mac

So we’re takin’ it back with Barack, Jack!

Choo Choo….

He only gets his money from your regular macks
Doesn’t take a penny from some whackity PAC’s
For bringin’ folk together he’s the man with the knack
And he’ll supply the hope and inspiration we lack
Cause he’s the best we got and did I ….mention he’s black?

So we’re takin’ it back with Barack, Jack!

Comments

[BuffaloSoldier]

BuffaloSoldier salutes the The Negro Leagues. Al quada's supposedly crude
but calculated comments have brought the usual suspects out of the woodwork. They obviously think their opinion matters to an organization
that just finished a two day battle with the British. Stanley Crouch, (Daily News, 11-24-08) marked the occasion by demonizing, trivilizing,
and marginalizing the meaning of Malcolm X. Others used "American Negro"
language to comdem the al quada leader's message. Stanley and others,
this is a general desperate to rally his troops. My Mom always used to
say the Devil's job is to paint red the face of an angel. Obama only looks
good to the enemy as a renegade Muslim. That's the danger for Obama, being
so much to so many. Black to BlackAmericans, Immigrant son to the
LatinCommunity, Patriotic grandson of WorldWarTwo soldier to Midwesterners,
Christian to the unwashed masses, and finally, because of his name, Muslim
to the MiddleEast. FROM PRISON CAMPS AND SLAVERY THIS BLACK MAN CAME TO BE. I'm BuffaloSoldier and I approve this message.