*Shakes head.* Reality apparently also has a well-known Obama bias.

EDIT: Just making it clear that I didn't come up with the following 7 points. I had intended to, but the following commenter saved me the trouble:)
This commenter came up with several facts that I'd just been about to go find out myself

(1)Between 1975 and 2006, 18 women were elected as governors. 28 in total in the history of the US

(2)There have been two black governors in United States history. see here

(3) As of 2001, 31 women had been elected as U.S. Senators.

(4) There have been five black Senators in history, and only three since Reconstruction.

(6) Approximately 56% of the Democratic electorate this primary season has been female.

(7) Approximately 15% of the Ohio electorate said that race was an "important consideration" in voting for Hillary Clinton.


And yet, somehow, Obama is lucky because he is black

Uh-huh. Let us refresh your memory a bit


Is it just me, or are second wave feminists intending to piss off WOC feminists permanently? And of all the people to lob this charge: The woman who was chosen to run for VP because she was a woman!

Here, have some sense (courtesy debunkingwhite  .) And don't worry, the writer is white, so he knows what he's talking about, unlike those uppity negroes.

Uh-Obama:Racism and the myth of white voters

and

Another Batch of White Whine:Obama, Black Voters and the Myth of Reverse Racism

Oops. Its a him. And men are by definition sexist when they don't support Sen. Clinton. Oh well.

Of Democratic Hypocrites

Talk about irony. Dear Gov. Spitzer, resign. Please. Go away. Now. Of all the hypocrites, running about talking women's rights and high moral conduct while running around with call girls whom you apparently treated abominably...when will guys realise that ALL women deserve to be treated well, regardless of whether you can pay them for sex or not?! If you despise them, then why the fuck do you have sex with them? And when, oh when will politicians realize that they must walk the talk? Especially if you are not a Republican. Where Republicans are concerned, only being caught in bed with a boy will count. And we ALL know that ...*cough David Vitter cough* So seriously. Resign. And I hope that your wife, poor soul, takes you for everything that you've got. Hypocrite.

Of interest:

The Republican Nemesis

by James Kroeger



November, 2004

When historians look back on the current era in American politics it will likely stand out as the period when Republican cunning & marketing savvy completely dominated the political landscape. Obliging Democrats have thrown themselves into the fray with enthusiasm, armed with idealistic visions of civil “discourse”, only to be humbled repeatedly by their political masters. Republican strategists have been able to blend their astute grasp of marketing principles & human nature & social psychology into a formula that delivers almost guaranteed success at the polls. While Democrats knock themselves out every election cycle trying to talk to Swing Voters about The Issues, Republicans have calmly focused their attention on winning THE Image Campaign. Quite simply: Democrats lose because they don’t understand what moves their target audience.

The Issues might actually be important to many Swing Voters early on in a political campaign, but when both sides start to pick apart each other’s facts & interpretations, the typical Swing Voter quickly becomes confused. As the debate over The Issues drags on, Swing Voters realize that they don’t understand the details well enough to make an informed decision, so they end up relying on their impressions of the candidates. Republican strategists see this clearly. That is why they continuously try to create doubts in the minds of the Swing Voters about the character of the Democratic candidate. They know that it doesn’t really matter if they can’t find any real flaws in their Democratic opponents. Accusations, insinuations, & innuendo will work just fine. They hope to encourage voters to question the motivation and dependability of The Democrats. They try to create the perception that Democrats are “defective” in a disturbing way. By accusing, the Republicans suggest to Swing Voters that they are not [defective like the Democrats]. What was the non-existent “defect” in John Kerry’s character that Republicans alerted Swing Voters to this year? They claimed that he was an indecisive and shallow “flip-flopper.”

( Read more... )

Hold up! Stop right there. SAY WHUT???

Apparently, there's a whole boatload of questions that come with the revelation that Elliot Spitzer was running around with Prostitutes. Read on...


there is a second tier of questions that needs to be examined with respect to the Spitzer case. They go to prosecutorial motivation and direction. Note that this prosecution was managed with staffers from the Public Integrity Section at the Department of Justice. This section is now at the center of a major scandal concerning politically directed prosecutions. During the Bush Administration, his Justice Department has opened 5.6 cases against Democrats for every one involving a Republican. Beyond this, a number of the cases seem to have been tied closely to election cycles. Indeed, a study of the cases out of Alabama shows clearly that even cases opened against Republicans are in fact only part of a broader pattern of going after Democrats. So here are the rather amazing facts that surface in the Spitzer case:

(1) The prosecutors handling the case came from the Public Integrity Section.

(2) The prosecution is opened under the White-Slave Traffic Act of 1910. You read that correctly. The statute itself is highly disreputable, and most of the high-profile cases brought under it were politically motivated and grossly abusive. Here are a few:

-Heavyweight boxing champion Jack Johnson was the first man prosecuted under the act — for having an affair with Lucille Cameron, whom he later married. The prosecution was manifestly an effort “to get” Johnson, who at the time was the most famous African-American. (All of this is developed well in Ken Burns’s film “Unforgiveable Blackness”).


More questions...

1. Why would the bank tell the IRS and not Spitzer himself if there was a suspicious transfer? Spitzer is a longtime client, a rich guy and the governor. We're talking thousands of dollars here, not millions. It doesn't make a whole lot of sense that they spotted a "suspicious transfer" made by the governor, and that this is how things began. It's possible it was just ordinary paperwork the bank had to file with the government whenever some particular flag was raised, but if that's the case, why did the DoJ go to DefCon 3?

2. What is a USA doing prosecuting a prostitution case? This isn't normally what the feds spend their time with.

And more questions...


To those of you who are in high dudgeon over Spitzer possibly violating the Mann Act --- please. The Mann Act is bullshit in a situation where the parties were consensual. Here's Wikipedia's history of the Mann Act. It's often been used for political purposes.

Obviously Spitzer's in big trouble and is very likely to resign. When you build your career as a self righteous crusader, you don't get the benefit of the doubt on stuff like this. But there are questions that should be asked. It is unusual to release the names of johns and it's weird that we still don't know why the feds were wiretapping on some seemingly inconsequential prostitution case in the first place. Is that something the feds spend a lot of time doing these days?



*Blink*

From the Black Women Vote! Blog:

Did you all know that 4 African American Women Run Baltimore?

And what do you think of this call to arms?

(And no, this is not Gina, this is shecodes) My thoughts:Moving on, based on my personal observation, I think shecodes has several points. Aunt Jemima's Revenge has a really hard-hitting post that points out some very disturbing trends in the way black women are treated by their own community, as well as in the wider world. I think we can all agree that there are some rather large problems, that need to be fixed.

Let me get this straight

A Democratic governor fucks prostitutes in his spare time and the Republicans think thats an impeachable offense (In which case we need to impeach David Vitter's ass)


A Republican President and his merry band of operatives steal the elections and fuck this country over so badly that we may never recover, and this is seen as what? Patriotic? Are we really saying that someone's sex life is of more importance than fucking the Constitution, breaking the law, going to war illegally, wasting trillions of dollars, lying to Congress, Walter Reed, Attorney Gate etc.,etc., et-fucking-cetera??!!! And you all are doing that in the name of the LORD?!!?!?! And you all are more moral than everybody else?





Dear Democrats,
FIND YOUR FUCKING SPINES AND IMPEACH THEM ALL!!!!

Thank you.

D.E.D.!!! SNL, you're pwned.