Stop Me Before I Vote Again

Sure Bill
http://www.swans.com/library/art10/lproy18.html
For Gray, other images loom larger:

"In his first presidential race Governor Clinton ran for office supporting the death penalty at a time when the country was split almost down the middle on the issue. Then for good measure, he rushed back to Arkansas to oversee the execution of convicted killer Ricky Ray Rector, a brain-damaged black man. For years after his first election, I kept a picture of Clinton and Georgia Senator Sam Nunn posing in front of a phalanx of black inmates in white prison suits taken at Stone Mountain, Georgia. Historians generally give Pulaski, Tennessee, the dubious honor as the birthplace of the Ku Klux Klan. But Stone Mountain is hailed as the Klan's second home. The picture appeared in newspapers all across the south the day of the southern primaries in 1992. That picture is what Clinton has always represented to me."

However, the real indictment against Clinton must be based on what happened in the prison system during his two terms. Blacks were incarcerated at a rate even higher than in Reagan's terms. Discriminating between powdered and crack cocaine had a disproportionate impact on Blacks, as did the "three strikes and you're out" provision of the Crime Bill that passed when he was president. When he first came into office, one in four black men was in the criminal justice system. When he left, the number had increased to one in three. Ironically, when black felons were denied the right to vote in Florida, this had the effect of abetting George W. Bush's theft of the presidency.
http://www.counterpunch.org/reed01142008.html
Both CNN and Carl Bernstein said that Clinton, in the midst of giving this uppity black the required flogging (Clinton's a Jeffersonian. Flogging blacks was Jefferson's idea of recreation), had misrepresented Barack's record. Also, those who commented about Hillary Clinton's tearful breakdown missed the commentary that accompanied this calculated attempt at seeming human and personal, which occurred, as Jesse Jackson, Jr. noted, in The Daily News, when her advisors told her that she appear to be more human. "Why didn't she cry for the victims of Katrina?" he added.

She said that she didn't want to see the country "go backwards," or "spin out of control," the kind of vision of black rule promoted by D.W.Griffith's Birth of a Nation, and Neo-Confederate novelist Tom Wolfe's "A Man In Full." (Unfortunately for Obama, this was during a week that saw post election violence in Kenya where Barack's father was born.) Hers was the kind of rhetoric that was used by the Confederates whose rule was restored by Andrew Johnson. Give the black man governing powers and no white woman will be safe. This was Mrs. Clinton's Willie Horton moment.
http://www.counterpunch.org/reed06242008.html
It’s obvious by now that Barack Obama is treating black Americans like one treats a demented uncle, brought out from his room to be ridiculed and scolded before company from time to time, the old Clinton Sistah Souljah strategy borrowed from Clinton’s first presidential campaign when he traveled the country criticizing the personal morality of blacks and wooing white voters by objecting to what he considered anti -white lyrics sung by rapper Sistah Souljah.

I don't think the Emancipation Proclamation is an example that makes your case vs. Michelle. "Freeing the slaves" was a cold, calculated political and economic move designed to bring the Confederacy down. Lincoln hoped that, once freed, the slaves would all return to Africa. The legend of Abraham Lincoln is one of several enormous frauds perpetrated by the ubiquitous myth-makers on the Potomac swamp.

mr hunt

seems by your lights
the bill hill camp and the barbama camp
are both trying to out race card each other
while at the same time
accuse each other of the very same dirty deed

now that's some furious if not fast
card sharping

how many comment threads can trash lincoln and jefferson in such apple pie oder

come on mates
ain't ya proud of yer cuntree and her heros

op writes:
how many comment threads can trash lincoln and jefferson in such apple pie oder

come on mates
ain't ya proud of yer cuntree and her heros

Uhmmm...no, now that you mention it -- unless by "heroes" you mean Abbie Hoffman, Eldridge Cleaver, Eugene Debs, Emma Goldman, Georgia O'Keefe, Amiri Baraka, Jerry Garcia...

Oh, and btw, gang, am I the only one here who's starting to be more than a little bit annoyed by Michelle Obama?

On top of the excellent points that Smiff makes about how many things should've made her proud of this country that happened long before her husband finally made it to within striking distance of the Top Of The Heap, there's also the fact that, somehow, she's just go goddamned generic, dry, and flat-out boring – basically, she annoys the shit out of me just as much as Hillary, except for pretty much the opposite reasons. At least Hillary had some color, some personality, a distinct vibe that she put out that said "I'm a goddamned grating, annoying bitch" – as opposed to Michelle Obama, who reminds me of nothing if not those boring-assed, generically normal, totally lacking in any distinguishing qualities, absolutely forgettable Alpha Kappa Alpha sisters at my old college, the girls who were in training to become the boring-assed "buppies" of the '80s and '90s.

Seriously, it's like she's got no personality, no "vibe", no nothing to her, like she's wooden or something. At least Hillary has a kind of real, substantial, deep-down wholesome vileness about her that I can really sink my teeth into, but Michelle Obama's, like... I don't know, man; it's like she's made out of friggin' plastic or something. I mean, check out the foto of her that Smiff's posted here. You can tell she's really trying to come across all fiery and forceful and shit, but you can tell she's just not into it, like she just doesn't have the touch.

At least Nancy Reagan, Barbara Bush, Laura Bush, and Hillary had qualities about them that you could really get into hating them for, but Michelle Obama... there's just nothing to her. I saw her interviewed on NBC Today one morning, and she was just so dry and cold, it just made her even more annoying somehow.