Voter Intimidation

This is the sad part of voting.
I would assume that the most of the people being harassed are democrats.
Awful!

"We are learning of private investigators threatening Latino voters in New Mexico, deceptive flyers sent to students in Virginia, and politically-motivated police investigations of new voters in Ohio," Slater said. "These activities are just the latest tactics in what has been a decade-long partisan strategy to limit registration and voting."

Voter intimidation dates back to Caeser's era and it's a shame to see it occur so blatantly.

Taxes

check this out boys- if Obama wins it isnt going to be a good year to make over $600k- a 160k delta in what a person would be paying


the chart on the left breaks it all down

Obama and Gore

As we mentioned here before. Obama said Gore would have a big part in his administration. Gore would be at the forefront in regard to resolving the Global Warning issue.
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I'm here because of Ashley

This was a great speech by Obama both verbally and spiritually. There have been some campaign topics that were not available to Obama because the moment was wrong. He really hadn't discussed his thoughts or feelings about race and black cynicism. His pastor's comments gave him that venue and he capitalized.

The Unbeatable Ticket: 2

Yes, the powerful, persuasive, smoke & mirrors dynamic duo of an Obama and Clinton ticket would be unstoppable. All the Democrats and the swing voters would have the best of both worlds with that.

Unless you were are strong conservative, you'd have to vote for the hope of change and possibility of something different then what we had the past 8 years. Republicans would be an afterthought.

It'll never happen though. Obamas going to get the nomination and the Clintons know it. Thats why theres so much mention of it coming out of the Clinton camp. I havent heard it once from Obama. The Clintons figure coming in second will still get Bill and wife back in power.

How well is it going to go over for President Obama to have those two shysters imposing their will and policies on him? To have 2 thorns right beneath him second guessing and questioning his every move, publically? It isn't.

While yes, even though they'd proabably be unbeatable I expect Obama to take his chances without her.

The unbeatable ticket

Hello!!!!
Where is the SoCal chapter?


Bill Clinton believes that a combined ticket of the two can't lose.
This is a concession to their previous sentiments. I like the idea if Obama is on top. That eliminates the concept of Obama getting assassinated. Because they will definitely try to pop Hillary and the new president will be the Speaker of the House Pelosi. The haters of Obama will hate his replacements even more.

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Freeway Rick Ross

Did you he was the key figure in the Iran Contra scandal?
Did you know that the CIA flew planes and planes of Cocaine into the United States?
Ricky Ross converted it into Crack and allowed the Nicaraguans to finance their own war because America gave them a safe sales channel. Then the government changed the crack sentencing to a 100 times more. Now Bill Clinton apologizes for it while the government is slowly working to repeal the laws, even though he rejected the law change in 1995. Oliver North is a traitor and he killed the African American culture.

Read the book, "The Dark Alliance" by Gary Webb if you don't believe me.
Gary Webb got shot in 2004. Talk about a coincidence.

You can also think about why Afghanistan provides 80% of the US heroin. How did the get they sales channel to the US?

Amadeus
Pegasus and
Watchtower
were the names of the governmental programs that brought Cocaine into South Central.

What I'm feeling right now

This is what Obama represents. This is what his war cry should be about. This is the change he is referring to.

Election Update

McCain has secured is bid for the GOP. He is already starting to campaign against Obama. The GOP will unite against Hillary, but will fracture in an election against Barack. His strategists have already identified this and begun acting accordingly.

Hillary must win Texas and Ohio in order to continue. Obama has dominated the Midwest and Ohio will probably be no different. I think that Texas would rather not vote for a girl or a black guy. But since their god holds a football and bruthas have lead them to the promise land on the field, they will vote for Obama.

Now what?

Super Tuesday is over and the dust is starting to settle. The results are interesting but as expected. The biggest surprise on the Republican side is the fact that Huckabee won quite a few more states than the zero predicted for him. This happened because some of the evangelicals decided to vote according to their faith and Huckabee is the only Christian. The GOP vote is a winner take all format, so winning those states hamstrung Romney. Huckabee stole more of Romney's votes than McCain's and put the latter on the stage of victory. Honestly, McCain's my man. I have figured out why. He is a liberal conservative such as myself as mentioned in the Black Republican article from before.

Clinton and Obama are basically tied. Hillary won the larger and coastal states, while Barack's vote came from the smaller middle states. The story can be spun many ways stating both sides claimed victory. Using football philosophies, it would seem that the longer Obama is in the race, the greater chance for victory. This is true for all underdogs. A sense in hope can generate within the perceived lesser that is many times more powerful than the greater. Obama is the underdog in this situation. I'm waiting for the Al Gore hammer to drop.

Super Fat Tuesday

Today is the most important day politically in quite a long time.
The outcome of today's vote actually mean something and the world can be impacted.

Today is also Mardi Gras Fat Tuesday, meaning the biggest party in the country is taking place in New Orleans. Mardi Gras is important because it's part of the healing process. The ghost of Katrina still impacts the city and the power of Mardi Gras and the Jazz Festival is the only thing that can repel her.

Basically almost one half of the delegates are available in today's election, with California leading the way in terms of total delegates. Today can decide who are next president will be. Obama gives the most hope, while Hillary lend stability. I guess the same thing can be said about Romney and McCain respectively.

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John Edwards, Attorney General

That is a great call. Whomever Edwards endorses will probably select him as the Attorney General or as a Cabinet member. Because of that, Edwards will wait until a critical moment like February 4th to announce his endorsement.

He is probably negotiating the rewards in choosing each side. Who ever offers the brightest future for Edwards will win his support. Great call! Secretary something John Kerry, and Teddy of the State. Al Gore needs to swallow his pride and run as VP. He can be president later, he will be younger then than McCain is now.

Presidential (aka Obama) update

As stated here previously, Obama's newly found black support propelled him to victory in South Carolina. This just pretty much put an end to Edward's campaign. To get badly beaten in his home state means that he will probably get destroyed on road.

Hillary still has the lead if you include pledges from superdelegates like democratic senators, governors, representatives, mayors, and people such as that. I am not sure, but I think those votes are mostly band wagon votes that are not set in stone.

People like to be a part of something special and claim that they did something positive. Voting for Obama may become the "cool thing to do". The key here will be Bill Clinton. He always attacks Obama and then gives a compliment.

The reason why is because Clinton will need Obama's help if Hillary were to lose. Even though he is attacking he must leave a window of partnership open with Barack. If Hillary starts to get beaten or attacks fiercely, Bill is going to have to distance himself from her a little. A very little! Al Gore is going to throw in a monkey wrench some how.
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You heard it here first

Our purpose here many times is to explain the truth. Explanation is needed because telling it is simply not enough. Truth persuasion is needed to remove all preconceived notions.

There are two major articles addressing what we discussed HERE! regarding how the African American vote is split between Hillary and Barack. As you can see, BLOOMBERG was in agreement with the OurW Obama philosophy.

The key is this. Black political figures have been tied to Hillary because they thought she was a lock to win. Political figures have to follow the winner because they will need favors once they get elected. If they oppose the winner early on, the newly elected President will not help them later.

They have been bound to Hillary for this reason. If Obama generates enough momentum they will swing his direction which will shift some of the black vote as well. We'll have to watch it play out.

Rudi has a plan

A few days ago I mentioned that Rudi was not in the hunt and being arrogant. I am so wrong. Rudi has a plan. In this era of cost cutting and low budgets a new technique has emerged. I call it profound targeting. Instead of spending time in the areas of least impact, he is focusing all of his energy on Florida. Florida's delegate count equals about 85% percent of the votes in the other states combined

Based upon that, why even bother with Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada, South Carolina. Due to Florida's delegate count, a decisive victory in Republican voting Florida could propel Rudy into first place a week before Super Tuesday.

The day is labeled as such because something like 1700 votes can be had then and the first candidate to reach 2025 wins it all. If you take the few scrap votes Rudi has received so far and combine that with a dominant display in Florida, he can pretty jump in the race two weeks late and still end up in a dominate position after February 5th.

I like the strategy. It's high risk high reward. It may backfire but at the same time it might kick his race to high gear like using Nitro.

Kerry's endorsement

Can Kerry's endorsement help? Is he trying to position himself for a VP role. He probably needs someone older to run with him.

The Black Republican

What ever happened to JC Watts? He was kinda cool. It was always neat to see him. He was like the a black spot on the big white wall.

There has been some recent development in regards to your comment about me being a liberal that wants to secretly be a conservative. My response was the the fact that I was the opposite and the description better suits you. I am actually a conservative that wants to be liberal.

My father and I discussed this concept. He better fits the liberal description, which is why he raised me from a conservative perspective. During Christmas time he asked me how come I was so racially sensitive. I said, "I'm black I supposed to be". He laughed and said "Just because you are black doesn't mean you can relate". He then said, "I raised you like a little white kid, so where did that ability to relate come from". My father was a school district superintendent of a multicultural district and he could recognize different parenting styles amongst his students. So when he says he raised me like a white kid, he probably did. From a personal standpoint, I was raised very similar to the kids in my neighborhood(once we moved out of the bad one), which was 93 percent non minority, so I can agree with is statement. I get my point of view from within and based upon how people treat me. I can relate innately so to speak.

What's funny is that my father and I like the Republican candidates more even though we will most likely vote for the black guy. I would vote for McCain if he were younger. He has been my favorite politician the last 3 years. I like Ron Paul but he is probably difficult to work with. My father likes Huckabee and agrees with his concepts. I actually like him too for his 'F' policies. I actually blogged about two of the 4 'F's: Faith, Family, Friends, Football. Huckabee uses 2 of those four 'F's that define CampTrotter which are Faith and Family.

We like the conservatives more but will probably vote for Obama.
Why? Because I want to see a brutha win! If Barack wins I am closer to my dream of having a chocolate dark, ball-headed, earing wearing, gold toothed president. You know, someone that resembles Chad Johnson!! When that happens, we have overcome.

Why Iowa?

There is no tangible reason why Iowa is important. Iowa gets so much attention because it is the first primary of many. I personally would not think that makes a big deal but politics ride on the bandwagon.
Hillary is must weather the storm and not do a Howard Dean.