Al Gore Endorses Barack Obama
I haven't been in a very pleased mood lately, in spite of the fact that the end of the 43-term white male monopoly of the American presidency may be just four months away. But Al Gore's endorsement of Barack Obama does please me. It helps neutralize some the venom and bile of Hillary supporters who believed that Hillary should win regardless of how many delegates her opponent won.
Women supporters of Hillary were and are right that women have systematically been condescended to, demeaned, subjugated, exploited and objectified in the United States. But, that's not Barack Obama's fault and there's no evidence that he won't do everything in his power to turn that around. He seems to treat his wife with a lot of respect, particularly compared to John McCain, who called his wife a "c*nt" (sorry) in public, in front of reporters.
Obama chooses Patti Solis Doyle
to lead V.P.'s campaign team.
I've heard some anti-immigrant sentiment recently but I'm not feeling it. I'm proud that Hillary Clinton's campaign manager, Patti Solis Doyle, is Mexican-American, second-generation. Diversity works for the Democratic Party. Culture KitchenThen Clinton fired her. Go figure! Now, some Clinton surrogates are saying that the choice of Solis Doyle to lead the V.P.'s campaign, with Solis Doyle having been fired by and estranged from Clinton, means that Hillary will not be Obama's V.P. choice:
Solis Doyle -- who after her firing midway through the primaries is no longer on speaking terms with much of the Clinton inner circle, including the senator herself -- has been tapped to serve as chief of staff to the future vice presidential running mate. Not exactly a signal that Obama is considering Hillary Clinton for the job.At least that's how Clinton loyalists see it. "It's a slap in the face," Susie Tompkins Buell, a prominent Clinton backer, said in an interview. "Why would they put somebody that was so clearly ineffective in such a position? It's a message. We get it." She said it was a "calculated decision" by the Obama team to "send a message that she [Clinton] is not being considered for the ticket." WaPost
Well, the choice at least means that if Clinton wants to be V.P., she'll have to mend her bridges with Solis Doyle and work with her hand in glove, even after firing her. It seems like Obama may have someone else in mind for V.P., perhaps anyone else.
In my opinion, the biggest idiot and millstone in the Clinton campaign was Mark Penn, who seems to have been the one pressing Clinton to go negative in a color-arousing way. That single decision, made over and over again, is the single most important reason why Hillary lost the nomination. Had she consistently won even 20-30% of the Black vote, she'd have won the popular vote, the earned delegates and the nomination. But, the color-arousing campaigning made Hillary, her husband and her whole campaign personas non gratas among Blacks nationwide.
In fact, the more they said about Blacks, the more Blacks hated them. They'd have been better off to say nothing about Blacks at all, and trying to win the election on some other basis that would win white votes while not whacking a beehive of Black sentiment. But, Mark Penn seemed to think that whites ONLY motive for voting for Clinton would be to vote AGAINST her Black opponent. Mark Penn's failure of self-confidence and scruples is what lost Clinton the nomination.
According to the Washington Post,
Nearly a quarter of those who said they favored Clinton over Obama for the nomination currently prefer McCain for the general election, virtually unchanged from polls taken before Clinton suspended her campaign. WaPostThe greatest advantage of the Gore nomination will be to isolate the pro-Hillary Obama haters within the Democratic Party, compelling them to come to their senses and support the Democratic nominee. According to polls, choosing Hillary Clinton as V.P. wouldn't help very much:
[I]t is unclear from the poll whether Clinton would help or hurt Obama's chances. About two in 10 said her placement on the ticket would make them more apt to support the Democrats, but about the same proportion said it would push them toward the GOP. Most said it would not make much of a difference either way.WaPost
Ironically, if America in November votes for 100 years of additional war, first-strike war with Iran, and another 50% drop in the value of American currency overseas (indicating a continnued worldwide failure of confidence in the American economy), it'll be white people's fault, particularly white Democrats. Bush is white people's fault and a McCain presidency, and every bad thing that happened therein, would be white people's fault as a group.
Real Democrats are going to vote for the Democratic nominee. But the Washington Post is saying that some Hillary supporters (and color-aroused white Democrats) might vote for McCain and give the Republicans another four years to destroy this country.
Well, we Blacks are used to being in the minority and having to put up with the presidents that white America elects, like Richard (impeached) Nixon; Ronald (Iran-Contra) Reagan; and George W. (Katrina) Bush. We'll do what we can, but in the end it's up to white people to determine whether this country gets flushed down the toilet . . . again.
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