OMG, now the folks at Politico.com are saying that Al Sharpton is emerging as “the president” of black America. Read more at politico.com

Yes, there is a lot of conversation on the internet about Al Sharpton and Barack Obama. The conversation is about how President Obama was in New York last night supporting Al Sharpton‎.  Candidly, I don't get how President Obama is making a pitch to Al Sharpton's Group‎ when he knows full well about Al Sharpton's history, particularly with regards to his lack of respect for black women. As an example, Al Sharpton and the NAACP Support Dunbar Village Rapists. Yes, just in case you never heard about Dunbar Village, Here are the basics of the story from Black America Web:

“The incident occurred at a public housing project called Dunbar Village in West Palm Beach, Florida.“After dark on June 18, the police say, as many as 10 armed assailants repeatedly raped a Haitian immigrant in her apartment complex at Dunbar Village … They took cell phone pictures of their acts. They burned the woman’s skin and (her 12-year-old son’s) eyes with cleaning fluid, forced them to lie naked together in the bathtub, hit them with a broom and a gun and threatened to set them on fire.”

As despicable as that sounds, it wasn’t the worst of it. The worst of it was when these vermin, according to Times writer Amy Goodnough, “forc(ed) (the woman) to perform oral sex on her 12-year-old son.”

Now we learn that the President of the United States is supporting, Al Sharpton, you know Al Shapton  the same guy who supported the Dunbar Village rapists. The blog, What About Our Daughters covered this issue a number of years ago. I guess our President supports the madness of Al Sharpton. Read more on the untold details of horror at Dunbar Village.

Maybe the President does not remember Al Sharpton, the NAACP, and Dunbar Village like black and other progressive bloggers do.  We remember how Al Sharpton defended the scum bags who  “forc(ed) (the woman) to perform oral sex on her 12-year-old son.”

If that is the type of people the President wants to hang out with, fine. It's not the type of person I would want near me. I hope Obama is not courting black votes with Sharpton as some reports are saying. 

Oh, and by the way, politico.com, Al Sharpton (the supporter of rapist) is no emerging "president” of black America.  Black America has the same President as white America, "President Barack Obama." It looks like politico.com needs black political writers/reporters.

Cross posted on black news junkie.com and African American Pundit

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It's hard to overstate the transformative moment that we're in as a nation and, particularly, as progressives. In just a few years, we've gone from the high point of conservative power to a stunning rejection of conservative federal leadership and the historic election of a progressive African-American president.

But the electoral sea change is just part of the extraordinary national moment. The financial meltdown and slide toward deep recession have crystallized Americans' anger over deteriorating economic security, stagnant mobility, growing inequality, and policies of isolation instead of connection. Americans are ready for a new social compact and a transformed relationship between the people and our government. They are calling for a new era of big ideas and different values than we've seen over most of the past three decades.

The electorate has shown an unprecedented willingness to overcome racial and ethnic barriers to take on daunting shared challenges. Young people, people of color, and low-income people turned out to register and vote in unprecedented numbers that bode well for a far more participatory and egalitarian democracy going forward.

Even before this year's remarkable events, opinion research showed a historic, progressive shift in Americans' views on issues that (not coincidentally) were barely mentioned in the election. Perhaps most striking is the shift on criminal justice and problems of addiction, where the U.S. public has moved broadly to support rehabilitation and treatment over incarceration and retribution, as well as assistance and integration for people emerging from prison.

But an unprecedented opportunity for progressive values and ideas is not the same as victory for a progressive social and policy vision. The stark challenges of rising inequality, faltering security, and broken systems of health care, immigration, and criminal justice are the same on November 5 as they were on November 4. What's changed is only the chance for transformative change.

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Hey all, just another Palin Rally video.  Campaigning in Mesa County has been good because it makes me realize that the people in this video are fewer than I originally thought.

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The expections were low, and by all accounts, Sarah Palin exceeded them with her acceptance of the Republican vice presidential nomination.  Speaking to the faithful last night, she demonstrated her ability to help McCain win the Republican base.  Her mere game-changing nomination (read gender) may help with disaffected former Hillary supporters and Independents.  Or not, because really, what's changed?

This Republican presidential nominee and this Republican vice presidential nominee are espousing the same Republican party principles.  The issues of social policy, fiscal policy, and foreign policy put forward by this Republican team are the same as we've experienced for the past 8 years by the current Republican team.  Do Americans want more Republicans?  

http://www.pollingreport.com/BushJob.htm

Starkly different are the issues on social policy, fiscal policy, and foreign policy put forward by Obama/Biden and the Democratic party.  

http://www.barackobama.com/issues/

The country has already determined that Republican party principles have failed us, and the world.  The country has determined that the change Democrats offer is our best hope to reach our goals and fulfill our potential.  This is our campaign's talking points that will win the election.  Tit for tat attacks won't.

Yup, Sarah Palin and Rudy--a noun, a verb, and 9/11--Giuliani got in some zingers last night.  But Democrats win if we push the issues.  They are stark and clear:  a change for the better or more of the same!

P.S. to fellow former Hillary supporters.  My loyalty to the Clinton legacy and accomplishments, both Bill's and Hillary's, obscured the fact that even if Hillary had won the nomination, hers, too, would be a close election, as this will apparently become.  Your choice is to support Democratic party principles or Republican party principles.  That should be a simple decision.  It was for Hillary!

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