From the beginning of his presidential campaign, which unofficially began with the release of his second book The Audacity of Hope, Senator Barack Obama has been positioned as an underdog against the Clinton machine. Now, with polls showing him in a virtual dead heat with Sen. Hillary Clinton, the media has constructed his early success as a David-over-Goliath narrative that proves that ordinary people have the power to slay the beast that is Washington through a radical politics of hope. Unfortunately, the Obama campaign has perverted the concept of hope by wedding it to a dangerous politics of compromise, concession and cunning.
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Yes We Can. But We Shouldn’t!
February 5th, 2008 by Marc Lamont Hill
...and The Root
Not My Brand of Hope
By Marc Lamont Hill | TheRoot.com
Obama's politics of cunning, compromise and concession.Feb. 5, 2008--From the beginning of his presidential campaign, which unofficially began with the release of his second book The Audacity of Hope, Senator Barack Obama has been positioned as an underdog against the Clinton machine. Now, with polls showing him in a virtual dead heat with Sen. Hillary Clinton, the media has constructed his early success as a David-over-Goliath narrative that proves that ordinary people have the power to slay the beast that is Washington through a radical politics of hope. Unfortunately, the Obama campaign has perverted the concept of hope by wedding it to a dangerous politics of compromise, concession and cunning.
I ask you this:
Who you going to vote for...Billary the Race Baiting Democrat?
I really thought you were smarter than that.
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I voted for John Edwards. I
I voted for John Edwards. I don't see any reason I should have to give up my principles to vote for Senator Obama. Come November, I'll have to choose between the Democratic Party's candidate and the Republican Party's candidate. By that time, I expect I will have come to grips with the fact that I have to vote for either Senator Obama or Senator Clinton. But I don't have to now.
That's your right, and I'd
That's your right, and I'd MUCH prefer you do that than vote for Hillary.
I'm never getting past the Dogwhistle politics...period
WHen they chose to go down that road, it wasn't even about Barack anymore. It was about ANY future Black politician and their aspirations.
Amen, Rikyrah, amen. Billary
Amen, Rikyrah, amen. Billary and their acolytes need to understand that we ain't on the plantation. We is free men and women. We don't need their permission or blessing to run for office. We is free.