Race for '08 Entries

11 de Julio, 2008

Latinos [and Allies] Want Specifics, Not Soundbytes

Categorized under Derechos Humanos , Frontera , Latin America , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: ICE, Immigration, John McCain, latinalista.net, LatinoPolitico, migra, Obama, The Sanctuary, Zuky.net

MMMM! DO YOU SMELL WHAT NEZUA'S COOKIN'? It's the flava of the voting week, and that flava is currently simmering and spiceh!!! It may fade in a few, but for now, that flavor is Obama and McCain's Concern for Latin@ Issues. It also means that the "Left Blogosphere" or...

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 The Unapologetic Mexican has been known to scribble a few things besides meandering, verbose, self-congratulatory blog posts. However, they are rarely as fun. Finally, let it be known that Nezua first dared bust out this Habanero of Truth at exactly 12:21 PM.  | | (5)

24 de Junio, 2008

The Aroma of Justice

Categorized under Acción , Blogando , Historia , Juegos , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: African Americans, Amigos and Amigas, Blacks, blogs, DNCC08, Feminism, George Carlin, Hillary Clinton, Obama, Power to the People, Protest, RNC

AMIGA CARMEN talks about how some pissed off Hillary supporters are stewing and planning on disrupting the Democratic National Convention and of understanding their anger...but not their cause. George Carlin talks about how most of Feminism's concerns don't involve women of color. Nezua is remembering when he was pissed...

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9 de Junio, 2008

For Women or For Woman?

Categorized under Juegos , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Hillary Clinton, Lord of the Rings, Obama

Clinton's bid to claim a piece of the ticket was regarded as brazen by some experienced Democratic politicians. It could prevent another Democratic woman from eclipsing her and even sabotage Obama's chances of winning, advancing a Clinton comeback by four years, to 2012 instead of 2016. Here's why: By advertising...

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7 de Junio, 2008

LiveBlogging Hillary's Concession Speech

Categorized under Blogando , LiveBlogging , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Hillary Clinton, Obama

LIVEBLOG: keith olbermann introducing her...it feels like a sporting event with that voice. like obama does in so many venues, now hillary finally gets the roaring 80s-styx-arena tsunami of applause superstar treatment from the audience...and it takes losing to obama to get it. how ironic. and by ironic, i...

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6 de Junio, 2008

"He Shouldn't Do So On Our Account."

Categorized under Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Latino, Obama

The idea that Obama can't win Latino votes is a myth -- one that Clinton supporters only perpetuate when they suggest that he needs to choose Clinton as his running mate to win those votes. That's the argument advanced by Rep. Nydia M. Velazquez, D-N.Y., who said recently that...

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High-Ranking Disturbance

Categorized under Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Clinton, racism

SOME DELUDED BLOGGERS (once I may have been able to say "rightwing bloggers") insist that it is, perversely, Obama who has pulled some "race card" because they are at a loss as to how to understand certain realities, and as I've said, certain politicians have factored this willing blindness into...

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Tus Mensajes [Mirrors and Time]

Categorized under Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: African Americans, Change, Clinton, Obama

FROM THE MAIL: Firstly, I really should have posted this right after Obama's big speech on race, but it is one of those things that slipped through. Here is the person I've called "D," when mentioning them before. "D," is John, a reader in Georgia, and here he shares a...

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5 de Junio, 2008

John McCain Flings Self 2000 Feet From Peak of Heightgeist

Categorized under Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: John McCain, Obama

IT WAS RIVETING, John "Betcha I Can Doom My Campaign in One Night" McCain's speech the night Barack Obama declared his winning the Democratic nomination for President. It was embarassing and awful and hilarious and surreal. It was as if McCain were doing a satire of himself. It was...

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The Dream Dies Not Readily. Clearly.

Categorized under Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Hillary Clinton, Obama, Vice President

IT IS RIDICULOUS to think of HRC as Obama's VP. Perhaps once it would have been possible. Not now. Where does that push come from? The Clinton campaign. Were HRC to be named now as VP, whose will has been enforced and with an intensity and assumption of priority...

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3 de Junio, 2008

Bow to the Mat

Categorized under Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Hillary Clinton, Obama, Tae Kwon Do

REGARDING HILLARY CLINTONs odd non-concession speech last night: I do understand that Hillary, as a woman, feels she must appear strong to the end. And as a fighter, myself, I do respect that idea. And I do get that she is angling for cash and for a position in Obama's...

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Obama Wins Democratic Nomination

Categorized under Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Clinton, Democrats, Hillary Clinton, Obama

ILLINOIS SENATOR BARACK OBAMA secures the necessary amount of delegates to clinch the Democratic presidential nomination. In above photograph, the universe's most magical eight-ball confirms the future. Foto from footage shot at mid-May Obama rally at the University of Oregon 'Quad'...

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1 de Junio, 2008

The Spirit of Baghdad Bob Returns

Categorized under Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Baghdad Bob, Clinton, Harold Ickes, Hillary Clinton, McAuliffe

THE CLINTON CAMP looks forward to VICTORY!!!!! “We’re still fighting hard to be the nominee,” Mr. McAuliffe said. “We’re looking for a big win here in Puerto Rico.” When asked if Mrs. Clinton would suspend her campaign if Mr. Obama clinched the nomination this week, Mr. McAuliffe said that...

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31 de Mayo, 2008

Michigan and Florida - The RBC Votes.

Categorized under Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Harold Ickes, Hillary Clinton

DEMOCRATIC RULES AND BYLAWS COMMITTEE MEETING over, and while Ausman (and Levin) here had a nice rimlight/kicker effect going on, most people were not lit as well and were rather flat in appearance. I know that's what you were wondering about. Anyway, votes were taken, sides argued, and Harold...

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30 de Mayo, 2008

Nezua Goes to Denver?

Categorized under Medios , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: DNCC08

OR... NEZUA GOES TO DENVER! That is to say, I have been given access and credentials to attend the Democratic Convention through my affiliation and bloggership with Culture Kitchen (which is the outfit run by the talented and lovely Liza Sabater, we also have worked together on other projects). I...

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28 de Mayo, 2008

La Verdad Verde

Categorized under Race for '08 | Tags: Cynthia McKinney, Green Party

CYNTHIA MCKINNEY is solid business. Want to see the state’s multibillion dollar budget deficit disappear? Green Party presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney says it’s a snap. If we cease spending money on the war in Iraq today, the state budget could be balanced overnight. Well, almost overnight. The controversial former congresswoman...

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26 de Mayo, 2008

Hillaria in Puerto Rico

Categorized under 2006 Midterm Elections , Humor , Race for '08 | Tags: Hillary Clinton, Lies, racism, satire

HORMIGUEROS, Puerto Rico (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton on Sunday offered a slightly hallucinatory defense for continuing her presidential campaign as she sought to put to rest the uproar over her comments about the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy. "I just refuse to admit I understand what is going...

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25 de Mayo, 2008

Hillary Clinton's "Assassination" Remark & Why It Matters To Me

Categorized under Guest Blogando , Kevin , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, US Presidential Election 2008

[Update: I've added several more blogger of color reactions below. I post these reactions to show the breadth of thought on the matter from bloggers of color. I don't necessarily agree with everything that is said. Oh Wait! You mean not all black people and other people of color think...

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 Kevin, when not battling the evil forces of academia, wiles his time away writing about truth, justice, and the American way at A Slant Truth. He most definitely doesn't have a comic book fetish, but he does seek to redefine those terms to mean something more humane. He also wants to make you dance. This post created at 8:47 PM.   | | (11)

My Neck of the Woods

Categorized under Corazón , Cultura , Derechos Humanos , El Malestar Pálido , Globalización , Guerra , Historia , Latin America , Race for '08 | Tags: candidates, Colonization, elections, Empire, Hillary Clinton, Obama, Post Colonialism, Puerto Rico

As you might have heard, two presidential candidates decided to visit the little island of Puerto Rico this Memorial Day weekend. They took in the sights:...

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 rafael is a student, a writer, a blogger, a podcaster and above all else a dreamer. This post sent into the airwaves at 2:50 PM.  | | (4)

24 de Mayo, 2008

The A-word

Categorized under 2006 Midterm Elections , Race for '08 , Violencia | Tags: Clinton, Fear, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, race, Republicans

SO WHY ARE all these presidential assassination 'jokes' and 'gaffes' suddenly being dropped down into 2008 by Republicans people who want Obama to fail? Huckabee, Clinton. It won't be the last. And who would have thought McCain would be looking classy today in comparison? He does his double-faced Maverick Trick...

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Banking on Denial

Categorized under Hipnotismo , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Clinton, Geraldine Ferraro, Glosario, Hillary Clinton, racism, Scarem Carom

HILLARY CLINTON plays a dangerous game. She uses her supporters—who believe in her so much that they refuse to see she is a calculating politician—to cover her crooked technique. Don't get me wrong, of course Obama is a calculating politician too. I don't think he is some beautiful pure...

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23 de Mayo, 2008

The Little-Discussed Resurrection-Nomination!

Categorized under Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Clinton, Fear, Hillary Clinton

I LOVE how, well, disingenuous the arguments are getting from those trying to justify what Hillary did. "She was referring to herself getting shot" they desperately try to argue. HELLO, what?? Are you really about to try and say that she was arguing that she should stay in the race...

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Hillary Hints at Murder

Categorized under Hipnotismo , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 , Violencia | Tags: Assassination, Clinton, Fear, Hillary Clinton, racism, RFK

WOW. This is going too far by anyone's standards, Senator. Either you are purposely feeding a violent and bone-white theme snaking around this election's feet, or you are plain stupid and unaware of what is dropping out of your mouth. And I respect you too much to call you...

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Obama Gets Four More

Categorized under Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Clinton, Obama, Superdelegate Dance

OBAMA scoopin' up more superdelegates. Takes four today, one of who was previously in Clinton's camp. State Senator Peter Burling of Cornish and Deborah Nelson of Hanover, two former Edwards superdelegates from New Hampshire, plan to announce their switch at a news conference this morning, the Associated Press reported....

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Rocky in the Black Spidey Suit

Categorized under Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Hillary Clinton, Outtakes and Remakes

Hillary Clinton is not Rocky. Because Rocky was neither a dirty fighter nor a sore loser....

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22 de Mayo, 2008

Voting in Oregon: The 2008 Democratic Primary

Categorized under MTV Street Team 08 Exclusive , Medios , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Choose or Lose 08, Citizen Journalism, Lane County, Obama, Oregon, Street Team 08, Vote-by-Mail, Voting

VOTING IN OREGON: The 2008 Democratic Primary gives you a peek into the mail-in elections that Oregon employs, as well as the inside of the Lane County Convention Center where the results came in the evening of the 20th. The latest video by Oregon's Official MTV Choose or Lose...

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20 de Mayo, 2008

Some of Your Money Funds Terrorism, too.

Categorized under Medios , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Clinton, Format, Hillary Clinton, hype, hypocrisy, John McCain, Obama, race, racism, sexism

THERE IS misogyny among both supporters of Clinton and Obama. And there is racism in both camps, too. Some people will not vote for a woman, no matter what. And guess what, some people will not vote for a man who looks like Obama. Some people who harbor a...

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Last Day for Oregon to Vote in Primary!

Categorized under Acción , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Eugene, Oregon, The Petroleum Wars, Voting

AS OREGON'S OFFICIAL MTV Street Team Rep. and all-around virtual dawn street crier, it falls upon me now to type out this message—OREGON: TODAY IS THE LAST DAY to take your ballot and get thee to an official drop! Drive and be counted! Don't let Nader get elected due...

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19 de Mayo, 2008

Awe Koota Bilxpaak Kooxshiiwiash

Categorized under Indígena , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: indigenous, Obama

WHILE HE WAS NOT quite slammin' shots with the Crow Indians, Obama clearly did impress the Crow Nation with his attention today. After holding a town hall meeting in Billings, Barack headed to the Crow Nation Reservation in Crow Agency, Montana, where he was formally adopted as a member...

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15 de Mayo, 2008

Chillin' on the 20 Yard Line

Categorized under Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Outtakes and Remakes

NOTE TO SELF: Must blog soon on important social justice issue or risk losing that "feeling good and helping the world" sensation I've come to love from my computer tappings. Sometimes I feel like a football fan out here. But...I am! I've said it before. Politics seem to be...

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14 de Mayo, 2008

John Edwards for Barack Obama!

Categorized under Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: John Edwards, Obama

NOW we can say it for sure. So, as suspected, it wasn't a slip the other day when, as reported in the Ticket, [also snatched up by the mighty ears of UMX!] former Sen. John Edwards said he was going to endorse the Democratic presidential candidate he had just...

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Obama in Eugene Pt. 3 [MTV vlog 5-14-08]

Categorized under Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Choose or Lose 08, Citizen Journalism, Democrats, McArthur Court, MTV, Obama, Oregon, Street Team 08, The Pit

OBAMA IN OREGON (PT. 3) concludes our trilogy featuring Obama's rousing event that energized the town of Eugene, Oregon as well as the University of Oregon, and packed McArthur Court to overflowing on March 21, 2008. • Part One here. • Part Two • The Making Of narrative The...

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13 de Mayo, 2008

Change in the Weather

Categorized under Pelicula , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Citizen Journalism, Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Obama

BOY did I pick the wrong gig if I wanted not to be immersed in politics all the time. Whew. There's one giant politician here after another, every other day. When I'm not eating, I'm editing. When I'm not editing, I'm asleep. I hear Hillary is coming back and...

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Bill Clinton in Eugene, Oregon

Categorized under MTV Street Team 08 Exclusive , Medios , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Clinton, Eugene, Health, Hillary Clinton, Obama, September 11, University of Oregon

BILL CLINTON spoke last night at the University of Oregon in Eugene in behalf of his wife's candidacy, and of course, your trusty citizen journalist Nezua was on the scene. The speech was attended by about 800 - 1000 people. I didn't count, but the venue was switched at...

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10 de Mayo, 2008

Obama at the Quad

Categorized under MTV Street Team 08 Exclusive , Medios , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: blogs, Change, Hope, Obama, Power to the People

EIGHT THOUSAND members of the O.F.B. showed up yesterday at the Memorial Quad at the University of Oregon to listen to Senator Obama. As usual, I feel exhausted after the whole ordeal, and it's always hard to believe that this is mostly from standing and waiting. As well as...

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9 de Mayo, 2008

I Expect You'll Understand the Difference Between White and Wrong

Categorized under El Malestar Pálido , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Clinton, Format, Hate Groups, Obama, Oregon, Voting, White Supremacists, White Supremacy

IT IS FUNNY how the primaries don't even seem to be about who actually wins or loses each state, but how each win or loss matches up to the expectation of whether or not that state will be won or lost. Of course the expectations are constantly massaged, sort...

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8 de Mayo, 2008

Rust Takes Down the (Clinton) Machine

Categorized under Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Change, Clinton, Obama

A CONCISE AND UNEMOTIONAL article on why the Clinton Machine couldn't crest the hill. Some say "old guard" and this piece more or less backs that up. Their thinking is yesterday's news in various ways and that's why they never saw what hit them. Bam, bam, bam! Blogmigo Kai just...

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7 de Mayo, 2008

Summoning Us to Greatness

Categorized under Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Clinton, Obama, satire

I'M RATHER DISAPPOINTED that the Clintons will not be moving back into La Casa Blanca. After all, it would have been great to have Hillary as President. I could have proudly pointed both my daughters to her and show them how a strong and smart woman should act in...

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1 de Mayo, 2008

Hillary Clinton in Eugene, Oregon [pt. 4]

Categorized under Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Change, Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Hope, Negativity, Obama

LAST WEEK we watched a young man (whom one person wrote me and called "arrogant") engage the democratic process as he questioned Hillary Clinton during her Town Rally at the South Eugene High School (April 4). The bold student wanted to know if when all was said and done...

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29 de Abril, 2008

The Wright Stuff?

Categorized under Medios , Race for '08 | Tags: GOP, Jeremiah Wright, Obama

HERE'S THE FUNNY THING: since Wright went on TV...actually, since only a day ago, I've personally seen two people begin searching for a connection to, more or less, the kind of church he speaks of and represents. Anecdotal sure. But it's just one day. Give it time. It's like...

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Reminder for Oregon

Categorized under Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Obama, Oregon, Voting

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28 de Abril, 2008

Blue-collar Bitter Gun Owning Harley Riding Voters

Categorized under Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Clinton, obama, YouTube

sombrero tip to yliza...

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Fear Builds Walls, Hope Builds Pigs

Categorized under Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: music, Obama, Pink Floyd, Roger Waters

HA HAAAA CHARADE YOU ARE... Man, I love that song! Haven't played it in years, don't even think I have it anymore. That was in the cassette era, and I've lost all my music casettes. I saw Floyd in '88, NJ. (Maybe it was '89.) I think it was the...

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So Much for Lucidity and Political Abstinence.

Categorized under Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Outtakes and Remakes

I SWEAR! There really was one lovely shining moment when I just didn't care anymore. Ah well. I excuse it by remembering I never follow football or basketball or anything. Politics is boxing without the sweat and shiny shorts. And we do know how I love to watch boxing....

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When Blackness Approaches Power

Categorized under El Malestar Pálido , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 , Religión , Violencia | Tags: African Americans, Anti-Arab, Blacks, Christianism, Hillary Clinton, hypocrisy, Jeremiah Wright, race, racism, religion

THE CONTINUED hypocritical attacks on Jeremiah Wright and Obama's name are disgustingly racist. Period. And the more I hear of this Pastor vato, the more I like him. Speaking the National Press Club in Washington on Monday, [Pastor Jeremiah] Wright called the recent criticism surrounding his sermons "an attack on...

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27 de Abril, 2008

How Hillary Can Still Win

Categorized under Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Hillary Clinton, Obama, YouTube

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25 de Abril, 2008

Can Hillary Resolve her Near Complete Alienation of the Black Community?

Categorized under Race for '08 | Tags: Clinton, Obama

BRIEF QUESTION. The Intranix is alight with declarations that Obama has a problem with X or Y type of voter and he better solve this problem. Maybe. Or maybe they'd mostly go for him when it's months later and down to Obama the Democratic nominee vs. McCain the Republican...

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Nezua Cured of Political Inebriation!

Categorized under Race for '08 | Tags: Clinton, Obama, Power to the People

AWESOME! I'm finally freed from the grip of this primary. I just felt it drain away from me all at once. Overload and system dump. I no longer care who wins, I no longer am emotionally invested, I no longer have hope that either one will really represent any...

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Oregon Latinos for Obama

Categorized under Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Clinton, Obama, Oregon, PCUN, Portland, Ramon Ramirez, Susan Castillo

A coalition of Latino community leaders in Oregon has thrown its support behind Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois. Ramon Ramirez, the president of PCUN, the state's largest farmworker union, made the announcement Wednesday, citing Obama's commitment to improving the lives of farmworkers and Latino families in...

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24 de Abril, 2008

The Civic Reawakening of a New Generation

Categorized under Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Clinton, Harvard, Obama, Power to the People, Youth Vote

With the central mission of the Institute of Politics being to engage and inspire young Americans in the memory of John F. Kennedy and his legacy, we are particularly pleased that the underlying shifts in civic participation that we noted in 2002 are not a one-time phenomenon but instead represent...

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Time to Lift the Rug (Again)

Categorized under Medios , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: bush, Change, Clinton, Hope, hypocrisy, Obama, Oliver North, Ronald Reagan

When I say my thinking has traveled an arc with Clinton, dont take it the wrong way. I still do not think she is going to be, our should be, our president. But I have grown more sympathetic to her as a person, through the course of my recording...

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21 de Abril, 2008

Hillary Clinton in Eugene, Oregon [MTV Vlog Apr21]

Categorized under MTV Street Team 08 Exclusive , Medios , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Citizen Journalism, Clinton, Democrats, Eugene, MTV, Oregon

HILLARY CLINTON IN EUGENE [1] begins our HRC three-part series, which will feature the Senator's rally/town-hall appearance at Eugene, Oregon's South Eugene High School Gymnasium. You've read Tapper and Suarez and myself and many others comment on this very appearance*. Now, witness all the small town high school political...

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8 de Abril, 2008

A Hunger for Truth (And Tomato): Shooting the Obama Trilogy

Categorized under MTV Street Team 08 Exclusive , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Choose or Lose 08, Eugene, McArthur Court, MTV, Obama, Oregon, Street Team 08, The Pit

I PROMISED YA I would relate my arduous tale of shooting the Obama event here in Eugene (Parts 1 and 2, 3 still to come), and so I now point you to a lengthy and well-illustrated blog wherein I relate the story of A Hunger for Truth (and Tomato):...

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Bill Past Due

Categorized under Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Clinton

SO I'VE BEEN THINKING after reading a few irate writers who imply that there is some kind of contagious framing out in the aether that unfairly paints Hillary Clinton as a liar. Some of these people say this persistent test she must pass is a special Clinton rule, or is...

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Clinton Isn't Completely Lying

Categorized under Race for '08 | Tags: Clinton

SO THE CLINTON story about her telling the insurance story is both not true...and true. The aunt of a young pregnant woman who died after a hospital told her she needed to pay $100 up front for care said in an interview on Monday that Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton...

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7 de Abril, 2008

Obama in Oregon, Part 2

Categorized under MTV Street Team 08 Exclusive , Pelicula , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Choose or Lose 08, Citizen Journalism, Democrats, McArthur Court, MTV, Obama, Oregon, Street Team 08, The Pit

OBAMA IN OREGON (PT. 2) continues our trilogy of Obama-in-Oregonity as promised last week! Peep through the Lens O' Nez and once again, enter "The Pit" in Eugene, Oregon—which is really not as gruesome as the name might sound, but instead a rather invigorating and some might even venture,...

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5 de Abril, 2008

Hillary Clinton in Eugene, Oregon

Categorized under MTV Street Team 08 Exclusive , Medios , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Choose or Lose 08, Citizen Journalism, Clinton, Eugene, MTV, Oregon, Street Team 08

COVERED THE HILLARY CLINTON campaign stop in Eugene yesterday, at the South Eugene High School. While there was a smattering across a few demographics (there were young people, too), it seemed to my eye to be mostly white women, and older people. (You can't judge by who is behind HRC...

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4 de Abril, 2008

Hillary Clinton Releases Oregon Campaign Schedule

Categorized under Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Clinton, Democrats, Eugene, Oregon

HILLARY CLINTON has released her schedule for Oregon with one day to spare. (Senator Obama gave but two days notice). She will be speaking in Portland and Eugene. (Senator Obama spoke in Salem, Portland, and Eugene.) Senator Clinton will be stopping in Eugene tomorrow to speak at two high...

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2 de Abril, 2008

Raging Bill

Categorized under Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Clinton, I should tag this something, Outtakes and Remakes

SOMEONE'S SMOOTH VENEER is popping off like pine panel in a bonfire. "It was one of the worst political meetings I have ever attended," one superdelegate said. According to those at the meeting, Clinton - who flew in from Chicago with bags under his eyes - was classic old Bill...

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30 de Marzo, 2008

Occupational Hazard

Categorized under Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Clinton, Obama

I'M NOT HERE to be an unwavering bullhorn for Obama. That is utterly boring. And yes, I don't think there's any contest between him and Senator Clinton, as far as who could get more done. Or who would be more uplifting as a President in a few senses. Or...

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Obama Opens Office in Eugene

Categorized under Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Clinton, Eugene, Obama, Oregon

RIDING THE WAVE of his recent appearance(s) in Oregon, the Obama campaign opens a local office. DOWNTOWN EUGENE - More than one hundred people showed up Saturday morning for the grand opening Obama's new office located at 1280 Willamette Street in Downtown Eugene. "I'm here this morning to support...

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28 de Marzo, 2008

Obama in Eugene Pt. 1 [MTV vlog 3-28-08]

Categorized under Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Citizen Journalism, Eugene, McArthur Court, MTV, Obama, Oregon, The Pit

OBAMA IN OREGON (PT. 1) is the name of the new video shot and edited by yours truly, Oregon's Official MTV Choose or Lose Street Team 08 Citizen Journalist, and just as the title foreshadows, there will be two more parts to this tryptych of political goodness. Clicking the...

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27 de Marzo, 2008

Is Avoidance the Answer?

Categorized under Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Clinton, Gore, Obama, Race

THESE DAYS, there is a sure way to have me laugh at writing and declare it devoid of intelligent method, and that is to employ cute little hatenames for Obama supporters. I mean, come on. Is "Obama supporters" really so hard to type? Does it actually hurt to not sling...

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24 de Marzo, 2008

Shining, Gleaming, Streaming, Flaxen, Waxen

Categorized under Medios , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: blogs, Change, Negativity, Obama, Outtakes and Remakes, race

ANYWAY, I'm feeling burnt out on some of these conversations. Political swattings and virtual angers. Maybe this is a place to which I keep returning. So I guess I must enjoy it on some level. How perverse. But I do need to step back, I'm getting too stirred up...

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Bethesda and Oaxaca [The White Lens 8.5]

Categorized under Cultura , El Malestar Pálido , Foto , Historia , La Lente Blanca , Palabras , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Citizen Journalism, Eugene, Format, iPhone, Mestizaje, Mexico, MTV, Oaxaca, Obama, Oregon, race, racism

AND NOW A STEAMING MUG OF COFFEE and a big wave from Nezua and all others in la casa—and by the way, big thanks to my weekend warriors, those that showed up and bloggedeth, adding their stones to the scale, daring to brave a hungry and discerning readership that...

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22 de Marzo, 2008

The McCain Girls

Categorized under Humor , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: John McCain, YouTube

I'M NOT SURE what inspired this video or what the hell it is supposed to achieve other than making me laugh out loud for over two minutes. If you only see one YouTube video this month, make it this one....

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Obama Comes to Oregon

Categorized under Medios , Race for '08 | Tags: Citizen Journalism, Eugene, MTV, Obama, Oregon

SAW OBAMA last night at "The Pit," as it's known here in Oregon. Eugene residents are very proud of their sports, it's a big sports town (check into the history of Nike in Eugene, while you're at it), and the arena where Obama spoke is a famed site for...

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I was in the room when....

Categorized under Aprender , Character Study , Corazón , Cultura , Derechos Humanos , El Malestar Pálido , Gobierno , Guest Blogando , Historia , Invitados , La Lente Blanca , Política Estados Unidos , Preguntas , Race for '08 , Rafael , Raza , Religión , Stories , Terrorizing la Gente , When the Right is SO wrong | Tags: consequences, Obama, pastor, race, religion, truth

I was in the room when... a woman who loves me as much as she loves anything in this world, but a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed by her on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic...

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21 de Marzo, 2008

Happy Friday, Baby.

Categorized under Música , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Macintosh, music, Obama, YouTube

SOME SMOOOVE VOCALS to take ya into this sunny (at least where I am) Friday afternoon. Hoy less Flamenco, y más Bachata! Just feels right. Aventura with La Boda (The Wedding). Reminds me of Westchester, I used to play this album on my iPod Mini while I rode the...

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Richardson Endorses Obama for President

Categorized under Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Bill Richardson, Clinton, Obama

EVEN AFTER Chilling with Bill. Ouch!...

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The Drunken Dealer

Categorized under El Malestar Pálido , Headlines , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 , When the Right is SO wrong | Tags: African Americans, Blacks, blogs, brown pride, Change, Glosario, Race, racism, The Haunted Land

I HONESTLY AM BAFFLED by the phrase used again and again by certain "liberal left wing" bloggers as of late. "Race card." As if just spitting out the phrase somehow destroys a person's points. If anything can be called "Pulling the Race Card"—i.e., using a fiction-based argument that relies...

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19 de Marzo, 2008

Liveblogging My Recollections and Musings to the Obama Speech

Categorized under Closing in on Bush , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: bush, Change, Clinton, historia, hope, Obama, putos

19:47 ...going from wbush, who sneerhunches talksdown to ya as if you are a stupid child to an intelligent and groundbreaking speech by obama on the nuances of the human condition and american history and racial tensions...it's a beautiful sort of whiplash, if nothing else...wow...you mean i don't have...

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18 de Marzo, 2008

A More Perfect Union - Barack Obama Speech

Categorized under Race for '08 | Tags: Obama, Race, YouTube

TEXT AND VIDEO of Barack Obama's speech on race and America and this election, behind the cut....

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Horses in the Klieglight

Categorized under Hipnotismo , Medios , Race for '08 | Tags: blogs, Clinton, Geraldine Ferraro, Huffington Post, Jeremiah Wright, Obama

But if I could ask a question of the media figures who are regularly calling for Obama to reject Wright today, who urged Clinton to reject Geraldine Ferraro the day before and who demanded Obama reject Louis Farrakhan earlier last week, it would be this: what would satisfy you? What...

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17 de Marzo, 2008

Hillary Clinton, Victim-Warrior Extraordinaire.

Categorized under Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Clinton, Obama

I am throwing the "kitchen sink" at my opponent, but dammit, I want him to stop being mean to me while I do it! I'm very strong and being picked on by everyone! Obama is an inexperienced possibly Muslim man made of nothing more than a speech, but I...

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16 de Marzo, 2008

With Support Like That

Categorized under Medios , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Clinton, Obama, SNL

SO TELL ME. How does having a black man who supports Obama coming on SNL and calling Tiny Fey "bitch" in response to her statement "bitch is the new black" (he responded "black is the new president, bitch") "support Obama"? Hmm? Because I can't imagine the Clinton team being...

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13 de Marzo, 2008

whtmlk and the hardcoldtruth

Categorized under Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: I should tag this something, Outtakes and Remakes, putos, racism, White Supremacists

MOST INSANEST Comment of The Year. That's right. It's only March, so you have nine full months to beat this. You may need the headstart. THE HARD COLD TRUTH THAT WE AS A NATION MUST FACE IS BLACKS ARE VOTING OBAMA AT 90% THESE FIGURES ARE A STRONG INDICATION THAT...

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11 de Marzo, 2008

Lucky Boy

Categorized under Medios , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Clinton, Format, Obama, Race

An Obama aide has struck back at the Clinton campaign over comments made last week by Geraldine Ferraro, calling them “outrageous and offensive.” Susan Rice, a senior adviser to Mr. Obama, was responding to Ms. Ferraro’s remarks on MSNBC Tuesday morning. Ms. Ferraro told a Los Angeles newspaper that the...

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9 de Marzo, 2008

Felons for Clinton?

Categorized under Ley , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Clinton, Democrats, Obama, Ohio, Republicans

I KNOW SOME Democrats who get upset about appeal that Obama has for Independents and even some Republicans. One of the choices of attack they wield against the idea of his run is that "it should be Democrats who choose the Democratic nominee." Without resorting to more loaded adjectives, is...

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Whoops, Wrong Number!

Categorized under Medios , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Clinton, Obama

IT'S JUST kind of funny. The so-called "red-phone ad" was played all over the country and helped turn the tide for Hillary Clinton leading up to her big win in Ohio. The ad shows a sleeping child and asks voters who they would want to see answering a 3 a.m....

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8 de Marzo, 2008

Dear Barack (and Kevin),

Categorized under Corazón , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Change, Clinton, Democrats, Hope, Kevin Bacon, Obama

DEAR SENATOR OBAMA, I know that someone who knows someone who knows someone who knows someone who knows Kevin Bacon will read this. So I hope you talk to Mr. Bacon and he conveys these thoughts to you. It's not that I think I'm savvier on the political scene...

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4 de Marzo, 2008

The Gifts of Blood, Havoc, Theft, and Mass Exodus

Categorized under Race for '08 | Tags: Clinton, Iraq

DOES HILLARY CLINTON really consider her backing of the Iraq invasion/occupation a mistake? And does she really consider what our unwarranted invasion and occupation has done for the people of Iraq a gift? "We have given them the gift of freedom, the greatest gift you can give someone. Now...

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3 de Marzo, 2008

Bill Said it Best.

Categorized under Race for '08 | Tags: Clinton, Obama

If one candidate is trying to scare you, and the other one is trying to make you think, if one candidate's appealing to your fears, and the other one's appealing to your hopes, you better vote for the person who wants you to think and hope." —Bill Clinton...

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Confession or Calculation?

Categorized under Race for '08 | Tags: Clinton, Obama

CONFESSIONS OF WEAKNESS. Why? "We were outspent. Doesn't count." "The media is being mean to me. Look how nice they are to my opponent. The Ump is crooked and the Ref hates me." "My opponent's greater popularity and fundraising abilities are not due to ability!" And so on. It's a...

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Scaring Up Votes for a New Day

Categorized under Race for '08 , Terrorizing la Gente | Tags: Change, Clinton, Fear, Obama

I DON'T NEED pages of links or policy tidbits to know that a Clinton presidency has nothing at all to do with change—something I think we all want very badly—when she insists on playing the Fear card in her bid for the most powerful seat in the world. Disappointing. Tired....

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27 de Febrero, 2008

Dick Gregory Apologizes to the First Black President

Categorized under Corazón , Humor , Race for '08 | Tags: Blacks, Clinton, Dick Gregory, Obama, Outtakes and Remakes, Race, YouTube

THAT was excellent....

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26 de Febrero, 2008

The (Uppity) One

Categorized under Corazón , Race for '08 | Tags: Hope, Obama, racism

THE NOTION OF A BLACK MAN who holds his chin high, is not cowed by the craven and corrupt curses of our diseased political "discourse," nor the septic, slime-lipped attack dogs that need no whistle to howl; a man who seemingly shrugs off so many ugly barbs thus rendering...

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Puro Obama, por las Mujeres

Categorized under Race for '08 | Tags: español, Obama, Que Viva Las Mujeres, YouTube

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Angry White Man Voting Bloc Demands Recognition. Finally.

Categorized under El Malestar Pálido , Humor , Race for '08 , Sexismo , Violencia | Tags: Blacks, brown pride, China, hypocrisy, India, indigenous, InhuMen Behavior, misogyny, putos, racism, satire, The Violent Majority, White Power, White Supremacy

POR SUPUESTO, we knew it was only a matter of time before the Angry White Man began to feel pouty because he was being forced to watch a political contest between—of all people—a black man and a woman! As if we aren't bombarded with images of black men and women...

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25 de Febrero, 2008

More Politics of Hope!

Categorized under Race for '08 , Terrorizing la Gente | Tags: Clinton, Fear, fotoshop, Obama, racism, Rove

THE CLINTONS hope that you fear seeing a brown man in turbanlike headgear, and that this reflex will scare up some votes for them. Anti-muslim fear-peddling tactics complete with a Rovian denial/non-denial attached. What next, Senator? Smoke-tinged bullhorn? Karl in the cabinet? Threats of Iranian doom? Ready from day...

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24 de Febrero, 2008

You Say Spoiler, I Say Candidate

Categorized under Carmen D. , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: defending democracy, Nader, Power to the People, pundits, Voting

(NOTE: this post actually written and blogged by Carmen D. before templates and code and logins were arranged so that guest bloggers could have their own sign-ins.) Ralph Nader has announced that he will run for president as a third party candidate. Nader, 73, said most people are disenchanted with...

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23 de Febrero, 2008

Sí Se Puede Cambiar

Categorized under Artivism , M , Música , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Change, Obama, Power to the People, YouTube

A beautiful and thoughtful song by Andrés Useche, performed in Spanish with English subtitles. I find it very difficult to side with the skeptics against the deluge of inspirational art and music this election has generated. If loving these songs is wrong, I don't want to be right. Hat-tip to...

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Asked and Answered: The Tale of the Golden Thesis

Categorized under M , Race for '08 , Raza | Tags: Democrats, Election, Obama, pundits, Race, satire, The White Lens, Transparency of Government

The subject: Michelle Obama. The location: Princeton University. The time period: 1985. (Incidentally, the year your humble guest blogger was born.) The problem: Something is not as it seems in Happy Politics Land because our subject has something to hide... The thesis, titled "Princeton-Educated Blacks and the Black Community" and...

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21 de Febrero, 2008

Zombified Crowd Chases Pipe Dream of Hope

Categorized under Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Power to the People, Prairie View, Voting

Early voting starts today in Texas. In Waller County, a primarily rural county about 60 miles outside Houston, the county made the decision to offer only one early voting location: at the County Courthouse in Hempstead, TX, the county seat. Prairie View A&M students organized to protest the decision,...

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20 de Febrero, 2008

Bird of Four Hundred Voices

Categorized under Race for '08 | Tags: Clinton, historia, Mexico, Obama, putos

I GUESS for my support of Obama, I'm now not only a "cultist," but also a birkenstock-wearing, latte drinking, trust-fund baby type of cat! Interesante. I am a mystery even to myself. Tom Buffenbarger president of the machinists' union (International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers) was the the latest...

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Ten for Ten

Categorized under Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Clinton, Democrats, Obama

OBAMA wins Hawaii and Wisconsin. MILWAUKEE (Reuters) - Barack Obama has surged past Hillary Clinton to open a big national lead in the Democratic presidential race, according to a Reuters/Zogby poll released on Wednesday. Obama also leads Republican front-runner John McCain in a potential November election match-up while Clinton...

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19 de Febrero, 2008

Obama Supporter Destroys Doubt

Categorized under Race for '08 | Tags: Obama

DIDJA THINK, wandering cameraman with a slingshot packed with Obama-aimed missiles, you would humiliate or stupify this young, black man holding a sign, snappin' his gum and wearin' a baseball cap? And did you walk away feeling powerful and superior...or did you walk away with a new attitude? I think...

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15 de Febrero, 2008

The Minimization of Inspiration

Categorized under Corazón , Race for '08 | Tags: Clinton, hope, Obama

FINALLY someone says it. And says it well. Hillary said she found her voice in New Hampshire because she cried in public. Her audience applauded. But now it seems to the senator that having a voice is irrelevant because somehow having a voice is now the subject of ridicule in...

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14 de Febrero, 2008

Torture Comes in Many Forms

Categorized under Race for '08 | Tags: Cheney, John McCain

OKAY. It's Febrero and it feels like Octubre. I can't believe I feel so sick of the Presidential horse race so soon. My politiclit is dry and numb as a year-old wad of gum. And McCain is what Cheney would be if he were in shape and had enough...

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Tus Mensajes [Old School Divide]

Categorized under Race for '08 , When the Right is SO wrong | Tags: Amigos and Amigas, Immigration, putos, racism, Republicans, White Supremacy

FROM THE MAIL: I thought I'd bring this to your attention. I live in Atlanta. A commercial started running about 10 days ago that shows a black guy (I'm black) talking about how millions of jobs are being lost to illegal immigrants. As he talks, only black faces are shown...

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10 de Febrero, 2008

Obama, Winning Hearts and Minds

Categorized under Race for '08 | Tags: Obama

WASHINGTON — Sen. Barack Obama swept the Louisiana primary and caucuses in Nebraska and Washington state Saturday night, slicing into Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's slender delegate lead in their historic race for the Democratic presidential nomination. The Illinois senator also won caucuses in the Virgin Islands, completing his best...

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9 de Febrero, 2008

94,000 Humans Don't Count

Categorized under Acción , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Califas, Power to the People, Voting

I AM SURPRISED, in all honesty, that this is not linked in more places. In my opinion, people who believe in the Democratic process (and I'm not even sure how much I do, anymore, especially given events like this which seem to happen over and over) would be incensed...

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8 de Febrero, 2008

The Party of (Diseased) Ideas

Categorized under Closing in on Bush , Race for '08 | Tags: bush, Madman McCain, putos

THE INSANE PRESIDENT. George W. Bush opens his mouth and makes noises that are just slightly more ordered and coherent than a random series of gastrointestinal expulsions, but no more reasonable. "Prosperity and peace are in the balance" —The War President Yeah...keep talkin', baby. Keep reminding the nation of...

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6 de Febrero, 2008

Symbol and Essence, Part 3 [MTV Mix]

Categorized under Gobierno , MTV Street Team 08 Exclusive , Palabras , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 , Religión | Tags: activism, Gandhi, Henry David Thoreau, MTV, Power to the People, Street Team 08, Symbol and Essence, Voting

A BLOG POST exclusive to MTV (as it must be, contractually) can be read by clicking the image above. No video this week. But a specially-crafted Non-Super Wednesday message instead....

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Many Votes Not Counted in Califas

Categorized under Race for '08 | Tags: Califas, Obama

A FIRST HAND ACCOUNT by an amiga that casts doubt on the currently reported numbers in Califas: I take my ballot to the Democratic booth. Figuring out how to slide the thing in the voting slot, was confusing enough. I then mark my twenty or so ballot initiatives and...

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5 de Febrero, 2008

Obama Raises the Dead

Categorized under Race for '08 | Tags: Obama, The Grateful Dead

WILL THE MAN'S powers of unification never cease??? Barack Obama wants to bring America together, and he has started with the Grateful Dead. The feuding members of the fabled Sixties psychedelic rock group dissolved their business operations several years ago. But last night at the Warfield Theater before a...

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MTV Street Team '08 Reports on Super Tuesday

Categorized under MTV Street Team 08 Exclusive , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Citizen Journalism, Democrats, MTV, Republicans, Street Team 08

YOUR FAITHFUL OREGON representative for the MTV Street Team '08 (ahem, yours truly) is invisible on this day, because Oregon doesn't exist when it comes to Super Tuesday. But my Street Team peeps are LIVE on the scene in each Super Tuesday state. It's a pretty cool idea, they'll...

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Across the Divide

Categorized under Race for '08 | Tags: Coulter Creature, Dare Not Speak Its Name, Democrats, Iraq, Obama, Republicans

Sure, ultra-conservative Ann Coulter is threatening to campaign for Hillary Clinton if John McCain snags the nomination — "She's more conservative than he is," Coulter recently remarked. But while some young Republicans are supporting the Arizona senator all the same, others in the demographic say they're finding themselves drawn,...

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Mama Sez Obama

Categorized under Race for '08 | Tags: Califas, Obama

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama surged to a big lead over Hillary Clinton in California hours before "Super Tuesday" voting began in 24 states, according to a Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby poll released on Tuesday. [...] In California, which alone provides more than one-fifth of the Democratic delegates needed for...

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4 de Febrero, 2008

Another Rare Endorsement

Categorized under Race for '08 | Tags: de Niro, Obama

De Niro, the dean of "Goodfellas" thuggery, just made a surprise appearance at a rally here for Barack Obama, using words that we didn't know were even in his vocabulary. "I've never made a speech like this at a political event before. So what am I doing here?" De...

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A Rare Endorsement

Categorized under Race for '08 | Tags: Joan Baez, Obama

FROM AN ICON of the 60s abnd 70s, herself. One whose voice filled some of my most important and early years: The letter to the editor of today's San Francisco Chronicle came from a Californian who will be voting in Tuesday's primary. It reads: Editor - I have attempted...

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The Gift of Wisdom

Categorized under Corazón , Race for '08 | Tags: Obama, Oprah, YouTube

"YOU CAN'T train for it in the workplace." Oprah speaks back to women who have told her she is a traitor to her gender as well as voting for Obama simply because he is black. "Don't play me small," she says... sombrero tip to liza...

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3 de Febrero, 2008

Yes We Can. Sí Se Puede.

Categorized under MTV Street Team 08 Exclusive , Música , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Obama, Street Team 08, YouTube

I KNOW that the Committee Yearning for the Next Installment of Clintons (CYNICS) will surely shrink from this vibe like slugs from salt (or, you know, like kings from carpentry work to employ a less hostile metaphor although it lacks the needed element of revulsion and horror), and I will...

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30 de Enero, 2008

MAPA for Obama

Categorized under Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Hope, Latino, MAPA, Obama

From Nativo. V. Lopez, National President of the Mexican American Political Association (MAPA) "the oldest political-civic organization of Mexican Americans and Latinos in the U.S." January 29, 2008 SI SE PUEDE WITH OBAMA In various previous bulletins we have pointed out numerous contradictions and challenges facing us during this presidential...

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Obama for Safe Roads.

Categorized under Derechos Humanos , Race for '08 | Tags: Clinton, hype, Latino, Obama

(01-28) 04:00 PST Washington -- Sen. Barack Obama easily won the African American vote in South Carolina, but to woo California Latinos, where he is running 3-to-1 behind rival Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, he is taking a giant risk: spotlighting his support for the red-hot issue of granting driver's licenses...

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26 de Enero, 2008

Obama Takes South Carolina Primary

Categorized under MTV Street Team 08 Exclusive , Race for '08 | Tags: Obama, South Carolina

A FELLOW STREET TEAM 08 member (Shantel, reppin' South Carolina) just told me that Obama's win in South Carolina is expected to manifest as a "big lead." She also gives me these figures: 80 percent black men for obama 82 percent black women for obama 17 percent black men...

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24 de Enero, 2008

Bill Clinton: Nobody But Media Cares About Racial Issues

Categorized under Race for '08 | Tags: Clinton

OKAY, I paraphrase! But that's his gist. The media is "determined to take this election away from [South Carolina]" when they focus on the racial dogwhistles such as the Clintons and/or their representatives/surrogate speakers love to toot. And the Clintonbrow wrinkles up sadly: "And that's not right. That's not right."...

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Strange Truth-Telling Man Leaves Race

Categorized under Race for '08 | Tags: Kucinich

IF ONLY Bush had been so summarily rejected by the mainstream media...and most of us. Dennis Kucinich has decided to drop out of the presidential race after disappointing single-digit showings in early primaries and caucuses. —Kucinich abandons White House bid Later, Señor K. You were inspiring up in this...

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17 de Enero, 2008

There's No Such Thing As (Horse) Race!

Categorized under Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Change, Democrats, Republicans

MAN, the more I hear these candidates speak and the more I learn about them the more depressed I feel. (And definitely stay away from this place). I know, I know! Beat the Other Team. I'm all for it. Yes, they are far worse. Agreed. But eh. Lately I've...

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'supdate

Categorized under Closing in on Bush , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: bush, Health, MTV, New York City, Pollution, Zuky.net

WOW. What a fantastic cold I caught in the city. I've been sick for a week and last night it morphed into a lung-drowning cough that made me have to sit up to fall asleep. Of course, it may not have helped that I was editing until four in...

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15 de Enero, 2008

Oh, the Unity.

Categorized under Race for '08 | Tags: Democrats

JUST GOTTA SAY the Unity Gestapo patrolling the LeftLiberalBlogosphere lately with all this "let's just be real careful and nice and get along so we can cream the other team in '08" urgent vibing guilting snot makes me feel ill. Act on your truth. That's all I have to say....

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13 de Enero, 2008

Crock-a-Mole

Categorized under Hipnotismo , Race for '08 | Tags: Hillary Clinton, hype, hypocrisy, Latino

HILLARY breaks it down real simple-like for the Latino comunidad. In ethnic food terms, you know. It's just the way we think of everything. Clinton and her busload of traveling press moved from there to the popular local Mexican restaurant Lindo Michoacan, where a "roundtable" that was actually square passed...

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Clinton Camp Woos Imus for '08 Ticket

Categorized under Race for '08 | Tags: Format, fotoshop, Hillary Clinton, Imus, Obama, racism

ANY READER who has been following this blog for a while knows that I criticize and compliment most Democrats without hesitancy. I do not shift support, per se, from candidate to candidate. I just find things I admire, and things I do not, and I write about them as they...

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10 de Enero, 2008

Clinton's New Hampshire Win and The Bradley Effect

Categorized under Gobierno , M , Race for '08 | Tags: Bill Richardson, Clinton, Democrats, Election, Race

I don't like assuming the worst about people (*smirk*), but there has always been some knowledge of the fact that liberal whites will tailor their responses to prevailing assumptions of equality and justice when asked about issues of race, gender, sexuality, disability, or what have you. However, what people say...

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6 de Enero, 2008

The Unapologetic Mexican: 2008

Categorized under Artivism , Blogando , Race for '08 | Tags: blogs, Citizen Journalism, fotoshop, MTV, the Unapologetic Mexican, Vlog

WELL, WE ARE DOWN TO T-minus1, and tomorrow is our launch date. So this is as good a time as any to let ya know what's up for this blog in 2008. I planned to have this post ready on January 1st, but sometimes that's just the way the taco...

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4 de Enero, 2008

Obama and Huckleberry Dominate Iowa Caucus

Categorized under Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Change, Democrats, fotoshop, Hope, Iowa Caucus, Justicia, Obama, Reckoning, Republicans, The Haunted Land

THE SEXY AND CONCILIATORY OBAMA and the most decidely unpresidential and extremely-religious Mike Huckabee come away from the Iowa caucus with the highest numbers. Biden and Dodd fall away, Richardson and Clinton stubbornly hang in there. (The Nezua Caucus numbers show that Clinton is out of the race, however....

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