Cordoba House. An Islamic community center and place of prayer placed within the caverns of New York City, one of most international cities in the world.
Its sits on a nondescript block of Manhattan within walking distance but out of sight of saddening scar on our nation's face.

At one level, I could understand all the hubbub if the planned new arrival was placed on the grounds what was the World Trade Center. That's the way that certain commentators and legislators, mainly of the conservative bent, have characterized it. However, the real facts point to something that has disturbed me greatly ever since 2001.

The attacks of September 11, 2001 we're sickening, saddening. It is a day that brings a profound reaction to me. Over 3,000 lives ended by mainly a small group of people who twisted faith and protest to an end led mainly by a rich Saudi brat who was rebelling against his parents.

But a worst thing happened. A small cabal of people, led mainly by a rich Texas brat who had some father issues, did worse. They called for the American Way Of Life to go forward, while fundamentally changing the American way, to their own ends.

They went about suspending our constitution. They said that torture was okay. They said that violate civil liberties is okay. They said taking away due process was okay. They said invading a sovereign nation that had done nothing to us was okay. They say that an ongoing war in two theaters, already at the price of nearly 4,500 Americans with maybe many times that wounded or permanently disabled is okay.

All due to the pimping of a sad day in our times.

For 9 years, some very powerful interests have been pimping Septemeber 11, 2001, Cordoba House is just the latest victim, and its an easy target. Do you really think its been easy being Muslim in the nation for the last 9 years? Its funny how we seem to be looking Al-Queda everywhere, but we still can't find them anywhere.
Maybe we don't want to find them, after all there is profit in pimping. All this pimping is keeping the yellow ribbon makers happy. Its certainly kept Karl Rove in this news, like we really need what he has to say. Its given more power to the "Obama is a damn Moo-Leem" crowd. Its dire, sick and wrong and now it rears it ugly head again.

Lets look at the scoreboard again. Patriot Act. Guantanamo. Abu Gharib. Afghanistan. Iraq. Possible permanent bases in both. The rich Saudi brat is still at large. The rich Texas brat is pretty off scot free now. All due in large part to the pimping of September 11, 2001.

And now we're the letting the bastards pimp again. We're letting them use the memories of many loved ones lost again. We're giving them the pretext to scapegoat some, and be brave with other men's and women's bodies again.

At some point THE PIMPING MUST STOP.

Not long after the events of September 11, 2001 I remember hearing about the "Clash Of Civilizations", and that "we have to fight the battle there so we don't have to fight them here."

Well, it seems that battle will be fought here, but the combatants will not be the ones we expected.

This debate over Health Care Reform is just the opening salvo in a war that began the second Barack Obama received his 270th electoral vote last year. Will we commit to building an America for this century or we will retrench in old thinking, stagnate and decline.

The "teabaggers", in typical conservative fashion, want to "take their country back". That is a very accurate and telling statement. They think they are discussing possession when they are fighting for people who say the same thing, but they see "back" as a direction.

Its a subtle, but powerful distinction. Subtlety is lost on "tea party protesters" and that has many very wealthy corporate laughing all the way to the bank because they realize that people who can pick up on that subtle distinction are the people they fear the most.

It takes curiousity, thought and study to pick that distinction up, and that is something our adversaries disdain greatly. This is where the clash intersects.

The man we put in office, whether you agree with his performance or not, is a thinker. I am confident that President Barack Obama has put some study into the pressing problems. To me I think in his attempts to try a broker a bipartisan deal, he needs to remember that he is dealing with people who pride themselves on fostering a lockstep ignorance. They count on that ignorance. He is trying to cast a pearl to better America before swine who are prepared to stick the nation in their own private trough.

I look at the picture of one lone man with the big sign saying "PUBLIC OPTION NOW" and I ask, Where is our collective national wake up call against the wave of ignorance? Where is a mass movement to tell both the ignorant of the conservative right, and well-meaning but timid left in Washington that we want forward-thinking solutions and we are willing to chest-up to you to get them. They know-nothing, they are proud of it and they are at the city gates.

Who among us will take up shield for civilization?
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When it comes to that Race thing, sometimes you just have to ask a Black Dude.
And as a black man with nearly four decades experience with this particular pre-existing condition I can say it with a good deal of certainty that 99.99% of the anti-Obama sentiment out there coming from the right is about that fact that the family in residence at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave in Washington, DC is black.

This shouldn't even a darn question anymore. You knew what the deal was going to be the very second President Obama got elected and so did our adversary and among the tea biscuits, its open and naked. I've gone to a few of these tea-party protest and I heard "nigra", "boy" and "coon" more in one afternoon than I have in the last couple decades.

And a note to some of you who feel the need to make fun of the south, the tea parties I went to where in Massachusetts and Connecticut. Hmm, I don't think Massachusetts or Connecticut voted to join the Confederacy, although you'd be surprise how many New England Confederates you'll find between Bangor and Hartford.

Joe Wilson's outburst was a dang good example of it. In my grandfather's day, when a white man stands in front of the black man, the white man would almost always put on a stance of the right foot ahead of the left. That was social cue for the black man to stare down at the shoe as he addressed the white man. If the black man looks the white man in the eye, it is perceived as "uppity"

To the Wilsons and Glen Becks and the Rush Limbaughs, Barack Obama's very presence at that podium. His very residence in that White House, the respect he engenders from civilized people (Remember, this is a clash of civilizations we are in), is an uppity affront to them.

His wife Michelle is an affront to them. Her style. Her candor. An intellectual capability that is as great as her husband. She is a civilized, smart human being of color. To civilized people, that isn't a threat. Our adversaries are not civilized people.

I'm sure that a white centrist president would draw their ire. Bill Clinton surely did. I'm willing to even agree that a President Dennis Kucinich would get a greater volume of these people's disdain than Clinton would have. But both would pale in comparison to the venom spat towards President Obama.

Tim Wise has a real point in that we need referring to the GOP as "Afrikaners", for they are acting in a manner befitting the old South African regimes of Malan and Botha. The race-baiting is naked, open and real with these people.

Again, I ask...who among us will take up a shield for civilization?

Mr. President,

When you first announced you were running, I didn't think you could pull it off. I didn't cast my vote for you in the primary election where I live now.

But you did ten special things. Each one led to my vote going to you, and led to tears of joy I shed today.


1. February 2008, you came to my hometown Omaha, Nebraska and you inspired a party ignored in a state ignored to get up and fight. You inspired thousands in my neighborhood in North Omaha to get involved and be heard. So many came out on caucus day that they had to hold it outdoors.
2. You didn't try to spin around the Reverend Wright issue. You met it head on and gave our nation starving for clarity on the race issue, some new needed food for thought.
3. The intelligence in which you spoke out on many issues in the primary. Even with all the rancor, you keep your eyes on "we the people"...and on the responsibility that "me the people" have.
4. Joe Biden. A Vice President who will not be a hat rack. That was a darn good choice and what it told me was, you want competence, not syncopants.
5. Your convention speech. It was a open challenge to our better nature and a challenge to our adversaries. And that led me to the next day...
6. Hundreds of young kids in Obama T-Shirt canvassing my old neighborhood where I grew up knocking on doors. You challenged for that one electoral vote dangling in my old home, and got me off my cynical ass to help knock on the doors of people who knew me when I was little boy. Seeing that you carried that vote made me happy beyond belief.
7. You fought the Rove Republicans without sacrificing your dignity, intelligence and courage. You faced them down by forcing them to come up to you not by coming down to them. Your grace and class earned my vote and my respect.
8. YOU NEVER TALKED DOWN TO ME! When the economic troubles got really ugly in September, you didn't try to softsoap it and force the bumper sticker answer. You did your homework and gave me the straight story. The very things that I want in a leader, you showed in those days. John McCain was grandstanding. Sarah Palin was trying to win a popularity contest. You and Joe Biden were getting down to business. That's the difference.
9. The way you are with Michelle, Malia and Sasha. A man loving his wife and his kids. A man who can take time out from a campaign to make sure he's at his kid's soccer game. To take that phone call from his daughter. The fist bump with your wife. That's a what a real man does. That's who a real man is.
10. Late October -- Hawaii. The final days of a bruising campaign. Yet, you put family above that. Your grandmother dying, you go to be at her side and pay respects. I was in prayful tears watching you do it. I felt sadness for you. At the same time, I felt more convinced than ever that I would be voting for the right person. All I could think as I saw you doing what needed to be done was, "That man is a real man"

On 4 November 2008 around 8:30am, I proudly voted for you. I walked to the polling place bouncing along the sidewalks. I was so excited. I had every piece of ID I could find in my hands. Nothing was going to stop me from casting that vote for you. NOTHING!
Afterwards, I was happy and humble. I was smiling and crying at the same time. I never thought in my life I would be casting a vote for a presidential candidate who looked like me.

Yes we can. Yes we did.

And today, I feel you, I see you...and I hear you.

I am with you, Mister President.

Free at last. Free at last. THANK GOD ALMIGHTY WE ARE FREE AT LAST!

President Barack Hussein Obama....I AM REPORTING FOR DUTY, SIR!

I'm sitting here listening to a continuous loop of Henry Mancini's "Salute To The President"...Thinking about what we'll see on Election Night.

8pm EASTERN STANDARD TIME
"Welcome to CBS News' coverage of Election Night 2008.."

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"CNN Election Night in America continues...I'm Anderson Coop"

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"Charlie, the Obama campaign is festive here and the supporters are flocking into.."

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"Tom we may see history tonight on a scale."

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"Fox News is already projecting a McCain victory"

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"CNN has an early projection...District of Columbia.."

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"Massachusetts and Connecticut...going for Obam-"

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"Chris, we are looking at a total sweep of New England."

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"Our CNN estimate confirm...New York overwhelmingly for Barack Obama.."

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"So far Bill, its not looking bad for McCain who is trailing slightly in New Hampshire..although the Liberal Media Biased Network claim that Obama has swept New England.."


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"CNN confirms that Obama leads in Electoral Vote count 113-0"

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"This is an astounding National Vote total....Barack Obama leads with 56% of the --"

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"ABC exit polls confirm in many southern states African-American turnout was at record levels."

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"David Dimbleby along with Jeremy Paxson....looking at the U.S. Swingometer BBC News confirming a serious lead for Mr. Obama."

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"McCain still has hope Allan...."
"Only if a monkey flies out of my backside, Sean.....AP confirms...Obama wins Florida"

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"Shocker...OBAMA WINS NORTH CAROLINA...AND CNN CONFIRMS LIDDY DOLE WILL LOSE HER SEN--"

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"The wife of former Republican Presidential Candidate Robert Dole was soundly beaten according to our CBS News Estimates.."

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"Fox News still has not called the senate race in North Carolina nor the Presidential race, Obama leads in the state 55%-44% on McCain..

9PM EASTERN STANDARD TIME
"At 9pm on the East Coast, welcome back to ABC coverage of the 2008 vote...I'm Diane Sawyer with Charlie Gibson and George Stephanopolous...so far...Obamamania is sweeping America...He hold a 146-0 lead in the electoral vote count..uh, make that 173-0...abc news projects Obama has won the state of Florida...no recount needed.."

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"The Comeback is On for McCain...Fox News projects South Carolina, Alabama,
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"--gan....Governor Gronholm, its looks like a Democratic night....NBC News projects Michigan going to the Obama-Biden column along with Biden's home state of Delaware....Well Brian, Barack Obama's message of hope really resonated with the people across Michigan.."

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"We're starting to get the early numbers from the Farm Belt states....Ohio and Indiana still too close to call...as well as Louisiana, Mississippi and Tennessee.."

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"Real America is speaking out...Kansas and Oklahoma go to McCain.. Our Fox News estimates show McCain leading in Ohio and Indiana...and that can offset the apparent loss in Michigan"
"Well Michigan really doesn't matter, Sean...That isn't Real America"

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"We have a surprising result coming from Texas...so far...we cannot call the state...McCain leads, but not by the margin expected.. We also have reports that Obama is neck and neck with McCain in Nebraska's second congressional district...which allocates split electoral votes..."

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"High turnout in the Omaha metropolitan area is trending toward Obama...Also looking across the Missouri River...Obama widening his lead in Iowa.."

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"Democratic Farmer Labor winning big tonight in Minnesota...CNN projects former Saturday Night Live commedian Al Franken has won the U.S. Senate contest there defeating Norm Coleman...and Barack Obama dominates the Presidential race there as well..We also project that Michelle Bachmann has lost her congressional seat by an overwhelming majority.."


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"Iowa"

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"Missouri"

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"Lousiana Gov. Bobby Jindal with us....Governor Jindal, CNN projects that Louisiana will fall into Obama's hands...a late surge due to a "Remember Katrina" vote...Governor Jindal? Governor....Appearently Governor Jindal has walked off the set.."

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"CNN projects...South Dakota, due to a record American Indian vote squeaks Obama to a win there.."

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"North Dakota goes to McCain...Texas still too close to call..."

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"Governor Palin now adressing supporters at McCain Headquarters in Phoenix..."
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10:25 PM EASTERN STANDARD TIME
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"A BIG BLOW TO THE MCCAIN-PALIN TICKET...CNN projects Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin have gone to Obama...BARACK OBAMA HAS BEEN ELECTED PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES"

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"NBC News Projects that its all over"

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"Charlie we can say it now...President-Elect Obama.."

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"The Americans have elected a New President tonight."

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"The race for President still too close to call in the key states, Fox News still projects a victory for John McCain..

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"I'm Cenk Ugyur here...and FOX NEWS IS MAKING COMPLETE IDIOTS OF THEMSELVES!!!"

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"Texas goes into the McCain column...but its too late now....Mississippi, Tennessee, Missouri and Iowa go to Obama....Obama has 316 electoral...

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"Colorado, New Mexico, Montana all go to Obama....the roll continues as Obama is on pace to the largest vote total in American History.."

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"Idaho...in a surprise goes to Obama...Wyoming and Utah go to McCain according to our estimates....but in a surprising development...Arizona is still very close...That's John McCain's home..

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"Fox News estimates still show the race too close to call...Obama has 57% of the national vote...not a huge majority at this time."

12:30 AM EASTERN TIME
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"Bob Schieffer reporting from New York..and CBS News confirms that this Election Night has just gotten ugly for John McCain...CBS News projects that Barack Obama has carried Arizona...added to a clean sweep of the Pacific Coast, including a 2 to 1 margin in California with its 55 electoral votes...Obama stands at 418 Electoral Votes.....make that 419...CBS News projects that Nebraska's second congressional district, the city of Omaha and surrounding areas, will be carried by Barack Obama...52% to 48%...No Democrat has won an electoral vote from Nebraska since 1964.."

Chicago, Illinois....1:01 am EST..
"My fellow Americans from the beginning of this campaign...I said 'YES WE CAN'......I am pleased to report to you tonight...'YES WE DID!!!!!!"

"I just got off the phone with my grandmother. She told me she was very proud. But I am more proud of all of you! You have believed in our country. You have shown your hope, faith and strength in this campaign and now we will show our united strength again to move this country forward, move our people forward and help move the world forward. YES, WE WILL!"

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"CNN projects that when it rains it pours....CNN projects Barack Obama has carried Sarah Palin's home state of Alaska.."

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"The National vote total for Obama over 63 million..."

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"This election is much like 1932 for FDR.."

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"423 electoral votes, 59% of votes cast.."

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"Obama has won this election...426 electoral votes, 37 states carried and the District of Columbia."

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"Obama as expected won 95% of the black vote...but surprising numbers across that spectrum"

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"59% of white women pulled the lever for Obama...51% of white men did.."

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"Obama outpolled McCain among veterans.."

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"Barack Obama beat John McCain by 300 votes in Wasilla, Alaska....Isn't that Sarah Palin's hometown? Our exit polling in Wasilla confirmed a larger than expected anti-Sarah Palin vote."

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"Texas Democratic officials are calling for a recount in Texas, after it was confirmed that 350,000 votes from African-American and Hispanic precinct in Dallas and Houston were found in the trunk of Tom DeLay's car and we're never counted."

The next morning..

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"Welcome to Fox and Friends...the morning after the election...and its still too close to call and GOP official are calling for a 50 state recount..."

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"We are joined by Howard Dean at this hour and Howard how does the Democratic Party plan to fight the Republicans call for the National Recount."
"Well, Diane...We find it to be completely stupid. Obama won by 22 million votes...Not including the 350,000 found in Tom DeLay's Cadillac. Look, Its time for John McCain to just concede."

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"Welcome to the Sean Hannity radio program....and today...the American people have spoken and....and....B-b-b-b-- SOB! I CAN'T SAY IT!!! I CAN'T SAY IT!!!"

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"Welcome to the Rush Lambaugh program...on this day after the Election...I refuse to accept the takeover of Real America by Fake America."

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"We are now joined live by 'Joe The Plumber' and Joe what do you have to say about the election results..."YES WE CAN! I voted for Obama!"

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"We are joined by Vice President Cheney, what is your thoughts on the results last night? GO F--- YOURSELF!"

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"Well my friends,...We lost by a razor-thin margin, but lets all come together as Republicans...and block any progress for the next four years..."

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"Joe whats your thoughts on John McCain calling for the GOP to 'block the progress' Well, Soledad, its no different from what he's been doing for 26 years...and I like John McCain, but not as much as I did. Hey, John. The Democrats have 62 seats in the Senate now. WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO BLOCK, SIDEKICK?"

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"President-Elect Obama. Now that you've won..Whats next. Well, next week we are going to meet with my transition team, but the first thing we have to plan is Malia and Sasha's first slumber party in the White House."

Final Popular Vote Tally

Barack Obama 63,457,921 60.7%
John McCain 41,058,268 39.3%

Final Electoral Vote Tally
Barack Obama 426
John McCain 112

9 MORE DAYS! KEEP PUTTING THE COAL ON THE FIRE! YES WE CAN!!!!!!!!!

--ChipperbackDemocrat
26 October 2008

Every McCain-Palin rally over the last few weeks has been a source of high comedy for me, yet sadness at the same time. Its comedy because the Confederacy of Dunces are wearing the caps in the open for all to see. "Kill Him!" "Obama is an Arab!" etc, et al.
Yet this is a sign of resignation. They know, deep down, they are going to lose this battle. A powerful genie of change is out of the bottle now. The financial distress, the health care crisis, the war, the entire situation has too many people thinking. If we continue to do our job. If we continue to canvass. Continue to register voters. Continue to make sure that our voters get to those polls, then it doesn't matter. The number will be too great for them to steal it. Too great for them to count on a Bradley Effect. Too great for us who desire a new direction to lose.

We are working toward a celebration on November 4th, but know full well that by winning on November 4th, we are making a firm declaration of war come November 5th. For the next four years, we will be in a battle. The Cheap Labor Conservatives have shown their hand, and they've shown the banner in which they will fly and manifesto they defend. They seek a social charter that is part-"Atlas Shrugged", part-"Birth Of A Nation". They are marshalling their Joe Sizpack Coalition Of The Willing to block new direction at every opportunity. Hopefully, the new direction we seek will yield deserters from their bankrupt cause, but I'm not counting on a flood of them. As we've seen in the last few weeks, their ranks are more verbal than ever and probably larger than we'd imagine.

When I hear the vitriol I've seen at their rallies and the tenor of their distaste and hatred, I am reminded of a dusty football field at the age of 10. We were the poor and working-class kids from inner-city. Some black like me. Some white, but all in the same boat. We didn't have the fancy jerseys and helmet that the suburban kids had. And we always to play at their ballfield. They didn't come to ours.
I am reminded of one game. Their team all-white against us. Every play ended with a racial slur. From the parents in the stands and the kids on the field. We were angry. We were agitated. There was one kid who so got to me..I facemasked the hell out of him and get a penalty. At halftime the game was tied at 6. We whined about what they were doing. The cheap shots, being called "N----" and "Pickaninnies" and "Spooks"...even the white kids on our team where upset. Our coach said..."Don't get mad...GET EVEN...WE EXECUTE...WE SCORE POINTS...WE BEAT THEIR ASS"

The second half...We rolled them up...and won the game 46-6...and if 4 other touchdowns didn't get called back it would have been more.
After the game, It was time for the handshake line. As a team, we refused. As our coaches told the pissed off opposing coach whining about "running up the score."
"You disrespect my kids and expect some sort of respect in return?"

That is how I feel about November 5th. I am not in any mood to shake their hands after we beat them, because even after we beat them here, the war continues. They will not stop fighting for there bankrupt belief. They will do everything to derail a better direction and a better day. They are same people who ridiculed our hope, because they don't have any. They are same people who insult us, spit on us, call us names and now threaten us in the most basic, cruel way that they can.

These people you see at McCain's rallies. These people who truly believe that the country would be better off with a President Palin...They can't be talked to. They can't be bargained with. They can't be offered reasonable discourse. They will never be compassionate conservatives, for the two words are an oxymoron. THEY WILL NOT STOP.

On November 4th we will put Barack Obama in the White House. On November 5th, we continue to have us back...all the way to January 20, 2017...and even then We will not stop.

"She can't breeze past a national audience of 300 million the way she did a state population of less than 1 million."

I have 59 million reasons why Sarah Palin could breeze past an audience of 300 million.

Sarah Palin will be on her game Thursday night, and that game is looking good and saying nothing. Her game is to relate to that person on the other side of the screen. Biden has that same challenge. The key for Joe Biden is to do what he does best. He can touch that person on the other side of the screen and he can make them think.

I've never understood why Sarah Palin became such a big deal. She's proven herself to be Dan Quayle, just half-as-smart. She is the personification of 40-years of right wing media training designed specifically to attract and distract. This is an enemy we know. Its nothing new.

The difference is, the issues are so fiercely undistractible. This is an election where the main issues truly stare us in the face in a direct manner. This financial crisis is not a "missle gap" or "containment" or "Read My Lips", this is as REAL as it gets. The wrong choice is this election is something we will see in immediate terms.

Nonetheless, I am not worried. Like I said before, If that is the best they've got, THEY ARE IN TROUBLE.

Lock and Load! That is what our adversaries say a lot. They beat their chest and talk about how they want to "lock and load".
Bring 'Em On! Isn't that what our adversaries said about Al Queda? "BRING 'EM ON!"

Well, after seeing what I saw coming from Minneapolis this week, I'm locked, loaded and ready to bring it on!

Why? Because, I've seen the plan of attack and if that's the best the Republicans have got, they are in deep trouble.

All Governor Palin's speech was, was a nice "get the white folks scared" speech. It was a veiled attempt pitching the to the inside of the plate and I have a feeling it repulsed more people than it attracted. It was the typical Republican, "We're saying we're for you, but we are really ridiculing you" speech. And I have a feeling in these serious times that most people are thinking serious enough to where it just won't cut it.

Senator McCain's speech was pretty much. "He's gonna do this to you, but we won't" speech. It was dime-store Reagan simplicity. But nearly every undecided voter I know had the same question, What are you going to do? That's the question the Republicans can't answer. Because we know what they are going to do. The Cheap Labor Conservatives have shown their hand. Sarah Palin showed us the real. They have to run the playbook. They have to play the "Race Card" the "We're Tough" Card and they "Osama Two Men Kissin' Card."

They've came out right out with it when took the hatchet to community organizing.





This is why I am eager to engage and defeat these people. Because they have nothing to play with, and we have a serious team that has my Three Bs.

Barack Obama and Joe Biden have the BRAINS. They've showed it so far in the way they've handled this contest so far. They haven't retreated but they haven't taken the low road either. They've done some Sun Tzu. They are winning the moral contests in the temples before the war has been fought this far. Notice how their speeches weren't cheap shot attacks, but put out the difference simple and plain.

Barack Obama and Joe Biden have the BALLS. They've showed it exactly by showing the brains. They are doing this Wellstone-style. Strength through intelligence, heart and hustle.

and there is the biggest B...BELIEF! Why do our Republican adversaries ridicule Obama's hope? BECAUSE THEY DON'T HAVE ANY HOPE. America isn't the high ideal they say it is. This nation and everything in it has become a plaything for them. They see it as a chance to extend their personal power trip. That is what the last 7 years has been about. A few greedy, angry people have decided that they just want to have some power and they set up the mechanisms to do it. Anything that shows a most positive course for the world as a whole run smack into their quest for power. They claim to "Love The Lord" but they worship Baal and Asherah. To them, there is no new frontier, except a frontier they control at any cost. Of course they can't do it alone, so they find their Coalition Of The Willing. They find foot soldiers, most of whom have more in common with what these wannabee Ayn Rands despise. This Coalition Of The Willing, matches their key demographic only in the sense that they share the same skin tone in most cases. However, skin folk rarely equates to kinfolk.

Many of these foot soldiers could never be a "Bush Pioneer". They aren't the K Street jet set, they're the beat up ol' Chevro-let set, and much more of that set are waking up..all because somebody said, "ENOUGH! We can be better!"

Our adversary are afraid of that, because they know what the stakes are. If you build a coalition of people who feel they don't have a stake across all line and show them what their stake in the game is, then its sheer numbers. They don't have enough power-drunk rich folk to tip this election. We have more than enough pissed-off working folk to dominate this election and we have a team that can get organized and get it running...and they have millions of people who will go to the wall to get this one.

At lunch today, I registered a couple more. They've never voted before, but they see daylight and they are running towards it. That's why I'm eager to engage, and that's why McCain-Palin and their minions are afraid.

If we all stand tall and work for this, they'll need a billion Diebold machines to beat us and that won't be enough. They know that have nothing to run on so they have to be ugly. The difference is our effort is stronger, tougher, smarter and our product is better, and now more and more of us are seeing it.

THEY ARE SCARED, AND THIS PAST WEEK THEY SHOWED HOW SCARED THEY REALLY ARE.

One thing I'll say about this campaign to come.

If you are not white, you will learn a good deal about the white people in your life.
If you are white, you will learn a good deal about non-white people in your life.

The GOP will play the race card in this election. Its about the only card they have left to play. They can't win on record. They can't win on policy. They have to hope that they can scare of enough white people to win. And they believe that those folks can be easily scared. FoxNews really believes that.

It would be a nice thing to see such thoughts roundly repudiated. We can only work hard and hope.

I would love to see them play that card, and see it fail in a spectacular manner.