Enough is enough John McCain and Sarah Palin!

I agree with John Lewis who said, "As one who was a victim of violence and hate during the height of the Civil Rights Movement, I am deeply disturbed by the negative tone of the McCain-Palin campaign.  What I am seeing reminds me too much of another destructive period in American history.  Sen. McCain and Gov. Palin are sowing the seeds of hatred and division, and there is no need for this hostility in our political discourse."

AAPP: OK folks you remember when McCain was asked at the Saddleback Church Forum which three "wise" people he'd consult with upon becoming president, McCain, listed among others civil rights hero Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., "who can teach us all a lot about the meanings of courage and commitment to causes greater than ourself."

Let's not get it twisted folks, Mark Karlin's Editor's Blog over at buzzflash.com says it best, It's a John McCain/Sarah Palin Lynch Mob politics.

As Mark writes, "There was the raw smell of scary stupid ignorance in the air, and even Jon Stewart could barely conceal his disgust with what was supposed to be a comic sketch.

Palin has been going around the nation inciting mobs with the kind of emotional appeals (although in a more coded form) that one used to find at segregationist rallies. A video of some rabidly ignorant crowd at a Palin speech in Ohio has gone viral on the Internet, and it's a brief and scary insight into the reality that the ugly, bigoted heart of America's dark underside is still beating strong - and has just gotten a second life with the incendiary direction of the McCain campaign.

Given that the mainstream media has still not picked up on the video of Sarah Palin welcoming, this year in 2008, the Alaskan Independence Party to their yearly meeting -- which we have posted on BuzzFlash several times -- it is hard to understand how the irony of a governor who has clearly documented close ties to a group that regards the United States as an "occupying force" gets away with the ugly farce of basically calling Obama a terrorist. (Yes, it's in coded language, but that is what Palin and McCain are doing, inciting the fears of the "dark other," the man with the middle name of "Hussein.") One of the bigots at the Palin Ohio rally said that terrorism was in Obama's "bloodline." This is the kind of talk that brought Hitler to power.

In 2008, the McCain campaign has decided to use the Salem Witch Trials as its model for running for the highest office in our great land."

Meanwhile, The head of the nation's biggest labor federation is joining the chorus of voices warning about the increasingly angry crowds coming to John McCain's campaign events. This as reported by the Boston Globe.

At rallies this week, McCain's criticisms of Democrat Barack Obama have been met with shouts of "terrorist," "liar," and other harsh words.

"Sen. John McCain, Gov. Sarah Palin and the leadership of the Republican party have a fundamental moral responsibility to denounce the violent rhetoric that has pervaded recent McCain and Palin political rallies," said John Sweeney, president of the AFL-CIO, which has endorsed Obama. "When rally attendees shout out such attacks as 'terrorist' or 'kill him' about Sen. Barack Obama, when they are cheered on by crowds incited by McCain-Palin rhetoric -- it is chilling that McCain and Palin do nothing to object.

AAPP: Lets not forget how this all started. People throughout America have been tracking it on Youtube. It all started when McCain and Palin has almost incited a color and ideological war.

Is the United States preparing for civil unrest?

As Bush attempts to scare the American people into a bailout plan, as Commander and Chief he is ready to deploy American troops into American cities.

Yes, according to Democracy Now.org a U.S. Army Unit is to be deployed in October for Domestic Operations.

According to Democracy Now.org beginning in October, the Army plans to station an active unit inside the United States for the first time to serve as an on-call federal response in times of emergency. The 3rd Infantry Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team has spent thirty-five of the last sixty months in Iraq, but now the unit is training for domestic operations.

The unit will soon be under the day-to-day control of US Army North, the Army service component of Northern Command. The Army Times reports this new mission marks the first time an active unit has been given a dedicated assignment to Northern Command. The paper says the Army unit may be called upon to help with civil unrest and crowd control. The soldiers are learning to use so-called nonlethal weapons designed to subdue unruly or dangerous individuals and crowds.

Could this really happen in America? I'm just wondering?

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You have read the Headlines, Poll shows big shift to McCain among white women, Huge: 20-point shift towards McCain, or New poll shows white women supporting McCain after chosing Palin ... But hey, These types of stories have been going on for some time.
The question still remains. Will whites vote for a black man for President of the Unted States? Let's not be all politically correct people. Lets take a look at what's going on in America. White folks are flocking to the Republicans. White woman are starting to look at the biggest liars in Presidential history as an alternative to Barack Obama. So now the question is what will happen if Barack Obama loses? Oh is that a bad question to ask? I'm not the one asking the question, but guess what a whole bunch of black folks are.

As reported in The Root, Sophia A. Nelson writes about that Nightmare. "Here is the nightmare scenario: Nov. 1, 2008, Barack Obama is leading in the national polls by a comfortable margin. Nov. 4, 2008, he loses the election, either by a whisker or by a margin large enough to suggest that it was never really close. All indications are that the loss will be blamed on "race" and "racism." People will say that cynicism and fear won out over hope and change, that a "black man" still can't get a fair shake in America. Dispirited supporters will argue that the great American scourge of race, "our great birth defect" as suggested by Secretary of State Condi Rice in an interview last March cannot be defeated.

Recent polls following the conclusion of the Republican Convention have made a possible Obama loss a hot and emotional topic.  Even contemplating the scenario brings with it a host of additional worries. Could anger and disenchantment cause riots in the streets? Could an Obama loss actually set back people's aspirations, leaving them to feel that Dr. King's great dream is not only unfulfilled but trampled? http://www.theroot.com/id/48014

AAPP: Is the question a reasonable on to ponder? what do you think? will whites vote for Obama in November or will white voters go with the Palin/McCain ticket.

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The incumbent Repubican party running on change? Right!

OK Republicans don't get too excited about Palin just yet. It's too early to write off Barack Obama. There is no doubt in my mind that independent voters and Hillary Democrats will soon understand what this election is all about. It's about Republicans, John McCain and their relationship to the failed policies of George W. Bush. It's about the future of our country, and not an old Vietnam veteran who flew a plane into the ground. It's not about fighter pilots of the past. It's about the fight for America's future.

i read a pretty good OP ED in the Washington Post today by Charles Krauthammer. I Don't think I ever agreed with journalist Charles Krauthammer on much of anything. But I sure agree with much of his recent OP ED regarding Palin's Problem.

I'm in agreement with him when he writes, "Here were Republicans -- the party that controlled the White House for eight years and both houses of Congress for five -- wildly cheering the promise to take on Washington. I don't mean to be impolite, but who's controlled Washington this decade?  

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Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton

Barack Obama has to watch his back now that he has agreed to provide Hillary with the opportunity for a floor vote. But it is not only Hillary he has to watch out for. He also has to watch out for liberal rags like the NY Mag.com, the so-called liberal magazine that is dogging out Obama with color aroused statements like, "The description of the Obamas' life together displays no evidence of their connections to black culture."

AAPP: OK, here we go again with Barack Obama and his wife are not "black enough" bull. This time with an academic twist.
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This rag, the New York Mag.com went out to find anyone they could to lend credibility to the story. The found someone to degrade the 21st century black bourgeoisie involved in U.S. politics. Yes, Gayle Pemberton was dug up from some academic cave to say as much silly garbage about Obama as possible. Asking questions like,  "And what does the white world know about black people like the Obamas, really? "The black middle class is the most invisible, unknown group in the country," said Gayle Pemberton, a professor of African-American studies at Wesleyan University.

"There are millions and millions of people in it, and yet we know nothing about them."

AAPP: "Them"? Them says, Gayle Pemberton?

Here are some more excerpts from the article:

One would think that the Obamas enjoy being called the black Kennedys, but maybe they don't. "This Camelot myth has formed around Barack and Michelle, but they come from almost the opposite place in the world from the Kennedys," says Obama's friend Kenneth Mack, a law professor at Harvard University. "If you saw Barack on a yacht, that would be pretty unseemly. He's the guy from the basketball court who used to go around in jeans and a leather jacket. In law school, he was really uncomfortable with the markers of elitism, like even dressing in a suit."

It's a sitcom, this miscommunication between black and white people: In fact, a manager in Hollywood told me that he's getting calls from producers searching for TV writers to work on All in the Family-style shows for next year--they know the country will be hungry for this type of comedy if Obama is elected.

While Michelle hasn't made many interesting statements in public--it's a very small canon of comments, over the course of almost two years of campaigning--they've taken on enormous meaning. She's not quite as smooth a political player as Barack: "Whenever Obama enters the room, there's a sense of calm and satisfaction," says a former campaign aide. "Michelle can get a little more tense. Before she goes on-camera for interviews, we'd have to give her a couple of minutes to compose herself. She'll sit down, raise her hands over her head, and go, `Ugh, God!' " That's a mask she's wearing in public, most of the time, and we aren't sure what is underneath. When she uttered her fateful words about how, for "the first time in my adult life, I'm really proud of my country," she unleashed an explosion of emotion, because everyone who's awake could read between the lines--she was angry about the treatment of black people in America. And anger will not do. Besides, what does she have to be angry about, with her Ivy education and Hyde Park mansion? Isn't she herself an example of the fact that racism is over in America?   More HERE

All of this as Barack Obama's plane was forced to endure an emergency landing after the Democratic presidential candidate's aircraft suffered mechanical problems over Missouri.

A spokesman for the Federal Aviation Authority confirmed to The Times that there had been an emergency landing in St Louis last month after the pilot notified air traffic control of problems. It is understood that the pilot of Mr Obama's plane had warned that he was having problems controlling the "pitch" of the plane and requested emergency assistance.

A controversy has erupted over the landing. According to a US news channel, control tower tapes show that the pilot of Mr Obama's plane demanded an emergency landing. At the time, both the FAA and Midwest Airlines insisted that there was no emergency.

But Laura Brown, a spokesman for the FAA said that she had said minutes after the incident happened that there had been no emergency because of what she had been told by the agency's public affairs staff for air traffic control. More HERE

AAPP:  Right! Something seems just a bit fishy with this story. I wonder what Samuel L. Jackson would say about the snakes on and off of Obamas plane?

I guess Barack has to look out for Hillary, The NY Mag, Liberals and Snakes on the planes.

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Barack Obama was heckled and accused of not focusing on black issues. Obama appeared in St. Petersburg, Florida and was interrupted when 3 black men stood up, put up a banner that said, "What about the black community, Obama?" and hollered, What about the black community?  

Obama told them they would have time to ask questions after the speech was over, and they did. They asked why he was not focusing on issues like the sub-prime mortgage crisis, Jena Six, Sean Bell and "the numerous attacks that are made against the African-American community." Obama responded twofold: telling the hecklers that he had, in fact, been focused on these issues and explaining that there would never be 100% continuity between his agenda and that of the voters.

"Listen, I was a civil rights lawyer," Obama said. "I passed the first racial profiling legislation in Illinois.

I passed some of the toughest death penalty reform legislation in Illinois.

That doesn't mean I am always going to satisfy the way you want these issues framed... which gives you the option of voting for somebody else, it gives you the option of running for office yourself, those are all options.

Did Barack Obama have say all that? Did he have to say, "which gives you the option of voting for somebody else."  

AAPP: I wonder why Barack went there on the brothers? why did he have to give the riot act on voting to the brothers? Was Jesse Jackson right, but just said it the wrong way? Is Barack having issues with black men, or is it a tight rope he is walking on? Candidly, i don't think he needed to go there on the brothers.

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You knew more was going to be coming from Barack Obama regarding black responsibility. The question is, was it a generational shift as media like CNN would like to make it out to be? or was it another Bill Cosby type of message to the poor? There are differing views on the matter.

I personally find it interesting that Barack Obama used the same venue as Bill Cosby did a few years ago when Cosby set off a national debate in a speech to the NAACP where he criticized poor blacks. Like Barack Obama, Cosby emphasized personal responsibility, or the lack of it.

Candidly I have few problems with much of what Barack Obama said at the NAACP convention, However, the problem is he appeared to be preaching through the NAACP to white voters with "code words" that white John McCain swing voters want to hear from a black man running for the presidency of the United States. As International social and political activist and blogger Francis L. Holland noted: "I know he's really speaking to white America as much as to Black America when he says we need to take more responsibility. What he's essentially saying, is "Stopy blaming whitey and do what you can do for yourselves," which is a useful message to Blacks and a very much welcomed and even rather conservative message among whites."

As reported by radio Talk Show Host Tony Brown, News Channel 5 and the blog Tasered While Black, 21-year-old-Barron-Scooter-Collins, First cousin to Mychal Bell, of the Jena Six, killed after being tased nine times over the course of 30 minutes. He was in restraints- in police custody when he died. And the certificate labels the death a homicide.A News Broadcaster reports, "The two other Winnfield Officers who were involved in the incident: Alan Marsdin and Cargyle Junior Branch-- Both are still on the force. Neither one has been disciplined.. Check out the report they make on the death of of a black man. They start of the report saying, It's been five and a half months since the death of 21 year old Barron Scooter Collins, a convicted drug dealer. News Channel 5 has learned Collins birth name is Barron Pikes. And he was first cousin to Mychal Bell, of the Jena Six. Scooter died after being in police custody and being tased. The incident prompted over 100 blacks in Winnfield to protest downtown.

AAPP: This reminds of the case of Deacon Fredrick Williams. One has to wonder how long it will take before blacks and others will organize community by community across America to demand coherent police procedures and citizen/police review (oversight) boards regarding the use of taser force?