The entertainment news media frenzy that surrounds American celebrity is often highlighted by paparazzi snapping pictures of Britney Spears going to court fighting for custody of her children (which would be without the glare of the public eye an intimately personal and private matter), to surrounding Britney's car as she pumps $4.75 gasoline, asking her stupid questions without much pretense of journalism. Americans become glued into this sort of entertainment while missing issues such as “Time Horizons” in Iraq and the idea that the U.S. President now has the power to “disappear” an American Citizen if they are labeled an “enemy combatant”. The mindless state of the entertainment media bled into the political realm with John McCain’s comparing of Barrack Obama to the celebrity of Britney Spears and Paris Hilton- Barrack Obama, a U.S. Senator and Harvard educated former University of Chicago Law Professor.

What the entertainment media does is distract. Distract us from focusing on an American President who misled the country into a war, without much of a plan to get out of it, who is on the verge of bankrupting the American economy by giving unprecedented and un-asked for tax cuts to the wealthy, thereby draining the national treasury. Perhaps this was also John McCain’s point in his celebrity ad – to distract us from the failures of Republican leadership and policies. To distract us from the Republican Party’s failure to accept responsibility. To distract us from the fact that John McCain does not have a healthcare plan to cover all Americans (he decries a plan to cover all Americans while as a U.S. Senator and former soldier, the government has paid for his health care most of his adult life) CONTINUE

Voting For Obama More Than Just A Vote by Steve DeVore

I grew up in the Oceanhill-Brownsville section of Brooklyn NY, during the 60’s and 70’s. It was a place that the city classified as a ghetto, but those of us living there called it home. Brownsville was filled with Blacks who struggled from day to day not to live a but to survive living, Many lived in broken down tenement buildings that had no heat or hot water in the winter and nothing but a box window fan to keep them cool in the summer. Apartments in these tenements were infested with mice and roaches, as well as drunks and drug addicts in the hallways. Yet even in these bitter conditions we persevered.

Many turned to religion as a way to deal with their situation; rather it was to attend services at your local storefront church or listening to Rev. Ike on your am radio. Others chose alcohol or drugs to mask the pain of their environment. Yet there were some of us who sought political awareness as a way to overcome. We were born at the end of Martin Luther King’s civil rights movement, but we had Rev Jessie Jackson, Rev Herbert Daughtry and Rev Al Sharpton. Unfortunately their leadership can be classified as flawed at best. CONTINUE

Barack Obama Winner (At Last)

Barack Obama has become the first African American Presidential nominee for a major political party in 232 years since the founding of the republic, in 142 years since the end of slavery, and in 44 years since the end of American apartheid. Although Hillary did not actually concede the night in which he clinched the nomination a few days later Hillary gave a resounding speech in support and full endorsement of Barack Obama. The trick is to get her supporters, some of whom feel it was Hillary's turn, to now support Obama.

Now the nominee, Obama must turn all his attention to the general election. Obama must be prepared to take the gloves off in ways and manners that he shied away from in battling Hillary Clinton. CONTINUE

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Is Now The Time? A Look At Obama's Win In Iowa

Obama's win in an overwhelmingly white Iowa may catapult him to the Democratic nomination. Iowans looked pass race and to the ideas and character of the candidate and chose Barack Obama (Dr. King would be proud). Although Obama's victory is historic, Jesse Jackson won several primaries in 1988 but later fell to Michael Dukakis for the democratic nomination. Bill Clinton failed to win the Iowa caucus and the New Hampshire primary but won the nomination.

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Win The Battle Lose The War

There are a few questions that remain after several months of democratic primaries. Here are a few:

Will Barrack Obama and Hillary Clinton bruise each other to the point that John McCain cakewalks into the White House? This remains to be seen but Hillary's now infamous 3am ad does not help Obama if he is the democratic nominee. Any question regarding the democratic nominee's fitness for the office should be off limits to the two candidates but now Obama having lost Texas and Ohio will be forced to respond and vet Hillary a bit in what will likely be a negative Pennsylvania primary. CONTINUE

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Obama's Wright

The controversy surrounding sermons by Barack Obama's pastor Jeremiah Wright have been discussed throughout the web and blogosphere. Thanks to those who seek the truth and YouTube one can see the entire Wright sermon in context where he is quoting a U.S. Ambassador who says after 9/11 that chickens have come home to roost. The controversy reached such heights due to media networks such as the right-wing Fox News whose repeated unfair and unbalanced examination of the clips of Wright fueled the fire. Obama's speech on race was at first hailed by the media as the beginning as an honest dialogue on race. A couple of weeks later the speech is now becoming marginalized caught up in the next spin cycle.

The truth is Americans can not have an honest dialogue about race because most Ameicans are ignorant of true American history and the history of western civilization of the last 500 years. CONTINUE

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