TAVIS IS A CLOWN! LETS KEEP IT REAL, THIS HOUSE NIG*A IS RECEIVING CONTRIBUTION FROM THE CLINTON’S AND IS REALLY CONFUSED ON THE OBAMA FACTOR! OBAMA HAS THAT THING THAT WE NEED RIGHT NOW AND SORRY TAVIS….WE NEED CHANGE….HILLARY’S TRUE COLORS CAME OUT AFTER IOWA! HER NECK WAS SEVEN DIFFERENT SHADES OF RED!

OBAMA…2008

DID SOMEONE PUT MCCAIN 08 IN ANOTHER POST……..OH MY! WHAT IS THAT ABOUT? DON’T BE STUPID! I LAST I LOOKED GAS WAS ALMOST 4$ A GALLON , WE ARE LOOSING BROTHERS ON A DAILY IN IRAQ, NO HEALTH INSURANCE, ALL THIS UNDER THE HANDS OF REPUBLICANS! RE-EVALUATE BLACK PEOPLE! VOTE THE RIGHT WAY, VOTE OBAMA! 2008!
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I stand corrected, irregardless = regardless. How’s that?

@76, Yeah I put McCain 08 in my post, you gotta problem with that?

You’re voting Obama - great. We’re at WAR, so coming from a MILITARY family/marriage, I’m going with McCain in 08!

Now about gas being $4/gallon, sell your SUV if you can’t afford it. I started riding the bus/metro/walking YEARS ago when I saw what was happening with gas prices and didn’t have to (and still don’t need to). What did YOU do? Republicians aren’t the reason gas is high. Gas is high because so many of you aren’t willing to change your lifestyles and Exon knows it.

Now back to the topic, I think Tom purposely put out false info regarding Tavis to bring back his listeners.

Dr. Cornel Wests’ thoughts on the issue:

http://www.essence.com/es...s/0,16109,1730312,00.html

I love Tavis and will continue to watch his great PBS show but he is full of himself on this Obama. He needs to let Obama do what he needs to do to win and when he gets in the Whitehouse he will focus on issues that eefect the community more than any other cadidate in this race. If he needs to meet with every white person in Indiana and PA let him do his thing. He is tryin gto make history and does need to attend tavis Smiley and Cornell West apporved events. We know he loves King, Tavis, an black people but he is trying to win!!! Obama spent his life working on behalf of poor black people in Chicago and how dare West and Tavis try to diss him during the fight of his life!!!!!!!!!!! Tavis needs to fall back!

@ 79

I personally don’t have a problem with your support of John McCain, but there are plenty of military families that are supporting the democratic candidates. John McCain’s military history doesn’t neccissarily make him best qualified to lead this country in a time of war. Afterall, he who has been a POW and tortured during his time in captivity - admitted himself that torture isn’t an adaquate means of getting accurate information from prisoners. Yet, he voted in support of water boarding?

In 2000 he lashed out against Jerry Falwell and other Evangelical’s and now he has aligned himself with evangelicals. He spoke about a conscious conflict in voting for the Bush tax cuts, so he voted against them. Now, he wants to make them permenant?

You should be concerned about much more than the War. To say that you were WILLING to walk because of rsising gas prices, tells me that you don’t believe there is something wrong with the irresponsible way our economy is being handled. But you seem to have a typical Republican conservative outlook, that whole “pull yourself up by your boot straps” thing and while I respect that but there are those that need help from our government and there are those that if given a little bit of relief CAN then pull themselves up by their own boot straps.

As for TAVIS and TOM! I don’t think he purposely put out false info, I think he was reacting based on emotion. Clearly he was upset and while professing to be Tavis Smiley’s friend he also named him the “Bama of the Day.”

I love the fact that this election process has gotten more people talking, reading, thinking, and sharing their opinions. Personally, I’m tired of Tavis’s Pentecostal sermons on Tuesday and Thursday mornings. I understand Tom Joyner feeling like he was losing a family member with Tavis leaving, but like Jay said, it was time for him to move on. (Their dialog this morning was intense!!) Tom forgot that people are around for a reason, a season, or a lifetime. Tavis, it seems, was a season.

As for Michael Eric Dyson, I appreciate the fact that he is an educated black man but he doesn’t have to use every big word he ever learned in his lifetime in every 2 minute sound bite he has….example MSNBC Friday night. And why aren’t he, Cornell, and others teaching at some of the HBCUs? This is what intergration got us.

My 2 cents.

Wendell , wou should NOT assume a persons entire political portfolio based on a few lines on a blog. War is what I mentioned in that post because I think EVERY candidate for president should have previoulsy served in the military. McCain in the ONLY qualified candidate of those remaining in my book.

Now about why I walk, I walk for other reasons, namly I want to STAY fine and it’s healthy. Furthermore, as a person in the medical field, I practice what I preach to patients.

Typical republican outlook? This time you’ve gone from assumptions to ASSumptions. I’ve voted democratic for the past 6 elections. I’m for affirmative action and believe in a womans right to abortion. I vote based on who I think is qualified to be president, not based on what other black folks are doing or what a particular political party is doing.

I thought you were reasonably intelligent, but you made the same tired ol assumptions so called educated blacks make when another highly educated black has a point of view that’s different than yours. And hell yeah, folks ought to pull themselves up by their bootstraps! I didn’t have boots much less bootstraps, and now I’m going to be a doctor in a few years. Mentors black AND white, minority scholarships, and my own determination got me where I am today.

So in future posts if you’re going to address me again, please do so with some level of objectivity until you know who you’re dealing with.

“And why aren’t he, Cornell, and others teaching at some of the HBCUs? This is what intergration got us”

Are u kidding? First, black folks should vote to Obama because he’s black, and now Black professionals should teach only at HBCU’s?

As a current G’town Hoya WITH Dr. Dyson, I think your viewpoint is very 19th century. The man speaks ENGLISH yet ONLY black people have a problem with that? Wake up man! We live in an multinational world and those who are able to move beyond monolithic, backwards thinking and keep an open mind, will be the most successful.

This is just the beginning of having “Amos N Andy” in the white house! White people have seen nothing yet!!

@ Justice66

I applaud you on your efforts and your accomplishments. Ironic that your posting-name is “justice” I myself am 1 1/2 away from earning my JD from Phoenix School of Law. Look we can trade accolades and accomplishments all day.

My assessment was spot on regarding your conservative ideals. In fact, it took no real analysis — anyone reading your post could see that you have that “bootstraps” approach to success which, by no means do I find ineffective or even unwise for that matter. I didn’t have boots nor bootstraps either, everything I have achieved has been the result of a single parent who encouraged me to go all the way or stand completely still. Those were the options my mothers gave me, and I didn’t choose the later.

While my educational accomplishments do make me “reasonably” intelligent, it is the wisdom I’ve obtained through living that makes me “SOUNDLY” intelligent. Perhaps I should have inserted some objectivity in my last post, but I did not assume your voting portfolio…LOL! I merely challenged why SIMPLY serving in the military somehow qualifies an individual to be President over and beyond progressive foreign policy plans and solid economic sensibility — which (the jury has been out on this awhile) McCain himself admits to being too complicated for him.

He’s even pushing a health plan that according to Elizabeth Edwards, he wouldn’t even be able to receive care because of his previous bouts with skin cancer.

A President should be chosen based on their accomplishments, and service YES! But there are more ways to serve this country than just the military. I appreciate and admire what he endured for all of us, but at the same time I live in the state of Arizona, he’s my Senator and I can tell you I am not impressed. I’m just not. Why? Not because he is Republican, I come from a family that voted for Regan and Clinton. I’m not impressed because he isn’t in touch with common, everyday people and what they need in order to raise their families and achieve a little financial stability. He’s simply OUT OF TOUCH! Now suddenly he is prepared to admit that we’re in a recession? Good job, but you’re a little late. Now he’s ready to detest war and call for some type of end to the Iraq War? Good job, but you’re a little late. Now you’re ready to admit that we should do something about the foreclosure CRISIS that we’re in? Good job, but you’re a little late!

You and I fall under that category of people that they say “don’t really need a President” in that it is implied that because we’ve made some wise career choices, we will be OK no matter what economic struggles the country faces. But nevertheless, if you are anything like me, you have cousins and friends that aren’t so fortunate who do need to vote in favor of their economic needs. You and I both know that McCain isn’t going to do much to rescue to economy from what he is FINALLY calling a recession.

Sorry for the typos but I was speed typing on the keyboard and when that happens, I usually make more mistakes.

No problem with the typos and I appreciate your response.

To be honest, I would like to have seen either Richardson or Edwards (I used to live in NC) go all the way, but I guess that wasn’t meant to be.

It’s the lesser of 3 very not so very qualified candidates IMHO, none of whom is perfect on any one issue. Still, I’m going with McCain in 08 after having voted for Clinton in the Primary.

I really liked Edwards, too me in terms of battling corpoate agenda which is the root cause of the mess that we’re in (needless to say, besides the war) — Edwards was the most outspoken against corporate america. He even proposed alternatives to the media to encourage them to be non-bias as the “liberal media” is supposed to be.

Richards, wasn’t too impressed with him but then again I paid him very little attention. When I get a chance this weekend, I’ll review his legislative proposals.

Did anyone hear Tavis commentary this morning? Very gentleman like and classy.

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I wish him and his company the best. I am not ashamed to say that Obama, Hillary McCain and the rest are bought and paid for. If I give you 100,000 dollars, I’m going to be expecting something in return. I wish Cynthia McKinney and Ron Paul would’ve teamed up.

After the “drug wars” and “gang problems” of the 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s, we’ve finally got a solid footing to work with. Lets start companies, invent ,create and grow again. Stay clean, stay honest, and keep grounded.

When the day comes, I like Tavis and everyone else (hopefully), will be going with as much information as I can get . I’ll be writing Ron Paul. The only decision I could live with.

Ron Paul 2008

Tavis thinks he is the “go to” person for all things black and he needs to go sit his arse down some damn where. When black folks start acting like they have some damn sense and stop doing totally random stupid sh*t for the heck of it then we wont feel the need to have some GREAT BLACK HOPE to speak on our behalf.

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