On Sunday, President Barack Obama appeared on CBS’s 60 Minutes to discuss his record, his leadership, the economy and his prospects for re-election. According to a new CBS poll, 41 percent of Americans say the president has performed his job well enough to be elected a second time. After interviewer Steve Kroft mentioned that “75 percent of the people in the country think it’s headed in the wrong direction” and “54 percent don’t think that you deserve to be re-elected”, the president acknowledged that Americans should not feel satisfied right now: “We’ve gone through an incredibly difficult time in this country. And I would be surprised if the American people felt satisfied right now. They shouldn’t feel satisfied.”
President Obama added, “We’ve got a lot more work to do in order to get this country and the economy moving in a way that benefits everybody, as opposed to just a few,” reiterating talking points from his speech in Kansas, which has been called the “unofficial launch of his re-election campaign”. Continue
On Saturday (December 3), Republican candidate Herman Cain suspended his presidential campaign at a rally in Atlanta with his wife, Gloria, by his side. Cain cited the “continued distractions, the continued hurt caused on me and my family”, which undoubtedly refer to the sexual harassment claims as well as the alleged 13-year affair with Ginger White which became public last week.
Cain said, “I am at peace with my God, I am at peace with my wife and she is at peace with me,” before he announced Plan B: TheCainSolutions.com, a new effort “to be a voice for the people” and pledged he would “not be silenced and would not go away”. Continue
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, our community is the most affected by HIV with an estimated 1 in 16 black men and 1 in 32 black women who will be diagnosed with HIV infection.
Today, on World AIDS Day, let’s do something to change those stats for the better. Help spread the word on how we can stop the spread of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS: Abstain from sex, Be faithful to a single partner and use a Condom each and every time you have sex. It’s imperative that we get educated, get tested, get treated and get involved!
Join BlackDoctor.org and Dr. Keith Crawford, one of the nation’s top HIV/AIDS experts, for a live Q&A session today at 4pm CT via the BlackDoctor.org Facebook page. Submit ALL your questions (nothing is off-limits) by simply posting on the Facebook wall or emailing feedback@blackdoctor.org. Your expressed preference for anonymity will be respected.
Check out the debut music video from recently featured artist to watchDaley for “Smoking Gun”, taken from his mixtape released earlier this year Those Who Wait (download here). As previously mentioned, Daley is currently in the studio working on his debut album.
