Former NYC mayor Ed Koch had some choice words for Rudy Giuliani, as Rudy headed to political oblivion in the Sunshine State.More
'The beast is dead'
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Former NYC mayor Ed Koch had some choice words for Rudy Giuliani, as Rudy headed to political oblivion in the Sunshine State.More
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10:27 PM
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The second Black president?
Monday, January 28, 2008
Author Toni Morrison, who wrote two of my favorite books ever, "Song of Solomon" and "Beloved," and who also coined the term "the first Black president" in this 1998 essay in the New Yorker, referring to Bill Clinton as "Blacker than any actual person who could ever be elected in our children's lifetime," is endorsing Barack Obama. Now, technically, if he wins, that would make Barack the first Black president ... supplanting the former ... first ... Oh, boy... Big Bill's gonna be hot now ... somebody get that More
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12:06 PM
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Barack wins South Carolina
Saturday, January 26, 2008
In a race eerily reminiscent in undertone, if not in intensity, to the Republican race in 2000, the South Carolina primary has ended, but this time, the actor playing the part of John McCain beat the actress playing the part of George W. Bush (and her husband Karl Rove). In other words, Obama wins.More
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11:15 PM
Promise keepers
After welching on him last week, Sideshow Mel Martinez finally decides to follow through on his promised endorsement of Baghdad John McCain...
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3:29 PM
My latest Broward Times article
On Black professionals who choose to remain in the inner city.
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3:28 PM
You can't win if you don't play
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Rudy Giuliani is finding out the hard way that there really is no new way to run a campaign. You just don't skip all of the early contests, get locked out of the news cycle for a month, and then ride in on a white horse in Florida, and expect to blow by the competition after that.
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11:01 PM
The race on race
Sunday, January 13, 2008
The Clinton camp is trying to beat back a fresh tide of negative press over Hillary's rather ill-advised remarks about MLK vs. LBJ in the civil rights struggle. Camp Clinton is blaming the Obama team for the hubbub, and on the right flank, Big Bill is walking the media back fhttp://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gifrom that "fairy tale" fairy tale (he really didn't call Barack's candidacy a product of the imagination, he was talking about the notion that Obama was always against the Iraq war, but there you go ... the media cycle is sound bite driven, and both Clintons should know that by now...) | More
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1:08 AM
Revenge of the white women
Tuesday, January 8, 2008
The surprise win by Hillary Clinton (the former front runner, not for nothing...) in New Hampshire is mainly a surprise because of the polling going in (and the media's fervent hope that Hil would go down in flames and leave the way clear for an Obama ascendancy). But those of us who got caught up in the rapture (myself included, since I plan to vote for Barack, and see his candidacy as terrific for the country) ... forgot the bottom line in politics: it's not about the polls, it's about the ground game. GOTV (get out the vote) is the name of the game on election day, and the polls don't always tell you what's going on in people's minds on the day it counts.
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11:58 PM
Winners and losers
Friday, January 4, 2008
Tonight's winners are pretty straightforward:
- Barack Obama - big win (8 points), great speech, press corps love, and huge momentum coming out of Iowa.
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12:57 AM
A case of missing evidence
Tuesday, January 1, 2008
Pakistan's elections may be delayed as long as until March, and the Pakistani government scrubs the crime scene.More
Labels: Benazir Bhutto, Bilal Bhutto Zargari, democracy, Pakistan
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6:30 PM
