Join me at noon eastern TODAY for the Roland S. Martin Show on CNN Radio and www.CNN.com/live

I saw your CNN segment about moving election day to Saturday. Why not Sunday? Is it because it is the Christian Sabbath? Well, hey it’s just another day for me.

I find it very hard to believe that a man of your stature did not realize that by moving election day to Saturday, the Jewish Sabbath, you would, in effect be denying religious Jews their right to vote, unless they ran out to the voting booths in the few minutes after the Sabbath ends around 6:30 PM or so (thanks to the clocks going back the first Sunday of Nov).

Anyway, those who want to vote will, those that don’t would find some other excuse.

Mr. Martin,
I am a Christian, and I do vote my faith. I am also a Democrat for 20 years, and I will NOT be voting for Barak Obama. After researching Mr. Obama’s church, this is a radical hate white church. I am disgustted that you have not told the American People the truth about “white” and what that means to the Unity Church of Christ.

I support no one of any color that goes to a racist church. For that matter, I believe you should be removed from CNN. I hope that will be done soon.

Hey Roland,
What I think is that John McCain is not prepared for the type of campaign that Barack Obama is running. This is the same thing that happened to Hillary Clinton. They have totally underestimated Barack Obama’s abilities to run a totally organized campaign. When he first talked about change, they just dismissed him and they are still in denial that change is exactly what he plans to do. He is in the process of trying to change the electoral map and I think he can do he. He has the financial resources as well as the right people on his side to do it. He is also going after the Republican’s main base which includes the faith community. John McCain better wake up because he is going to suffer the same demise as Hillary Clinton and he too will be so shell shocked when its over that he won’t be able to concede right away as well.

Patricia (Birmingham, Alabama)

I left this message on the essence blog as well!!!

Pam Says:

any church, then you’d not support,because the segregation that exist in the churches of this nation.. exist so because of a segergated mindset.. and you might want to consider what is at the root of that mindset, if it’s not racist divide, spoken or unspoken…

people make and take stand, on rheotric, but don’t dig deep enough to get the “principal base facts” that constitute what something is or is not.

there are divides within white churches all across this nation, that don’t support racism blending, or mixed race relations, that don’t support gay people and many other things, so .. maybe you may care to think more , than follow media spin, that push anything and everything far out of context, to pain any picture that it cares to paint..

vote for whom you choose, but you may care to think about what you vote for, and know it’s about principals within government managment, not on what church a person goes to… this nation says freedom of religion, and within that it covers also those who have satanic and every other kind of religious element… they have had the so called upstanding churches, that have had embezzlers, and and every other kind of social detriment engaged in their churches, the Catholic has had an ongoing series of showing the vast expanse of child molesting that has a past history that probably goes back a few hundred years. They had and have churches, that still preach racial divide, and yes, these are white churches, they just have a more covert way of stating and implying and supporting it.

We have a nations that spend more money on Porn and i’s various factions than it does on automobiles, and these are not all non church going people who buy this stuff.

so your argument is quite weak as to why you won’t vote for a particular person… and under that banner, then any reason will suffice to support what ever other bias you hold against a candidate..

Racism was taught as a standard in white churches, so much so, they created more and more private schools, to keep their kids apart when school intergration came to exist.. and they supported every faction of racism that created and sustained segregation and the Jim Crow doctrines, that many of the so called upstanding and general congregation of the white Church engages, the KKK claim their move is all about being God directed and they use and burn the cross in their question of racism.. Black ministers and churches were burned, to keep the ministers from talking to the people about equality and standing up for equality, and many of these people who burned not just the minister but the church, were members of white churches, and supported by white congregation within those churches.
Bias exist, racism exist, and when blacks point it out, they are called inciters.. because the old system mandated “shut up and take it< and don’t think or consider asking for anything of equality”..
and when it’s depicted, blacks are called to be using the “Race card” .. which is a white coined term, which implies more to say… ” we will not talk about it and how dare you, tell me that I can’t suppress you” ..
that’s a mindset from Jim Crow doctrine, which stated : that at no time, can a black tell a white they are wrong, by direct comment nor can they infer that a white person is wrong about anything”..

MLK was beat over the head and many other people, by what, “white church going people, to white churches, and many whites resent any black person, to point out their covert ways of being bias, because they are so use to thinking in bias terms, they do it and never are aware of how and what they do, because they do it from a feeling and sense of feeling entitled, where others are not. and the undercurrent of that entitled feeling is, at the base, I’m white , I’m right, and if you don’t live like me, you are less than me, and will not be respected in equal with me, until you ” mimic the way I live”… and they are so ingrained in thinking that way… they don’t see the demeaning and biased manner of being so..

you may care to think deeply, when you make comments about what and why you claim to do or not do something..

and it may come to a matter, you are voting on who’s issues and stands for the political changes of a nations.. is what is at stake .. not what church a person goes to.. because NOW.. we have s society that calls to task the push of any national policy that supports bias.

If you are truly a child of God, you would be giving sure a comment. Christian embrace each other not tear each other down, and they certainly don’t tear down the church. Christian’s like yourself need get down on your knees and ask God’s forgiveness. If anyone stays in a church that long it’s because they are getting/learning and feeling God’s spirit. However, when I hear comments like yours and I do. MY only comment is the I serve is not the God you serve. Re-read you bible and see what God’s has to say about it. Not what the world has to say. When you condemn the church, you condemn God. Be careful what you say. There will be a time when we will all have to answer to our havenly Father. Be Bless.

Touch: Thanks!
Pam: Did your research reveal that a large majority, including top administrators, of the UCC are white?

People who are afraid of having a Black man as president will use any reason not to vote for Obama. During this presidential season, the choices are clear. Vote for McCain and get 4 more years of failed economic policies, a protracted war with rich greedy contractors making millions, more unaccounted billions going to Iraq and into the hands of Republican cronies, more shoddy treatment for returning vets, a loss of a woman’s reproduction rights, more money for the rich, more bail outs for big businesses while ignoring the economic woes of the middle and lower classes, more policies that make college unattainable for American children whose only crime is not being born into a rich family, more ignoring of this country’s crumbling infrastructure, no universal health care, more lost of American jobs overseas, more loss of American prestige internationally. From the tone that this political race is taking, it will be one of the sleeziest, slimiest one yet due in main to the republican smear machines. Don’t vote for Obama because you are upset with what you think his church stands for……..I guarantee you that McCain and his posse’ will finish the job of destroying this country that George Bush began.

Happy voting!

Why is everyone putting Hillary Clinton on a pedestal like she is God come to save the world from its sins?. What has she done in 16 years that we all can say, that is a great accomplisment. Are we any closer to getting affordable healthcare from the time she started her ‘campaign’for better care?. She said if she were president, she would ‘anhialate Iran’. Just who the hells kids is she planning on sending to do this? Chelsey?

Dear Roland I always enjoy hearing your comments and analysis on CNN. Tonight I want to especially thank you for your truthfulness and frankness with regard to the Democratic origin of the Barack Obama is a Muslim smear. I have blogged about the Clinton smear machine previously and found that, like Campbell Brown – who should have known – but appeared unaware – many people are surprised to learn that the campaign of Hillary Rodham Clinton originated this smear campaign as well as others. The breadth and depth of anti-Obama sentiment and the extent to which the Clintons have used wedge issues such as race and religion to divide and polarize Democratic constituencies is breathtaking.

Roland, please continue to speak out and stand firm on the issues that matter to Americans. BTW, I was also pleased to hear John King that CNN’s investigative journalists confirmed that the Obama is a Muslim smear was started by Hillary Clinton, et. al. And if I were a betting person I would wager that John King would not have put forth his assertion if your contributions had not already been so noted.

Roland, you a fool!! Bruh keep representing.

why does the US act like it’s Israels mother or guardian?
what about the rest of the world, there was
more countries, than the US involved in Israel getting
the land in the region.. why are not other countries
claiming the same mothering stance about Israel as the
US does ?? and spending their money, or send money to them
yearly.. as the US had been doing for the past 60 years ??

what is the connection that Israel have over the US, that
is seems to be willing to go to any length and challenge itself
to any degree, for the protection of Israel, when the rest
of the world nations that helped set them up in their land…
are not too concerned ?? and they are not pumping massive
money to support it??

does this question ever come to a point of curiosity’s
??

Touch:
“Why does the US act like it’s Israel’s mother or guardian?”

Maybe it is because the present-day State of Israel is really ‘America’s ARM’ in The Middle East. This Israel may not be the Israel that GOD ALMIGHTY promised to restore. It may be a COUNTERFEIT! What a DECEPTION!

GOD ALMIGHTY will do what He said He will do!

Touch, I have to agree with many of the things that you have stated on here. I think that Pam, is not looking at the issue in more depth. And to say that Roland Martin should be removed from CNN, is really silly and stupid. I mean what has Mr. Martin have done to be removed from CNN? Stupid. Personally, I think that people should vote for the best person for president, not because of the church that they attend. They should vote for the issues that Obama or McCain speaks best to.

Good Morning Roland,

I keep hering Republicans talk about how Obama would be soft on terror and he has a pre Sept 10th mindset. What about maybe the terror threat may lower (not go away) being that a new president who has a favorable perception such as Obama from nations across the globe won’t have to put terror as main campaign strategy. Terror is something that will still be there but I think the Republicans started this scare of terror given Americas policies and cowboy attitude under the Bush administration. Terror should and will not be a distraction to derail the candadency of Obama and to show the world that America can change and lead the world to some global economic and diplomatic stabilaty

Wasnt this country founded on Biblical principals? Then it should come as no surprise that the United States is committed to assuring the safety of Isreal. God said “I will bless those you bless you and curse those who curse you” Isreal is the blessed favored chosen people of God. Choosing NOT to believe that doesnt make it any less true.

Kevin: After reading Mr. Martin’s defense of public officials who received preferential loans from Countrywide on CNN today, asking “Who wouldn’t want to be a VIP?” and arguing that we should think what we would do before judging these elected (and appointed) officials, I am flabbergasted. These are people in PUBLIC OFFICE, they are held to (some) moral and ethical standards, and for someone who is studying to receive their Master’s in Christian Communications, this is reprehensible.

Mr. Martin, I suggest you read more into the teachings of Jesus before giving elected officials a pass for preferential interest rates on their houses. I don’t think Jesus would take a bribe.

touch, you are touched…..

Pam -

Some sense of reason on this blog?

There is a God!!

Thank you, Pam.

Blacks will vote for Obama SOLEY because he is only 1/2 white.

They will claim it is because Obama is for ‘change’!

But, EVERY politician who has ever run against an incumbant has promised CHANGE!

It is because Obama is only 1/2 white. That is all there is to it….regardless of their babble, such as touch’s.

Engage touch in a debate and he will run and hide. Go ahead, try it with any of the schwatzas.

HUGybear -

“Why does the US act like it’s Israel’s mother or guardian?”

Could it be because the Jews are educated in the US and for blacks, being educated is ‘acting white’?

The Jews work hard, are the doctors, the lawyers, the business owners and the blacks are the illiterate.

Go ahead, say I’m a racist and then go look at the facts and get back to me. If you have the GUTS!!

You don’t!

Hi Roland:
I would like to hear and see the Senator Barack Obama to start an aggressive investigation about the so-call “STIMULUS CHECKS”. It would show that he is very in touch with mid-class people.
This STIMULUS CHECKS program has appeared to be another opportunity for this administration and the GOP to use a disaster or a struggle situation for stealing money. How many billionaires we have now after all those tragic events. They did it after Katrina, sunami disaster, even after Sept 11. They apparently like such situations in order to get money and share it between all the accomplices. Meanwhile, people that really need help receive absolutely no help.
In the case of stimulus check, I have talked to a lot of poor people who were desperately waiting for that check. Almost, no one has received the full $600. Most have received even less than $300. I know a family who was expecting $2100, but they jus get a check of $3100. They are so surprised and so sick because it was already in the budget. At the same time, people who do not really need the $600 have received the full amount. They will just put it in their saving.
This looks like, there exists a kind of conspiracy against poor people in this country if you see how the leadership acts against struggling people. They mistreat they own people even worse than in Iran. Other there, you can avoid to be mistreat by behaving in certain way. But here, you can seat in your home and found out that the helf insurance has been made worse by a new law from GOP ; they promise you a stimulus check and you put it in budget, but they do not give to you; the interest rates go up with GOP protection.
Meanwhile, they just worry how to manipulate naive people and bring down good leaders like Kerry, Gore, or Obama. So, they get elected every 4 years. After that, they go back to their own business of mistreating the same people for 4 more years.
Those checks should have one and only one goal. That, to put money in the pocket of struggling people, so they can spend and survive little bit. It was even silly and cynical to exclude jobless claimers. The role of the country is to help its own people and at the same time its economy.
With such package of 148 billions, people should have even more than $2,000 for each, if the government really cares about its own people more then Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Unfortunately, the leadership has taken all the money through the so-called small business. I will bet that some of tthis business exist just on paper. The main reason of their existences is that they are just tools to steal money from the government.
For that, I would ask Senator Obama to open website where each person who has been victim of such scam to register and to put the amount he/she is missing. He has to ask that this money to be refund immediately, even before investigation outcome.
In my view, there is absolutely no reason to take a part of this money. This money is supposed to be for helping poor people and the economy. No one should take this money in order to pay any kind of debt without the person consent.
The Senator Barack Obama has to show the world that he really care about poor people. He has to worry more about them. They do not understand some economic languages like regulations and so on. But, they understand situation like stimulus checks.

HI Roland,

I understand now that people do not watch Bill O’Reilly as they used to do. How nobody has noticed that last week Bill O’Reilly asked Newt Gingrich exactly this: “Tell me if you were Senator McCain what would you do to get people come to you?”.
This is Newt Gingrich answer:” I will ask to the congress to revoke the ban of offshore oil drilling, and you will see how Senator McCain will overcome Senator Obama lead”.
Bill O’Reilly responded:” OK, I expect that McCain is watching this show and let see the outcome”.
And just 2 days later, McCain just did what Newt Gingrich wanted him to do, and he shamlessly said that it was his own idea. Bush in the same scenario started by Bill O’Reilly acted as designed.
What I do not understand is that nobody has paid attention or has talked about this last week show of Bill O’Reilly.

UNITED STATES .. “”IGNORANCE IS DRIVING FUEL COST UP”".. yes.. it is our congress, who is afraid to reach into the pockets of the wealthy, by shutting down ‘speculations’ within the oil commodity.. it’s as simple as they met and bailed out Bear Sterns , that how quickly they can close down speculations in this commodity by general public. and put it back in the hands of the oil companies, who need to trade in this commodity.. they are not going to shoot themselves in the foot, by running the price up, becase it’s in their best interest to keep the prices low, for their own continuation of supply.

Political talk, is just the rhetoric they feed the public, because they are a “do nothing group”.. who can see the simple realism for trying to make everything more dramatized and a bouncing ball fools game..

All this conveys is the wealthy can do as they please and it does not matter to the congressional groups, they will sit back and say nothing, as long as they get their perks, funding and their lobbyist dollars tucked away in their pocket, building their retirement fund..

At any point the Congress could have issued order to the SEC to suspend all future trades, and the work without other governments to push their markets to suspend this trading, and only allow it thru a regulated process, which oil companies would be able to buy and trade oil..

When the element of energy which fuels a nation is left in the hands of the people at large.. then it’s a set up for disaster.. as the greed of man is forefront.

Truth is these members should be impeached and sent home early.. and replaced with people who don’t have the price tag hanging out of their back pocket of what they can be bought for.

All this shows is that America and it’s congress is weak, and has long been bought by corporations and this is a corporate run country, and the madness is this week it don’t know which corporation is running it, and next week a new one steps up… We have “STABILITY” we have a congressional group of yes men and women, who sold out long before they were placed in the seats .. They don’t have the vaguest idea,.. how to use the power the people vested in them. As long as the money comes under the table, and the favors are put in their pouch, they are good too go, to the direction that corporations dictate..
the integrity is gone, they are interested in wearing suit and playing “I’m in charge games”.. and they have destroyed a nations thru their ignorance of principal, and dignity of leadership.
We are not led by gluttons and mob goons.. who follow the dollar and run from the bullet the corporations have put the chamber and pointed at their heads.. They can’t speak truth for conjuring lies, and making deception.
they care only to boast about their opulence and their exaggerated importance, which has nothing to do with respecting the people whom they were put there to represent. they are now corporate arms of a corporate controlled nation.

The RE Market, it takes a simple quick decision to stop the problem in it’s tracks, when the Fed has lowered it rates time and time again, and congress can’t step up and put a Interest rate freeze and a roll back to a fixed 5% for the next 7 years to stabilize the market.. instead they let people go homeless and loose home.. because they are a do nothing, group of egomaniac trying to be more important than the system they are suppose to administer and govern.

this is the level that education has brough this nation down to, people groomed and trained into the glutton that is taught in the institutions, of how to strip and rip the people, and make money their God, they have not regard for life, they live and take their stand by the dictates of dollars.. and then prance around like they are the rulers of the world, when they destroy the lives of the people.. with their clutching hands.

They are weak, they have not depth of devotion to a nation nor it’s people, only to themselves and their corporate sponsors.

they allow CEO’s to rip off companies, and they post not rules, standards and caps on the compensation.. and let greed feed those who orchestrate the Nation from the confines of a corporate corner office.

American Congress is a insult to the Nation and it’s people, they are the vile nature of of organization that has trampled the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, for the sake or a Corporate agenda of greed.
We have failure at every level, and yet the country talks about education, well the demise of Congress is done by so called educated people, and the demise of Corporations is done by Educated people.. so life shows that mans knowledge base is false and faulty.. It is simple common sense that has been murdered by the People in leadership roles. and when common sense is killed, there is nothing left but , pride, wrath, greed, envy, lust, sloth and gluttony. and that is how our nations is run at it’s highest level..

the dollar and the camera.. leads and directs.. and is their addiction..

In flat out fair play, when has a candidate lost as Hillary did , and then raise as much Hell about it, and has this lone wolf, “I’m queen” .. how dare you not give me what I demand.. attitude.. followed by, If I don’t get what I demand, I will wreak havoc in the party and make any kind of divide I can conjure to create.. be it gender or race.. I don’t care.. but there will be no peace because I feel scorned> And that is exactly the disposition and attitude that “HILLARY” has shown to the nations.

We allow this destruction, for the sake of a sound bite and camera images.. while the news media sell pills every 3 minutes.. and dramatize the ignorance and make public the debauchery of a nations.

touch -

If America the disaster you preach, why is it ghe greatest country the world has ever known?

Just because you are a loser, can’t make anything of yourself you blame have to blame YOUR impotence on white people.

What a pathetic little person you are.

What a loser.

A world in turmoil thru the ignorance of mankind, for the sake of a dollar and the illusion of power, the madness that is the sadness.. and it’s exemplified in a million manners..
those who are blind to the world and high on themselves, and those who care not about the world, but the dollars and power illusions they can cling to.. and at the fore front is a nation that once could lead, but can’t lead for it’s own greed and can’t change from how it found it’s birth.. and in the midst, the cycles of madness intensifies.. and the war drums bang louder, the less the ones who want to control find they can control, they beat the drums louder and the cadence of frenzy… is their dance steps..

the fight of change, the fight of equality and the lack of respect for others in the world, nations and it’s many diverse people.. and the march to dominate by force, the force to dominate by subjugation, and the fight aroused by insinuation… and so the patters don’t change, they simply re-arrange.. and the madness continues…

the demeanor within is what is vile… and no matter how it dresses itself, the horns of a hell raiser pierces through.. .. and the tensions and hardship mount.. even as the wagons are circled, for if such cannot dominate they destory..

touch -

WTF are you talking about??!?!?!?!?

You are a babbling idiot!

Go find a village, will ya!

You may not like the way life is, but it is the way it is and it will not change because idiots like you can type on computers. Survival of the fittest is the way it has always been and always will be.

Peace.

Self praisers.. thinking themselves “angles on the sideline”… “they spew !! ” .. but the question remains

“WHAT WILL YOU DO”

this is symbolic of people in many ways, even in this site,
some people are and some become sideline contributors,
some fade in and out, and some get attitudes at others and
out of their spite minded dispositions they may not contribute,
with thoughts they are taking out their actions of such
on someone, when truth is, they really only suppress themselves.

many topics show up in here, if it’s political religion
or life they complain, but they still don’t contribute,
some complain and never put forth any subject, but have
dispositions at the subjects that exist..

we see the landscape be it what ever in life, so many are into
meisms, they get involved in nothing, and claim themselves
above the fray, but many may or don’t care to think,
that doing nothing can be worst than having a position or
a view point or a perspective on something, nor do they know
if their thoughts may be the inspiring element to someone
who will do something..

mankind is a fighter for no reason and some fight by doing
nothing and some fight by malice driven actions.. and some
put a fight for peace by being interactively involved with
life and living, trying to seek, spread, inspire and maybe
provoke, the expression within people, to engage life,
engage living and be interactively involved in the landscape
of the world and it’s events, affairs and actions.

delusions of safety zones, and the world is in turmoil and
chaos, and many battle each other and others for the pursuits
of who has the most toys and who can claim to be the most of
this or that, but does it really matter when none will take
anything, and what is claimed to be gained in land by nations,
if it’s not for the people, then it become the subjugator
of the people.

here we are in a site that has a disclaimer of being a friends
site, and the site bost it’s million plus members,
but yet, you probably may have a hard time counting 50 who
contribute and participate.. some offer nothing, but
come to take in what other offer up, but bring nothing to
share.. that’s the over bearing self-centered natured
of mankind, and this is just a microcosm of it.. and what
do people do, of the few, some claim other to be not whom they
say, and other just come to slam others, and some come as
a joke rider, and some come and talk terror and death to this
or that..

people claim love is within them, but they have apprehensions
and reluctances to share, some have ego driven obstinancy
to sharing, and some get the holier than though as if they
are above sharing, and there have been some come and pronounce
and announce they are leaving as if they are better than
others.. some have come and claim it’s going down the
gutter as if it’s was some holy ground of some sort,
when it’s simply life and topics that are within living..
there is nothing that anyone can write or say in this site
that is not within what is life.. liked or un-liked, engaged
or un engaged it exist and if it did not before they wrote
it, it exist when they write it..

bombs and bullets are pushed by leaders who are suppose
to be wise enough to lead, but become foolish enough to fight
a fight they themselves raise not a sword, knife nor finger,
to do any more than sign a document committing others into
a battle, while they ride and ego of supreme agitator, who
wears a false cloak of peaceful leader..and the wolves
in sheeps clothings fill the landscape of the houses of
leadership… fighting for dollars and earths minerals,
and claiming it to be everything other than what it is, “Greed
Mastering”, masquerading as good will campaigns,
with an undertone of colonialism, seeking to usurp the
heads of other lands, and walk about as if they are masters
of the soil.. and can’t maintain the home they sprang
from, and lead the people as the silent and blind, self consumed
sheet that the masses become… being lead to any slaughter
house along the trail, of the various natures and types
of slaughter they have been slated to meet.

and in the midst people chase romantic fantasy, denying
the need of the other, and claiming themselves as an island
unto themselves..and the vanity of mankind is the consummation
of the people within the living landscape of life.. buying
trinkets, and popping pills, and claiming themselves
not a part of a world that is one world and a unity of dis-connected
people, roaming in a sadness of madness with a scowl on their
face and contempt in their heart.. and contention within
the flicker of their tongue, asking one unto the other for
a guarantee of submission of some nature, while they themselves
hold themselves not accountable to anyone, but seek many
to beholding unto them.. and mankinds, tries in it’s
ways to be as if they are gods, seeking devotions from other
mankind, and yet devote themselves to nothing greater
than the acquisition of seeking other who will act or stand
in awe of them, by what they hold of trinkets, image, body
or booty….. and spite .. within sits in wait to lash out,
to bring down, any for the ride of the egos journey…

and as so .. claiming themselves angles on the sidelines..
and the field of play becomes a desolate dust bowl… with
winds that blow it about and blind the glow of the lights
of life… to not see.. it is, we, and the conglomerations
of the “I”.. which refuse to be the “us”…
as many sit, like they proclaim themselves the angles ..
on the sidelines..

and the question remains.. ” what
will you do”

touch -

What are you ‘poetic’ feelilngs on your belove motherland on this issue:

Amputations, beatings scare voters in Zimbabwe – http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/06/25/zimbabwe.voices/index.html

Whitey/America ain’t dat bad after all, is he/it?

Don’t what OR WHO you are W.Johnson, but one thing is for sure, you are a racist idiot.

Talk about what the blacks have not done and Jews have is a very ignorant statement. IN the bible it talks about prophecies and as several evangelists have explained, the United States will be wiped out just like several countries before and after Jesus. Why??? Because of all the evil, racism, hatred, human trafficking, excessive porn, prayer being taken out schools, unbelievable raping, abusing, murdering, drugs, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc.etc,etc……………………………………………….

You talk about the country of opportunity, well not for blacks for several decades and unfortunately a lot our ancestors had to die just be able to go to any store we wanted to.

All this talking about blacks need to go back to Africa and other stupid statements. Don’t blame Obama for being half white. It all started when the whites went over to Africa, forced the Africans out of their country and stacked them sideways, upside down, in the corners and below deck, on the ships of which several died from suffocation, beating and dehydration.

Once here, they put them in cotton fields and took some of the black female slaves and raped them and sometimes, right out the arms of their husbands. So when they got pregnant, guess what, they were half white and this went on into the early 60′s. I grew up in the sixties. My mom was light skinned and got raped twice by white policemen and nothing was done about it.

Everyone in America are immigrants with the exceptions of the Native Americans and Mexicans.

Surprise, the white man took this country from them. Well as the old saying goes, WHITES HAVE A LOT TO ANSWER FOR TO GOD AND HE WILL BE THE JUDGE OF THEIR FATE.

Off topic but not sure how to contact Mr. Martin who wrote an article about Obama’s “risky move” of opting out of public finance. Mr. Martin’s article failed to mention McCain’s campaign has been informed by the Repulican Chairman of the FEC that they “may be aware” that they broke the finance law in the primaries. Punishment is $$ and or jail. Better homework please Mr. Martin. Remember Karl Rove, whenever he is attacking an oppenent vigorously, it is likely on one of his candidates weakest points.

What’s up W. Johnson??? You keep responding to Touch like a teenager trying to debate a parent. Come up with your own original thought without sitting back waiting for touch to come up with an insightful post!!!

Response to a Politicians – email ( they could not even send an email newsletter, where the message box worked… and on the page, it had it two different places ” if you are having a problem “click here”.. and it just looped thru the error cycle.. well that’s EXACTLY HOW they work as a politician” DO NOTHING, … CLICK HERE AND WATCH THEM DANCE FOR THE LOBBYIST, AND NOT much different than a stripper taking dollars from patrons, except they do. i as politicians fully dressed.. “SELLING ILLUSIONS”…. AND CHASING DOWN TO SEE WHO WILL PAY THEM NEXT..

they are insulting the Nation … and showing the world the levels of ignorance, sloth and debauchery that exist within their inner circle.. of seat warmers… who reside to collect for their retirement fund.

” we as a nations”… have failed… and those who sit in the seats, have become the mad men who slaughtered the constitution, for the sake of camera, lights, sound bites, and pocket stuffing..

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Until people act and do so with expediency, they talk a lot of garbage, until the situation hits crisis..and then they pass weak legislation..

I am waiting to see a politician who actually understand what they are dealing with. “THIS IS THE COMMODITY THAT IS AT THE CORE OF NATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE” why would you Politicians sit on your butt, among the others and talk , talk talk.. do just as they did with Bear Sterns, call an emergency session. and FLAT OUT SHUT DOWN THE SPECULATIONS.. that’s not a ambiguous situation.. OF WHAT IS NEEDED..

Shut it down.. YOU “politicians” DON’T GIVE OVER THE CORE ELEMENTS TO SPECULATATORS, and then claim our country is run by a managing government, when the leaders can take control and send the directive to sec to cut speculation on the spot.. EVER HEARD OF A “cease and desist order”… if so.. THEN USE IT !!.

How do people loose their dignity and what might be integrity, soon as the enter these seat.. they become, lip flappers, who do nothing but pander to the real controllers who is the corporate CEO and their minions, with wads of cash..

Respect for what is a Nation is so far from being any part of this organization called ” CONGRESS”.. it’s a lot of rich people playing .. pay me games”.. hiding under the wing’s of the one who should have been kicked out long ago.. there is absolutely no reason that any person ..should ever get more than TWO TERMS ” never ….never … never.. THEY ARE NOT BETTER THAN ANY OTHER PERSON.. AND IF OUR HIGHEST OFFICE ONLY ALLOWS TWO TERMS, then how in the hell, can these seat warmers in congress get more than two… they have turned our nation into a ARISTOCRATIC nations… and we live not in a democracy, but and ARISTOCRACY.. and being in such, it’s nothing more than the rich controlling and influence peddling over the masses..

Democracy is an illusion pushed, to keep the people quiet, while the Aristocracy… dominates and make slave the people, and claim themselves victors, on petty trivia..

Go Read your Constitution, and when finished, re read the bill of Rights.. and if one heeds it’s call.. you may then find out what your right is to this office, and what responsibility that you should be engaging.. and it just might dawn on you, that it’s not about you… nor was it ever.. you people just seem to not know what that means.. but … simplicity.. is .. your duty should be to serve the people, not bullshit them with a lot of say a lot of nothing and pass the buck and dodge the tree limbs..

“Trails of Tears”

The march in early America in the removal and relocation of the Indian tribes, marked only one of many ‘such trails” and denotes, just another revelation in the brutal mindset of how a country was born. .. the atrocities of a nation are many in the history of a Nation.. and to know of such, is to understand the inequities that are part of the social structure and it’s level within it’s structure..

and parallels of similarity can be seen across many other nations within their history, if understood.. assimilations and indoctrinations.. have plagued mankind for ages upon ages, and yet.. we are in the 21st century and man has still not shed himself of his vile nature of ways.. which subjugate and infuriate, and decimate people in multitudes of way.. that not exclude the “programmed and managed dispensing of sub standard basics even unto the elderly and the children within the comprise of it’s landscape” and yet, it wonders, without want to acknowledge, why the turbulence within is at a fervor of a pitch.

Wealth’s driving of power, is a force of many wrongs wrapped within, and the glitz or opulence, covers it like a storm cloud hiding the sunshine..

the beast within mankind comes to surface far too often in it’s wrath and acts and it’s actions that further demise the poor, the challenged and the struggling.. and the roadblocks, the hurdles and the barbed barriers are a constant reminder in the nature such come to bear it existance thru symbolism of processes.. and the mass of mankind about the world become the subjects, some knowingly and some unknowingly… but nevertheless, subjects..

If nations explored their own history with compassion, they may see what they choose to deny within it’s core, it may see by and thru it’s past, is the root of the troubles it has feed, and breed,that continue to evolve within the confines of such troubles.. and the inequity is evident of it’s systems procedure..

but greater than compassion understanding and wisdoms awareness.. is the “worship of the currency” that has become the God of a nations, devotion, and for the quest of such, the spirits of and within it’s expanse of governorship is subjugated and incarcerated in a procession of destitution, of many forms..and by many means..

eyes are blind, and ears are closed.. and none care to hear the mass, for measuring such by and against one’s self.. and one man become the authority over the majority… and such is far less than democracy, but autocratic process of Aristocrat.. who demand by their acts and actions to forever hold on to an enviornment as an Aristocracy.

Man is allowed the illusion of voting, but thus is only then delegated by and without accord, to an electorate.. again showing the usurp of the democratic process to submit to an Autocratic system.. in the support of an Aristocracy,,

and so continues … “The Trail of Tears”.. on the character change but the “Trail is made of use, in a continual procession… to continue the process, of lining the trail.. with many, of many tears, that make the landscape a “Trail of Tears”.

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Why don’t you tell us about the abortion of African history. The abortion that still goes on. Read about your beloved Motherland’s Zimbabwe you stupid piece of poop?

You are so ignorant and naive.

You mother must be so disgusted she has a child as feeble as you.

Racism, Sexism and Oil are three “KEY” factors in the upcoming presidential elections. Women and African Americans continue to be plagued by discrimination inside of “Oil” services giant, Schlumberger. Based on recent CNN Poles, people are asking lawmakers to take action against “foreign” oil companies operating above the law, such as that of Schlumberger. As commented in the Movie Apollo 13, “Houston, we have a problem.” However, Schlumberger’s discrimination transcends across the globe.

Many people are outraged by the actions of Schlumberger, and continue to ask the question “Why hasn’t Schlumberger been held accountable for decades of discrimination?” Enron’s scandal proved the need for government intervention. Employees lost their livelihoods, as the world witnessed this “black hole” of deception. Ironically, this happened right in our fine city of Houston, Texas. Schlumberger’s unethical acts of discrimination are just as scandalous. The same law firm associated in defending Enron is potentially, the same law firm hired by Schlumberger in my case. Although incorporated with a different name, the objective remains the same, defense of “Corporate Criminals”.

Evidence presented in my case contains an abundance of audio files. My family and I remain at risk of our lives. Due to this fact, an abundance of evidence was turned over to government, law enforcement, special agencies, media resources and others. It does not ensure our safety, but it gives me a peace of mind to know that Schlumberger’s usual cover-up will no longer exist. Place yourself in my shoes and the shoes of the other female and African American victims:

* How would you feel being afraid to go to the restroom?
* How would you feel if a man took out his private part while attempting to masturbate and telling you to touch “it”?
* What if you had many references to your “body parts” that made “You” ashamed and insecure?
* What if you had been touched on your buttocks, or received stares with comments in regards to your breast?
* What if your creditability was attempting to be destroyed by deceptive tactics to show “Promiscuity” knowing that were not?
* What if you were referred to as a Nigge- Bitc-?
* What if you were told to leave due to reporting racism, sexism, whistle blowing and other forms of discrimination?
* What if your children were approached by unknown strangers “tempting” them while asking questions?
* What if you had graduated from college in hopes of achieving the “American Dream”, only to be let down based on your race and gender?
* What if you no longer knew who you were as a result of a significant trauma, inflicted by that of Schlumberger?
* What guarantees would exist that the scattered pieces by Schlumberger could ever be whole?
* Why are single mothers under attack based on character and creditability after reporting sexual harassment within Schlumberger?
* Is Justice, Just based on the amount of Money profited by Schlumberger?
* What gives Schlumberger the power to take away the constitutional and human rights of Women and African Americans?
* Does the “Right to Privacy” exist for Women and African Americans employed by Schlumberger?

Welcome to my daily nightmare. If it happened to me, it could happen to you as well. What are th odds of other women from different geographical locations with mirrored allegations of discrimination? In all honesty, I feel as if I had been “RAPED”. A rape of my self esteem, a rape of my career, a rape of my mental, physical, emotional and economic livelihood. I am a victim of Sexual Harassment within Schlumberger, as well as, other discriminatory practices. The feelings of shame and despair haunt me each day.

How can a company of this size not be held accountable for its actions? In my opinion, money has allowed them to “Play” god. Money is one of the reasons that Schlumberger confidently continues to “Discriminate” and “Break” the laws. Schlumberger was found “GUILTY” on allegations of Fraudulent U.S. Visas and Perjury, among others. Wasn’t the horrific tragedies of “911” enough? Also, let’s not forget about previous and recent inquires of “Kickbacks.” The Rich has gotten Richer, but the Poorer has gotten Poorer… What’s wrong with this picture? As Schlumberger virtually laughs all the way to the bank, good people are sacrificing at the gas pumps.

Women are people too, and my objective for writing this “Self-Therapy” is to discourage discrimination in Schlumberger , continue to alert our government and most importantly, to be of encouragement to other Women and African Americans. You are not alone.

“Bad things happen, when good people do nothing.”

Just review the CNN News Report that was listed among “Breaking News”. Race and Gender are the major issues haunting America , and in our case this was proven by Schlumberger.

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/politics/2008/06/27/cooper.obama.women.vote.cnn

Additional Information:

http://www.victimsofslb.com

God Bless

To all the Hillary Clinton supporters who will flip flop and vote for John McCain like Cynthia Ruccia who thinks the democrats are sexist and vary disrespectful to Hillary in her campaign run aginst Sen. Obama. Listening to Bill and Hillary after Obama won his first state in Iowa was very disturbing to me ,the next time I seen her she was crying, because the state she thought she had won backed Obama by a landslide. I guess crying worked for 1 state and 1 spin. Obama knew he had to keep it very clean and professional work harder to get the black vote that Bill and Hillary owned in the 90′s. Durning the South Carolina Campaign Bill said some racist remarks that hurt his wife Presidental run. Obama wins South Carolina BIG. Their was no SEXIST in the campaign run like Cynthia Ruccia said on Larry King Live. It was a strong fight between the first African American and the first white women running for office. Exp… from crying, to not wanting the mexican labor union workers to vote in Las Vagas, to the slum lord remarks, to shame on you Obama!!!. We the people of the united state in order to proform a perfect nation belives in change. Independents , Republican and Democrats have one thing in common , NO MORE GEORGE W. BUSH…. ROBERT WEXLER FOR VP.

P.S. I am an Independent 1st time voter out of Phx.A.Z. (Mc.Cains home state), I regestered over 3 months ago and have not recevied my voter identification card. I have 253 1st time voters in my state and because of the rules in my stste Independent could not vote. John McCain has not succored our borders in Arizona. Governor Janet Napolitano who is working very hard on the Illegal Immigration laws and protecting our borders.

This email is circulating, any truth to it…
Bill Clinton says Barack Obama must ‘kiss my ass’ for his support

I don’t think any of us are surprised
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/barackobama/2211812/Bill-Clinton-says-Barack-Obama-must-'kiss-my-ass'-for-his-support.html#continue

Bill Clinton is so bitter about Barack Obama’s victory over his wife Hillary that he has told friends the Democratic nominee will have to beg for his wholehearted support.
Bill Clinton is still very bitter that Barack Obama beat his wife Hillary
Mr Obama is expected to speak to Mr Clinton for the first time since he won the nomination in the next few days, but campaign insiders say that the former president’s future campaign role is a “sticking point” in peace talks with Mrs Clinton’s aides.
The Telegraph has learned that the former president’s rage is still so great that even loyal allies are shocked by his patronising attitude to Mr Obama, and believe that he risks damaging his own reputation by his intransigence.
A senior Democrat who worked for Mr Clinton has revealed that he recently told friends Mr Obama could “kiss my ass” in return for his support.
A second source said that the former president has kept his distance because he still does not believe Mr Obama can win the election.
Mr Clinton last week issued a tepid statement, through a spokesman, in which he said he “is obviously committed to doing whatever he can and is asked to do to ensure Senator Obama is the next president of the United States “.
Mr Obama was more effusive at his unity event with Mrs Clinton on Friday, speaking fondly of the absent former president, who attended Nelson Mandela’s birthday celebrations in London instead. The candidate told the crowd: “I know how much we need both Bill and Hillary Clinton as a party. They have done so much great work. We need them badly.”
But his aides said he has so far concentrated on cementing relations with Mrs Clinton first. They say they are content to let relations with Mr Clinton thaw gradually.
It has long been known that Mr Clinton is angry at the way his own reputation was tarnished during the primary battle when several of his comments were interpreted as racist.
But his lingering fury has shocked his friends. The Democrat told the Telegraph: “He’s been angry for a while. But everyone thought he would get over it. He hasn’t. I’ve spoken to a couple of people who he’s been in contact with and he is mad as hell.
“He’s saying he’s not going to reach out, that Obama has to come to him. One person told me that Bill said Obama would have to quote kiss my ass close quote, if he wants his support.
“You can’t talk like that about Obama – he’s the nominee of your party, not some house boy you can order around.
“Hillary’s just getting on with it and so should Bill.”
Another Democrat said that despite polls showing Mr Obama with a healthy lead over Republican John McCain, Mr Clinton doesn’t think he can win.
The party strategist, who was allied to one of the early rivals to Mr Obama and the former First Lady, said Mr Clinton was “very unhopeful” about the nominee’s prospects in November.
“Bill Clinton knows the party will unite behind Obama, but he is telling people he doesn’t believe Obama can win round voting groups, especially working-class whites, in the swing states,” the strategist said.
“He just doesn’t think Obama will be able to connect with the voters he needs.”
Joe Klein, the author of Primary Colours, a fictionalised account of Mr Clinton’s 1992 election, who has known the former president for 20 years, said he also heard that he was “very, very bitter”, from people who have spoken with him.
“It’s time for him to get over it or go off and do his charitable work. He knows the rules of the road. What’s going on now is kind of strange. I think his behaviour is really, really shocking.”

You should not be in journalism. You are ill informed and a scar on our society.

I, and many others, hope you stop your nonsensical blatherings.

Also, I would rather bludgeon my skull with a Curious George book than ever read your idiotic rants in a book of nonsense mixed with foolish and meandering waste. Shame on those who would dare publish you.

I find in amazing that people are saying that they are not voting color yet when you look at the polls and who is saying whom they are voting for it is all people of color saying they are voting for Obama. Why is that? I think it is unsaid in this country. People of color will vote no matter what for people of color over someone that will do a good job. I happen to think that Barak will do a better job than McBush anytime and twice on Sunday. I think Barak is a better person because he is young and full of ideas. Maybe he doesn’t have a lot of experience but that is one of the things I like about him. New ideas or a fresher look? Many, let’s see what can be done.
Oh, I’m white by the way. He has my vote because I think he would do a better job.

Israel. Why do we suppor them? Look at all the Empires and Leaders that have tried to kill the Jews over the Centuries. Look at history. How did those countries fair? Not very well. I wouldn’t dare go after them if I were a leader. My nation just might crumble as well. Other nations not helping out? I would say they are just afraid to stand up for their beliefs.

People need to stop thinking about color and religion and keep that out of politics. Look at the Character of that person and go from there. There are a lot of people out there that would be great leaders but are put down because of the color of their skin or their religion.
Remember it is hate that is driving Osama and his ilk. They hate us because we are more inclusive than his homeland and religion.
The USA is not a melting pot. It is more of a Mosaic. (Hope I spelt that right) We are made up of so much that individually we do well but together we do great.
Vote Independence Party where a Independence Party Candidate is running and you will see real change.

I really admire your writings and generally agree with most of thoughtful your points, however, I believe after reading your CNN column on the Texas shooting of two burglars, we may have a major difference of opinion. Taking a life should never be done lightly and I do not feel executing unarmed men is an honorable thing to do, BUT if someone comes into my nieghborhood and threatens my nieghbors or their property, they will be facing us all with dire consequences. If everyone felt the same way, crime would be lessened significantly and those dire consequences would be less likely. I believe in both law and order. If we had better police response, prisons that did more than warehouse and early-release criminals and a society that was well-armed and willing to use weapons to defend their homes/citizens, we would soon have better lives. This man in Texas was not a model of good judgement, but he can move next door to me anyday.

I wish you well and enjoy your column very much. I’m amazed and disappointed at the venom contained in some of these entries. CNN is lucky to have you and I appreciate even those issues where we don’t see eye-to-eye. Peace.

Roland Martin you make me want to throw up .I can not longer watch CNN at 8:00PM anymore. You and this Obama thing you have going on. Your man Obama said in the primaries that he would pull the troops out in 30 days. Now he is changing his tune. Obama clearly states that he wants to pull out the troops in a proper and dignified way. Isn’t that what John McCain has been saying all along? Or maybe I need to get a new battery for My hearing aid. Obama seems to be flip flopping on this issue and all the others. I sit here al day and watch him. He is nothing but a flip flopper and I guess so are you. once. Obama is nothing but a flip flopper and a liar. Man lies about everything. Not being a Muslim Oh please of course he is. His half brother is one and I saw him in one of these Muslim get ups. Not knowing about the two good Reverends. Oh please. The man and his wonderful anti-white wife sat in this church for twenty years listening and did not get up and leave. You mean to tell me Roland that he did not know this about them? What’s your explanation for this lie?

If he wins, which god forbid we will have four years of lies.

John McCain recharging his campaign, Thank god. Now Obama is going to get a good run for his the peoples money and his felon friends money. Oh by the way I heard that Obama fired one of people he appointed to select a VEEP for him. I hear it is because the man was a felon with regard to his home/mtge as so did Obama . Some kind of fishy mtge rate deal. Roland what’s you answer for this? You know what now that Caroline Kennedy is on this committee her grandfather sold guns to Hitler They were buddies. I think that Obama should pick him as his running mate. Let’s see the kind of action he’ll get. What do you think Roland?

Roland please get off the CNN 8:00PM slot I want to start watching it again.

You were right McCain is afraid on the evengelicals. He is afraid that he will be found out not to be a christain. I refer you to Jessica Yelling’s report after the program where Hilary and Obama discussed their faith. The question was raised to Jessica why McCcain refured to participate in the program? Jessica said that McCain does not like to talk about his faith, he is very uncomfortable speaking about faith and she said that he was not baptised.

In addition they know that he place above the last person in class at military school(this is a known fact). He probably would not have made the list at all werre it not for his father and grandfather being graduates of the school. To fail him would have been to embassing to the family (McCain was a party animal in school). Here we go again with an insecure not so intelligent person running for the president.

Note: I enjoy your comments on CNN so much. Keep up the ggod work.

Now that McCain has decided to turn negative in his speeches and ads, Barack Obama needs to respond in kind! Show McCain as a flip flopper and a clone of Bush.

The right wing not only hates Barack Obama, they hate liberals and progressives in general and are going to throw everything they have at Barack Obama. Billions of dollars and power are at stake, and those in power or influence in the conservative movement are very afarid.

Sean Hannity of Fox, Rush Limbauch and thousand of others are on the air don’t provide a balanced view, but promot John McCain or deride Barack Obama.
You will never hear anything positive about Barack Obama from the Republican commentators on Fox News,, MSNBC or other stations. They seem more skilled in what is called the smooth attack

Read the blogs or article comments and you would shocked at the negative mean comments from some Americans. I guess there were some white folks that wanted to treat the Native Americans in a fair and humain fashion, but they got over rulled by the mean majority. I guess some white Americans wanted to help blacks get out from slavery and opresssion, but they were over rulled for many years by a mean majority.

Recently top economic advisors commented that the main street media dropped the ball since 911 and continue throughout the campaign to not explain what is happening to the economy , the energy crisis, or any serious subject, but only focus on who said what, the horse race or other stupid topics. They do no research or have any extensive coverage as PBS or CSpan does, because that would cost money or staff.

The difference between the main stream media and the right wing media, is the right wing has learned to put the issues in a few easy to understand talking points. They have crafted their platform on issues that are popular and easy to understand by the Joe Six Pack.

Drill for oil to lower oil prices – let your grand kids worry about the polar bears. I want mine now!
Lower taxes without explaining where the money is going to come from to run government
Endless war until the military gets all their toys and promotions
Seal the border with concrete fence _ No more brown people
End entitlements – Blacks are lazy
Bigger corporations that take over the role of government
Allow the rich to get richer
Promote a flat tax
End earmarks- The biggest ear marker was the recently indited Republican from Alaska

The democrats need to reduce their platform to a few easy to understand bullets.

I would strart ads showing the aftermath of Katrina
Home Forclosures
People losing their home
Jobs going overseas
Immigrants being rounded up
Retirement savings going up in smoke
Taited food causing Americans to get sick and die – Food safety inspections tilted to big business
Wall street bailout and main street picking up the tab
Run articles about bounus time on wall street and hos the bankers stil get their million dollars bonuses
Litmus test for jobs in the goverment agencies
Warrantless wiretapping without the American people approving or knowing the extent
No plans for Energy or the high price of gasoline
High food costs and increase in inflation
Deteriating infrastuctures in all major cities
Students are graduating that can’t read or write
College becoming unaffordable
Companies are not giving raises of pension anymore , but spending all their resources overseas
Corporations getting government contracts using tax shelters to avoid taxes
Fish and marine life are dieing and coastal areas are becoming poluted.

Corporations such as banks, medical and others with government contracts are outsoucing parts of their operations to foreign countries such as India.

Finally , Congress seems incapable of handling the running of the country anymore. Hearings have 5 minute limits and many of the witnesses do not get to respond as the congressmen or senators seem to like to hear themselves talk. Republicans are biased toward their favorite issues and offer no balanced inqueries.

W Johnson…you are a fool. I’m a white Jew, and I’m voting for Obama. This is not all about race.

I read your article on Bill Clinton. It I were the type of person to call you an idiot, I would do so. The Clintons are wise enough to see that Obama has never accomplished anything other than having some stellar speaches. He s a narcisit on steriods, and he is ego driven with his stardome. What has he done? What can he do? Nobody knows. He can write inspiring speaches, and promise the hungry to feed them, the students to pay their way, the retired to take care of them in their aging years. If he was able to do any of these things, he would have a history of helping others. I can’t even stand looking at him, because all I see is pure arrogance. He had a minister who said it like it is, Obama is going to say whatever it takes because he is a politician. Should Bill be pissed because this is the person running for the Presidency under the party he has always supported? Hell Yes !!

Just read your comments on CNN regarding Bill Clinton. I hear commentators talk about his perceived racist remarks or in your case racist inferences yet no one actually says what he said that was racist. I have never heard the man utter a racist comment or inference and disagree totally that Obama’s campaign was afraid of the race card. They knew that they would have to do something drastic to pull the AA vote away from the Clintons and that’s exactly what happened in S.C. If I were Bill I’d be upset too.Obama goes to southern states and uses terminology such as bamboozle, hoodwinked and the ol’ okey dokey and knows exactly what his trying to infer. You’ve got it backwards Mr. martin, it was Obama and not the Clintons that injected race into the primary. He was the only one that had anything to gain by doing so.

Someone tell me how does McCain have all of the answers to the economy now that it is an election year when he has sat in congress for 26 years and did nothing in the past eight years?

To me, he is the biggest fake ever and certainly he is not a maverick!

I Understand why we elect a President with the electorial vote. I am a 74 year old white male born and raised in S.C. and live in Virgina, and I don’t care what the race, age, or gender, is. It takes a fool to vote against his or her interest. Only the wealthy and the ignorant vote for a Republican. When I say ignorant, I mean ignorant to the knowledge of the platform issues for each party. why should I vote for a man and his party when they want to take away my livelyhood by taking away my Social Security and continuely reduce my medicare benefits. What if congress had gone along with Bush to Privitize Social Security and later the stock market dropped. Where would we be! Wake up America! The Republicans have been againist universal Health Care in this country for sixty (60) years. Don’t tell me it won’t work, I lived under it for 14 years. I’ve heard all the Republican ecuses.

The Republican National Convention revealed John McCain’s entire campaign, and what they are for, the same old thing. It isn’t about what is best for America. It’s not about how to repair our economy or fix our health system. It isn’t about ending the war or bringing our troops home. And it is definitely not about us, we the people.

No, John McCain’s campaiqn rest solely on himself. His life story and the Republican Party. Its been said he doesn’t get it, I say he doesn’t have it to get it with.

You speak for me. I know that everyone is not against Obama because of his color.Those are the people who accept what God has made.the prejudiced people need to get saved. And for the race mixing comments, race was mixed on the slave ship and on the plantations. By the way I’m a black American who had to vote for a white man all my voting life. P.S. whites are going to be the minority and Hispanics the majority so suck it up, we had to. I love all God’s creation. I heard a man on the news say that the only thing that a black man can do about change is with a cup in his hand. He was nasty looking and talking like a fool.

Roland, I just don’t get the republicans in “their “rational interpretation of the issues. Are they seeing and hearing what the other half of american is?

We are heading for Hurrican McCain/Palin if views continue to go in this directions. They strongly believe that they are “flaseless “and “right” in their views.

They made fun of Obama being a “rock star” and rush to Alaska to get their own. They fault him for not having enough foregin affair knowledeg and poke fun of him chosing Mr. Biden who has great knowledge which they indicated he chose because of the lack of. Yet, they select one who has less knowledge of foreign affairs must less knowledge of what is going on in her own country regardless of the party. Shouldn’t she have known the doctrine of the republican party that’s they are going to change and shake up? It would be a good start to know what they are going to shake up.

The republican accuse the democrats of flip flopping and they do the same in the same breath. They insists that the surge is a success, yet those that are there can’t say the same. The democrats talked change and the republican change to “reform”. Obama, says “enough is enough”- then you hear McCain saying the same and he can’t even read it right.(smile).

McCain is following on Obama’s heels. Appears to me like a follower. Obama can make a change. He has succeed on making the republican party to change their whole platform and copying his strategy and repeating the words from his mouth.. Sounds like a leader to me.

Sarah Palin take that and put it in your pipe and smoke it. Oh, by the way Ms. Clinton “ain’t gone No Where”.

McCain/Palin NO WAY !!
America please do your own homework we are in critical times.

Why hasn’t anyone demanded Sen. McCain’s Health Record be exposed? The media should have been all on this. Instead, lip stick on a pig gets more coverage. This is frightening to think that this guy may be assuming one of the most powerful positions in the world, and he is only a heartbeat away from death. Not to mention that the physical health and mental capacity of our country’s leaders are of interest to our enemies. What bothers me is that some White Voters are willing to put McCain in office knowing these concerns exist. As a Black Independent Voter, I actually think that McCain has some good ideas for the country. However, taking his health and his choice for VP in consideration, I believe that if he is elected President and dies in office, he will leave us in a crisis three times as worst as the Bush Administration. McCain’s health is a time bomb waiting to implode (defined: to collapse violently within).
Signed: Make the choice for the future of our country,