Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton

Barack Obama has to watch his back now that he has agreed to provide Hillary with the opportunity for a floor vote. But it is not only Hillary he has to watch out for. He also has to watch out for liberal rags like the NY Mag.com, the so-called liberal magazine that is dogging out Obama with color aroused statements like, "The description of the Obamas' life together displays no evidence of their connections to black culture."

AAPP: OK, here we go again with Barack Obama and his wife are not "black enough" bull. This time with an academic twist.
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This rag, the New York Mag.com went out to find anyone they could to lend credibility to the story. The found someone to degrade the 21st century black bourgeoisie involved in U.S. politics. Yes, Gayle Pemberton was dug up from some academic cave to say as much silly garbage about Obama as possible. Asking questions like,  "And what does the white world know about black people like the Obamas, really? "The black middle class is the most invisible, unknown group in the country," said Gayle Pemberton, a professor of African-American studies at Wesleyan University.

"There are millions and millions of people in it, and yet we know nothing about them."

AAPP: "Them"? Them says, Gayle Pemberton?

Here are some more excerpts from the article:

One would think that the Obamas enjoy being called the black Kennedys, but maybe they don't. "This Camelot myth has formed around Barack and Michelle, but they come from almost the opposite place in the world from the Kennedys," says Obama's friend Kenneth Mack, a law professor at Harvard University. "If you saw Barack on a yacht, that would be pretty unseemly. He's the guy from the basketball court who used to go around in jeans and a leather jacket. In law school, he was really uncomfortable with the markers of elitism, like even dressing in a suit."

It's a sitcom, this miscommunication between black and white people: In fact, a manager in Hollywood told me that he's getting calls from producers searching for TV writers to work on All in the Family-style shows for next year--they know the country will be hungry for this type of comedy if Obama is elected.

While Michelle hasn't made many interesting statements in public--it's a very small canon of comments, over the course of almost two years of campaigning--they've taken on enormous meaning. She's not quite as smooth a political player as Barack: "Whenever Obama enters the room, there's a sense of calm and satisfaction," says a former campaign aide. "Michelle can get a little more tense. Before she goes on-camera for interviews, we'd have to give her a couple of minutes to compose herself. She'll sit down, raise her hands over her head, and go, `Ugh, God!' " That's a mask she's wearing in public, most of the time, and we aren't sure what is underneath. When she uttered her fateful words about how, for "the first time in my adult life, I'm really proud of my country," she unleashed an explosion of emotion, because everyone who's awake could read between the lines--she was angry about the treatment of black people in America. And anger will not do. Besides, what does she have to be angry about, with her Ivy education and Hyde Park mansion? Isn't she herself an example of the fact that racism is over in America?   More HERE

All of this as Barack Obama's plane was forced to endure an emergency landing after the Democratic presidential candidate's aircraft suffered mechanical problems over Missouri.

A spokesman for the Federal Aviation Authority confirmed to The Times that there had been an emergency landing in St Louis last month after the pilot notified air traffic control of problems. It is understood that the pilot of Mr Obama's plane had warned that he was having problems controlling the "pitch" of the plane and requested emergency assistance.

A controversy has erupted over the landing. According to a US news channel, control tower tapes show that the pilot of Mr Obama's plane demanded an emergency landing. At the time, both the FAA and Midwest Airlines insisted that there was no emergency.

But Laura Brown, a spokesman for the FAA said that she had said minutes after the incident happened that there had been no emergency because of what she had been told by the agency's public affairs staff for air traffic control. More HERE

AAPP:  Right! Something seems just a bit fishy with this story. I wonder what Samuel L. Jackson would say about the snakes on and off of Obamas plane?

I guess Barack has to look out for Hillary, The NY Mag, Liberals and Snakes on the planes.

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Barack Obama was heckled and accused of not focusing on black issues. Obama appeared in St. Petersburg, Florida and was interrupted when 3 black men stood up, put up a banner that said, "What about the black community, Obama?" and hollered, What about the black community?  

Obama told them they would have time to ask questions after the speech was over, and they did. They asked why he was not focusing on issues like the sub-prime mortgage crisis, Jena Six, Sean Bell and "the numerous attacks that are made against the African-American community." Obama responded twofold: telling the hecklers that he had, in fact, been focused on these issues and explaining that there would never be 100% continuity between his agenda and that of the voters.

"Listen, I was a civil rights lawyer," Obama said. "I passed the first racial profiling legislation in Illinois.

I passed some of the toughest death penalty reform legislation in Illinois.

That doesn't mean I am always going to satisfy the way you want these issues framed... which gives you the option of voting for somebody else, it gives you the option of running for office yourself, those are all options.

Did Barack Obama have say all that? Did he have to say, "which gives you the option of voting for somebody else."  

AAPP: I wonder why Barack went there on the brothers? why did he have to give the riot act on voting to the brothers? Was Jesse Jackson right, but just said it the wrong way? Is Barack having issues with black men, or is it a tight rope he is walking on? Candidly, i don't think he needed to go there on the brothers.

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You knew more was going to be coming from Barack Obama regarding black responsibility. The question is, was it a generational shift as media like CNN would like to make it out to be? or was it another Bill Cosby type of message to the poor? There are differing views on the matter.

I personally find it interesting that Barack Obama used the same venue as Bill Cosby did a few years ago when Cosby set off a national debate in a speech to the NAACP where he criticized poor blacks. Like Barack Obama, Cosby emphasized personal responsibility, or the lack of it.

Candidly I have few problems with much of what Barack Obama said at the NAACP convention, However, the problem is he appeared to be preaching through the NAACP to white voters with "code words" that white John McCain swing voters want to hear from a black man running for the presidency of the United States. As International social and political activist and blogger Francis L. Holland noted: "I know he's really speaking to white America as much as to Black America when he says we need to take more responsibility. What he's essentially saying, is "Stopy blaming whitey and do what you can do for yourselves," which is a useful message to Blacks and a very much welcomed and even rather conservative message among whites."

As reported by radio Talk Show Host Tony Brown, News Channel 5 and the blog Tasered While Black, 21-year-old-Barron-Scooter-Collins, First cousin to Mychal Bell, of the Jena Six, killed after being tased nine times over the course of 30 minutes. He was in restraints- in police custody when he died. And the certificate labels the death a homicide.A News Broadcaster reports, "The two other Winnfield Officers who were involved in the incident: Alan Marsdin and Cargyle Junior Branch-- Both are still on the force. Neither one has been disciplined.. Check out the report they make on the death of of a black man. They start of the report saying, It's been five and a half months since the death of 21 year old Barron Scooter Collins, a convicted drug dealer. News Channel 5 has learned Collins birth name is Barron Pikes. And he was first cousin to Mychal Bell, of the Jena Six. Scooter died after being in police custody and being tased. The incident prompted over 100 blacks in Winnfield to protest downtown.

AAPP: This reminds of the case of Deacon Fredrick Williams. One has to wonder how long it will take before blacks and others will organize community by community across America to demand coherent police procedures and citizen/police review (oversight) boards regarding the use of taser force?

There is a lot of hating going on regarding one black woman and black folks in general. Have you been watching all the reporting in the national media? One black woman seems to have pissed off a whole bunch of white folk, and a lot of black folks too. There are many black bloggers who support the sister, yet are concerned like black blogger, Black Super Woman  who says, "I’m all for artistic expression, and think that she was definitely expressing herself in an artistic way by doing this.  I saw the tape on the news and it was a beautiful rendition of Lift Every Voice.  I just hope that this doesn’t turn into a “Black folks think they are uppity now that Obama is the nominee and if we elect him they are going to be uncontollable” moment.  I like it when we go buck, but I don’t want Obama to lose votes because the masses get scared of a potential slave uprising."

So folks, was the black woman wrong for what she indicates was an expression of how she felt about living in the United States, as a black woman?  Why didn't she do what Marvin Gaye did and sing the song she was contracted to sing?

Check out the report in USA today on the controversy after singer substitutes 'black national anthem' for 'Star-Spangled Banner'

A singer surprised dignitaries by singing Lift Every Voice and Sing, also known as the "black national anthem," to the tune of The Star-Spangled Banner during the mayor's State of the City address yesterday in Denver.

Rene Marie, who was introduced by City Council president Michael Hancock to perform the national anthem, says she made the switch without informing the mayor's office.

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AAPP: I'm with James Clyburn, the House of Representatives majority whip who said: "At some point, she needs to congratulate the man for having won. Those kinds of things are important to us who grew up in the South with these kinds of slights. That speech cannot be seen as anything but a slight."

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Karen Brooks of The Dallas Morning News is reporting on the problems involving the selection of Democratic National Convention bloggers. Check out the link to her article below. Ms. Brooks provides a great overview on the issues involving the Democratic Party and how they are treating black bloggers. I know Native Americans and the Angry Indian must be wondering why Native Americans seem to be excluded by the DNC as well.

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When is the character assassination going to stop? When is the major media outlets going to stop the attacks on Obama and Wright? I'm not sure, but one thing is for sure, pictures of Rev. Wright hugging Mayor Kilpatrick at the NAACP convention don't look good on Republican ads come the general election.

Why did the NAACP need to give him an opportunity Strike Back at this critical time in American political history? The media is already twisting it, saying, Wright is stirring up the race controversy.

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