Taylor was unavailable to dispute the numbers so he went after Obama's brainpower.
Obama reported campaign contributions of $25 million (€18.7 million) in the first three months of this year, about $1 million (€750,000) less than what Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign reported.
Republican National Committee spokesman Chris Taylor responded that maybe the infusion of money into Obama's campaign would lead to more specifics in his health care plans.
"With all these funds, maybe now he'll be able to hire someone to write a health care plan for him," Taylor said.
Taylor calm down.
But what's up with Congressional Black Caucus Institute?
It has been reported on various blogs,such as African American Political Pundit that the Congressional Black Caucus Institute has partnered with Fox News to carry two presidential debate. The Color of Change has a petition to shame CBCI. Electronic Village has an excellent article about the situation. Although, The "D" Spot suggest Fox is NBC is ABC, you get the picture.
But I wonder.
Is not CBCI following the lead of the African American community who continues to watch Fox and those who bow down and give their support to Senator Clinton, unquestioned. Senator Clinton need not bash Senator Obama as she plays nice as we quietly say nothing about the accomplishment of this man. According to Independent Org, Talk/Talk an estimated 50% of African American support Senator Clinton.
What if we turned off all the televisions in the African-American community for say..one week. What would happen? Let's stage a "One Week without T.V. blogger fans ! Now back to Hillary.
Sigh. Unbelievable. The fact ,a woman, is enough for a sista to vote for Senator Clinton sistas. Sad. And my brothas. How quickly we forget the three strikes Crime Bill(locked them up and throw away the key) under the first black president, Bill Clinton, as knighted by Toni Morrison, author of the bluest eyes. Just need a moment to catch my breathe...Now, tell me again the statistics on the brothas in prison (forget jail) compared to those brothas in college?
My brothas has distanced themselves from Obama because he is not brotha enough. Is this how we choose our leaders base on skin color and gender?
We have all the opportunities to check out the candidates qualifications, viewpoints and we of all people are hung up on color.we. In the afrosphere, blackosphere, African-Americanosphere, afronetizens, I have found few blogs in the blogcommunity that state they outright support Senator Obama. There were over 9000 blogs supporting Senator Obama. Of those 9000, how many are African-American bloggers?
What's up with all this unity in the blog?
I only ask, is not Senator Obama worthy of our support? Temple 3 you are so right about another one of our male legislator heroes. But the Dr. Rev. King, Jr. spoke to the masses too, and went to jail in spite of. It was the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. who stated African-American needs a third party. In other words, not to march to the title of Democrats or Republicans but to independently select candidates.
You are very right to question our seeming overall reluctance to outright support Sen. Obama, choosing instead to question his racial authenticity and loyalty. That tendency among us needs to be shut down.
ReplyDeleteNo, I don't think Obama is the Second Coming. The man has yet to walk on water to my knowledge. But if we're withholding our collective endorsemetn because we're still not sure if he's enough of a brother, then that's indicative of an internal sickness within our collective psyche that needs to be purged with all deliberate speed.
On a more personal note, thanks much for referencing and linking to my article ("d", which is actually The "D" Spot). Much appreciated.
Keith ..we at least those who support Senate Obama are afraid to touch the hem of his garment, Messiah or not.
ReplyDeleteThnaks about the d, taken care of.
I feel you...but why would we expect people to support Obama off the rip? I wouldn't support Clinton as far as I could throw her, but at the same time Obama's policy platform is extremely light in the ass. Let's not assume ANYTHING of black people who support CLinton over Obama without more data. More specifically, let's not assume that they are supporting Clinton because they are either brainwashed or "not black."
ReplyDeleteWe don't have any internal sickness that other Americans don't have. The only people questioning Obama's blackness are a couple of writers (Stanley Crouch, Debra Dickerson), and one "civil rights leader" (Al Sharpton).
Come on y'all.
We've got to believe in the "masses" of black people until we have substantive reasons to believe otherwise. Whether we end up sharing the same progressive political preferences or not.
Lester:
ReplyDeleteThanks for your comments.
I am not assuming on the Hillary support within the community. I have talked with folks and that's the feedback I'm getting.
Voters are not necessary the most informed folks. Tradition and apathy about the power of the vote.
Soundbites, like voting for the lesser of two three evils is not an informed vote.
I feel you on the policy issues. However, Senator Obama did not show up three months ago.
I believe he is qualified to form policy. Matter fact Bush teaches us that lesson.
And believe me when I say, there are folks who are not trusting Senator Obama as being a real brotha. They want to know where did this funny sounding name brotha come from.
I don't think you are making assumptions about Clinton's support among black people. Black people are split about the same way that whites are between Clinton and Obama.
ReplyDeleteBut I do think that you're making assumptions about the motives for supporting Clinton over Obama. I'm sure that there are a few black people who don't believe that Obama is "really black." And that you've talked to some people in your circle about this. But I have a lot more faith in the way that black people make their political decisions.
One more thing. Voters may not be informed...but black voters are very sophisticated voters, much more sophisticated than our white counterparts.
ReplyDeleteLester;
ReplyDeleteI've talked to people outside of my circle and the information I'm getting is Hillary is a woman. It's time for a woman. Voting for a woman will make history.
I have worked on campaigns, supported candidates and lots of folks vote traditions.
African American women are one of the largest voting bloc for the Democrat party..it is the church ladies group. Some African Americans are not registrated, some do not know they are eligible to vote. Some do not know where to vote or how to vote.
And with the I.D. laws some African Americans are discouraged from voting.
So preparing a voter first frees up time to learn about the candidates.
An informed voter. Working on campaigns teaches you that it takes a lot of work to get folks to cast that ballot.
Sister, note that you're making a very different argument about black voting preferences. Saying that I'm willing to vote for Clinton because I am a woman and she is a woman is very different than saying I'm voting for Clinton because Obama isn't really black. In the first case black women are making a decision to vote their gender over their race...an understandable choice.
ReplyDeleteCheck out this post I wrote on political sophistication.
Lester:
ReplyDeleteTwo different arguments. But is Hillary interest the same as my interest.
Is my fight more aligned with Hillary? I am able to tell the difference. Many of the sistas are simply looking at the gender makeup.
And I challenge them to look beyond gender. As you post on political sophistication suggest.
That African-Americans are fully aware of the distinction the between the two parties. I suggest that African-Americans use that same political sophistication in learning the differences by comparing the two candidates.
But they must be willing to be informed about both candidates beyond just race or gender.
Senator Clinton is practicing Bil-liary in her failure to be honest about her vote on the war. If she can not be honest in the little thing how can we depend on her in other issues.
Will she simply go with the flow? Is she just a "Bubba in drag."
If we are going to vote for a male leadership it make more sense to vote for a man. Rather than a woman who wants to be perceived as having male leadership values.
We want a woman that will put forth our values and interest...and being will to catch the heat for doing so.
I feel compelled to reiterate at this point that you and I agree that Clinton is not someone we should vote for. For me it is that she's too conservative for my tastes, and she triangulates way too much.
ReplyDeleteBut what people often do in this situation is they take shortcuts to their information. Using proxies that conserve energy and effort. These proxies work better and more often than you'd think, especially with black people.
Let's continue this conversation, because the election season isn't really upon us yet. I'm willing to bet that when Clinton, Obama, and Edwards (who on paper is actually the best candidate of the three for me) actually come campaigning and get to the nuts and bolts of it, a lot of the people you are talking to will switch their support.
Credo - Good news today. Obama agreed to boycott the Fox debate sponsored by the Congressional Black Caucus. Obama is going to be a great president!
ReplyDeleteObama's steps appear to be not ordered by man. He has the audacity to say no to the big dollar folks.
ReplyDeleteNow Jesse is Jesse. And we know Jesse. But Obama is showing us hope is alive.
Obama has the courage to be consistent under pressure.