Congressional Black Caucus Institute vs Community

The Republicans must have gotten tired waiting on Senator Hillary Clinton to bash Senator Barack Obama fundraising success. The International Herald Tribune: Americas reports on the snarly remark made by Republican National Committee spokesman Chris Taylor.

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.

Can a woman running for president raise more funds than a man?

Senator Hillary Clinton know that question is one of many for a woman running for any political office. The question becomes even more relevant when an African-American male enters the race. The deadline for financial reports to the Federal Election Commission is April 15. Senator Hillary Clinton has reported over #26 million. This amount was collected from January through March with additional $10 million from the Senate campaign. Senator Clinton earned the title for collecting a record amount for any candidate. The amount is even more surprising because of the fact that women campaign fundraising does not rise to the level of their male counterpart.

Senator Clinton had a secret weapon that help build her coffer beyond the Clinton name recognition. It became a two person team, with former President William (Bill) Clinton raising funds for his wife run to the White House.

Now folks are waiting with baited soundbites to report on the fundraising success of new comer, inexperienced Illinois Senator Barack Obama. Senator Obama, a first term senator, entered the presidency race as a relatively unknown. How will this candidate measure up against the more experienced Bil-liary Clinton team?

The Washington Post reports that the lean mean machine precision machine of Obama 08 may be closer than many people would expect to come from the Obama camp.

The biggest shoe waiting to drop is still Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) Rumors are pegging Obama at more than $20 million -- a staggering sum if true.

If the number are there exceeding Senator Clinton's millions it may cause some critic to rethink whether or not Senator Obama, an African-American can compete with the name recognition of a former president. Nevertheless, Obama fundraising ability is impressive when viewed in terms of competing with names like Senator John Edwards and other in the field of Democratic nominees. USA Today reports that Senator Edwards doubled the amount raised from the last time he ran from #7.4 to $14 million.

However, even the high number of $26 million for Senator Clinton does not tell the truth of a female contender's ability to raise funds when competing among the men. Blogger weigh in here. A lot is at stake if Senator Clinton is unable to beat Senator Obama in the fundraising category.