Comments on: http://bigloo.wordpress.com/2008/08/25/74/ The Total Non-Partisan Political Web Site For African-Americans Voters Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:26:46 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Daniel Bruno http://bigloo.wordpress.com/2008/08/25/74/#comment-1424 Daniel Bruno Sat, 25 Jul 2009 19:47:04 +0000 http://bigloo.wordpress.com/?p=74#comment-1424 Daniel Bruno Sanz would like to share his Huffington Post essay with you; http://www.huffingtonpost.com/daniel-bruno-sanz/obama-2012_b_234874.html Please post it on your website and send your link to us for inclusion at DanielBrunoSanz.com Follow us on Twitter at Twitter.com/DanielBrunoSanz Regards, Navas Here are the keyords in the essay: 13th Amendment, 14th Amendment, 2012 Election, B.E.T., Barack Hussein Obama, Booker T. Washington, Bryant Park, Cipriani's, Colin Powell, Criminal Industrial Complex, Deb Slott, Do The Right Thing, Heidi Klum, Hip-Hop, Mark Penn, Melting Pot, Pink Elephant, Racism, Reconstruction, Robert Johnson, Seal, Segregation, Shelby Steele, Sidney Poiter, Sonia Sotomayor, Spike Lee, Tavis Smiley, Terrence Yang, The Dance Flick, To Kill a Mocking Bird, Virginia Davies, W.E.B. Dubois, Zero Mostel, Politics Prologue to Obama 2012 We approach the future walking backwards, our gaze forever fixated on the past. Predicting the future is not a passive exercise; we invent it every day with our actions. I began the sketches for what would ultimately become Obama 2012 in March 2007, a month after Barack Obama declared his candidacy. I had spent much of the previous 18 months living abroad as an entrepreneur and statesman of sorts, and I was slightly out of touch with the pulse of life on the street in the United States. I learnt about Sen. Barack Obama’s Springfield, IL speech formally declaring his candidacy for president of the United States through one of the international cable news channels and thought how great it would be to have a fresh start after years of mediocrity in Washington and a plummeting reputation around the world. By September, after what seemed like raising a six-month-old child, my sketches had turned into Why the Democrats Will Win in 2008 the Road to an Obama White House. It was my answer to the burning question everyone had back in March: Can he really win? Actually, not everyone thought it was a question. For many people, including Mark Penn, director of the Clinton campaign, the answer was an easy “no way.” This strategic blunder made it that much easier for the Clinton campaign to be defeated. Then there were Black pundits like Shelby Steele, a fellow at the Hoover Institution, who came out with a 2007 book entitled A Bound Man, Why Obama Can't Win. Being Black did seem to be an automatic disqualification, but then why did someone need to write an entire book arguing what should have been patently obvious? Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Colin Powell came to my mind and I remembered that he could have run for president in 1992 as a war hero. But Colin Powell was Ronald Reagan’s protégé and got a special pass on the race question. Black conservatives like Justice Thomas, Condoleezza Rice and Colin Powell were careful to disassociate themselves from liberal thinkers and activists like Jesse Jackson, who lost, as expected, the 1984 and 1988 Democratic primaries. Ultimately, Colin Powell, in spite of all his honors, declined to run for president. His wife Alma feared for his safety. Common sense said that a candidate like Obama, for numerous insurmountable reasons, didn't stand a chance of winning the Democratic primary, let alone a general election in which 10% of the electorate is African American and Republicans controlled the White House for 20 of the preceding 28 years. But I decided that Obama's chances merited a closer examination. In it, I would bring to bear my gambling skills. Daniel Bruno Sanz would like to share his Huffington Post essay with you;
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/daniel-bruno-sanz/obama-2012_b_234874.html
Please post it on your website and send your link to us for inclusion at DanielBrunoSanz.com
Follow us on Twitter at Twitter.com/DanielBrunoSanz
Regards,
Navas
Here are the keyords in the essay:
13th Amendment, 14th Amendment, 2012 Election, B.E.T., Barack Hussein Obama, Booker T. Washington, Bryant Park, Cipriani’s, Colin Powell, Criminal Industrial Complex, Deb Slott, Do The Right Thing, Heidi Klum, Hip-Hop, Mark Penn, Melting Pot, Pink Elephant, Racism, Reconstruction, Robert Johnson, Seal, Segregation, Shelby Steele, Sidney Poiter, Sonia Sotomayor, Spike Lee, Tavis Smiley, Terrence Yang, The Dance Flick, To Kill a Mocking Bird, Virginia Davies, W.E.B. Dubois, Zero Mostel, Politics
Prologue to Obama 2012
We approach the future walking backwards, our gaze forever fixated on the past. Predicting the future is not a passive exercise; we invent it every day with our actions.
I began the sketches for what would ultimately become Obama 2012 in March 2007, a month after Barack Obama declared his candidacy. I had spent much of the previous 18 months living abroad as an entrepreneur and statesman of sorts, and I was slightly out of touch with the pulse of life on the street in the United States. I learnt about Sen. Barack Obama’s Springfield, IL speech formally declaring his candidacy for president of the United States through one of the international cable news channels and thought how great it would be to have a fresh start after years of mediocrity in Washington and a plummeting reputation around the world.
By September, after what seemed like raising a six-month-old child, my sketches had turned into Why the Democrats Will Win in 2008 the Road to an Obama White House. It was my answer to the burning question everyone had back in March: Can he really win? Actually, not everyone thought it was a question. For many people, including Mark Penn, director of the Clinton campaign, the answer was an easy “no way.” This strategic blunder made it that much easier for the Clinton campaign to be defeated. Then there were Black pundits like Shelby Steele, a fellow at the Hoover Institution, who came out with a 2007 book entitled A Bound Man, Why Obama Can’t Win.
Being Black did seem to be an automatic disqualification, but then why did someone need to write an entire book arguing what should have been patently obvious? Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Colin Powell came to my mind and I remembered that he could have run for president in 1992 as a war hero. But Colin Powell was Ronald Reagan’s protégé and got a special pass on the race question. Black conservatives like Justice Thomas, Condoleezza Rice and Colin Powell were careful to disassociate themselves from liberal thinkers and activists like Jesse Jackson, who lost, as expected, the 1984 and 1988 Democratic primaries. Ultimately, Colin Powell, in spite of all his honors, declined to run for president. His wife Alma feared for his safety. Common sense said that a candidate like Obama, for numerous insurmountable reasons, didn’t stand a chance of winning the Democratic primary, let alone a general election in which 10% of the electorate is African American and Republicans controlled the White House for 20 of the preceding 28 years. But I decided that Obama’s chances merited a closer examination. In it, I would bring to bear my gambling skills.

]]> By: Cynthia Daniels http://bigloo.wordpress.com/2008/08/25/74/#comment-1369 Cynthia Daniels Thu, 30 Oct 2008 05:59:00 +0000 http://bigloo.wordpress.com/?p=74#comment-1369 I live in Chicago, (Cook County). This is Obama country. We don't have to worry about any dirty tricks here. In Illinois, we have 102 Counties and almost half the people that live in IL, lives in Cook County. I also voted early to avoid any long waits. I live in Chicago, (Cook County). This is Obama country. We don’t have to worry about any dirty tricks here. In Illinois, we have 102 Counties and almost half the people that live in IL, lives in Cook County. I also voted early to avoid any long waits.

]]> By: Diantha Walls http://bigloo.wordpress.com/2008/08/25/74/#comment-1367 Diantha Walls Fri, 17 Oct 2008 22:33:41 +0000 http://bigloo.wordpress.com/?p=74#comment-1367 I reside in Jacksonville, FL, and there is a billboard that states that Martin Luther King Jr. was a Republician and to vote Republician. It insuitates that Martin Luther King Jr would've voted Republician. No one knows how Martin Luther King Jr would've voted and I think it should be taken down. I reside in Jacksonville, FL, and there is a billboard that states that Martin Luther King Jr. was a Republician and to vote Republician. It insuitates that Martin Luther King Jr would’ve voted Republician. No one knows how Martin Luther King Jr would’ve voted and I think it should be taken down.

]]> By: unapolgetic-n-nasty http://bigloo.wordpress.com/2008/08/25/74/#comment-1366 unapolgetic-n-nasty Wed, 03 Sep 2008 23:25:27 +0000 http://bigloo.wordpress.com/?p=74#comment-1366 Okay GreatThinker, You have ranted and raved about ghetto hoodrats having babies and not being married, so now we are stuck with a governor's daughter being pregnant. I wonder if she was screwing in the Gov's mansion? No, Alaska's Governor's Mansion Is Not a Double-Wide Trailer, but I know trailer trash all over America is rejoicing. I wonder if the baby's father is her cousin? Palin is really starting to sound like a gadfly loose cannon. Not a "maverick." A loose cannon flake who can mask it pretty well most of the time, but it won't stand up well in the glare of the national media spotlight. Alaska is not the big leagues, and Palin isn't ready for prime time. It seems like a stupid decision to me. He is fishing or getting drunk. She is running for vice president. Who is taking care of the children? They sound pretty trashy to me, straight out of the trailer park Okay GreatThinker,

You have ranted and raved about ghetto hoodrats having babies and not being married, so now we are stuck with a governor’s daughter being pregnant. I wonder if she was screwing in the Gov’s mansion? No, Alaska’s Governor’s Mansion Is Not a Double-Wide Trailer, but I know trailer trash all over America is rejoicing. I wonder if the baby’s father is her cousin?

Palin is really starting to sound like a gadfly loose cannon. Not a “maverick.” A loose cannon flake who can mask it pretty well most of the time, but it won’t stand up well in the glare of the national media spotlight. Alaska is not the big leagues, and Palin isn’t ready for prime time.

It seems like a stupid decision to me. He is fishing or getting drunk. She is running for vice president. Who is taking care of the children? They sound pretty trashy to me, straight out of the trailer park

]]> By: Yvonne http://bigloo.wordpress.com/2008/08/25/74/#comment-1365 Yvonne Mon, 01 Sep 2008 21:03:24 +0000 http://bigloo.wordpress.com/?p=74#comment-1365 I’m back and finally rested from the AWESOME Democratic National Convention in Denver! I managed to pull off the incredible feat of getting credentials for both Wednesday (Clinton, Kerry & Biden Speeches) and the most historic night Thursday (Gore, Richardson, and Obama speeches). I took lots of pictures and movie clips. I met political leaders, media folks, entertainers, and citizens from all over the world. This was the adventure and experience of a lifetime. Denver was only the beginning. The journey continues to Election Day and if all goes well, the next historic event I’ll be sharing with you will be about me at Presidential Inauguration of Barack Obama. Today I made my reservations for the January 20 Inauguration. I am REALLY thinking positive. Check out some of my favorites… Jenniifer Hudson http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dw7ZRYNyOek My boy Stevie rocked http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvvTO9tATBk http://my.barackobama.com/barackspeech Karma, as you know, is a thing you don't want working against you so when Focus on the Family (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/12/focus-on-the-family-asks_n_118512.html?page=14) asked for it to rain on Obama's parade they prayed to the wrong god! The entire Gulf Coast will be paying the price and now there will be little or no attendencae at the Republican Convention. Plus once again these Repubs are not the party of Decency. Look at the presumtive VPs daughter. What a disgrace! Your next mission is to get out the vote by any means necessary. Register an out of state friend to vote in the state that they are in right now! Register a young retail employee from Best Buy, McDonalds, Burger King etc. Volunteer at your local Democratic or Obama Office. Donate time, money, lunch ANYthing to them! Yes, We Can! With love, peace and HOPE I’m back and finally rested from the AWESOME Democratic National Convention in Denver!
I managed to pull off the incredible feat of getting credentials for both Wednesday (Clinton, Kerry & Biden Speeches) and the most historic night Thursday (Gore, Richardson, and Obama speeches).
I took lots of pictures and movie clips. I met political leaders, media folks, entertainers, and citizens from all over the world. This was the adventure and experience of a lifetime. Denver was only the beginning. The journey continues to Election Day and if all goes well, the next historic event I’ll be sharing with you will be about me at Presidential Inauguration of Barack Obama. Today I made my reservations for the January 20 Inauguration. I am REALLY thinking positive.

Check out some of my favorites…
Jenniifer Hudson http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dw7ZRYNyOek
My boy Stevie rocked http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvvTO9tATBk
http://my.barackobama.com/barackspeech
Karma, as you know, is a thing you don’t want working against you so when Focus on the Family (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/12/focus-on-the-family-asks_n_118512.html?page=14) asked for it to rain on Obama’s parade they prayed to the wrong god! The entire Gulf Coast will be paying the price and now there will be little or no attendencae at the Republican Convention.
Plus once again these Repubs are not the party of Decency. Look at the presumtive VPs daughter. What a disgrace!

Your next mission is to get out the vote by any means necessary. Register an out of state friend to vote in the state that they are in right now! Register a young retail employee from Best Buy, McDonalds, Burger King etc. Volunteer at your local Democratic or Obama Office. Donate time, money, lunch ANYthing to them!

Yes, We Can!
With love, peace and HOPE

]]> By: Darrin Williams http://bigloo.wordpress.com/2008/08/25/74/#comment-1364 Darrin Williams Mon, 25 Aug 2008 23:49:16 +0000 http://bigloo.wordpress.com/?p=74#comment-1364 Its ridiculous they way they are acting and why hasn't Hillary turn her delegates over to Barrack as a show of Party unity? I heard she's going to wait until Wednesday. Its ridiculous they way they are acting and why hasn’t Hillary turn her delegates over to Barrack as a show of Party unity? I heard she’s going to wait until Wednesday.

]]> By: C Poston http://bigloo.wordpress.com/2008/08/25/74/#comment-1363 C Poston Mon, 25 Aug 2008 23:47:35 +0000 http://bigloo.wordpress.com/?p=74#comment-1363 Yeah, but I agree with Kim, if McCain chose a woman...Obama could be in big trouble and listening this morning to the black folk on TJMS, allot of them are already jumping off the bandwagon and talking about voting for McCain because Obama chose Biden. I think that is the most stupid thing I've heard during this entire election process so far. Why in the world would they do that. Now I was a Hilary fan, however, there is no way I would vote for McCain because Obama chose Biden. Biden will be the Vice Prez not the Prez and Lord if we vote McCain in we may as well just let Bush stay. WTD? I hope this nonsense will pass shortly! A lot of Hillary supporters are saying they will vote for McCain as well. What a waste of a perfectly good civil right! Yeah, but I agree with Kim, if McCain chose a woman…Obama could be in big trouble and listening this morning to the black folk on TJMS, allot of them are already jumping off the bandwagon and talking about voting for McCain because Obama chose Biden. I think that is the most stupid thing I’ve heard during this entire election process so far.

Why in the world would they do that. Now I was a Hilary fan, however, there is no way I would vote for McCain because Obama chose Biden. Biden will be the Vice Prez not the Prez and Lord if we vote McCain in we may as well just let Bush stay. WTD? I hope this nonsense will pass shortly! A lot of Hillary supporters are saying they will vote for McCain as well. What a waste of a perfectly good civil right!

]]> By: Darrin Williams http://bigloo.wordpress.com/2008/08/25/74/#comment-1362 Darrin Williams Mon, 25 Aug 2008 23:43:59 +0000 http://bigloo.wordpress.com/?p=74#comment-1362 McCain most likely will pick Mitt Romney or Giuliani. There is a slight chance he would pick Lieberman, but we know how that helped Al Gore in 2000. I hope this convention comes off without a hitch. I see the gallup polls are tied 45% to 45%. They are not counting the thousands of new voters that will sign up between now and October. I found voters who never had an interest before signing up. McCain most likely will pick Mitt Romney or Giuliani. There is a slight chance he would pick Lieberman, but we know how that helped Al Gore in 2000. I hope this convention comes off without a hitch. I see the gallup polls are tied 45% to 45%. They are not counting the thousands of new voters that will sign up between now and October. I found voters who never had an interest before signing up.

]]> By: Kevin Cole http://bigloo.wordpress.com/2008/08/25/74/#comment-1361 Kevin Cole Mon, 25 Aug 2008 23:23:21 +0000 http://bigloo.wordpress.com/?p=74#comment-1361 I am glad you guys are there. I feel almost there myself. Keep up the good work guys. I am glad you guys are there. I feel almost there myself.
Keep up the good work guys.

]]> By: Yvonne Leonard http://bigloo.wordpress.com/2008/08/25/74/#comment-1360 Yvonne Leonard Mon, 25 Aug 2008 23:20:27 +0000 http://bigloo.wordpress.com/?p=74#comment-1360 Loo, We will get there Wednesday AM. What is your cell number????? Loo, We will get there Wednesday AM. What is your cell number?????

]]>