From: theGreatThinker:
Okay folks… It time to get down to business. I have reframed from commenting on the presidential race with the noted exception, that it is preposterous to question whether Barack Obama is Black.
I’m not ready to weigh in on who I’ll support, but when I do you will be E-Blasted for 7(seven straight days) and then I expect you to get behind the candidate of your choice, no hard feeling here, but remember,”In Politics, You Have No Permanent Friends or Enemies. nuff said.
I will only address 5(five) candidates.
1. John Edwards enjoys the populous side right now and he is struggling to be heard, but eventually, his southern roots will propel him into a player.
2. John McCain is a National hero and quite frankly I’m in agreement that we need to elect younger leaders with fresh ideas, but he remains a decorated war hero, a POW to boot, so don’t dismiss him, even though his flip flopping pandering to conservative makes one wonder.
3. Rudy Giuliani is a very attractive candidate, big city mayor, post 911 hero, wall street connections, pro-choice(at least yesterday he was) pro gun control and a moderate on most social issues, unless you ask the majority of African Americans, who he had a contentious relationship with him when he was mayor of the Big Apple. His beef with the firefighter’s union is another obstacle. Conservatives don’t trust him, but they are fearful, that HRC will be the nominee and have spent countless dollars trying to derail her candidacy. He will have to win NY in a general election, HRC and Obama will not be easy for him.
4&5. Obama and Hillary.
Well, they are so much a like, with almost identical voting records. Lately they have been high chest-ing each other and this is the problem. Both want and need the same voters. MINORITIES, WOMEN, LABOR UNIONS, and YOUNG PEOPLE. Don’t be fooled, all the barbs being tossed by supporters is coming directly from both campaigns. They are similar to the Crips and Bloods, both after the same afore mentioned groups. Like heavy weight boxers, they are trying to mobilize and knock the other out, but believe me, this is a 12 round contest.
4. Obama faces the race factor, especially in the South, where there are lots of Black Voters, but also the South is the South, still populated with Red-Necks and Black-Necks too. Some disguise themselves as conservatives, but race is not very far from anything that goes on in the South. Black-Necks are southern folks suffering from the Willie Lynch syndrome, amidst self hatred, jealousy and crab like tendencies, that can doom a candidate. Obama presents quite a challenge, he’s good looking, new, fresh, dynamic and women like his looks, plus he has a Black wife which will help him with Black female voters, but he can not count on the Black Vote like Jesse did. His inner circle of many whites seems to be protected of him, making his inaccessible to Black folks, unlike Jesse and Al Sharpton campaigns. There’s still quite a large number of Black folks, who don’t trust brothers that hang to close to whites. In the hood, Blacks talk about Michael Jordan, the ballplayer, but when they discuss Magic Johnson, they talk about the man. I do think its a bad omen to have the blessing of those left wing nuts in California. They think TV and the Movies represent America.. Wrong!!! The establishment still have not got around to inserting the correct spelling of Obama’s name into spell check. One wonders?
5. HRC is the darling of many established folks, who would kill their mama to get GWB out of the White House. Hillary represents that persona of being female, being elected and being married to Bill. Need I say more. She personifies what NY is all about. She will not concede the Black vote to Obama and frankly, I’m waiting for HRC to fully unleash her secret weapon, mainly Bill Clinton and his friends led by Vernon Jordan. Obama is playing on HRC turf by storming NY, raising lots of money in her back yard, but believe me, she will fight back with vengeances to protect her flank. Her job is to convince Black voters that Obama can’t win. Money will play a vital role, because sooner or later, all the minor candidates will falter. HRC should be blessed to have Hollywood against her, because those clowns can only raise money, because they think real life is tinsel town, and the last winner they backed was Bill Slick Willie Clinton. HRC has build strong ties to Black elected officials, and you know once a Black is elected, they die in office. Follow the money folks.
Okay, you have heard from me, and my finally, let me caution you, Black voters will not vote simply to make a racial statement, and they will not necessary support HRC because she is married to Bill.
They both need these same voters and expect this race to get into a vicious, nasty, mud slinging contest before its over. When I make up my mind who to back, I will be punching, kicking, E-Blasting, passing on rumors, trying to convince you to support my candidate, and posting positive things about my choice every day, looking for the winning edge. I continue to welcome your input on the BLOG and will ever be grateful for the support you give my site. Once I have declared, opposing views will not be welcome. I wish all candidates well, but someone is going down.
theGreatThinker
ps-why do you democrats continue to let theGOPBrain run rough shed over yall in the Blog?
March 18, 2007 at 12:26 pm
First…First again..
Interesting Thinker, very interesting.
March 18, 2007 at 12:28 pm
well, well, what allows us the pleasure of hearing from the great one. I noticed you listed all the repubs first. they reason I can do anything I please, well, I’m superior to these nuts.
March 18, 2007 at 12:30 pm
bias at most, NY leaning.
March 18, 2007 at 12:31 pm
I support Barack Obama. I hope I’m welcomed when you come out.
March 18, 2007 at 12:31 pm
go hillary..go hillary
March 18, 2007 at 12:32 pm
JE will win in the end.
March 18, 2007 at 12:33 pm
John Edwards will never win in these United States, bet on it
and for you idiots, bet does not mean BET.
March 18, 2007 at 12:35 pm
gop.. your like of home training is showing.. where’s you southern hospitality? JE has as much a chance as anyone.
March 18, 2007 at 12:35 pm
get lost gop…go HRC
March 18, 2007 at 12:36 pm
HRc will do well as long as she stay on those damn mexicans.
March 18, 2007 at 12:44 pm
Edwards for Pres..Obama for V.P. Hillary for Sect’y State.
John Co-Cain, Rudy, Mitch and Newt for dogcatcher.
March 18, 2007 at 12:44 pm
hillary is my choice.
March 18, 2007 at 12:45 pm
I’m sticking with Snoop.
March 18, 2007 at 12:46 pm
Barack all the way to the Black House, which will be painted.
March 18, 2007 at 12:47 pm
Edwards will rise in the polls.
March 18, 2007 at 12:48 pm
Is HRC , Obama, Rudy willing to stand up to the Jewish lobby?
March 18, 2007 at 12:49 pm
how does President hillary sounds?
March 18, 2007 at 12:50 pm
I say the GreatThinker for president. GOPBrain for V.P.
BlondeBombShell for Education Sect’y..Imagine a blonde being in charge of educating our youth? LOL
March 18, 2007 at 12:52 pm
she’s probably a peroxide one at that.
March 18, 2007 at 12:53 pm
You people need to be in church. God, how we need jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson up in here.
March 18, 2007 at 12:55 pm
New yorker are like Bill clinton, they only go to church after they have sinned.
March 18, 2007 at 12:56 pm
Folks…I have sinned and it aint easy.
Little Jim
March 18, 2007 at 12:58 pm
My hair is natural, the color I was birthed with. Stop hatin…You must live in Durham and go to Duke..ha..ha
March 19, 2007 at 5:35 pm
It looks as if HRC is right about AG Gonzales resigning. The Republicans have started to cave in and the only thing that’s keeping him in power is Bush’s stubbon sense of loyalty. I give him two days.
March 19, 2007 at 5:36 pm
that was a stroke of genius on hillary’s part, calling for his to resign. I hope it don’t hurt her standing in the latino community.
March 19, 2007 at 5:41 pm
I hope all the Ricans, Mexicans, and all other Hispanic voters in America see the true side of the Demon Party hatin on them with their outlandish criticism of Attorney General Gonzales. I hope they remember when it comes election time next year so when the Demons start begging for their votes, they tell them to kiss their asses.
March 19, 2007 at 5:43 pm
Gonzales has the education, ethnicity and moderation to be successful in politics if he were good at his job, but he is to political, like all the Black hacks Bush has appointed. He is finish, fried and dyed in the woods.
March 19, 2007 at 5:46 pm
Most Hispanics use to vote Republican, and I know the Cuban Hispanic/Latinos or whatever they prefer to be called don’t like HRC, so I’ll wait to see how this play out. I expect him to leave soon.
March 19, 2007 at 5:51 pm
You are so right about how the democrats, I like the demon name too..lol
I think Bush will cave and kick him to the wolves. As far HRC, I’m hoping they remember her.
Gonzo pobably don’t want to be a political figure , just like Colin Powell, he is a moderate minority amongst a conservative tide that can run counter to what’s good for Hispanics. maybe he’ll kick Condi at the same time.
March 19, 2007 at 5:53 pm
I wonder what Obama thinks about AG Gonzales?
March 19, 2007 at 5:56 pm
Obama’s silence reminds me of the NAACP. Silence seems to be his position until someone else speaks. I think HRC show presidential leadership in asking and demanding that he resign.
March 19, 2007 at 5:59 pm
Hogwash!!! Senator Obama also demanded he resign, but he have sense enough to know not to piss the ricans and mexicans about such trival matters.
March 19, 2007 at 6:00 pm
I agree.
March 19, 2007 at 6:01 pm
I wonder what theGreatThinker will say when he resigns?
March 19, 2007 at 6:04 pm
If Barack is taking that approach, him and Hillary will have to out pander the other on wooing the jews, blacks, hispanics, but the whites like the blonde will make the real difference at the polls.
March 19, 2007 at 6:09 pm
did anyone read the article “Turf Battle Drives Hillary and Obama Tiff” by Earl Ofari Hutchinson on the politicalblack.com site? It is interesting what he had to say about HRC and Obama. theGreatThinker was dead center on his observation of HRC and Obama being a two headed mirror image of each. I wonder how this will play out and I want to voice my disapproval of hollywood types even being allowed in politics.
March 19, 2007 at 6:10 pm
I hate Hollywood too.
March 19, 2007 at 6:11 pm
I correct that.. I hate most of Hollywood, but love me some Denzel.
March 19, 2007 at 6:12 pm
Why can’t Jesse be in the race.. Run Jess Run…We miss you…
March 19, 2007 at 6:25 pm
manslaughter rap for cops in New York
Two cops in the Sean Bell 50-shot barrage were hit with manslaughter charges Monday. Finally a cop indicated for a senseless killing of a brother.
March 19, 2007 at 6:28 pm
check this out:
The Rev. Al Sharpton appears to have buried the hatchet – at least for now – with Sen. Barack Obama.
Sharpton said he and Obama made nice in a five-minute phone call yesterday.
“We had a good conversation. He said he’s got a lot of respect for me and what I’ve done. We agreed to keep in touch,” Sharpton said.
He said he would hold off on an endorsement until after the Democratic presidential candidates speak at his National Action Network Conference next month.
Sharpton, who had questioned the Illinois senator’s qualifications and record, went ballistic last week and blamed Obama for anonymously planting a story suggesting that Sharpton was just jealous of Obama’s popularity.
“He denied that it came from him. We’ll see what he says publicly about that,” Sharpton said.
Obama’s campaign, which has downplayed the rift, said only that yesterday’s call was a good conversation between two men who respect each other.
They will both appear separately on CNN’s “Larry King Live” tonight.
Sharpton had said Obama was mistakenly taking the support of black leaders for granted and needed to explain his civil rights agenda
March 19, 2007 at 6:29 pm
I hope Al don’t sell out.
March 19, 2007 at 11:18 pm
Expect those NYC cops to walk scott free and Hillary or Obama will not utter a word, ditto Rudy. John Edwards might use his trial lawyer mentality to weigh in on this injustice.
In Amerika, the life of a Black man is held in lower regard than the life of a house pet. In NY folks gets hauled into court all the time and given prison time for dog fighting, but when it come to cops shooting Blacks, think about that 80 old grandam they shot in the Bronx.
March 19, 2007 at 11:19 pm
I’m sure Hillary will have something to say.
March 19, 2007 at 11:22 pm
yeah! NYU-HillaryLand… just like the great bill clinton never got a bill passed to stop racial profiling. he could have issued an exceutive order. please.. crackers in the big apple are only interesting in jailing hispanics and blacks when they bother the beloved jews and the new darling, asians.. let’s be honest.
March 19, 2007 at 11:23 pm
I hope someone goes to jail for that murder.
March 19, 2007 at 11:35 pm
The alliance between Jews and the religious right is unmistakable. Jerry Falwell said there is no stronger pro-Israel group in the USA outside of the bible belt, and red-necks love jews as long as they keepthe Blacks down.
March 20, 2007 at 2:19 pm
Does that mean you will support HRC? Or will you go with the Republican loser, your party will present? And to all you Dukies out there, “HOW ABOUT THOSE TARHEELS?” I love it when agood plan comes together, Duke fans sitting at home on their sanctimonious butts as we strut our stuff down on Franklin street. Go Heels…Go all the way. Duke fans sucks…LOL
March 20, 2007 at 2:20 pm
Obama have started to get in some serious conservations here in the barbershop. The brothers seems to have come around, so that might be a good omen, plus theGreatThinker haven’t been in here for a couple weeks. He talks about Rudy, and I wouldn’t be surprised in he supports him, but that’s speculation on my part. I do agree that him and HRC must seperate from each other. We also love Al Sharpton down here, so let’s hope the beef with Obama is not real.
theThinker’s always talking about how great James Brown is/was, so messing with Al in Carolina is not agood thing within the AA community, but whites despise him.
March 20, 2007 at 2:21 pm
Badboy.. I’m a visitor, but can you tell me why yall hate the Jews so bad? They are wonderful folks.
March 20, 2007 at 2:21 pm
I don’t know who I will support, but supporting a Republican is hard to stomach. I’ll support and contribute to the Democratic nominee.
March 20, 2007 at 2:22 pm
john.. I don’t hate the Jews, I just dislike all the power they exert in the press, and they keep killing innocent people in the mid-east. I think they are why we are so hated in the world, plus they killed Christ.
March 20, 2007 at 2:23 pm
It’s true Jesus was a Jew, he lived among Jews in what is now modern day Israel. The government that found him “guilty” and executed him was Jewish, what did you expect, them to be Mexicans?
And the bible states that Jesus’s death was a foretold event. It was done to save us from our sins (at least that is what you Christians believe). Stop being upset at Jews.
You sound like a bigot, and did you know anti-semites use that angle to dupe ignorant people into disliking those of the Jewish faith, and that’s not right…
March 20, 2007 at 2:24 pm
I don’t think he is a bigot, but Jews do kill a lot of people in the Mid-East, but that’s expected in war. Let’s not be anti-semtic
March 20, 2007 at 2:25 pm
GOP…what’s up with Mitt?
He stepped into a pile of hot stuff down in FL, by mispronouncing the names of Cuban American politicians in a speech. But his mistake was using the Fidel Castro’s trademark speech-ending slogan …with a free Cuba. This no laughing matter and those Latinos is calling it Cuda-Gate. Fidel has closed his speeches for decades with the phrase (translated into English): “Fatherland or death, we shall overcome. Mitt better do his homework, because it can become treacherous navigating within all these minority groups.
March 20, 2007 at 2:25 pm
I don’t know about Jews killing abroad, but in the hood, Blacks know they are responsible for the deaths of many cancelled network television shows, perhaps, Arsenio hall ’s case will shed some light.
March 20, 2007 at 2:26 pm
Hey, “Christ Made A Way Barber Shop”
Maybe if you guys let women in that shop, you would get a more balanced views.
March 20, 2007 at 2:27 pm
Marlena.. That’s not going to happen as long as I own it. It’s the last bastion of male dominance left in America.
March 20, 2007 at 2:27 pm
I think it would be smart is Romney started replacing his campaign team now, because he is evidently being misguided. Going to Miami and quoting Fidel is not very smart. Next thing you know he will hit the hood quoting Jesse, but then the brothers will realize he’s quoting Jessie Helms..utoh!
March 20, 2007 at 2:28 pm
I get neverous when people talk about Jews. Can we get off the subject. They are our strongest allies.
March 20, 2007 at 2:28 pm
amen..
March 20, 2007 at 2:42 pm
Go Hillary…
March 20, 2007 at 9:41 pm
Bambo!!!.. Hell Nooooo!!!
Is Obama a Magic Negro or A Colored Tom?
White America’s idea of a Black man is shining bright these days.
Let’s see, he’s articulate, has no record, looks like a fag, and is not threatening to the good white folks.
White guilt is running wild these days, from the hypocrites in the media, to the gay and lesbos in Holly-Wood. Bambo only presents minimal discomfort for whitey. To hide their shame over slavery and racial segregation in Amerika, they claim to like him because he is not the stereotype of a dangerous, highly sexualized black man with a benign figure like Jim Brown. His half-bred interracial sexuality doesn’t scare them.
I have some factors on why I will not vote for him.
1. To many White folks like him( yall know how Blacks are– those who like whitey always trying to be white)
2. He smokes, dammitt, I could care less if he’s trying to quit).
3. He didn’t pay his parking tickets.(whites don’t pay, they get slapped on the wrist, Blacks asses goes to jail).
4. When he showed up in a bathing suit, Amerika grasped a deep breath, because the front of his trunks wasn’t burgeoning out (golly lee) my wife want run after the big stick.
He’s is in essence, a good negro, not threatening with his softness, cool tone always genial, voice warm and unthreatening, and he hasn’t called his opponents any nasty names, like Jesse or Al would. Jesse will call you a Jew in a heartbeat and Al might curse you out if you try to punk him and that scares white folks. I prefer, a big ass, buckling Black man like Jim Brown who’s not afraid of the powers to be.
March 24, 2007 at 6:18 am
you said it.