I know some news days are slow, and they can only write so many gushing stories about The Messiah, but, sheesh, this is beyond pathetic: Witnesses to Dr. King’s Dream See a New Hope. It is even more pathetic that the Grey Lady pulls this on the anniversary of MLK’s I Have A Dream speech, one of the most inspirational, and substantive, speeches in American history

She figured this dream for dead so many decades ago.

Dezie Woods-Jones plans to stand Thursday night with her California delegation in a stadium here and listen to Barack Obama, the first black major-party presidential nominee in the nation’s history, give his acceptance speech. Ms. Woods-Jones, now in her 60s, is one of a tiny handful of delegates who on the same day in 1963, Aug. 28, stood with hundreds of thousands at the March on Washington and heard a young minister, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., deliver his soaring “I Have a Dream” speech.

“I was young, naïve enough to think I would see that in 5, 10 years,” she said. “Then you see leaders killed, you see police brutality, residential segregation in cities. About 10 years ago I thought: I won’t see this. This is something for my grandchildren.”

She paused, her eyes now red-rimmed.

“What to say except, ‘Oh, hallelujah!’ ” she said. “We have a lot of work, a lot, but we are so much closer than I expected.”

Ms. Woods-Jones should consider switching to the Republican Party, as the color of ones skin matters little, just the content of their character. Unlike the Democrat Party, which puts everyone in a box, panders to African-Americans, and is one of the primary reasons why so many minorities are stuck in the welfare nation. But, let’s ask Martin Luther King, Jr

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.”

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

There is a man to who not only talked the talk, but walked the walk. He talked about racism, but worked to defeat it. Compared to Obama and his supporters, who call virtually everyone who attacks Obama as racists. Who say the only way Obama can lose is because of racism.

I wonder what MLK would think of 90% of Blacks saying they will vote for the Black guy?

This is what’s called bring a Barrett .50 to a pillow fight. Apparently, we aren’t allowed to question Obama’s character, despite that being 80% of his campaign thru the primary, and even in to the general election. I guess discussing a presidential candidate cavorting with unrepentant terrorists is an “effort to distract us from the issues that affect our lives.”

Via Michelle and Jay, who say to spread this far and wide. Michelle writes

Mr. Hope and Change is applying Chicago-style mafia tactics to intimidate those who want to alert the nation to Obama’s troubling ties to, and longtime relationship with, the unrepentant Weather Underground terrorist.

Except, I would change that to Chicago-style Machine tactics. This is exactly the type of stuff one would expect from someone who is really part of Chicago machine politics. Consider that his first foray into politics, he got most of his opponents thrown off the ballot through petty rules.

This one is 2 days old. Hadn’t seen it before, but, just caught it on TV here in Raleigh

I wonder if Firedoglake will call for the writer of this story, Steve Holland, to be fired?

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama faces a challenge this week to try to heal a party rift, draw a sharp contrast between himself and Republican rival John McCain and back up his soaring oratory with specifics of what he would do if he wins the White House.

As Obama, 47, enters the Democratic party convention that will formally nominate him, he has yet to answer doubts among many Americans about where he would take the country if elected in November.

Uh, Steve? Those of us on the Right have been saying that for most of the year, yet, the Credentialed Media has pretty much refused to do their homework to find out who Barry is. And, I will bet you, Steve, that the CM will not call Obama on what he says during the convention, nor check up on his stories.

Obama’s spokesman, Bill Burton, laid out two goals for the convention.

“We want to make sure people know exactly who Sen. Obama is and where he wants to take the country, and two, that voters know their choice in this election, between Barack Obama, who wants to fundamentally change the way business is done in Washington, and John McCain, who is just more of the same of what we have had over the course of the last eight years,” he said.

Barack is just as much a political insider as John McCain, just with less time. He knows how things are done, and works the system. If Barack wants to change the way Washington works, why did he vote for the Bridge To Nowhere multiple times, one of those votes being an attempt to shift the money from the bridge to a Katrina ravaged New Orleans?

If Barry is so great, why won’t he talk in specifics? And, wouldn’t the attempt to link McCain to Bush be more of the old style politics, or, as Barry himself has said, “to distract people from talking about the real issues”?

The official John McCain website has set up a social networking site. You can find out about the social networking site through the videos on the John McCain website. Its called McCainSpace. Cool …. Check it out ….

And because you guys like Meghan McCain so much, I’ll include her video.

Right now, you might be saying “Teach, are you drunk? Have you drunk the liberal kool aid? Or, are you just a bit fetched in the head?” Maybe a bit of 1 and 3, but, let’s think about what the pick of Biden brings.

There is not much point in going over what so many pundits and columnists wrote Saturday. The basics that most, both left and right came to, was “he really ads nothing to the ticket. He won’t bring in many votes, he won’t help with the South, he makes Obama look like the foreign policy neophyte he really is, heck, he makes Barry look like a neophyte in most things. Joe is much more qualified to be president then Barry. He has those massive ties to lobbyists that Barry whines about. He is a massive Washington insider. This has really pissed of Hillary’s supporters. Etc, and so on.”

And, sure, there were many on the left and right who wrote that this was a massively bad pick. Some on the Left tried to spin it positively, but, you know they were popping out a post quickly so they could get back to cleaning the bathroom.

And women have not been entirely enthused with the pick.

But, this was a great pick. No, still not drunk.

The reason is simple: Biden carries a massive amount of baggage, as so many have pointed out. The gaffes, the racism, the runaway mouth, the lobbyist ties, the Washington insider mentality. And, how much and how often will the right side of the Internet, along with the miniscule Conservative leaning media, folks like Rush, Hannity, Levin, et all, bring Joe’s negatives up? And when he does or says something dumb? Even the liberal media might come out from their doggie houses and notice.

From my point of view, the pick of Joe 7-11 is one designed to deflect away from Barry and his character issues, his lack of advertised substance and policy (we know what he really stands for, but, that will not make it into the mainstream media), gaffes Barry makes, and his inexperience. Joe can get out there and attack, attack, attack, while Barry sits back and plays Mr. Lovable Hope and Change without getting his hands dirty.

Even the AP climbed out of their liberal tree house made of Arugula to notice that Biden fills the attack role. This way, Barry can remain articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy.

Anything that keeps the eyes focused off Barry’s negatives is a positive for Barry. That anything is Joe Biden.

So, the best thing to do is mostly ignore Biden. When he goes on the attack, do not address the responses to Joe, but back to Barry. Consider McCain’s latest attack, which attempts to get to Hillary supporters over the pick of Biden. Go after Barry, not Joe. Joe is Barry’s shield. Treat Joe as a sideshow, much like John Edwards was treated during the 2004 cycle.

Campaign posters for the Obama Biden 2008 ticket are already being posted on the internet. Some of these guys are really on top of things. This campaign poster was created at Exurban League. I hope the Obama Biden campaign will consider using it.

h/t: The Median Sib

Anyone think they will have been scrubbed at this point?

As the Democratic Party prepares to unleash its presidential nominating convention here, the University of Illinois at Chicago said today that it will release records of Sen. Barack Obama’s service to a nonprofit organization linked to William Ayers, a Chicago education professor who was a radical protestor in the 1960s.

Sen. John McCain’s allies have been trying to exploit the tie between Obama and Ayers, with a McCain fundraiser donating nearly $2.9 million for an independent TV ad focusing on Ayers, whose Weatherman group took credit for bombings that included nonfatal blasts at the Pentagon and U.S. Capitol four decades ago.

The records of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge,which Obama chaired and which Ayers co-founded, will be made available to the public on Tuesday, UIC said in a statement.

We’ll see on Tuesday, I guess. Set the reminder to “11:58pm.”

Obligatory Biden’s Barry’s Bitch Vice Presidential pick. Even the New York Times couldn’t get excited, particularly at 3am, several hours after all the Obama supporters were informed by the TV news, and could finally walk away from their phones and take a shower and get something to eat

Senator Barack Obama has chosen Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr. of Delaware to be his running mate, turning to a leading authority on foreign policy and a longtime Washington hand to fill out the Democratic ticket, Mr. Obama announced in text and e-mail messages early Saturday.

Mr. Obama’s selection ended a two-month search that was conducted almost entirely in secret. It reflected a critical strategic choice by Mr. Obama: To go with a running mate who could reassure voters about gaps in his résumé, rather than to pick someone who could deliver a state or reinforce Mr. Obama’s message of change.

Right

Real change with a guy who has been in the Senate for well over 30 years. Change. Hope. A guy who has repeatedly stated that Obama is not qualified to be president

Today, McCain spokesman Ben Porritt issued the following statement on Barack Obama’s selection of Joe Biden as his running mate:

“There has been no harsher critic of Barack Obama’s lack of experience than Joe Biden. Biden has denounced Barack Obama’s poor foreign policy judgment and has strongly argued in his own words what Americans are quickly realizing — that Barack Obama is not ready to be President.”

Let’s go to the video tape

Ouch.

Let’s check a few of the DUmmies, shall we?

• Actually it’s a horrible choice. But I’ll still vote for that ticket. Biden will hurt us, not help us.
• Blame secret service to blow it not the campaign. (no, seriously, this DUmmy just blamed the USSS)
• Indeed. Valerie Plame said the Bush Admin can’t keep a secret!! (managed to drag BDS in)
• I checked. It’s really too bad. I thought he’d pick someone better. Oh well. They still get my vote because the alternative is a guaranteed World War III.
• now that the internet creators of the obama product have all those email addresses how soon do you think they’ll be sending campaign donation solicitation messages? All hose addresses will go into Democratic party lists……I wonder if they’ll be available to marketers? If they’re part of a political campaign are they public property now? (aha! someone gets the point of the phone list)
• f*ck I’m drunk. maybe I will wake up tomorrow and the Biden part will be gone.
• I’M MAD If Biden is the VP then i would have wanted Obama to send me a text earlier today before the crazed media got hold of this information. I can see it now, me holding up a newspaper tomorrow morning saying “BIDEN FOR VP!” while I get my text message at 10am saying the same thing. This would make me mad at Obama b/e it makes this text out the VP seen like a scam just to get my number. (then again, when is a DUmmy not mad?)
• Obama chooses Mr. Screw the People for VP, Corporate Lackey Joe Biden stands in the wings, Hillary in pants. I might be wrong and what America really needs is someone knows how to kneel and tongue banker booty.

And these were not even the bad ones. Mostly, they are pissed off about not getting their texts ahead of the announcement. Quite a few of them feel taken, denied by the Messiah. But, no worries, as I am sure the Neophyte/Long Time Washington Insider ticket will be sending plenty of text messages asking for money.

One more?

DainBramaged - Unite under Obama/Biden or get on the mothership and leave.

No more bitching and moaning, he IS our VP Candidate.

THAT is all.

Progressive version of free speech.

Anyhow, see a ton more at Memeorandum.

My 1.4 cents: the pick of Biden will, at best, have no impact for Barry. Sure, he provides some experience in government, something Barry is sorely lacking in, but, he didn’t do that well in the Primaries. And, with all due respect to Delaware, there isn’t a whole lot in Delaware. It won’t help Barry with the South.

This pick can hurt Obama. If he is lucky, just a little bit. Biden loves to put his foot in his mouth, though. And there are many, many comments by Joe dismissing Obama, both generally and specifically, as unqualified to be president which Camp McCain can take advantage of.

Its just so much fun that the Obama campaign has made a big ol’ dog and pony show out of his vice presidential pick!

Obama’s people are out now telling everybody why Joseph Biden is such a great choice for the Obama VP position. All of the sudden, they need someone with more experience, someone with some fire and fight in them, someone who brings foreign policy experience, etc. All the things they said didn’t matter that the Obamessiah didn’t have.

So, its going to be Obama Biden 2008! Ha. I would have picked him myself if Obama had asked me. I just don’t know which one of them will listen since they both love the sounds of their own voices.

Here’s some fun videos of Joe Biden. The first one is of him saying that there would be a doughnut crisis in the country if it weren’t for Indian American’s running 7-11s. The other one is of him saying he is not a Northeastern liberal snob since his state was a slave state. He says that gives him credentials in the South and will help him win the South.

Oh - and remember. He is the guy who said that it was just wonderful to have Obama in the democratic party since he’s an African American who is ‘clean and articulate‘.

“I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy,” Biden said. “I mean, that’s a storybook, man.”

Its important for your vice presidential running mate to think you are articulate and clean I think.

:snort:

Here’s a biography on Joseph Biden’s wife, Jill Biden.