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Mochascafe
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Username: Mochascafe
Post Number: 96
Registered: 08-2007
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, January 05, 2009 - 01:12 pm: | 
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Source: www.playahata.com
by Bruce Banter
President Elect Barack Obama is threatening to cancel Jay Z’s appearance at his January 20th Inauguration in Washington, D.C. if the rapper born Sean Carter performs new pro Palestinian lyrics that support Hamas. Obama advisers got a preview of the lyrics when David Axelrod accompanied Jay Z and Beyonce to an outdoor fundraiser for Michael Steinhardt. Steinhardt asked Jay Z to do a freestyle rap dissing Hamas founder Sheikh Ahmed Yassin. But Carter declined to get involved in the “beef” saying he is married and avoids beef nowadays “by any means neccesary”.
Then in a odd scenario of events Jay Z approached Steinhardt 20 minutes later and asked could he rap about Hamas extensive social programs that have gained popularity in Palestinian society by establishing hospitals, education systems, libraries and other services throughout the West Bank and Gaza Strip. According to Axelrod Jay Z told Steinhardt I will do a rap but “I want to change the dialogue” Jay Z said I want to mention Hamas “beef with Israel as political and not religious or antisemitic and that Hamas is democratically elected but can’t get recognition despite Hamas’s political wing having won many local elections in Gaza, Qalqilya, and Nablus”. Steinhardt said “nobody cares about Hamas” but Jay Z cited that Hamas is not what the mainstream media is depicting and pointed to the recent January 2006, surprise victory in the Palestinian parliamentary elections, taking 76 of the 132 seats in the chamber, while the previous ruling Fatah party took 43.
Steinhardt told Jay Z to forget he mentioned doing a diss song because the rapper was being anti-social. Jay Z popped his collar, brushed his shoulders off and then backed away from his handlers and stood in the cold and hummed underneath his breath the lyrics to a pro Hamas song called “Gaza Strip Club“. Axelrod said everybody there could clearly hear him humming this truce song and these actions were passive aggressive”. Axelrod told the Associated Press that “Gaza Strip Club” would clearly embarass Obama. When Jay Z was asked would he perform this song he only responded “GSC all day.” |
Cynique
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Username: Cynique
Post Number: 13248
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, January 06, 2009 - 12:31 pm: |
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Poor Obama. Challenging Jay-Z's resistance to censorship is just a sample of what lies ahead for him. In winning the election by appealing to so many segments of the population, Obama will inevitably have to deal with offending these same groups who all expect him to make allowance for their unusualness as part of the change he promised.
Our president-elect has already incurred the ire of the anti-Hillary crowd for making her his Secretary of State, and stirred the anger of teachers who resent his appointing Arne Duncan as Secretary of Education, a man whose degree is in sociology and who has no classroom teaching experience. The gay community is appalled at his selection of an anti-homosexual Evangelical preacher to deliver the inaugural invocation a selection which subsequently riled old school civil rights leaders who expected a black minister to be chosen for this honor. And now certain Democratic senators don't approve of his selecting the inexperienced Leon Panetta as his choice for CIA directior. Moreover, Obama is certain to be in store for more criticism for not backing the seating of Roland Burris as the replacement for his old senate seat.
Obama clearly wants to be the president of all the people, an aspiration which is proving to be a prescription for ill-will because the USA is a nation at war with itself. And so it goes... |
Mochascafe
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Username: Mochascafe
Post Number: 98
Registered: 08-2007
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, January 06, 2009 - 10:27 pm: |
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Im here in DC and I purposely did not go into town today because the office that I was going to is right beside the Capitol. What a royal mess. I hope Obama has long realized that he cannot please everybody......
Interesting however that his legal team includes former Baltimore Mayor and Howard Law School Dean Kurt Schmoke....
What are the latest sentiments in Chicago Cynique, Ill tell you here in DC we are practically on the edge of our seats. Its like the Dems are damned if they do and damned if they dont.
But please let us know, how does the Chicago public veiw Jesse Jr right now? |
Cynique
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Username: Cynique
Post Number: 13258
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, January 06, 2009 - 10:54 pm: |
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Jesse Jackson, Jr. is held in fairly high esteem by Chicago's Blacks and I think they would've preferred him over Roland Burris to fill Obama's seat. Of course, Jesse, Jr. continues the struggle to distance himself from his father who Illinois' White voters don't think much of.
There does seem to be a groundswell of support growing for Burris among Chicago Blacks not because they think so much of him personally but because they don't like the idea of White Dems running rough shod over the process, calling all the shots. By picking an inocuous black candidate to fill Obama's seat, Blagojevich really provoked the dissention he wanted to create in his attempt to discredit his critics. |
Cynique
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Username: Cynique
Post Number: 13259
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, January 06, 2009 - 11:01 pm: |
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The Dems may very well be on the verge of shooting themselves in the foot and, to the glee of Republicans, self-destructing. And they can thank on of their own for bringing this about. |
Cynique
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Username: Cynique
Post Number: 13261
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, January 07, 2009 - 05:58 pm: |
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Well, looks like the Dems are trying to get their act together. Harry Reid seems to be placated by the fact that Roland Burris gives every indication of being a good acceptable negro who won't rock the boat should he be sworn in. Burris knows how to play the game and he didn't have to pay to do so.
This whole situation offers some interesting insight about white folks and what happens when arrogance meets arrogance. As noble as they tried to portray themselves, the Feds who prematurely arrested Blagojevich were arrogant in their belief that they knew what was best for the state of Illinois, when they didn't. Blagojevich's arrogance takes the form of defying anybody who questions his behavior. And arrogance is what drives all the white law makers in Illinois and Washington to believe that they have the right to throw their weight around by bending the laws for their own purposes. The result of all of this arrogance is a circus with an overload of clowns.
If Burris gets in, in Illinois there will be a lot of indignant white wanna-bes who thought they were entitled to a shot at Obama's senate seat.
It's no wonder Burris is wearing that smug smile. He knows that he is the one who emerges as the sole beneficiary of all of these machinations. They say he left a lot of space on the marble monument he erected to himself, and becoming a United States senator will really lend a prestigious note to what was otherwise a list of mediocre accomplishments. Watta a farce. But for once, Blacks get the last laugh! (And Burris has struck a blow for senior citizens.)  |
Yvettep
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Post Number: 3319
Registered: 01-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, January 07, 2009 - 07:16 pm: |
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And Burris has struck a blow for senior citizens.
It is interesting you said this, Cynique. Lately I have been thinking that a great lost opportunity this campaign season was that we as a nation did not have a conversation about aging. We talked about race and racism, sexism and feminism, faith--all mainly because of who was running.
Sen McCain's presence in the race could have prompted us to talk about age and aging vibrantly. He could have had a ground-breaking speech, along the lines of Obama's on race, that would address the challenges of running at his age, how he overcomes it, and taking the nation to task about our obsession with youth. And this all could have been done honestly and without attacking other candidates.
But of course that was not his focus, or perhaps more exactly, not his handlers' focus. |
Chrishayden
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Post Number: 7654
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, January 10, 2009 - 10:57 am: |
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Obama will be a jack of all trades and master of none.
If I knew he was just going to make his whole administration over with The Clintons I would have voted for Hillary--we should get the opportunity in 2012 when Obama declines to run again because his term is a dismal failure--
I am ready for the 2012 elections to be moved up. |
Cynique
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Username: Cynique
Post Number: 13279
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, January 10, 2009 - 06:34 pm: |
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Come 2012, senior citizen Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will go right down with Obama if he falls. |
Disciple724
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Username: Disciple724
Post Number: 215
Registered: 07-2008
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, January 11, 2009 - 01:59 am: |
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Chris,
When did you ever express support for Obama?
I seem to recall that you were hating on him from day 1!
I might of missed it but when did you officially jump on the bandwagon...Nov. 4th 11:59 pm pacific time!? |
Disciple724
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Username: Disciple724
Post Number: 216
Registered: 07-2008
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, January 11, 2009 - 02:01 am: |
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...Not that it matters as it is evident that you will be hoping off at the first sign of trouble! |
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