Obamaville Sets Up in Eden Park

You know I dearly love the fact that President Obama chose to spend time in my neighborhood on Monday. He chose Eden Park, an absolutely beautiful piece of green space in Cincinnati located between the two downtown neighborhoods of Walnut Hills and Mt. Adams.

Mittens Romney sent his campaign bus with Steve Chabot and a few other supporters to slam the Prez and his policies. Trouble was, they parked at Mirror Lake, right next to the public bathrooms and nobody but the geese and three mounted patrol were there to hear it.

I liked the shot of the Romney supporters grouped behind Steve “Mr. Comb-over Chabot.” They had five or six white people surrounding a tall Black youth in the middle. They also came with a fake reporter/videographer team, making it seem like they had traveling news coverage. The fake reporter was the other dark face visibly apparent for Romney and company.

Guess Mitt will now be able to say he comes to the ghetto too, considering he parked his bus on Nassau Street where it feeds down into the park. Not really ghetto, but more Black people living in proximity than he usually attracts. Maybe some of them stuck their heads out the window to see his very small commotion. Nah, probably went to work. Black people over there must have jobs to afford their homes.

Whoa! Working middle class black people. Now that is a concept that I will bet Mitt has never considered.

Back to Obamaville, that multicultural, multi-generational, multicolored traveling village that follows the President where ever he speaks. They are willing to show up at a moment's notice and wait, walk or ride however long is necessary to see him and to hear his voice, regardless of whether or not they'd heard it before.

And in full disclosure-this was not a new speech. It was pure stump, very little new meat added to it. The old applause lines twisted into new configurations, with the old message still intact.

But it doesn't matter, the hopeful just want to be there to bask in his history. It's always hurry up and wait, with the “wait” time spent meeting new friends, finding and reconnecting with old friends or just talking with strangers for how ever long you end up standing next to them in the long, long security lines.

I was truly amazed this time watching people leave-the number of physically challenged folk who came anyway given the very difficult terrain in order to see President Obama. The Seasongood Pavilion is a naturally occurring “bowl” that you must walk or roll down into, because there are no steps, just slanted ground. Conversely it is a steep climb to get out. It's not easy for the infirm, the elderly nor the handicapped.

But that didn't stop them. Nor did it deter the physically fit. They pushed, walked slow and even carried those who couldn't, up and down that hill, so that all could see Obama. Temperament was good. Nobody complained. Nobody got mad or impatient. Everybody did what they had to do, together with their neighbors.

These feelings and williness to make it happen is why Obama is going to win November.

You heard it here. Obamaville is happy, and that's a good thing.

Vote Responsibly in November.

More Lies Than Black People at the RNC

I gotta give it to Romney and Ryan. When it comes to brass balls, these guys hang huge.

Now that they have accepted their respective nominations for president and vice president, I have learned a few more things about this pair.

Romney/Ryan obviously think the American people are as dumb as elephant shit-that we walk around with a big fat “S” for stupid stamped on our foreheads in a perpetual sign of stupidity, easily read by anyone who wants to sell us something.

These masters of the universe would rather lie than tell the truth about their invisible plans for America and don't give a damn when even the mainstream media calls them on it.

I mean yesterday, nearly every major news outlet, including Fox called Paul Ryan a liar to his face, in no uncertain terms, didn't mince words, and Romney/Ryan looked back and said “So what!” It was no big deal. Apparently, the American people don't need the truth. The American people can't handle the truth apparently. And some of the darker portions of America apparently are incapable of understanding the truth, if you listen to Romney/Ryan.

So Romney had his big night last night to let us in on who he really, really is, and all I saw was the same ole white man I been looking at my entire fucking life. The same ole white man who still considers me a savage, who still knows better than I do what I need in my life and how I need to live my life. I saw the same ole white man who wants to control every single aspect of me, and fully expects me to sit there like a good little brown lapdog and take it.

The lies outnumbered the Black people at the Republican National Convention of Delusional white folk.

Despite the chants of “USA” there was no America present inside that arena, just a bunch of old xenophobics, their colored sycophants, and their young offspring being raised up to take their place in a bigoted but disappearing WASP social order.

To paraphase Kanye West; “Romney/Ryan still don't like Black people.” Hell, he don't like women or gay people either. Based on the various looks that painted his face in the cut aways, doesn't look as if he likes his kids or wife either.

People of Color and women serve only one purpose within the GOP and that is to make a magnificent stage presence every four years when they decide to lay claim on the White House, and it's the same old story, the lie of the “big tent” republican party.

There is no big tent. There is not even a sleeping bag on the ground for anyone other than white males. Been like that way since Richard Nixon.

The reason Blacks aren't republican anymore is policy. The policies of the Republican Party changed to the point where today, being Black and joining the GOP is the same as volunteering to stand in front of a firing squad armed with live ammunition, after the GOP assures you the guns aren't really loaded.

None the less, some are jumping at the chance, because being a black practice dummy for white folks carries big monetary benefits and notoriety, should they choose you to be their token. Much easier to fight for space among the few, rather than among the many who populate the Democratic Party. Ain't that right, Artur? Policy be damned..I'll take the money..right Mia? (Ouuuu, look Mattel's made Barbie in Blackface!)

To be sure, there are chocolate defenders everywhere, surrounding and protecting the masters of the universe out of the goodness of their conflicted hearts. But they are always marginal players, not playing any part in the big picture nor sharing in the real wealth. The money stays at the top. It's the Republican way, right Mike Steele, Kenny Blackwell? Anybody seen Alan K lately? Ijs

Romney/Ryan is once again selling “trickle down voodoo econ” but you can bet ain't nothin tricklin' nowhere. 

Romney/Ryan is selling NeoCon fantasies wrapped up in delusions of American exceptionalism, and Voodoo Economics cloaked in vicious Jim Crow bigotry. It's the Bush Doctrine on steroids, Nothing remotely compassionate or moderately conservative.

Buy at your own risk and vote responsibly in November.

Priesse and Akin, Too Many Dumb Asses, Not Enough Time

I am so tired...bigots and the chronically ignorant, drive me up a wall and this week, we've got several from which to choose.

Spent the past couple of days dealing with the idiot from Missouri, Todd Akin, who apparently doesn't understand how pregnancy works, nor the difference between having sex and being raped.

Akin exposed for the clueless,  the general consensus thinking of the entire GOP. in that women can only get pregnant when they want to. Therefore they don't need contraception nor fertility help. It's all inside our body, just like those transvaginal probes they've been dying to stick into our birth canals. It's also up to government to protect idjit, and naive men from bad women who also routinely lie about pregnancy and how it comes about, thus entrapping the poor unsuspecting males with false claims of rape and paternity.

The GOP platform, Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan, will officially assume these ignorant positions next week during the Republican convention in Tampa.

At last word, Akin is continuing his run for the United States Senate, to which I can only say...please...please....send this fool packin!

While all this hoopla was going on nationally, here in Ohio, one of John boy Kasich's minions stuck his foot into his mouth, revealing the racism festering inside the State Capital.

Said Doug Priesse and Kasich advisor in an email to the Columbus Dispatch newspaper, about lengthening early voting hours to accommodate those who prefer to vote before the election;

“I guess I really actually feel we shouldn’t contort the voting process to accommodate the urban — read African-American — voter-turnout machine.”-Doug Priesse

And with that stupidity tripping off his lips, Priesse shut down weekend early voting in Ohio. Statistics show early voting is a tool Blacks use to vote, since most are working during business hours, the only time to vote is on the weekends.

However, Kasich and his boys know that Blacks ain't necessarily turning out for his boy Mitt Romney, so they had to figure out other ways to suppress the vote. They came up with this one after other voter suppression methods were exposed and halted. It should be noted that Doug Priesse, in addition to being Kasich's chief advisor, is also head of the Ohio Republican Party.

The Ohio GOP has a history of voter suppression. You will recall the efforts of homeboy Ken Blackwell, who among other things stooped so low as to demand that only a certain type of paper could be used for ballots. It had to weigh a certain amount or it couldn't be counted. He did this while Secretary of State of Ohio. And of course, this was after he managed to “disappear” more than 200,000 black votes in Cleveland to give Bush the election in 2000. Blackwell attempted to screw with the vote in 2004 as well.

The GOP knows it can't win an election outright if people turn out to vote, so they do everything in their power to steal elections and they've gotten good at it, too.

The thing these two dumb asses have in common is that they exposed what is general thinking inside their party. They don't see anything wrong with what they did or said. It was just business as usual for the Republicans machine. The republican machine was not happy about being exposed, but again, they don't understand the error of their ways.

Vote responsibly in November