ANOTHER VIEW OF THE OBAMA ELECTION NIGHT RIOT.

This is another account of the goings-on in Jonesboro,Arkansas at the University of Arkansas.




http://www.arktimes.com/blogs/arkansasblog/2008/11/the_obama_riot_at_asu.aspx

NEVER IN MY LIFETIME

Never in my lifetime would I have thought that a Black man would be the President of the United States of America. Being from the South, Little Rock, Arkansas, I lived through the sixties. I remember having to ride on the back of the bus, going to the movies in the balcony through a separate entrance, and not being able to sit on a stool at Woolworth's.

When Governor Orval Faubus closed the schools in Arkansas, I missed a year of school. I operated an elevator in the Marion Hotel and washed dishes in a restaurant. Blacks had to come to the back and order food or sit at a table in the kitchen to eat.

The park we had to go to was on the outskirts of town, called Gilliam Park. It was way down in the woods. Now I have heard that the area has been turned into a natural preserve. In one year my family relocated to Los Angeles where I resumed my education.

I WILL NEVER VOTE FOR A REPUBLICAN AGAIN !!!

Being an undeclared voter, I vote for a person that I can identify with. It doesn't matter which party they are from. But I will never vote for a Republican again. They will say "I don't condone the actions of this group," or whatever, but they don't come out and speak agains't it.

The Republicans have hit a new low this election year, and it will not soon be forgotten by the masses of the people.

HOW POLL TAXES AFFECTED ME

Growing up in Little Rock, Arkansas, we lived a few blocks from the governor's mansion. But my parent's couldn't afford to vote. They were charged two dollars to vote. My father was a carpet, tile and linoleum worker. He worked for Steinkamp's Furniture Store. He only made fifteen dollars a week.Some of the domestic workers made nine dollars a week.

Thankfully we owned a lot of heirs property, so we didn't have to pay a mortgage or rent. In addition to buying groceries, my father would go to Helms Bakeries for their day-old bread and pastries . We had our own garden where we would get our vegetables and my father would go hunting and fishing to supply food.

We had a few chickens and rabbits.My mother was a housewife and she did ironing for the furniture store owner's wife. Poll Taxes was a tax required for voting in some parts of the U S .It was often designed to disenfranchise poor people, mostly blacks, and keep them from voter registration and voting.

The 24th amendment, ratified in 1964, outlawed poll tax as a pre-condition in voting in Federal Elections.

REPUBLICANS SCOFFED AT COMMUNITY ORGANIZERS, THE LAUGH IS ON THEM

Barak Obama's work as a community organizer has paid off for him. He has had the most thorough campaign ever devised for a presidential election. He has been ruthlessly consistent. People from all over the world have come to the U S to volunteer in his campaign.

I was surprised that kids would travel that far to help in a campaign in a foreign country. I guess that is from the magnetism that Obama gives out. People are naturally drawn to him. When he was a professor , I guess he affected the students the same way.

THIS IS AN EYE-OPENING BLOG

This is a must read blog which speaks truth.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com-anitathompson:NotetoMcCainforPickingacutebuffoon/

I AM SO GLAD THAT JOHN McCAIN SHOWED SOME CLASS

I am so glad that John McCain showed some class by renouncing the bigots at his rally. He knows that whether he wins or loses, he will have to work in Washington. And he does not want to be shunned.

His supporters and handlers didn't want him to come out and stop the attacks on Barak Obama. But that shows he has some decency left. He is bringing out the David Dukes and the Timothy McVeigh's at those rally's.

If someone leaves his rally and group attack someone, he will get blamed for riling them up . I hope he isn't looking at those talking heads on cable. I don't look at fox and sometimes I have to turn off NPR because they go too far left sometimes.

The way things are going now I think it will be a toss-up as to who will win this election. It is so close.

IF McCAIN WINS WHAT WILL HIS APPROVAL RATING BE IN THE FIRST FEW DAYS ?

I think the approval rating will be lower that George Bush has now. I am shuddering to think about it. He will be the O J of politics. How low can you go.

I have never seen gutter politics like this and I have worked in campaigns since 1965. I don't think the stench will ever go away.

THE ALASKA PERMANENT FUND

The Alaska Permanent Fund at this time holds $ 22 million dollars in Sudan-linked investments, even though Governor Sarah Palin has said they had divested in them.

This is according to the non profit Sudan Divestment Task Force. The fund does not need the state legislature to divest itself of these holdings.

SARAH PALIN IS A SMEARMONGER

Sarah Palin is being used as a tool of the Republican Party for their advancement. I do not think she is doing justice to women of the world. I would not let someone use me to lose all self respect and inegrity for myself.

I am wondering how her children will view her in the years to come of her behavior. I wonder what she thinks when she looks in the mirror, does she have a shred of decency left.

She is so hungry for power that she would do anything for it. But she will realize that after the election she will not be accepted into the old boys network.

McCAIN IS USING PALIN AS HIS ATTACK DOG !!

Senator John McCain is using Governor Sarah Palin as his attack dog so he cannot be blamed for any damaging smears to the media. She will put anything out there that is put before her.

I hope that she would have enough gumption to say no against anything that she will not tolerate, and not let herself to be put out there with talking points.

SARAH PALIN HOLDING HER OWN BABY

Yesterday when Sarah Palin embarked off the plane, she was holding her own baby. Usually that task is delegated to someone else. I had never seen her holding the baby.

Was that just a photo op, or just in case she did not do well in the debate, she would get empathy from all the moms. She also had her arm bandaged from the fall she had at John McCain's compound.

COULD A FIFTH GRADER ANSWER THE QUESTIONS THAT KATIE COURIC AND CHARLIE GIPSON ASKED ?

It is a question that I would like to know the answer to. I was wondering. There was a show on recently by that title and some of the questions were difficult for the parents to answer.

" THE DEBATES HAVE ABOUT AS MUCH INTEGRITY AS A WWF WRESTLING BOUT !!!

This is the view of the Washington Diarist Gary Younge. He spoke of the debates in the Guardian Weekly Global Network. All I can say is WOW !!

WHY BARAK OBAMA USED KID GLOVES IN DEBATE

Barak Obama used kid gloves on John McCain because that is his makeup. He has been taught to respect his elders. He has more tolerance than most. If McCain had collapsed on stage, then Obama would be devastated.

It reminds me of high school. After school we would go to the park and sometimes play basketball. We knew the boys were afraid to play aggressively so we would take advantage of the situation.

We would jab them with our elbows and play very rough.

ALL INCUMBENTS SHOULD BE KICKED OUT !!

We need some fresh blood in Washington, D.C. All the incumbents should be kicked out. Many of them have been there too long and are ineffective. It showed this week.

Americans still have a chance to elect Barr and Nader. I think the candidates are clearing the way for many Libertarians, Greens, and Independents to forge ahead.

IS McCAIN'S CAMPAIGN FOR HIM OR AGAINST HIM !!

I don't know who planned his strategy last week, but they should be fired. It was a disgrace. I am wondering whoever that person was, does he want McCain to win ?

Each week there seems to be some kind of stunt or something. They will throw anything out there and hope it will stick. I think McCain should follow his own gut instincts. There are so many people telling him these pranks will work.

He is trying to re-invent himself every week. He is trying to call Obama's bluff and it is not working. It has Karl Rove written all over it.

A MUST READ IF YOU ARE VOTING FOR McCAIN !!

Matt Welch, editor in chief of Reason Magazine has written a biography on John McCain. It is a in depth and character study on this senator.

The title is: MCCAIN: THE MYTH OF A MAVERICK

In this book are references of occurrences, voting records, public records and documented history. This is a must read before the 2008 election.