Obama: "As An African American You Have To Work Twice As Hard As Anyone Else If You Want To Get By"

“This is the first time in the history of the Henry Clay Debates at the University of Kentucky that two African-American women have been awarded the top two speaker positions. I do believe it is also the first time in the history of national debate competition that two African-American women have won the top two speakers at any national tournament.

…Nadia Lewis and Jamila Ahmed have accomplished a feat that many debaters around the country can only dream of achieving. And, it is important to note that they did so as virtual novices competing in the varsity level division. Their competitors are likely to have five to eight more years of debate experience than these young women.”

1 Hand Washes The Other Since Black Don't Come Off

I was looking for a quote to sum this bizarre story up, and I found it:

  "The big problem here is we don't want to deal with the truth of the racial divide that permeated this case."

Or this country. Sigh.

Basically, one black woman helped another black woman keep her job, after the last black woman was fired under the same sketchy circumstances. That's an over-simplification, but the gist of it. And now the woman who assisted is telling everybody to "get over it" because (it sounds like) she's sick of them. Can't imagine why. 

It happened in Louisville , Kentucky.

Whatever that means,...

 

The Snot-Nosed Kid Forgets Tea (To Talk Like A Man)

 

 Ha! Yesterday Chris Christie said Rand Paul & Co. seemed to want to make Republican politics personal - and then Paul let loose with that lame "Bacon King" jab that hit himself in the chin - so what's Pauly saying today?

“With Gov. Christie it’s gotten a little too personal, so we’re ready to kiss and makeup,..."

Considering everything - beer or no beer - that's a very interesting choice of words,...

 

Cruzin' 4 A Bruzin' (Or If U Gonna Be A RINO Be Angry)

The Divine Mr. Cruz, siding with Rand Paul against Chris Christie, is interesting. Marco Rubio, now the weasel of the group, will surely join them. It's almost a former-tweener generational thing - everyone's born between 1960 and 1970 - and Rand has what little real charisma The Three Little Brothers possess. Scott Walker doesn't look stupid (so far) so I wouldn't think he'd want to be associated with Ron's snot-nosed kid:

“If he cared about protecting this country, maybe he wouldn’t be in this, “Gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme all the money you have in Washington, or don’t have,’ and he’d be a little more fiscally responsive and know that the way we defend our country, the way we have enough money for national defense, is by being frugal and not by saying, ‘Gimme, gimme, gimme’ all the time.”

 

I can tell you, after decades of playing the dozens, that didn't look good from the cheap seats. And Christie easily deflected it, with Hot Air (I think wrongly) calling Christie "an 'angry RINO' charging at rivals on the right" when Christie's only crime, as far as I can tell - and always as a Republican - was merely to care for the people of his state in a disaster. 

There's a remote chance Scott Walker would see the wisdom in that approach to leadership:

“I find it interesting that Sen. Paul is accusing us of having a ‘gimme, gimme, gimme’ attitude towards federal spending when in fact New Jersey is a donor state and we get 61 cents back on every dollar we send to Washington,” Christie said. “And interestingly, Kentucky gets $1.51...”

The Right, now, doesn't realize how culturally right they've swung under Obama - just as the Left didn't realize it under Bush. Their courting of the hispanic vote has been ugly, cynical, grasping, and futile, verging on unAmerican. 

They've forgotten how to win votes. 

They've forgotten why they're there at all. 

Doesn't anybody just want to run on being an American anymore? 

I mean, I don't know about you but, considering what's coming, 

if a Christie/Walker/Center/Right ticket is shaping up, I'm welcoming it,...