Well based on some comments, I am going to write some more about West Virginia.

Voting for someone because they are white is not a "difference of opinion". Voting for someone, anyone based on race is racism. Racism is fueled by ignorance. 20% of the West Virginia electorate said that race was an important factor in their decision and those votes went overwhelmingly to Hillary Clinton.  Those were the 20% who openly admitted this "opinion" to exit pollsters.

And before you say " But Black people are voting for Obama!!" They aren't doing it because he is black, Clinton was carrying 50% of the vote until they decided to go all George Wallace in South Carolina.  They brought out the same "hardworking white folks" routine in West Virginia.

So let's be clear the vote in West Virginia was not based on some gleaming policy difference between Clinton and Obama. This was a protest vote against a black man becoming the nominee which despite what the Clinton babblers say is now an inevitability.

In case, you think I am making this stuff up WATCH THIS.

I didn't even watch the West Virginia returns. Congratulations, West Virginia. You've shown your ignorance and racism to the whole world.  I don't expect much more from Kentucky.  ( Well, actually I expect a little more from Kentucky)

I'm taking my cues from Barack and just ignoring her.

 I was too busy having an absolutely wonderful night to worry about it too much.  I don't think it even crossed my mind.

Alright, Hillary has just come out and said it today " Vote for Me, I'm White"  It's a bigot's for Hillary last chance effort.

OK, how many different ways is her statement insulting.  Oh and I checked the audio from USA Today. She wasn't misquoted.


1. She is insinuating that those with college education and minorities aren't "hardworking Americans". Especially those that aren't white.  It is race baiting of the worst kind.

2. It's not even true!
He won the "white"  states of Wisconsin, Iowa, Washington, Connecticut, Maine, Virginia, Idaho, Wyoming, and he'll win Oregon and probably South Dakota and Montana.  But those people don't count? Maybe those white people aren't hard working enough? white enough?

3. In terms of percentage of white vote, Obama is carrying a similar percentage of white votes than John Kerry did in 2004. And it's May.

I am convinced she will do anything!! ANYTHING!!! She is hell bent on the destruction of the Democratic party. If she isn't the nominee, no one else can be. She is either trying to destroy it out of spite or in some misguided notion that she can come back in 2012. ( Which makes me laugh, she has lost the African American vote FOREVER, and no democrat can win without African Americans.

Hillary it's official  I'll  never forgive you now.

Hillary

I don't hate you. If you come back and support Barack, I shall retract all of the mean things I said to you. I loved you once. Seriously. It's not you, it's me. I just am looking for something different now than I was back in 1994.  Things changed and we had to go different ways. I admire your tenacity despite my hurt feelings when you tried to hurt and discredit my brown people in order to win. Sometimes people lash out. But now it's time. I want to still like you. 
Let it go, girl. You never know, sometimes good things happen when you do.

Obama kicked ass in North Carolina!!! Vandy thinks of that song " North Carolina!!! Come on and raise up!!!!"  Hell, yes!  And he did better than expected in Indiana, so thank you Jesus!!!!! OBAMA WILL BE THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE!!!


DID YOU HEAR ME??? BARACK OBAMA WILL BE THE NOMINEE!!! NOW, ON TO THE PRESIDENCY!!!!!

I am so happy!!!!!!!
Funny thing is, after all my election watching, me and my election watcher (otherwise known as my best buddy Pete) decided to say " Fuck it, we aren't watching" We went and played trivia ( where something else cool happened) had a good time and I came home to great news!!!

Like the great Ice Cube said "Today was a good day...I didn't even have to use my AK!"

My opinion: Reverend Wright decided to try to destroy Obama's campaign.  I couldn't believe what I saw.  Seriously.

It's like he woke up and said : " Hmmm, I'm going to destroy the first African American with a chance to win the Presidency. Even though he is the fulfillment of all that African Americans have struggled and fought for for the last century."

It's shocking. It's clearly a hit job on Obama. And the media is more than happy to beat it into the ground. Even though Obama has zero control over the man, they have decided to link him to him.  If Obama can get himself out of this he's a miracle worker.

I don't think he will, though.  Some people have been looking for an excuse not to vote for a Black man, and now they have it. 

I am relaxing at home.  Watching " Look Who's Talking" with John Travolta and Kirstie Alley. Then I'm going to watch a Danielle Steele made for TV movie.  I'm enjoying a cup of hot chocolate. 
I couldn't feel better on a rainy Friday afternoon.

Apparently almost 60% of Black children, and 55% of Hispanic kids can't swim. 
With summer coming up that makes me sad. Swimming is a fun, inexpensive, and healthy activity. Growing up, I loved swimming and we did almost almost every day.  If it wasn't at someone's home, or a community center, we went to the beach.  When I moved to the South,  I was surprised by how few people had pools. Particularly in Tennessee.  There also seem to be few community pools.   It's hot as  the surface of the sun down here in the summer time.  I hope that more summer swim programs for low income kids start popping up and that people take advantage of  those kind of opportunities.

I've been up for a really long time. I can't seem to go to sleep. I lay there and my mind just races.  My personal life. My professional life. My family.  Obama. Clinton. World hunger. Interest rates. I'm not typically a high anxiety person.  Most of the time I can fall asleep at the drop of a hat, but the last week? Not so much.   I think at some point I'll have to just collapse from exhaustion and then I'll try to get up at a normal time.
Does anyone know of some good cures for insomnia? ( I don't like milk, warm or cold, except in cereal or coffee)