YES WE DID!!!!

Barack Hussein Obama is the next President of the United States!!! Do you remember where you were when you heard the news?? I am so proud, overwhelmed, and in complete shock! I wish my grandparents were still alive to see this day. And to hear my mother (who knew ‘Ol Jim Crow well) talk about how she thought she’d never see this day, brought me to tears. I must admit I was sweating it out earlier tonite, but now I’m watching John McCain give his concession speech. This has been one hell of an election. And all I know is that my family and I are planning our trip to Washington, DC for Inaguration Day on January 20, 2009.

I gotta post Will.I.Am’s Yes We Can to honor this moment in history.

I Voted!

I snapped a couple of pictures while waiting in line to vote this morning. I waited about 2 hours and had no problems. On my way to work I thought about my grandmother who passed away in September and didn’t live to see this day. I would have loved to hear what she thought about it all.

I can’t tell you how overwhelmed I am about being able to vote for a Black man for President. I don’t think I’ve ever been this excited to vote since I became eligible waaaay back in 1987. Tonite my husband and I will be sitting nervously in front of the TV watching the news and waiting for the returns. It may be a long night.

YES WE CAN!!!

My Hubby The Early Voter

In South Carolina, we don’t have early voting. But you can turn in your absentee ballot now, if you won’t be able to vote on November 4th. My wonderful husband who recently accepted a job in my hometown of Fayetteville, NC, turned in his absentee vote today!
As you can see he “Barack’ed” the vote. I can’t wait til it’s my turn next week. YES WE CAN!

Obama vs McCain Round 3 — I am not President Bush

At last night’s debate, Sen. John McCain thought he slammed Sen. Barack Obama when he said “I am not President Bush, if you wanted to run against President Bush you should have run four years ago”. Ooooooh! You really told him Sen. McCain. Well leave it to Obama and his campaign to take said slam and throw it back in his face. Check out this video:

Love it! By the way CNN, FOX, and CBS all report viewers though Obama won. Less than 20 days to go. Let’s get it! YES WE CAN!!!

"That One"

The 2008 version of “You People”. Has it really come to this? Sen. John McCain couldn’t even refer to Sen. Barack Obama as person, as a man, instead he’s a ‘That’. A thing, an object. Sen. McCain dislike (or is it disdain?) for Sen. Obama was more than obvious! Maybe I’m being overly
sensitive? But with Tina Fey Gov. Palin’s borderline racist attacks against Sen. Obama, McCain/Palin surrogates oh so subtle reminders of Barack’s middle name (Hussein) and supporters screaming ‘terrorist’ and ‘kill him’ at their campaign rallies, I think I am justified in believing the ‘that one’ comment was more than Sen. McCain just condescending and sarcarstic.

What’s McCain gonna do at the last debate? Call him ‘boy’? Too obvious? How bout ‘uppity’. Its been used before by a McCain supporter. It is amazing to me just how nasty the McCain campaign has become. And just I love the coded language McCain and Palin have been using.

“I am just so fearful that this is not a man who sees America the way you and I see America.” Palin has said.

In other words he’s not like you and me — you know, white. Keith Olbermann referred to this in his special comment Monday night saying,”it’s a nifty trick to remind the white folk that (psst) Obama is black.”

But it doesn’t seem to be working. After last night’s debate, the polls from the various networks — NBC, CBS, CNN, and even FOX News (they didn’t cook the numbers??? Truly a sign of the Apocalypse) — the American people have said Sen. Obama won the debate in a format that was suppose to be in Sen. McCain’s favor. Heck even some Republican’s are calling it for Obama, including Bill “I’m a Gambler” Bennett.

“I confess I so much admire McCain, but I just don’t think the campaign is equal to the story,’ he said. “I just don’t think it’s equal to the man, it hasn’t been. … We needed a breakthrough, talking about the economy. I think he was a little better than last time, but he didn’t break through enough, and he’s behind. So it just wasn’t good enough for McCain in terms of what it had to be.”

Ouch.

So much for the race baiting Sen. McCain, it looks like ‘that one’ won the debate.

What Comes Around Goes Around

Karma (From the American Heritage Dictionary) –

1. The total effect of a person’s actions and conduct during the successive phases of the person’s existence, regarded as determining the person’s destiny.
2. Fate; destiny.

How’s this for karma? Jerome Corsi, who wrote a smear-filled, a propagandist book attacking Barack Obama for the right (or reich) is being detained in Kenya because he doesn’t have a work permit. According to the Associated Press:

Jerome Corsi, who wrote “The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality,” was being held at immigration headquarters in Nairobi after police picked him up from his hotel Tuesday, said Carlos Maluta, a senior immigration official in charge of investigations.

“We still haven’t decided what to do with him,” Maluta told The Associated Press.

A call to a Corsi aide in the U.S. rang unanswered Tuesday.

Maluta said Corsi did not have a temporary work permit needed to conduct business in Kenya. Corsi had been scheduled to launch his book Tuesday in Kenya, where the Democratic U.S. presidential candidate is wildly popular…..

Corsi’s book claims the Illinois senator is a dangerous, radical candidate for president and includes innuendoes and false rumors — that he was raised a Muslim, attended a radical, black church and is secretly seething with “black rage.”

Now, it is well known Sen. Obama’s father is from Kenya and he still has a number of family members living over there including siblings, an uncle, and a grandmother. In fact, one uncle has said he was “unaware” of Corsi’s dentention.

That’s a great statement Uncle Obama, that should be the family party line. LOL! Seriously, not that I believe the Kenyan Obamas have anything to do with Corsi’s detention, but I truly think it is hilarious that this man had the nerve to come to Sen. Obama’s homeland and try to push that libelous book on Kenyans. I hope they keep his right-wing behind over there until after the election. My momma always said God don’t like ugly.

What Comes Around Goes Around

Karma (From the American Heritage Dictionary) –

1. The total effect of a person’s actions and conduct during the successive phases of the person’s existence, regarded as determining the person’s destiny.
2. Fate; destiny.

How’s this for karma? Jerome Corsi, who wrote a smear-filled, a propagandist book attacking Barack Obama for the right (or reich) is being detained in Kenya because he doesn’t have a work permit. According to the Associated Press:

Jerome Corsi, who wrote “The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality,” was being held at immigration headquarters in Nairobi after police picked him up from his hotel Tuesday, said Carlos Maluta, a senior immigration official in charge of investigations.

“We still haven’t decided what to do with him,” Maluta told The Associated Press.

A call to a Corsi aide in the U.S. rang unanswered Tuesday.

Maluta said Corsi did not have a temporary work permit needed to conduct business in Kenya. Corsi had been scheduled to launch his book Tuesday in Kenya, where the Democratic U.S. presidential candidate is wildly popular…..

Corsi’s book claims the Illinois senator is a dangerous, radical candidate for president and includes innuendoes and false rumors — that he was raised a Muslim, attended a radical, black church and is secretly seething with “black rage.”

Now, it is well known Sen. Obama’s father is from Kenya and he still has a number of family members living over there including siblings, an uncle, and a grandmother. In fact, one uncle has said he was “unaware” of Corsi’s dentention.

That’s a great statement Uncle Obama, that should be the family party line. LOL! Seriously, not that I believe the Kenyan Obamas have anything to do with Corsi’s detention, but I truly think it is hilarious that this man had the nerve to come to Sen. Obama’s homeland and try to push that libelous book on Kenyans. I hope they keep his right-wing behind over there until after the election. My momma always said God don’t like ugly.

Paris Hilton for President

Don’t worry, its a joke.

Funny or Die recently created a spoof response ad to the John McCain ad that compares Barack Obama to Paris Hilton and Britney Spears. In the video, Miss Hilton mistakenly believes that getting a shout out in the McCain ad means she’s running for President. The video is hilarious! Listen to explain her energy plan!!!

See Paris Hilton Responds to McCain Ad and more funny videos on FunnyOrDie.com

See more funny videos at Funny or Die

Ludacris, Take a Lesson from Big Boi

Hip-Hop with a message is not dead. Big Boi just released a video for his new song, “Sumthin’ Gotta to Give” featuring Mary J. Blige. This song is so relevant to the struggles the country is facing now — job losses, gas prices, economic recession, etc. The song is laid back, not angry, lameting the state of the country. But offering Hope, in the form a possible Barack Obama presidency. The video even begins with a quote from Obama. The backdrop for most of the video appears to be an Obama campaign headquarters. Hill Harper and John Legend (vocal Obama supporters make cameos).

I have always been a huge fan of Outkast. They were never the cookie-cutter rap group. Their lyrics and music always pushed the boundaries. I wish more rappers took more musical chances like Outkast. I definitely plan on picking up Big Boi’s album “Sir Luscious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty” when it drops.

Now Luda this is how you support our boy Obama. Take a few lessons..

Ludacris, You’re Really Not Helping….

I haven’t posted much in the last couple of weeks due my 9-to-5. But now things at work have slowed down a bit and I can get back to the business of blogging. Where do I begin…….

Luda, Luda, Luda!! Bro you are really not helping the O-man’s race to the White House. They lyrics to your new song “Politics” calling Miss Hillary a bitch….wrong move. And now the Obama Campaign has had to publicly denounce you. There goes that invitation to the Inauguration. I understand your excitement at the prospect of having the first Black President and a President that counts you as one of his favorite rappers. But Obama is playing for keeps, this isn’t some manufactured, YouTube hip-hop beef. You can’t just talk *ish about the opponent and move on. There are some very narrow-minded, dim-witted people who don’t have the ability to distinguish between the candidate and his supporters. People like that will take these lyrics use them against Obama as if he wrote them.

Obama is trying to obtain the highest office in the land. And in order to get there he’s going to have assure a lot of white people that it is okay to have a black President and that they don’t have to fear a bunch of big Negroes in white tees and cornrows won’t come to their door and throw them out the country.

However, as a hip-hop fan and a fan of yours, the song is hot! When are you releasing it?