Who is your candidate?
This is an interesting test by ABC News.
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What did President Clinton say about Obama?
One of the reasons that I have decided to add video to my blog posts as often as possible it because video can highlight some things that are murky. My fellow blogger, Texas Liberal, was taking President Bill Clinton to the woodshed for using the phrase “Fairy tale.” Many progressives thought that the President was referring to Obama’s campaign or his theme of hope. I would like to urge my fellow progressives to listen to the whole clip. If you think that President Clinton needs to be taken to the woodshed then I’ll be the first one to go grab him (figuratively speaking, of course). On the other hand, if the media has led us a stray maybe they are the ones that need to be taken to the woodshed.
Cowboys lose to Giants
We (Cowboy faithful) could see it coming from a mile away. They were not ready. The Dallas Cowboys had been playing mediocre football for the last month or so. The Carolina Panther game was the one that gave me pause. The Panthers were bearly a professional football team. They were on their 9th or 10th 
quarterback this year. We had only one drive that was worth anything. The defense was having trouble with everything. Then there was the Redskin game. If we can’t get up for the Redskins, who can you get up for? Clearly we can’t get up for the Giants.
Before, I get too far into my rant, let me say Congratulations to the New York Giants. They have fought through a lot to be where they are. They came into our house and beat us. They played error free football. Eli was sacked. He was harrassed but Eli Manning still got the job done. We stopped the run but they still won.
The Cowboys have to go back to the drawing board. Our defense clearly let us (the Dallas Fans) down today. (I’ll get to the offense later.) When you score a go ahead touchdown with a 90 yard drive which takes over 10 minutes off the clock, the defense needs to step up. When the offense leaves 47 seconds on the clock, the defense needs to make a play. They didn’t. They allowed the Giants offense to look like the Patriots offense. Jacques Reeves was slightly better than awful. He was beaten like a drum or burned like toast. (Of note, Roy Williams was not beaten although the Giants did try to go after him. On the other hand, where was he? Wasn’t he suppose to be a play maker? He was invisible most of the game. he recorded one (1) tackle. That’s it.) Reeves’ 15 yard face mask penalty was unforgivable. [Read more →]
Senator Clinton’s Comments
Senator Hillary Clinton made comments in New Hampshire last week that sought to diminish the role of Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights movement.
Mrs Clinton said—”Dr. King’s dream began to be realized when President Lyndon Johnson passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. It took a President to get it done.”
Mrs. Clinton’s comments were part of her effort since the Iowa caucus to belittle the optimism felt by many over the campaign of Senator Barack Obama.
Along these lines, former President Bill Clinton described the Obama theme of hope as a “fairy tale.”
It’s no surprise that the Clintons would play down the work done by the Civil Rights movement and the idea that we can do more than settle for the least bad option.
Clintonism has always been about settling for the least bad option in a conservative era.
Now that the conservative era may be coming to an end, what strategy is left but to ridicule the idea that people believing in anything more than the imagination-killing pragmatism of centrist politics can make America better?
For the record, Mrs. Clinton’s reading of history is simply wrong. As well-detailed in Carol Polsgrove’s Divided Minds–Intellectuals and the Civil Rights Movement and David L. Chappell’s excellent A Stone of Hope—Prophetic Religion and the Death of Jim Crow, many white liberals and white intellectuals were slow to embrace the cause of Civil Rights.
From Stone of Hope—”It is hard to sort out whether liberals cared a great deal about racism, but lacked the power to challenge it, or simply cared too little about racism, until black voters and protesters forced their hand…in the 1960’s.”
While many whites did take personal and political risks to aid the cause of Civil Rights, if Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights movement had waited for someone other than themselves to bring about freedom, they might well still be waiting.
And if in 2008 we look to Hillary Clinton to inspire us beyond the mess we find ourselves in today, we will also have a very long wait.
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Errington C. Thompson, MD, is a surgeon, scholar, fulltime sports fan and part-time political activist. He is active in a number of community projects and initiatives. Through medicine, he strives to improve the physical health of all he treats...
