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June 07, 2008 | Tags: barack obama, hillary clinton

It’s been a while since I’ve graced this part of DX with some words, and you can blame the world of office jobs for that one. More on that later – maybe. After sitting in front of a computer all day at work, the last thing I want to do is come home and be on the damn thing even more. I’m sure some of y’all feel me on that one.

Random side note before I get into things…Props to the gulliest blogger “evar” Dallas Penn for his latest Internets Celebrities video entitled “Checkmate”. Not only is the video damn good, but Rafi and DP (and Cas behind the scenes) found themselves on the NY Times website, the front page of YouTube, and suddenly being interviewed by random old white guys. It's up to almost 500,000 hits! Most of all I just love the fact that they’re spitting some knowledge disguised as comedy, and they’re getting a lot of love for it. Peep the video if you haven’t yet – it’s probably a million times better than the last thing you watched on YouTube.

But probably the most significant thing to note that has happened in the past week or so was the securing of the democratic presidential nomination by Barack Obama. Not only was he the first black man to do it, but he’s the first man with a Muslim sounding middle name to do it as well. Because we all know that there’s people out there that swear he’s a closet jihadist, or whatever the technical term of bigotry that’s being thrown around by uppity media folk to describe Rachael Ray’s "paisley scarf" is these days.

By the way…I understand it was for business purposes, to cater to the ignorant, and ultimately fatten them up and lead them to their deep-fried obesity-induced demise, but fuck Dunkin Donuts for wimping out and pulling that ad over some biased misconceptions. And fuck ‘em for selling me stale donuts the last time I was there. If I’m going to clog my arteries, I at least want it to taste like it was worth it.

But with the mystery of who would ultimately rep the democratic party out of the way, the focus is now shifting towards who he’ll pick as his partner in campaign crime. And of course, Hillary Clinton is now kissing ass to get that spot. Well, not even so much her as much as her squad of supporters. It’s like they forgot all the shit that she was talking about the guy just a short while ago. That’s some bitchassedness right there. Act like Obama is all evil and shady and then go and endorse him. But such is politics, I suppose, and my opposition to the shady tactics of it is probably why I’ll never find myself being Senator of some state or running for President my damn self, despite my interest with politics and government in general.

So why exactly would all of her supporters want her to team up with the former opposition? I can only think of two plausible reasons, personally. One being that the desire for a democrat to be President is so high after eight years of royal republican fuckups. See, a bunch of Hillary supporters still probably won’t fully support Barack, no matter what Clinton says. I mean the woman did get a lot of votes in the primaries. A hell of a lot of votes. Combine those votes with those that Barack got, and the duo would seem unstoppable. And as much as I’m dying to see the Republicans lose control of the White House, because I’m just rebellious like that, I’m not sure I’m down with the vote hoarding approach. I mean, I’d rather see Obama run with somebody that I’m sure he’ll mesh well with in office. I feel like those two need to work out some tension between themselves first.

Second of all, perhaps all of her supporters really did believe that random ass shit that she was spewing out of her mouth about how Obama is just going to go and get himself assassinated. And sure she apologized or whatever, even though it ended up striking me in a similar manner to the apology of Michael Richards (word to Wale) on Letterman’s show. But maybe in that head of hers, she’s still thinking that he really will get off’d as quickly as grocery prices are rising, and that if she’s the VP, she’ll end up being the President in due time anyway. But that’s just pretty twisted right there.

Plus shit, I bet there’s still a bunch of male chauvinist types on our soil that don’t want to spend the next four years having a woman exert power over them. Fuck what you heard, America really hasn’t come too far in a lot of aspects of social issues. And considering how the world feels about America recently (except maybe Israel), I’d say that even McCain needs to watch his back.

Speaking of Israel, it has threatened to attack Iran if uranium enrichment for weapons isn’t stopped. Now I like to think of things in a logical manner, and the illogicality of bombing somebody for making bombs is damn near short-circuiting my brain right now. And that’s not even including the fact that if that actually went down? Well…I don’t even have to say who would really be footing the bill. And to think, just days ago Obama spoke to AIPAC stating his unconditional love for Israel. Don’t get me wrong – he’s still probably our best option for office at this point, but even if he wins? It’s still going to be a long four years ahead of us.

And anyway, did anyone ever stop to think that maybe if we just left Iran alone, they wouldn’t care about attacking us in the first place? Not every Iranian is studying to be an Al Qaeda operative, you know, and attacking them won’t stop terrorism forever. It’s just going to make more crazy desert cave dwellers even more pissed! Hell, we probably could have pacified Saddam Hussein by giving him a lifetime supply of Doritos. Just like you make your friends, you can also make your own enemies. It’s time for America to get the fuck out of the Middle East and start focusing on our own oil reserves.

Once again, it's going to be a long four years ahead of us, even if this year's democratic nomination was a monumental one. And I'm not so sure that having Clinton run with Obama will make things any easier for us. If our economy is truly a capitalist one, a President isn't going to singlehandedly fix it. The heat is on in Washington, in more ways than one. It's hot as hell outside! And on that note, I'm off to consume some overpriced ice cream. Until next time...

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Politics As Usual

February 12, 2008 | Tags: hillary clinton, Bill Clinton

Yes, this is a hip hop site, but have you forgotten that there are democratic primaries going on? In my humble yet bluntly stated opinion, that’s important too. So…get over it.

There is one extremely significant asset that Hillary Clinton possesses in this election that nobody else has – her husband. And she knows it. The saxophone playing ex-prez isn’t just sitting back and smiling for the cameras like the other candidates’ spouses are. He’s out there campaigning like he’s the one going after the cushy rooms of the White House (and of its’ interns) again.

I wonder who the weedcarrier in this relationship is?

Anyway, when I was in the process of seeking shelter in a heated building after my long trek through the concrete tundra of Northern Virginia (better known as the overpopulated parking lots of GMU), I found myself surrounded by various flyers talking about some sort of Clinton rally that was going to go down. I turned down an opportunity to see Obama last year, so I figured that I should fight the urge to go home (of course to avoid the crowds and the inevitable amount of feds of any and every variety that come along with politicos) and I instead decided to stick it out and peep the event.

There was a catch though. You’d think that “Clinton rally, tonight, 9:15pm!” would mean Hillary Clinton, right? You know, being that she’s the one running for office and all.

Nope.

The rally was being run by none other than the infamous other half in the relationship – our boy Bill. I mean it’s interesting to hear him speak and all, being that he was the leader of our country for a large amount of years and probably the most loved of any of the uber-scandalous chiefs of state that we’ve seen throughout history. But do you see Obama’s wife leading rallies and giving speeches for him? Giuliani’s mistress? Maybe you do, go figure, but I sure missed it.

This is slightly dangerous though. See, Obama’s wife could speak all she wanted, but it undoubtedly wouldn’t hold as much weight as what Bill has to say. Why? Well, aside from the fact he already ruled our country, he seems to have this huge following of stans. You know, the ones like “oh man, Clinton was so gangsta!”, and the ones that don’t remember anything except “he got us out of debt!”. It makes me wonder if people are truly voting for Hillary in their minds, or if they’re just voting for Hillary due to Bill-association. As if somehow by electing her, they’re really electing him.

I wonder if he’s allowed by law to be her running mate for the V.P. position if she wins the primaries? That would be interesting.

But damn. Between trying to maintain a low profile while rocking my kaffiyeh in a building full of secret service agents, cops, and 4 foot-nothing type security guards that were supposed to be “intimidating” or something, watching people hit the ground as the tables under them collapsed, and getting my personal space severely violated in ways I don’t care to elaborate on by random strangers who felt the need to climb all over me, a terrifying sound hit my ears: the shrill-pitched noises of overly-excited women’s voices screaming “WE LOVE YOU BILL!!!!!!”.

Um…isn’t it a little late for that? Isn’t the point of this event to be loving Hillary? A vote for Hillary is not a vote for Bill. I hope you know that.

Oh, and for the record, Bill Clinton is one hell of a public speaker. You may not agree with what he has to say, but the man doesn’t read off of notes or cue cards or anything. 100% off the top of the dome, with not one noticeable stutter. For over an hour. The technique is impeccable. I’d like to see Bush do that!

Yo Dubya – I’ll pay you $100 bucks if you can properly say the word “nuclear”. I dare you.

For anybody that cares about what he has to say, I uploaded a roughly four minute long video clip of the speech when he was talking about Hillary’s policy about education reform and her feelings about No Child Left Behind. Keyword: her. Not his feelings. Dammit. The clip was too big for YouTube, sorry. And ignore the shaking, aside from my amateur photography, 50% of the shakes is probably me fidgeting to adjust to some random person’s hand brushing against my ass. Ugh. Politics is a dirty game, y’all.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=FFW39T78

And here's some shitty pictures, too. Props to the photographer that wasn’t all up on me that eventually fixed some of the settings on my camera to help me out.

I'm still surprised I even got in the door looking all flashy like that. I guess being a tiny person comes in handy - I don't look too intimidating. And come on, you didn't think you'd get to see my face now, did you? And what up, Virginia!

Chillin in his b-boy stance?

Pretty large turnout, despite Hillary's absence. And that was only one level of people. There were two more above it.