Community Checkup

Chris Matthews dropped some major blows on Senator Watson from TX last night—completely embarrassing the man. In general, I like Matthews, but he does have a tendency to fly off the handle and humiliate his guests at times (sometimes appropriately, sometimes not). Last night, while watching the election results on MSNBC with Matthews and Keith [...]

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Sike! John Lewis’ camp is now saying that he didn’t change his pledge from Clinton to Obama. Call this one a back flip.
From the AJC:
A story in Friday’s New York Times that said U.S. Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) was going to back Barack Obama for president is inaccurate, a spokeswoman for the former civil [...]

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From the New York Times:
MILWAUKEE — Representative John Lewis, an elder statesman from the civil rights era and one of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s most prominent black supporters, said Thursday night that he planned to cast his vote as a superdelegate for Senator in hopes of preventing a fight at the Democratic convention.
“In recent days, [...]

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From Media Matters and Electronic Village:
Fox News Radio host Tom Sullivan took a call from a listener who stated that when listening to Barack Obama speak, “it harkens back to when I was younger and I used to watch those deals with Hitler, how he would excite the crowd and they’d come to their feet [...]

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I’m one of Al’s biggest critics, but I have to give him props for his letter to the DNC urging them to not seat the Michigan and Florida delegates. He stood tall on this one, bucking the efforts of NAACP chairman Julian Bond to play foul politics. From Al:
I write this [...]

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In his NYT op-ed, a chief consultant for Al Gore’s presidential campaign, Ted Devine, summed up my sentiments about superdelegates exactly:
If the superdelegates determine the party’s nominee before primary and caucus voters have rendered a clear verdict, Democrats risk losing the trust that we are building with voters today. The perception that the votes of [...]

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Melissa Harris-Lacewell wrote an interesting piece about the issue of race vs. gender in voting decisions for black women. She nicely breaks down why the popular notion in the media that black women have chosen race over gender in their support of Barack is a flawed one. She explains that…
It is not [...]

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Last night, before the Super Tuesday numbers started rolling in, I was watching CNN when I heard Lou Dobbs griping about how numerous states have voting machines without paper trails. I was reflecting on how ridiculous it is that we can’t create and implement technology across the board that ensures every vote [...]

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A great comment from a Washington Post article yesterday about fear and Obama’s campaign:
The point of Obama’s candidacy is that the damaged state of American democracy is not the fault of George W. Bush and his minions, the corporate-controlled media, the insurance industry, the oil industry, lobbyists, terrorists, illegal immigrants or Satan. The point is [...]

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Today’s the big day. Just as everyone else, I can’t wait to see what happens with Super Tuesday. By now, especially since Edwards has dropped out, most people have picked between Obama and Hillary. I have too–I’m all in for Obama.
But, ironically, among a race involving members of two underrepresented groups, I find myself [...]

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