Bittersweet Vindication

HT to Sullivan for this nugget. Peter Schiff went on every network news program he could 2 years ago trying to warn people of the EXACT economic crisis we are in today.

No one would listen.

The yahoos at FOX News even laughed at him (3:50). What jerks and what a clear indication of the conservative implosion at hand.

Ben Stein was just DEAD wrong (4:17 and 6:15)… not the first time.

Anyways, Mr. Schiff… you were right.

I hope your “right streak” is over…

A New Day

Will.i.am’s new video:

I have to say, I find the renewed patriotism and celebration of Obama’s election win to be fascinating. If you just landed in the U.S. from an alien planet, you would probably assume that We the People were previously captive under some totalitarian regime and were freed by this Obama character. It is obviously just another shift of executive power but the hype surrounding it proves that this election meant an awful lot to black Americans and blacks everywhere.

It is also worth noting how art and creativity as well as alternative forms of communicating (web 2.0) were energized over the course of this election cycle. I think history will remember it as a miniature renaissance for both indie art and grassroots movements.

In case you missed it

The daily show was pretty funny last night…

All men…

Winning the War

Andrew Sullivan wrote THIS over a year ago:

Consider this hypothetical. It’s November 2008. A young Pakistani Muslim is watching television and sees that this man—Barack Hussein Obama—is the new face of America. In one simple image, America’s soft power has been ratcheted up not a notch, but a logarithm. A brown-skinned man whose father was an African, who grew up in Indonesia and Hawaii, who attended a majority-Muslim school as a boy, is now the alleged enemy. If you wanted the crudest but most effective weapon against the demonization of America that fuels Islamist ideology, Obama’s face gets close. It proves them wrong about what America is in ways no words can.

Post election rehab

Its over. What will I do with my time now?

In the next few weeks to come, we will see the close states be called electorally, the closer senate seats resolved, the newness of this present milestone wear off, and the shock of horror on the faces of the right to succumb to reason and a logical sense of peace.

I hope.

Here are my reactions to the whole thing:

1. Just 40 years ago, in my parents lifetime, systematic racism was acceptable in most of America. Blacks using separate restrooms, schools, and public places… today, we have elected a black president whose roots can be traced to a small, rural, poor village in Kenya. Wow.
2. The McCain I voted for in my life disappeared this campaign and was replaced with a grumpy, crusty, attacking old man.. he returned last night. The John McCain I know and respect sprinted to the stage faster than I have ever seen a presidential candidate about to concede defeat. His speech was gracious, classy, and full of the same American unity that Barack’s was. Unfortunately, the crowd within earshot of him was as nasty as he was classy. I hope that is not the future of Republicanism.
3. NBC had the best coverage and the easiest graphics to understand.
4. This was the year of the uneducated voter and the over-use of election night 3D graphics and technology.
5. I can not believe that a woman just ran for VP of the USA with out EVER releasing her medical record and never giving a press conference… why is NOBODY talking about this?
6. I couldn’t figure out the Palin pick until last night during McCain’s concession. The Reps knew in September that they couldn’t win this election. So they looked at who the future of the party might be a decided to begin grooming one of them for 2012… hence, Sarah Palin. The bad part about this is that the future of the Republican party is a woman who is governor of state who just elected a convicted felon to the U.S. Senate.
7. I can not wait until 4 years from now to rub in the faces of right wing radio and emailers that all the doom and gloom scenarios and fear campaigns did not materialize. I had a longer post about this, but my better senses kept me from publishing it.
8. Say what you want, but I actually do believe this election, by itself, did accomplish something already. I can not empathize, but judging by the tears and emotion last night, it seems the result was in many ways closure for black Americans.
9. Turnout was at an all-time high and the youth vote showed up. For those of you who mocked me for saying this, I say “See I told you so!”
10. I am disappointed in Arizona. We passed some dumb legislation, re-elected some major jerks, and continued to allow a fascoracist enforce the laws of the third largest county in America.

I wish I had more to say in a more poetic way other than bullets, but I don’t. My hope is in Christ to do his redeeming work in men, not in men to do a redeeming work through government. But I will pray the latter happens.

Impeach Obama!

Wow… he hasn’t even been elected and those with hatred in their hearts are already finding news ways to channel it.

I Could Not Have Said it Better

So, just READ.

Letter from 2008

If you READ Focus on the Family’s Letter from 2012, featuring ridiculous predictions and fear-mongering tactics from the rightest of the right wing, than you want to read the rebuttal from God’s Politics. It is a letter which would have been nice to read back during the 2000 election, one that foretold the truth about what 8 years in a Bush presidency would mean.

You can check it our HERE.

The state of the race

…according to Superpollster Nate Silver at 538:

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