(Akiit.com) At the height of rush hour, I’d patiently waited my turn. I was in the process of backing my car up to the gas pump, when a menacing black SUV the size of a tug boat quickly rolled in off the street and proceeded to defy fairness.

I kept backing up; the monster truck kept coming forward. When it was clear the driver wouldn’t relent, I turned off my engine and got out of my car.

From behind tinted glass came a WWF-sized man in green camouflage pants and shades, with tree trunks for arms. His physical stance begged for a rumble.

And so I went Obama on his ass.

“That’s one hell of a truck,” I said pensively, ignoring him and walking toward the gargantuan vehicle the way a prospective buyer admires a car at a dealership. “Man, look,” I said, “it’s going to take you a minute to fill up this truck. Back up just a bit so I can do my thing real quick, and you’ll already be in position to be next. And Please tell me you got a TV in here….”

The man, still silent, glared at me for a second. “I got TWO TVs,” he said, climbing back behind the wheel of the beast. He started the engine and backed up.

He didn’t know what hit him. Prepared for confrontation, diplomacy threw him for a loop.

I pumped my gas while he bent my ear about his truck. Privately, I gloated. I’d administered “The Obama“–not to be confused with the Heimlich Maneuver or the Boogaloo–and defused the conflict.

“Going Obama” on a person or situation is the act of dealing with a dilemma in a sensible and negotiable manner. A hallmark of The Obama is clear thinking and calm. The quiet might of The Obama is that it is always exactly what your opponent doesn’t expect from you.

Barack Obama didn’t invent The Obama. It is simply the act of common sense, patience and clear communication. However, during his campaign, Obama has made high art of the proverbial High Road, performing a masterful exhibition of mettle and dignity in the last place you’d expect to find it–the cesspool called American politics.

“The Obama“–as seen on TV–is what happens when thoughtful contemplation meets skilled wartime-like strategy. Barack Obama’s opponents never seem to have anything to combat it.

In the beginning of Obama’s campaign, the public often mistook The Obama–not to be confused with Muhammad Ali’s Rope-a-dope–for passivity. He’s “soft,” his detractors claimed. The Obama, however, is not about taking anybody’s shit, but about getting THROUGH shit while being judged by a strain of double standard that makes a kangaroo court look like a sanctuary of fairness.
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(Akiit.com) Are you happy now? Can you finally let this ish go? For thirteen years “some people” have been up in arms about the “travesty” that was the 1995 O.J. Simpson verdict.

“Some people” were highly upset that this double-murder went unpunished in a criminal liability sense. “Some people” were offended at how the “stupid jurors” (of a certain color) didn’t manage to convict O.J. Simpson, but had nothing to say about the “stupid jurors” (of a different certain color) who acquitted Robert Blake.

Agreed, O.J. Simpson is an ass and habitually engaged in behavior that only increased the hatred thrown his way since the original verdict. You’ll find no disagreement from me in that respect. But, you won’t find me arguing in any way that justice has “finally” been served either.

Two different conversations.

O.J. being an ass and deserving of going to jail for robbery is separate and distinct from the argument that justice is finally “served” for a double-murder.

That type of conversation not only outrages me, it highlights the hypocrisy of it all.

I will also concede that NOBODY should be able to be beat TWO life-in-prison raps in one lifetime. You are obviously living foul if your life hangs in the judicial balance not once, but twice. That’s not “wrong place wrong time” that’s “small jail cell, life time.”

You (e.g. O.J. ) probably deserve to be in jail on that point alone.

One would think that O.J. would have the sense to at least stay away from anything that even could remotely be misconstrued as criminal in nature. This latest trial could reasonably only have one end result, irrespective of the details. If you thought that O.J. was going to survive a second bite at the apple, you’re a fool. Conversely, if you thought that the 1995 verdict played no role in the minds of jurors in this case, you are also a fool.

The 1995 verdict was a major event in the history of this country, all hyperbole aside. It forever changed law, television and the intersection of both. If you can tell someone where you were when the slow-speed chase down the 405 freeway took place, or when the verdict was read; it means the trial was a poignant moment in your life. Such recall is a tell-tale sign of impact and importance of events.

We remember where we were when President Reagan was shot, the Challenger exploded and on that fateful morning of 9/11. Of course, the Simpson verdict is not to be “compared” in importance to any of those events on a surface level, but in terms of its lasting social impact…save 9/11, none of the other aforementioned events even comes close.

To then argue (as jurors have) that such an event and its continued social impact in the intervening 13 years did not influence their verdict is laughable…and a lie. It may not have been a “deciding” factor, but it was decidedly a factor.
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(Akiit.com) John McCain and Sarah Palin are pathetic, dishonest and completely lacking in honor. They’re also scared to death. With polls showing Barack Obama ahead with less than a month to go before election day, the McCain camp is in a panic. The majority of voters aren’t feeling them on the issues, so McCain and Palin have sunk to dirty character attacks, not realizing that this strategy is doomed to failure.

Gov. Palin (and the people who tell her what to say) knew she was lying when she accused Sen. Obama of “palling around with terrorists.” After all, the New York Times article she cited when making that stupid statement concluded that Obama and former 1970s radical William Ayers “do not appear to have been close.” The article went on to say, “Nor has Mr. Obama ever expressed sympathy for the radical views and actions of Mr. Ayers, whom he has called ’somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago, when I was 8.’ “Those same conclusions were reached previously by TIME magazine, The Washington Post, The Chicago Sun-Times, The New Yorker and The New Republic.

Sarah Palin and John McCain know that the “palling around with terrorists” claim is a load of crap. But, since everything else they’ve tried has flopped they’re now appealing openly to the nutcases and bigots who continue to promote the repeatedly-debunked lie that Barack Obama is secretly a Muslim terrorist.

This is tantamount to playing on racism since the only reason anyone ever suggested that Obama had terrorist sympathies is that he’s a black man with an Arab-sounding name. It would be socially unacceptable for Sarah Palin to call Obama a nigger (even though a lot of those conservative “base” voters she appeals to would probably cheer or let out a Rebel yell if she did), but she can lie and claim that Obama is in solidarity with terrorists who hate and want to destroy our nation. She can also tie that lie directly to the old, us vs. them paranoia by saying, as she did this past weekend, that Obama, “is not a man who sees America as you see America and as I see America.” All of that is code language which gives conservative whites an excuse to vote against Obama for racial reasons without admitting so.
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(Akiit.com) The weather is just great around here… One is able to go outside and not worry about fainting literally… Cool air while running a mile or so… Wish more people would exercise literally as to many are overweight… That’s another story, but this weekend I shall head to the Outer Banks with the wife… Yes alittle special occasion with the love of my life… We men need to truly cherish the one who is our other half… Hope I can still watch a game or two still… Yeah I love my football… Anyway the kids are calling, so I will go now…

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(Akiit.com) Following the thumping George Bush and company gave John Kerry in 2004, the new left groused in unison that the reasons were clear : Kerry, like most of the left, was simply too nuanced and too smart, while the Bush campaign succeeded in framing every issue in moral black and white. Jane Smiley writing in Salon.com was a bit less generous in her criticism positing that the true cause of liberal defeat was that Republicans have cultivated ignorance in the voters; that they have appealed to the basest instincts of greed and cultural superiority. In short, the American people – 60 million of them to be exact – were nothing but a bunch of rubes. It was startling to read and hear so many voices clamoring to declare that the people they claimed to champion were nothing but a bunch of losers.

I continue to be amazed at the contempt the new left has for the American people. Not satisfied with maintaining that Americans are too inept to own and invest our own retirement accounts, plan for our own healthcare or even educate our own children, they are now proclaiming in unison that our failure to see the brilliance of their current presidential candidate can only mean we are racists.

Jack Cafferty writes on CNNpolitics.com, “the polls remain close. Doesn’t make sense…unless it’s race.”

Michael Grunwald of Time Magazine decrees that “race is the elephant in the room.” He then goes on to add to the growing lexicon of new code words for race. According to Grunwald, “working class,” is now code for white, this in addition to code words we have already been educated with: “community organizer” means black; “elitist” is the same as uppity and “inexperienced” is akin to calling Obama a boy. (If we could just get a copy of this updated race glossary beforehand it would ease the suspicion that folks are really making this stuff up on the fly. But I digress.)

Responding to a question about why the race is so close, Kathleen Sebelius, Democratic governor of Kansas, responded, “Have any of you noticed that Barack Obama is part African-American?
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