(Akiit.com) An impassioned Virginia governor Tim Kane at an election rally in June loudly pledged that he would do everything he could and as quick as he could to scrap Virginia’s ban on ex-felons voting. While this was great news for Democrats, Republicans quickly screamed foul. Virginia and Kentucky are ...
(Akiit.com) Jackson incident may reveal emerging divide… The Rev. Jesse Jackson’s offhand insult of Barack Obama last week has exposed a heated debate over whether Obama’s groundbreaking presidential campaign – and his repeated challenge to the black community to straighten out its own affairs – is displacing and alienating some ...
(Akiit.com) They used to be close. Kind of. Jesse and Barack’s awkward past. There was a time when Jesse Jackson and Barack Obama were, to all appearances, good friends. In the ’90s, as Obama was rising in Illinois politics, he and Jackson would often attend community events and fund-raisers together. ...
(Akiit.com) There are unknowns, of course, but there are also three big reasons he’ll win in November. There are unknowns, of course. The persona of John McCain is already in play and it would be wrong to underestimate him. The man is remarkable, surprising in his opposition to torture and ...
(Akiit.com) Rev. Jesse Jackson’s comment, expressing his desire to castrate Senator Barack Obama, was very nutty. But Jackson isn’t a nut. The manner in which he expressed himself reveals resentment, envy, and latent hatred towards Obama. Still, he echoes legitimate concerns. Jackson’s right that some people may misread Obama’s criticism ...
(Akiit.com) The presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama has promised Americans a new kind of politics – “change we can believe in.†Who could’ve suspected that the change he was referring to was a reversion to the failed policies of 30 years ago? In response to the rising price of ...
(Akiit.com) I still don’t know whether to howl with laughter or shake my head in disgust at the crude and silly race baiting antics of the National Black Republican Association. It recently announced that it’s launching a series of radio ads on presumptive Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama. The ads ...
(Akiit.com) Barack Obama has been ordained by God†to be our next president. Or so read the email from a friend of mine. Of course, he is not alone in this opinion. Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr. (D-IL) is on record as suggesting that this Obama victory “is so extraordinary that ...
(Akiit.com) AUSTIN, TX – Minority blogs that felt spurned by the Democratic National Committee got some vindication recently when they were added to the list of blogs invited by party officials to cover their convention in August – but some still say the white blogs got preferential treatment and will ...
(Akiit.com) Sen. Barack Obama will accept his nomination as the Democratic candidate for president on Aug. 28, exactly 45 years after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s historic speech at the March on Washington. For those of us fascinated by such things, the occasion suggests less a coincidence than a ...
(Akiit.com) A conversation made her mind up… I am a black Republican. I have a confession to make. I am an Obama “girl.” Most black Republicans who support John McCain won’t tell you this — but if Barack Obama is the nominee for the Democratic ticket, they will go into ...
(Akiit.com) Clinton and Obama’s divvy up of North Carolina and Indiana between them further deepens the two perils the Democrats face. One is that neither heavy hitter can deliver the knockout punch that the Democrats desperately need to get on with the business of mounting a united front against McCain. ...