The World's Reaction to Obama's Victory

Senator Obama's victory was celebrated across the world. From his father's village in Kenya, to a city in Japan named Obama to bars in Paris, people rejoiced with the people of America. The global community has embraced this leader that has brought a message of Hope to the American people. The world has also been inspired by his message and celebrates the return of America.

Which America? The America symbolized by the Statue of Liberty in Ellis Island. Here is an excerpt of the The New Colossus,a poem by Emma Lazarus. It is graven on a tablet within the pedestal on which the statue stands.

"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

America is back.

Vote. You Don't Want to be Marshall!

Who is Marshall Kirkpatrick? You'll have to watch the video to understand. Send this to everyone in your email lists.

Why should you send this video to everyone?
It may inspire someone to get to the polls.

If you don't vote, you can't complain when things get bad. You know, everyone loves to complain...

Vote November 4, 2008!

The Republican Double Standard

This email was in my inbox today. I don't know who wrote it or where it came from. (If you do, please send me the info. so that I can give proper credit.) I had to share it. I just had this same conversation with a group of people. It doesn't make sense. Read it and see what I mean.

The Republicans have made it all about the spin.

*I'm a little confused. Let me see if I have this straight*.....

If you grow up in Hawaii (isn't that our 5oth state?) raised by your grandparents, you're 'exotic, different.' Grow up in Alaska eating mooseburgers, and shooting/murdering wildlife for sport from an airplane, you are a quintessential American story.


If your name is Barack you couldn't be a regular American. Name your kids Willow, Trig and Track, you're a maverick.

If you graduate from Harvard law School then you are unstable but if you attend 5 different small colleges -including the University of Hawaii! - before graduating, you're well grounded.


If you spend 3 years as a brilliant community organizer, become the first black President of the Harvard Law Review, create a voter registration drive that registers 150,000 new voters, spend 12 years as a Constitutional Law professor, spend 8 years as a State Senator representing a district with over 750,000 people, become chairman of the state Senate's Health and Human Services committee, spend 4 years in the United States Senate representing a state of 13 million people while sponsoring 131 bills and serving on the Foreign Affairs, Environment and Public Works and Veteran's Affairs committees, you don't have any real leadership experience.

If your total resume is: local weather girl, 4 years on the city council and 6 years as the mayor of a town with less than 7,000 people, 20 months as the governor of a state with only 650,000 people, then you're qualified to become the country's second highest ranking executive.

If you have been married to the same woman for 19 years while raising 2 beautiful daughters, all within Protestant churches, you're not a real Christian.


If you cheated on your first wife with a rich heiress, and left your disfigured wife and married the heiress the next month, you're a Christian.

If you advocate the teaching of responsible, age appropriate sex education, including how to help little children escape from sex offenders and child molestors, you are eroding the fiber of society. If , while governor, you staunchly advocate abstinence only, with no other option in sex education in your state's school system while your unwed teen daughter ends up pregnant, you're very responsible.

If your wife is a Harvard graduate lawyer who gave up a position in a prestigious law firm to work for the betterment of her inner city community, then gave that up to raise a family, your family's values don't represent America's. If you're husband is nicknamed 'First Dude', with at least one DWI conviction and no college education, who didn't register to vote until age 25 and once was a member of a group that advocated the secession of Alaska from the USA, your family is extremely admirable.


If you devote your life to making our country a better place for all Americans, not just a privileged few, then you are not for change. But if you are under investigation for getting people fired because they can't get along with your family, then you are a candidate with 'integrity.'

OK, much clearer now.

Black President by Nas Supports Obama's Candidacy

One of my kids came home excited about a song they heard at school that Nas sang supporting Senator Obama. I did a search on Google and found it. I had to share it with all of you. The following is the song Black President by Nas. You can find the lyrics to Black President by Nas, below the video.

Nas-Black President

They forgot us on the block
Got us in the box
Solitary confinement
How violent are these cops?
They need an early retirement
How many rallies will I watch?
I ain't got it in me to march
I got a semi to spark
The game's in a drought
Public housing, projects
Cooking up in the Pyrex
My set, my click
Either getting money
Or running from homicide trial
That's if they ain't died yet
Trying to be rich
Still I'm pledging allegiance
A predicate felon, a ghetto leader
Lending my poetical genius
To whoever may need it
I bleed this from Queensbridge
Now living with my feet up
Never defeated
So a president's needed
Y'know these colored folks and Negroes
Hate to see one of their own succeeding
America, suprise us
And let a black man guide us

What's the black pres thinkin on election night
Is it how can I protect my life?
Protect my wife? Protect my rights?
Every other president was nottin' less than white
'Cept Thoman Jefferson and mixed indian blood
And calvin coolers
KKK is like 'what the fuck', loadin' they guns up
I'm loadin' mine too, Ready to ride
Cause I'm ridin with my crew
He dies we die too
But on a positive side, I think Obama provides
Hope and challenges minds
Of all races and colours to erase the hate
And try and love one another, so many political snakes
We in need of a break, I'm thinkin' I can trust this brotha
But will he keep it way real?
Every innocent n! gga in jail gets out on appeal
When he wins will he really care still?
I feel

Say a prayer for "do we have to? "
You ain't right, Jeremiah Wrong pastor
In love with a slave master
Sincerely yours
USA most brave rapper
Jesse carjacker
Uncle Tomkidnapper
Ask around
Bentley Coupe off the richter
B! tchcalledlife, I pimped her
What?
Politics, politricks
Klanshooter
Deacon for defense
Progressproducer
Nothing on the stove
Your survivalbooster
Gotta do what we gotta do
We ain't got no governors coming through to help
Anything we need done, we gotta do for self
Newimproved JFK on the way
It ain't the 60's again
Niqqas ain't hippies again
We ain't falling for the same traps
Standing on the balconies
Where they shot the King at
McCain got apologies
Ain't nobody hearing that

Lyrics of Nas-Black President can be found at FruitLyrics.