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Even Biden admits that Obama's only 'qualification' is being Black

“Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden, campaigning in North Carolina where black votes could help swing the state to the Democrats, said today that electing a black person to the White House would be transformative.

Biden said the policies of running mate Barack Obama make his presidency even more urgent and declared this to be the most important election that any living person has seen in their lifetime. But he particularly singled out the meaning of electing someone who is black.

“That will be a transformative event in American politics and internationally,” Biden said. “That all by itself will be significant.”

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Obama's celebrity status has peaked, now in decline

But Palin is not just a problem for Obama. She is also a symptom of what ails him. Before Palin, Obama was the ultimate celebrity candidate. For no presidential nominee in living memory had the gap between adulation and achievement been so great. Which is why McCain's Paris Hilton ads struck such a nerve. Obama's meteoric rise was based not on issues — there was not a dime's worth of difference between him and Hillary on issues — but on narrative, on eloquence, on charisma.

The unease at the Denver convention, the feeling of buyer's remorse, was the Democrats' realization that the arc of Obama's celebrity had peaked — and had now entered a period of its steepest decline. That Palin could so instantly steal the celebrity spotlight is a reflection of that decline.

It was inevitable. Obama had managed to stay aloft for four full years. But no one can levitate forever.

The problem is that Obama began believing in his own magical powers — the chants, the swoons, the "we are the ones" self-infatuation. Like Ronald Reagan, he was leading a movement, but one entirely driven by personality. Reagan's revolution was rooted in concrete political ideas (supply-side economics, welfare-state deregulation, national strength) that transcended one man. For Obama's movement, the man is the transcendence.

One star fades, another is born. The very next morning McCain picks Sarah Palin and a new celebrity is launched. And in the celebrity game, novelty is trump. With her narrative, her persona, her charisma carrying the McCain campaign to places it has never been and by all logic has no right to be, she's pulling an Obama.

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HuffPo blogger begs for Hillary to save the Dem ticket

It's time to dump Biden and replace him with Sen. Hillary Clinton. I don't care how it's done. Campaign chief David Axelrod can figure that out. And the sooner the better. Because I'm starting to think that if Team-Obama doesn't do something dramatic fast, it's gonna lose this election. There's a worrisome shift in momentum and in the polls. The Palin phenomenon, while truly unfathomable to Democrats, has energized McCain's campaign and allowed him like Houdini to snatch Obama's "change" theme right out from under him. It's time to snatch it back.

RACE IN AMERICA: A RETROSPECTIVE AND A NEW PERSPECTIVE

The following article was previously published on my website as well as on a number of others (in May of this year) and is being republished at this time since it is more relevant today than it was then.
It concerns the very volatile issue of race in America and has been slightly edited to reflect political developments in the last four months with updated commentary following the original article.

(APOLOGY: WordPress may have altered correct paragraphing and my inexpertise prevents me from correcting that flaw. Do wade through it, however. I sincerely believe it’s worth the effort.)

"Some things are best left unsaid, especially in politically-correct America in 2008 and a prime subject non grata at our PC table today is the issue of race. It seems that you’re damned if you do talk about it and you’re damned if you do talk about it.

Being an elder, a seasoned-American-citizen, and a non-candidate for public office, I can talk about it with a measure of impunity, if not immunity.

What follows is a not a racist screed but does address serious omissions in our national dialogue, the touchy issues of racism and of White Guilt, and how that guilt may influence the upcoming election. If honest commentary and reasoned understandings are considered racism, then so be it.

First, let’s concede the obvious: Most White Americans, on the whole, have it better than most Black Americans, on the whole. To deny that is to deny the reality of life in America today.

There are always exceptions to such sweeping statements, as Ben Stein points out in this month’s edition of Newsmax, writing that in the last fifty years Blacks have made advances in our society that are “simply unprecedented in human history in such a short time.” (”Daylight in America,” May 2008, p. 24).

I fully agree with that assessment although I can’t subscribe to Stein’s endorsement in that same article of Michelle Obama’s statement that “she was never proud of America until now.”

He went on to say that, “The life of a black person in this country has never been easy and is still not.”

I’ll go on to say to that few people live easy lives, here or anywhere and that no one ever said life should be easy.

JFK was equally correct when he famously said that life isn’t fair either. Easy and fair are relative terms but if any two Americans ever led lives that could be described as pretty easy and eminently fair, Michelle and Barack Obama would have to be sitting on the top of the list....
(Read the rest of this article at http://genelalor.com/.)

I suggest this video as an addendum.

Sarahmerica

While many things in America have changed, some things will always remain the same; Sarah's the change America needs, because she's the America that will never change.

She's the lump in your throat, and the thumping of your heart when you're staring up at old glory flowing gently in the wind while the band echoes The Star Spangled Banner.

She's like coming home from school and being greeted with the warm smell of apple pie, a sweet motherly smile, and a loving embrace.

She's like sitting five rows up at a Red's game, eating cracker jacks and a hot dog, and waiting for a homerun.

She's like swinging on the front porch with your little brother, sharing an ice-cold coca cola on a hot summer's day.

She's like coming in from sleigh riding with your friends on a cold, snowy day and wrapping your frostbit fingers around a cup of hot cocoa.

She's the free spirit that flies o'er the beautiful, for spacious skies. She's the amber waves of grain. She's the purple mountains majesty, above the fruited plain.

She's honesty, simplicity, and purity. She's Freedom. She's America.

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Britain takes another step towards legally binding Dhimmitude

Islamic sharia courts in Britain are now 'legally binding'

Islamic sharia law courts in Britain are exploiting a little-known legal clause to make their verdicts officially binding under UK law in cases including divorce, financial disputes and even domestic violence.

A new network of courts in five major cities is hearing cases where Muslims involved agree to be bound by traditional sharia law, and under the 1996 Arbitration Act the court's decisions can then be enforced by the county courts or the High Court.

Officials behind the new system claim to have dealt with more than 100 cases since last summer, including six involving domestic violence which is a criminal rather than civil offence, and said they hoped to take over growing numbers of 'smaller' criminal cases in future.

The revelations sparked uproar yesterday, with warnings that the fundamental principle of equal treatment for all - the bedrock of British justice - was being gravely undermined.

Mr Siddiqi said: 'We realised that under the Arbitration Act we can make rulings which can be enforced by county and High Courts.

Cases handled by the courts so far include Muslim divorce and inheritance to nuisance neighbours, he said.

But as well as civil disputes they have also handled six cases of domestic violence.

In all six cases, he said, sharia judges ordered husbands to take anger management classes and mentoring from community elders, but issued no further punishment.

All the women subsequently withdrew their complaints to the police, who halted investigations.

In one recent inheritance dispute in Nuneaton, a Muslim man's estate was spit was between three daughters and two sons with each son receiving twice as much as each daughter - in keeping with sharia law.

In a mainstream court all siblings would have been treated equally.