Depiction Of Michelle Obama Being Tortured.

Michelle Obama Depicted Being Tortured. The creators responded, "You have to admit that the sensationalist image snagged a lot more readers though...I took that image down long before anyone realized it. I figured I'd take it down as soon as I hit a certain number of comments. I still think that it was entirely appropriate, historically accurate and politically relevant. Besides, it was an ILLUSTRATION, a FICTION not a PHOTO. I still don't get what all the uproar was about mainly because only one person bothered to really articulate their feelings (on the comments)."

Obama Has To Resign Membership From Trinity United Church of Christ After The Comments of Rev. Michael Pfleger

Do High-School Students Lack Discipline?!

A substitute teacher and a student at a suburban Atlanta high school have been charged with disorderly conduct after a fight during class that was captured on video.

A DeKalb County school police report about the fight May 23 says the teacher, Carolyn Jones, told officers she had been having problems with the student at Stephenson High School. Jones told police the student had threatened to pull off her wig.

Are These T-Shirts Racist? A Popular Internet T-Shirt Website Is Selling The Following Items.

Does the U.S. Government Do Enough for Veterans?

HOMELESSNESS: As of March 2008, about one-third of the adult homeless population has served their country in the U.S. Armed Forces. An estimated 154,000 veterans are homeless on any given night and perhaps twice as many experience homelessness at some point during the course of a year. The majority of the homeless veterans are male.

PTSD: An alarming number of veterans suffer from symptoms of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Veterans experiencing the symptoms of PTSD have complained about the lack of assistance from the Veteran Affairs Medical Center.

Why hasn't the U.S. government (i.e., presidential proposals, bill introduction by congressional members, etc.) done more for veterans?

The Truth About Black Men

Freudian Slip or is Senator Hillary Clinton Plain Ole Crazy?

Was that a Freudian slip or is Senator Hillary Clinton plain ole crazy? Senator Clinton suggested that she maintains her position to continue to pursue the Democratic nomination in part because of the June 1968 assassination of Robert Kennedy. Is Senator Clinton inferring that the assassination of Senator Barack Obama is inevitable? And, she will assume the Democratic nomination?

Later, Senator Clinton recanted the statement. "The Kennedys have been much on my mind in the last days because of Sen. [Edward] Kennedy, and I regret that if my referencing that moment of trauma for our entire nation and particularly for the Kennedy family was in any way offensive. I certainly had no intention of that whatsoever," Senator Clinton added.

There have been four successful presidential assassinations:
(1) Abraham Lincoln (1865)
(2) James Garfield (1881)
(3) William McKinley (1901)
(4) John F. Kennedy (1963)

Justice for Sean Bell...

Why the American People Should Vote for McCain!?

Why the American People Should Vote for McCain!?
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Courtesy of http://www.johnmccain.com/

Response to Racist LSU Fans

Rev. Jeremiah Wright

If Senator Barack Obama is not elected the next president of the United States of America, is Rev. Wright solely to blame? Despite the fact that Senator Obama has now denounced Rev. Wright on several occasions has the damage already been done?

In his latest comments (as of May 2008), Obama stated:

"I have spent my entire adult life trying to bridge the gap between different kinds of people. That’s in my DNA, trying to promote mutual understanding to insist that we all share common hopes and common dreams as Americans and as human beings. That’s who I am, that’s what I believe, and that’s what this campaign has been about," Obama said.

"I am outraged by the comments that were made and saddened by the spectacle that we saw yesterday," he said.

Obama further said of Wright.

"The person that I saw yesterday was not the person that I met 20 years ago," he said. "His comments were not only divisive and destructive, but I believe that they end up giving comfort to those who prey on hate, and I believe that they do not portray accurately the perspective of the black church."

"They certainly don’t portray accurately my values and beliefs," he said.

"If Reverend Wright thinks that’s political posturing, as he put it, then he doesn’t know me very well and based on his remarks yesterday, I may not know him as well as I thought either."

What is your opinion?

Barack Obama: I'm Black, Didn't You Get the Memo?---WILLIAM HOSTON

The Al Sharpton of White People

Senator Hillary Clinton has recently campaigned using key terms such as "blue-collar" and "white working class" to mobilize and gain white vote support. This strategy has been manipulated following the remarks of Senator Barack Obama whom while campaigning in Pennsylvania suggested that voters there "cling to guns or religion" because of bitterness about their economic situation. Is Senator Obama practicing elitist politics?

Clinton addressed the Obama comments stating:
"Well, that is not my experience," she said. "As I travel around Pennsylvania I meet people who are resilient, optimistic, positive, who are rolling up their sleeves. They are working hard every day for a better future for themselves and their children."

McCain spokesman Steve Schmidt addressed the Obama remarks:
"It shows an elitism and condescension towards hardworking Americans that is nothing short of breathtaking," Schmidt said. "It is hard to imagine someone running for for president who is more out of touch with average Americans."

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