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Obama's Narrowband Coalition: The Black & White Liberals

Sunday, 11 May 2008 8:50 A GMT+01

In Hardy county, Democrats outnumber Republicans more than 2 to 1. But there is little enthusiasm for Obama in this mountainside enclave, a portent of trouble for the candidate in next week's West Virginia primary and the general election beyond.

Barack Obama & Co Fuck the Working Class

Sunday, 11 May 2008 8:48 A GMT+01

Obama could rally workers--Black, white and Latino--around a campaign that spoke to their concerns. But he won't. He'd rather assure Wall Street and Corporate America, who have shifted sharply away from the Republicans, that he isn't a real threat.

Middle-Aged Media Hacks Hate Hillary Clinton

Sunday, 11 May 2008 8:46 A GMT+01

When the media act like sheep - which is most of the time - I turn into a wolf. So, fuck those middle-aged, flagging pundits who find Obama flatters their driving desire to imagine themselves forever young in a bright, shiny, upscale world.

Meet the BoObs [Bourgeois Obamians]

Friday, 9 May 2008 8:37 A GMT+01

Rush out and buy Barack Obama's coloring book: 'I Represent Bourgeois Democracy." It's a coalition of the privileged, consisting of huff & puff liberals and upwardly-mobile blacks. And, of course, the faithful media hacks who want to appear with it.

Hillary Clinton Chases the Prole Vote

Wednesday, 7 May 2008 8:40 A GMT+01

Hillary Clinton began the campaign in pearls, assembling a team of fundraisers that included luminaries from New York's financial services industry She's ending it in pickup trucks, Dairy Queens and taking a 2-by-4 to "Wall Street money brokers."

Maureen Dowd Gets Class-Conscious!

Monday, 5 May 2008 9:09 A GMT+01

Virtually every pundit, from William Kristol to Maureen Dowd, invokes the once-dreaded Marxist terminology in suggesting that Barack Obama can't, as the director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute put it, "penetrate working-class voters."

Oprah & Obama: "Ordinary" Blacks?

Monday, 5 May 2008 9:09 A GMT+01

Few black Americans have occupied the rarified status of Oprah Winfrey and Barack Obama, two "racially transcendent" blacks whom white admirers find appealing and admirable. But the pedestals the "Double-O's" are perched on are increasingly shaky.

Reverend Jeremiah Wright Faces Racist Abuse

Monday, 5 May 2008 9:05 A GMT+01

After media denunciations and racist abuse, Wright framed the hate campaign as an attack on Black religiosity, pointing to a long list of Black religious figures targeted for media and state vitriol--among them, Martin Luther King and Malcolm X.

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Marijuana & Racism

Thursday, 1 May 2008 8:08 A GMT+01

Drug surveys routinely indicate that a higher percentage of whites smoke weed than blacks or Latinos, but Levine found that African-Americans have consistently accounted for about 52 percent of these low-level marijuana arrests over the past decade.

Democrats Split: It's Class Conflict, Stupid

Wednesday, 30 April 2008 6:57 P GMT+01

There's a profound social gulf in the Democratic party. The upscale liberals who revere Obama have spent their lives championing equality and opposing privilege. But they’ve smashed the old WASP social hierarchy only to create a new educational one.

What If Rev. Jeremiah Wright Ran for President? [He'd Get My Vote]

Tuesday, 29 April 2008 11:20 A GMT+01

Wright suggested that Obama's repudiation of his controversial remarks was to be expected from someone running for political office. "I do what pastors do. He does what politicians do." He added with a wry smile, "I am hoping to be vice president."

Hillary Clinton: The Popular Choice [Only the Effete Hate Her]

Tuesday, 29 April 2008 10:05 A GMT+01

Being effete comes naturally to Democrats these days, though compared to Obama, Hillary Clinton looks like a mud-bogger from East Texas. Especially when she slammed down a shot of Crown Royal, barely flinching as the elixir trickled down her throat.

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McCain, Clinton, Obama: Watching The Wannabes Playing at "Plain Folk"

Sunday, 27 April 2008 8:53 A GMT+01

Of course, the end result of all this political campaign manipulation and phony media controversies is to select, promote and get some public support for a candidate who will be a lot more in touch with the ruling class than with the working class.

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The Elite & Proles: Classism in America

Wednesday, 23 April 2008 8:54 A GMT+01

We're led to believe in big dreams, wealth and upward mobility. Why then do we insist on seeing our national political elites -- who are also generally our economic and educational elites -- throw back a shot of whiskey or lace up bowling shoes?

Bittergate & the Great American Taboo [Discussing Class]

Sunday, 20 April 2008 9:45 A GMT+01

Barack Obama - more intelligent and observant than the average bourgeois politician - said a mouthful, and perhaps more than he intended. He violated the conventional rules of big business politics in America by raising the taboo subject of class.

Obama: The "Bitter" Truth [Indirectly, He Condemns Capitalism]

Wednesday, 16 April 2008 8:58 A GMT+01

The American media and political rivals opened fire on Obama after he committed the unpardonable offense of speaking the truth, or at least some of it, about the bitterness among the working class over their relentless exploitation under capitalism.

The Bourgeoisie Back Obama ["He's One of Us"]

Tuesday, 15 April 2008 8:34 A GMT+01

Obama takes the truth serum; "It's not surprising [the proles] get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy toward people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."

Recession? What Recession? CEOs Get Huge Pay Rises

Monday, 14 April 2008 8:48 A GMT+01

Amid the onset of a recession sparked by the ongoing collapse of the mortgage bubble, and calls for massive wage and benefits concessions from workers, US corporate management is continuing to award itself immense salaries and golden parachutes.

America Fights Foreign Wars to Defend Capitalism

Tuesday, 8 April 2008 8:47 A GMT+01

Can you imagine 'our' president openly imploring America's young people to fight a foreign war to defend "capitalism"? The word itself is taboo. The approved reference now is the market economy, free market, free enterprise, or private enterprise.

Barack Obama: Last of the Yuppies

Tuesday, 8 April 2008 8:43 A GMT+01

He came of age, like so many classic yuppies, in the Reagan years in. Like many others at the time, he swore off recreational drugs and excessive drinking, took up jogging, developed big career ambitions, and seriously set about making them happen.

Phony Oabama: Yuppie Goes Bowling

Sunday, 6 April 2008 9:21 A GMT+01

Obama is trading the urban and campus rallies that have defined his campaign up to now for Q-and-A sessions in small-town high school gyms, with visits to steel mills, bowling allies, hot dog shops and dairy farms. Cynics call it his "redneck tour."

28 Million Americans Rely on Food Stamps to Survive

Wednesday, 2 April 2008 8:33 A GMT+01

We knew things were bad on Wall Street, but on Main Street it may be worse. As a new economic recession stalks the United States, a record number of Americans will shortly be depending on food stamps just to feed themselves and their families.

Hillary Clinton: True Grit

Tuesday, 1 April 2008 6:33 P GMT+01

Clinton's gutsy approach goes down well with the working class. Also, her focus on economic problems and solutions, the clarity of her speeches, and a personal story of trial and survival hits home with many voters suffering financially this year.

Martin Luther King: 40 Years Later Racism Still Tears America Apart

Tuesday, 1 April 2008 8:50 A GMT+01

Life has changed for many blacks since MLK was assassinated in 1968. Yet despite the rise of a black middle class and Barack Obama's presidential challenge, the racial divide still exists - and for an urban underclass, things have only got worse.

Demonizing "The Enemy" [From Saddam Hussein to the Rev. Wright]

Sunday, 30 March 2008 9:41 A GMT+01

As with the media campaign against Saddam Hussein and Slobodan Milosevic in the run-up to the imperialist invasions of their countries, the only thing that emerged out of this slanderous "journalism" was the image of the Rev. Wright as a "demon."

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