I just thought I'd take a little time to respond to the raging debate about the New Yorker magazine cover. No, this will not be another diary about who's right and who's wrong, or who will get the joke and who won't, or whether it will be used by the right or not, or anything else that's being thrown about in a diary that has so many comments my PC froze trying to respond. After observing this incident and weighing it against everything else that's occurred in this election cycle, my simple observation is this....

I never wavered, dude. I must be committed or something.

There's been a lot of nontroversy about a paper Michelle Obama wrote while a student at Princeton. Some are even suggesting that her musings in her paper prove their allegations of how racist she really is. In defense of the potential future first lady of the United States, allow me to share a letter I received myself in response to an innocent incident I experienced while a student at Eureka College during that same era.

Forgive my use of southern slang in the title. (For those who don't know, "fitna" is a colloquialism that is a crude contraction of the words "fixing to", which is equal to saying "about to" or "getting ready to." I chose it as a subtle dig at our love for acronyms in cyberspace.)

UPDATE: I just realized that the word "Fitna" has also been associated with a controversial film about Islamic extremists that has been circulating on the internet. This diary is in no way intended to trivialize the conflict arising from the release of this film. I left my references to the word intact, but I changed the title so as not to confuse the Kossacks about this diary's focus when they see it on the Recent Diaries list.

OmarLittle already diaried this as part of his own writeup on The Daily Show but it slid off the list, so I'll take a crack at it in this short diary of my own.

kat68 has a great diary sitting on the rec list right now about the whacked out cadre of disgruntled Clinton supporters calling themselves "P.U.M.A." (Party Unity My Ass). It occurred to me that the German based shoe company of the same name might need to be made aware of this "borrowing" of their trademark. I've even seen them use the PUMA logic in Facebook.

Wow. What a freakin' day. I thought it was gonna go on forever.

Look, kids! Its the brand new tongue twister game! Say it three times fast and join in the loads of fun!

This won't take long.

This is not a time to be gleefully unawares. The Clintons are desperate. So desperate, in fact, that they will stop at nothing to win. This is a call for Pennsylvania voters to police their own election.

God I hate all-nighters. This will be a quickie.

I was Youtubing a lil while ago, looking for the song mentioned in the diary title. Found an interesting clip...

As I finally clear my head of all the despicable things I just saw in the first presidential debate in over a month, it suddenly dawned on me that the next President of the United states just survived a full ambush.

Well, well, well.....

This is my first diary in about a week or so, I will keep it short but sweet. Today I happened on an intersting rebuttal to Mayhill Fowler, the "concern troll" who is exposed as a phony Obama supporter.

Check it....

NOTE: I edited the title to clarify that this diary is not about peace in the Middle East, its about peace in our party.

UPDATE: Angry Mouse just reminded me that we both agree that as a symbol of healing we should do away with the anti-candidate siggys. I actually earned mention in her diary for coming up with the idea. It may not be much to some, but it is a start.

OK, I have been marveling at the diary of one Angry Mouse today. She writes a very insightful diary about her switch from Clinton supporter to Obama. I recommend everyone read her diary as well as the one from Deoliver47 that inspired us both. While you're at it, read my take on the racial rift in America and a few suggestions on how to heal it here. I believe if we read these diaries we will be able to see the rift in the Democratic Party from the perspective of each side. We will also see how destructive this entire primary discourse has become to us, our candidate of choice and our beloved party. For these reasons I am hereby asking for a truce.

Gonna keep things short today because its the weekend and I'm too obsessed with the caucuses in Texas to focus on much else, but someone sent me the link to this audio clip of the pilot who flew Hillary into Tuzla on the now  infamous "sniper fire" trip. Just wanted to share with ya.

We have been hearing about Hillary's money woes for weeks, ever since she loaned herself 5 Million dollars to make it through January. People began to wonder if the Clinton campaign was in serious trouble financially, but after announcing she'd raised 35 million in February those murmurs seemed to die down a bit.

Apparently, the murmuring is starting to get louder.

Read on...

For those who don't know, Aaron Dahl wrote a very good article called "Hillary Clinton and the Burning Down of the Black Church. The article is here.
I intended this to be my response there, but it took on a life of its own, so I decided to create a new thread just to share my answer with everyone.

Read on if you dare..

Where do I begin? I guess there's no place like the beginning...

I am a black American man. I hate the term "African American". Why? It doesn't apply to blacks like me who were born with no visible ties to the mother country other than the tint of our skin. The only way brothers like me can trace their roots to Africa is through DNA testing, and even then we can expect a rude awakening when we find that even the darkest of blacks have caucasian ancestors. Going by skin tone alone, my skin color makes me about as African as Vijay Singh. (I am actually lighter than Vijay Singh, a middle complexioned black I'd say, and while testing I found I also have scandinavian ancestry as well.) Obama, on the other hand, can truthfully make that claim since his father immigrated from the country. Unfortunately, terms like "black" and "African American" are just symptomatic of the underlying racial problems this country faces, a country that has sought to divide and compartmentalize us all no matter what our ethnic and social backgrounds.  I could go on all day about the perspective from my side of the racial divide, but that's a discussion for another day.

Read on....