Wednesday, October 25, 2006
Great Week For Black Politics in the Media?
Barack Obama and Harold Ford Jr.: Black (or all) America's moderate, centrist future?
All of a sudden Election 2008 is promising to become really interesting. Of course, the hysteria began immediately:
GOPUSA says Barack Obama is "The Most Dangerous Man In America."
I pointed out a couple other (less crazed) Obama naysayers the other day but at the other end of the scale Time magazine gushily explores, "Why Barack Obama Could Be The Next President."
Meanwhile, Newsweek looks at Black America's other "great political hope" (sorry, Condi and Colin), Tennessee Democratic Congressman and Senatorial candidate Harold Ford Jr. and how he "is running from his party in one of the must-win Senate races for the Democrats." (related: the RNC refuses to pull a racist anti-Ford TV spot in TN?)
Bonus Reading:
Top 25 stories ignored by media in past year by Project Censored.
The 10 Worst Congressmen by Rolling Stone - 9 out of 10 are Republicans (!). (related: "The Worst Congress Ever" - how our national legislature has become a stable of thieves and perverts -- in five easy steps.)
More related: America's Dumbest Congressmen - Radar ranks the 10 biggest fools on the Hill (7 out of 10 are Republicans!).
So finally, consider before you vote: even author Stephen King says the Republicans are scary.
