Supreme Court: Right On Voter ID, Wrong In Timing

On Monday, the Supreme Court voted 6-3 in favor to allow states to require voters to present proper identification at the voting polls. With Justices Clarence Thomas, Scalia, Alito, Kennedy, Stevens and Chief Justice Roberts voting with the majority, the fallout of the this decision lends furtherance to the American divide. While it is a novel gesture to try and legitimize our elections, the timing of this decision is democratically genocidal and highly speculative. Is it coincidental that Indiana, a state that the Republican presidential candidate has won for at least the last 48 years, so happens to be the test case that will surely effect this years presidential election? Was it the left winged ACLU's undoing to push it to the Supreme Court? Maybe. However, while this may lend credence to our election system, its unintended effect will not only shun democratic voters in GOP states like Texas, Indiana or Kansas, but also Liberal, oops I mean Progressives in states like California, New York and in swing states Florida and Georgia. How so? While voters are faced with a global recession and a housing market in its highest foreclosure rate in history, gas prices at an all time high and the downtrodden are living paycheck to paycheck, if possessing a meager voter's registration card and another form of valid identification at the polls was a requirement to vote, would the majority still vote? I say yes...

If I were Rev. Jeremiah Wright

Whether pro or con, politicians spend millions to get the sort of publicity that Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., a 66 year old Marine and recipient of eight honorary doctorates, the former pastor of the Trinity United Church of Christ has lost the very thing that he’s worked for nearly 37 years and loved the most, his ministry. So what alternatives are there and given the current political turmoil he appears to still be in, it's not that all complicated to advise him on what his next endeavor should be. Well, let's see. What did we learn from Don Imus, Martha Stewart and Britney Spears' fiascoes? The more stories out in the media , especially negative, the smart and resilient tend to bounce back bigger than ever. Take Imus, he got $20 million from CBS after outbursts from perennial protester Al Sharpton and within a few months after of being yanked off the airwaves, he was soon hired and back on the airwaves by a New York radio station. In the case of Ms. Stewart, she is now richer than she had ever dreamt before she did the roughly 18 months in prison. As for the case of Ms. Spears, the first time I ever heard of her, my soon to be 15 year old mentioned her name a couple of years ago and I've heard it everywhere since. Even actor Wesley Snipes in a couple of years, assuming he'll actually do time from his recent IRS tax conviction, after he gets out of the slamma, he'll command $10 million more per film than before his conviction. What does this all mean? Victims of constant negative public attacks are often sitting in the catbird seat and don't even know it. Rev. Wright should simply capitalize on his new found persona; speaking tours, write a fifth book, paid public and private appearances, the WWF, his own cartoon series, an appearance on Dancing with the Stars and American Idol.

Why Hillary Clinton's NOW deemphasizing "Rodham"

Ever wonder why you don't hear or see much of the Rodham name anymore when Mrs. Clinton is campaigning? She proudly angled the Rodham name when she was First Lady during her years in the nation's capital. Call it crazy, but she only started dropping the central Pennsylvanian Rodham name when she announced she was running for Republican Alphonse Demato's U.S. Senate seat back in 99'. It's been said before, Mrs. Clinton only stayed married to the philandering 42nd President of the United States because she angrily decided to use him after the testy Lewinsky ordeal as a stepping stone and disavowing the feminists in referring to her as a softy. Remember the infamous "I could have stayed at home baking cookies" comment?

If for some reason Mrs. Clinton were to capture the nomination via coup, she would have her husband served divorce papers while she would be at her throne, I mean office. Call it far fetched thinking, but, women never forget when you wrong them, especially while in public. William Jefferson, you'd better watch out.

Mr. Obama: Choose Bill Richardson NOW for VP...

You may say it's premature for Mr. Obama to be thinking about his choice for Vice President when Hillary has swept the states with the largest delegate count. But, let's be real here. Mrs. Clinton has not won a single red state that the GOP garnered in the 04' presidential election. No, NOT even one. Mr. Obama will get the usual blue states and can win Florida and maybe even Texas, yes Texas with Bill Richardson. Richardson gives Mr. Obama a large delegation of Hispanic voters he now lacks. If the Democratic party is to recapture Pennsylvania Avenue and to make good on a real task, not bringing the troops home, but the undoing of George W. Bush's tax cuts, it will be more because of Richardson and surprisingly, not Barack Obama.

Who is the real John McCain?

Is Mr. McCain the maverick he purports to be? He often speaks about how he breaks with his GOP colleagues when he believes it's for the best interest of the American people. Did he believe voting against a holiday for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was in the best interest of the American people? He states he regret making an error in judgment by not believing Dr. King was worthy of a holiday. Was this a straight shooting comment or the usual political fodder? Why haven't we heard about the infamous Keating Five anymore? Wonder what would Charles Keating and Democrats Dennis DeConcini, Donald Riegle, John Glenn and the late Alan Cranston all of which were accused of strong-arming federal officials to back off their investigation of Mr. Keating's Lincoln Savings and Loan association back in 89' have to say about John McCain. Would they call him a straight shouter?

Is he a war hero? Well, as I recall, wasn't Mr. McCain a Navy pilot that was shot down by the Vietnamese and held captive for five years? Were there ever any accounts of him being wounded while trying to escape or subduing the enemy? Mr. McCain, are heros captured ALIVE?

Hillary, Enough Already...

I can't stomach this any longer, the continued saga of Hillary Clinton's attempt to garner the Democratic nomination at the risk of bringing down her Party. I mean, Mrs. Clinton, what are trying to accomplish? With the defections of five former members of her husbands Cabinet: Bill Daley, Norman Mineta, Federico Pena, Robert Reich and Bill Richardson, you continually loose slippage and putting henchmen such as gargoyle looking James Carville and Gerry Ferraro who are using code language to incite racist politics, doesn't exactly help your case with the remaining 300 uncommitted super delegates. The say anything do anything at all cost tactics could backfire. Remember Willie Horton? Michael Dukakis does. George H.W. Bush's election team of the late Lee Atwater and Roger Ales (now President of Fox News) used the Horton fiasco against Mr. Dukakis, the democratic nominee back in 88' with results the democratic party does not want to remember. Mrs. Clinton, don't hortonize the future of your party, Barack Obama.