Bill: Heh, can a black guy actually be elitist?

What's so stupid about this question is that he asked it in a way where you can tell he expected Cornel to say, "Of course not!  Black people have been through so much; how can they be elitist?"  Just like Michelle and Barack are doing, but instead he answered with:

Cornel: Certainly!  But it depends on how you define elitist - someone who marks themselves as intelligent in the face of relative ignorance or someone who is arrogant and thinks they know more than poorer people.  (that is not a direct quote)

I love that answer because it cuts through the Obamas' bs.  Anybody can be elitist.  It doesn't matter where you grew up or what race you are.  It's an attitude.  My aunt is a black woman who grew up in MS in the sixties and she is now wealthy and probably the most elitist and snobbiest person I have ever met in my life, bless her heart.

And then Bill goes on about how awful the questions were in the last debate.  Cornel goes, and again, not a direct quote:  Alot of people are suffering because of a lack of unconditional love and justice.  The questions do matter, but so does the answers!

Exactly... as a biased Hillary suppoter, I think Hillary answered the questions better and appealed to the people of PA more effectively.  Of course, this is all politics, but at least she made the effort.  Obama didn't.

And then Bill starts talking about how people are now willing to vote for someone smarter than themselves.  He said we voted for Bush because we wanted to think that we could run the country, but now we realize that we can live that fantasy.  Cornel goes:  Is intelligence as important as compassion?

I think they're both important.  And I don't see that Obama really cares about anything but getting himself elected.  He doesn't really stand for anything.  He just goes, "I'm of two minds about that."  Maybe he doesn't want to offend anyone, but I don't like the idea that it is possible that in November I'll be voting for an adult who won't tell me where he stands.

Barack Obama recently told CNN, "We've been very measured in terms of how we talk about Senator Clinton." MEASURED?? He and his campaign have called Hillary calculating, polarizing, divisive, dishonest, secretive, disingenuous and untrustworthy. So who's using the Republican playbook?

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... Senator Obama conducted two extended chats with residents. The first was with Don Robertson, whose family lived at 6756 Knorrs Street. "Why are you wearing a Boise State Football shirt?" asked the Senator. ...

"I hope you can do something about home foreclosures," said Mr Robertson. He described how his monthly payments had risen by $600 to $700 a month on a property he owned in Florida and that he had recently been laid off and had difficulty keeping up with the payments.

I loved their "unplugged" special where they slowed down a bunch of their old 80's rock songs.  Very good.  And I loved the special they did with Sugarland.  

And of course, they always get involved in fundraising.  

The debacle of mishaps with electronic touch-screen voting machines is resulting in their being decertified in many states and carefully examined in others.

Not so in PA, which has its presidential primary is next week.

From the Brad Blog this week, PA election officials defend these machines even though admittedly they know nothing about them.

Here's a question from Brad's post to pose to any election official anywhere who uses these machines (emphasis mine):

Ask any elected official or election official in PA, or anywhere else, if they can prove that even a single vote --- as cast on any touch-screen machine during any actual election --- has ever been recorded and counted accurately as the voter intended. Just evidence of a single such vote will do. They will not be able to do so. None of them.

A Greenwald - Digby no holds barred tag team effort.

And since no one asked but it boots Bobo, (who thinks he knows stuff about me and my ilk) in the face, I'm spending the day tricking out my sweet new ride -- a hybrid electric Schwinn -- and retiring my battered Pinarello after (I'm embarrassed to say how many) years of outstanding service. It was a gift from a coodge in the Old Country and way beyond my abilities as a Serious Cyclist. (I just used it boringly: to get places.)

Short story long on the Schwinn: I'm increasing the size of the front tire, replacing the back two with a couple of utility grade fatties, and making it recumbent to go easy on my two blown knee and enabling me to do my nails or surf with my palmbook during gridlock. It could be my imagination but the Pinarello would buck and neigh like a stallion if I rode it at less than racing speed, and that was much of the time.