1. Michelle Obama: MILF Alert!

2. Police Repress Protesters at 'Pepsi' Convention

3. Hillary Wins in 2012?

4. War Is America's Favorite 'Sport'

5. Obama Campaign in Crisis

6. Who's Paying for the 'Pepsi' Convention?

7. Hillary Clinton's Long Game

Michelle Obama: MILF Alert!

Not since Jackie O has there been a White House wife with that "fuck me" quality. If Barack Obama wins this election that will definitely change.

Not since the age of Camelot has there been a First lady that has given America a collective hard-on.

Laura Bush is just too Stepford, her mother in law Barbara arrived in The White House looking like George Washington, Betty Ford was drunk and Rosalyn Carter was pretty but way past her prime once she got to the White House.

I never saw Hillary as a MILF because she did her best to deny her sexuality. Michelle lets it out. Wonderful!

What I really like about her are her balls. The balls to give give whitey the middle finger, and keep it moving.

Michelle is bringing real black women en vogue with her size 10 hips and Ivy league smarts. Go 'head girl! I'm on your coat-tails!!! Finally WE are getting our time and just recognition. Thank you Michelle Obama!

More Seriously...

Like all successful politicians, Barack Obama is a bit of a chameleon, taking on the characteristics of his environment.

So, too, is Michelle Obama. Who is the authentic Michelle Obama, the fiery speaker of May, the smiling mother of August or the tarted-up image on the cover of Ebony in September? All three.

And before you condemn some of her more inflammatory rhetoric, keep in mind that she is, in fact, a black woman who, we can be sure, has experienced her fair share of racism - perhaps more than her husband has, given his unusual personal journey.

I find this troubling in a political sense. The choices the Obamas made don't bother me, mainly because I expect politicians to act like politicians, and I am rarely disappointed.

But I don't think the Obamas have adequately explained their choices to uncommitted voters. Moreover, I don't think they can.

Like nearly all successful politicians, Obama has a not-very-admirable tendency to use people and then move on. One feels that Michelle is the same. They are both prepared to do whatever it takes to climb the greasy pole.

Michelle is ready to play the devoted mother and starry-eyed wife for the whites, and a sexual tease to a black audience.

By trying to reinvent themselves as thoroughly as they have, the Obamas risk coming off as inauthentic, and of being pilloried as hypocrites.

The truth, I suspect, is that they both harbour some sense of racial resentment, but that it's just a small part of who they are. And they have decided that Americans can't handle the truth. And they may be right.

If the McCain campaign and its allies can succeed in portraying the Obamas as angry blacks, that will go a long way toward ensuring Republican victory in November.

I'm sceptical that the Obamas can stop them from doing it. And the biggest obstacle is their own past, and their perceived need to deny it.

Police Repress Protesters at 'Pepsi' Convention

On Monday, police in riot gear used pepper spray, truncheons and rubber bullets on a peaceful demonstration of about 300 protesters about one mile from the Democratic National Convention in Denver.

Around 100 demonstrators were arrested, charged with resisting a lawful order to disperse and obstruction of streets or public passageways.

At about 7 p.m. Monday, riot police fired pepper spray and pepper balls, which are delivered by guns, against the protesters, who had attempted to carry out a protest outside of the police-designated “free speech zone.”

The free speech zone is a small area in a parking lot near the Pepsi Center, surrounded by two layers of steel fence and concrete barriers and topped by razor wire.

The confrontation began on a sidewalk near Denver’s Civic Center. SWAT police forced protesters backward, where a second phalanx of police was waiting, blocking their retreat.

The police then completely surrounded the protesters, while reinforcements, including two armored vehicles, arrived. The protesters were held in this position for 90 minutes.

Twenty-one year old Joey Kenzie, a recent community college graduate, was among those surrounded by the riot police.

“I’m a little in shock,” she told the Denver Post. “At one point we didn’t know what we were going to do, we were going to get arrested or maced. I haven’t been able to vote for a president yet, but this was an epiphany. My freedom of speech was suppressed.”

From among those pinned by the police, a protester was heard shouting, “This is not America. This is what a police state looks like. You’re worried about Beijing? This is repression.”

Obama Loses in November; Hillary Wins in 2012

Hillary Clinton was appearing before the biggest TV audience of her career early today to give full-throated support at the Democratic National Convention in Denver to their presidential candidate, Senator Barack Obama.

Or, to put it another way, it was her 'it should've have been me' moment.
And the real objective during what was dubbed 'Hillary Day' in Denver was to position herself for the 2012 election in the event that Obama is defeated by Republican Senator John McCain in November.

'Bitter? Hillary doesn't do bitter. Let's say she's ambitious,' said a Democratic strategist last night.

'If Obama loses in November, Hillary can run in 2012, when President John McCain will be 76.'

Prior to her speech, Hillary disclosed that she would not demand the full roll-call of delegates from each state declaring whether they were for Clinton or Obama.

Instead she was likely to allow enough states, who are called in A-Z order, to declare to show how well she had done in the primaries, before stopping the process when it reached New York - for which she is a senator - and declaring the party must unite behind her rival.

That would put her success in the primaries - doing far better than any previous woman candidate - firmly on the record, and in the minds of Americans. A poll suggests 95 per cent of Democrats want her to run again in 2012.

War Is America's Favorite 'Sport'

For many Americans, war is like a sports contest in which they take vicarious pleasure and cheer on their side to victory. Millions of Americans are still bitter that “the liberal media” and war protesters caused America to lose the Vietnam war, and they are determined that this won’t happen again.

These Americans have no realization that there was no more reason for the US to be fighting in Vietnam 40 years ago than to be fighting today in Iraq and Afghanistan or tomorrow in Iran.

Obama, if elected, is no guarantee against nuclear war. Obama has shown that he is as much under the Israel Lobby’s thumb as McCain. Obama’s foreign affairs advisor, Zbigniew Brzezinski, is not a neocon, but he was born in Warsaw, Poland, and has the Pole’s animosity toward Russia.

The Bush administration has already changed US war doctrine to permit preemptive nuclear attack. With the US government determined to ring Russia with puppet states and military bases, war is inevitable.

Presidential appointees face confirmation in the Senate. Any of Obama’s appointees who might be out of step with plans for US and Israeli hegemony could expect opposition from large corporations and the Israel Lobby.

There is no assurance that an Obama administration would not be positioned on “the issues” by the same special interests that have positioned the Bush administration.

Americans are filled with hubris, not with knowledge. They have no awareness of the calamity that their government’s pursuit of hegemony is bringing to themselves and to life on earth.

Obama Campaign in Crisis

The first two days of Democratic National Convention have been dominated by a sense of foreboding and unease, with mounting concern that the Obama campaign is losing ground in the polls, and that the divisions opened up in the primary contest between Obama and Senator Hillary Clinton have not healed, but rather have begun to fester.

The Obama campaign has suffered a palpable loss of political momentum which elaborate attempts at media stagecraft—the candidate’s trip to the Middle East and Europe, the hype over the vice-presidential selection process, the convention itself—have so far failed to reverse.

Polls show a tightening race between Obama and his Republican rival Senator John McCain, despite overwhelming popular hostility to the Bush administration and the Republican Party.

There has been complete silence in both the media and the Democratic Party over the real source of this decline, which has little to do with negative advertising or the supposed prowess of the Republican “attack machine.”

In fact, the falloff in backing for Obama is sharpest among those layers—the young, self-described liberals, and those most hostile to the Iraq war and the Bush administration—who were among his most enthusiastic supporters in the primary campaign.

Obama’s lead in the polls has dwindled as he turned sharply to the right following his primary victory over Hillary Clinton.

His campaign faltered not because of a Republican media blitz—Obama continues to greatly outspend McCain—but because of the Democratic candidate’s demonstrative efforts to disassociate his campaign and prospective presidency from any semblance of progressive change.

Who's Paying for the 'Pepsi' Convention?

Just regular folks.

In the days before the Democratic National Convention, Barack Obama told a crowd at a barbecue in Eau Claire, Wis., what image of him he'd like people to take away from the Denver convention:

"He's sort of like us. He comes from a middle-class background, went to school on scholarships. He and his wife had to figure out child care and how to start a college fund for their kids."

Yeah, the Democrats attending the convention in Denver are lot like you and me--that is, if you're used to rubbing elbows with the rich and famous at lavish parties and sleeping at the Ritz-Carlton, with a 6,800-square-foot spa.

The Democrats' convention Web site brags that the party is making history, with the "first convention since 1960, when President John F. Kennedy moved his acceptance speech to the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, to open its doors to more than 75,000 people from across the country, as Barack Obama accepts the Democratic nomination for President of the United States at Invesco Field at Mile High.

In the first 48 hours after the invitation was issued, more than 80,000 Coloradans requested community credentials for Senator Obama's speech."

But what they don't mention is that not all attendees are created--or will be treated--equally. During Obama's Invesco Field speech, reported the New York Times, "most supporters will be sitting under the open night sky.

But a group of lobbyists and corporate executives will watch the event from plush skyboxes, with catered food and a flowing bar, and a price tag of up to $1 million."

Skybox attendees--which include representatives from Quest, Comcast and Xcel Energy and Tom Golisano, a New York Republican who donated $1 million--will also be able to avoid long security lines, since they have a separate entrance from "the community" and a private elevator to get them to their seats.

It's rumored that Oprah Winfrey, one of the wealthiest people in the world, was so excited to attend the convention that she rented a house for the week--to the tune of $50,000, more than many workers make in a year.

Before the convention, the Democrats made sure the media were rewarded for their compliance and were wined, dined and entertained like spoiled children--at the Elitch Gardens Amusement Park.

It's All About Hillary Clinton's Future

Anyone who believes Hillary Clinton has exorcised her dreams of being the first female President must have been cruising another galaxy Tuesday night.

As she implored the truest of her believers to unite behind the winner who broke their hearts, the temptation was irresistible to wonder if her next quest for the Oval Office has just been launched.

Her stemwinder was an eerie flashback to the 1976 Republican contest between Ronald Reagan and President Gerald Ford.

Just like Hillary, The Gipper was egged on by a driven spouse embittered by a wafer-thin loss. He sat on his hands through the fall, helping Ford lose to Jimmy Carter.

Hillary is too savvy a politician to emulate Reagan's mistake. She recognizes she must do everything .humanly possible to immunize herself against charges she's secretly playing the spoiler.

"If Obama loses and the party thinks she's a saboteur, her path to the nomination in 2012 will be tougher," said a veteran Democratic Party official.

Since conceding in June, Hillary has behaved like a model also-ran. She has praised Obama, campaigned with him and for him, helped out with fund-raising and vowed to stump her guts out in the fall for the victor.

She outdid herself last night in laying on the love - lauding the nominee, going out of her way to praise Michelle Obama and urging her bitter-enders to put self-interest ahead of bruised feelings.