It’s Hard Out Here…

While colleagues Steve and Erik are living the hard life in Vegas for the next couple of days (perhaps they’ll pull themselves away from the card tables to make a post or two?) I wanted to take a moment to analyze some of the claims being made by the anti-Obama elk.

You know who i’m talking about, that’s right, these folks.

I’m not going to let them make my Monday any worse, but my argument is simple, and it comes by way of Mos Def in his song “Mr. Nigga.” Here are the lyrics of what I’m referring to:

They say they want you successful
But then they make it stressful
You start keeping pace, they start shaking up the tempo

Now, who is cat riding out on the town
State trooper want to stop in his ride, pat him down
Mr Nigga, Nigga Nigga
He got the speakers in the trunk
With the bass on pump(?)
Now, who is the cat with the hundred dollar bill
They gotta send it to the back to make sure the shit is real
Mr Nigga, Nigga Nigga
Nigga Nigga Nigga

Anyone else think its odd that rather than congratulating Obama on being the first African American candidate to ever be nominated by a major party in the U.S., these folks would prefer to insist that he cheated.

 

Perhaps they just forgot that:

Ickes [Voted for the DNC Rules]. And he voted in August to strip Florida and Michigan of their delegates as a sitting member of the Rules and Bylaws Commission.

“There’s been no change,” Ickes said, adding that he was then acting as a member of the Rules and Bylaws Committee “not acting as an agent of Sen. Clinton. We had promulgated rules — if Florida and Michigan violated those rules” they’d be stripped of their delegates. “We stripped them of all their delegates in order to prevent campaigns to campaign in those states.”

In fact, however, that was not why Florida and Michigan were stripped of their delegates. They were stripped of their delegates because they violated party rules by moving up their contest dates before Feb. 5. A pledge to not campaign in those states did not come about until one was put forward by the four early states allowed to go before Feb. 5 by the DNC — Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada, and South Carolina. Clinton was the last to sign this pledge.

I wonder if we would have heard any of this complaining about disenfranchisement of voters if Clinton had actually given a shit about the people who live in the caucus states and didn’t get BLOWN OUT of the primary. Its pretty clear that hte PUMA folks don’t (which is why they insiste the numbers don’t count and that the vast Obama hoards took over the process). But we should have known better when an African American candidate was in play, as soon as he starts keeping pace, its time to switch up the tempo.