Today in the Huffington post, Roseanne Barr wrote one of the dumbest things I've ever read, and that is saying something considering her posts and appearances on Air America's "Clout" have amounted to some of the most uninformed, shallow political commentary I've ever read/heard.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
Barack Obama: Bow to the woman, and take the vice presidency. Let our country heal. You will run in eight years and be unstoppable as a visionary world leader. You must pass through this filter first though: bow to the woman.
She goes on to say that doing so is the only way to live up to the dream of Dr. King:
Lead us, Barack, show us how cooperation works, let's live the dream of Dr. King...blacks and whites, Christians and Jews, male and female left and right holding hands on the way to the Promised Land!!! Stop the Republicans by taking the vice presidency.
Barack Obama - ahead in red states, blue states, pledged delegates and the popular vote, must "bow" - what an insulting way to describe it, not 'leave the race' or even 'bow out of the race', but 'bow' itself - to Hillary Clinton, who has never led in pledged delegates through this entire campaign at all, and has attempted to drag him down into the mud and beat him with experience. Her biggest wins come in the face of the fraud now known as NAFTAgate, which as the CBC and Olbermann reported last night, turns out was initially focused around the Clinton campaign, only to end up with Obama as the focus of attention. Some Obama media bias, as now this story - headlines in Canada where I am from - has failed to catch on down south.
http://www.cbc.ca/...
(Update here: The Prime Ministers Office in full spin mode after the uproar calling for Chief of Staff Ian Brodie's resignation is denying that Clinton called Canada - http://www.cbc.ca/...
Up here in Canada I admittedly do not particularly care whose plan is marginally better than the other. I am not directly affected by it. I do care about the face of America to the world. I do care about a move away from Clinton's style of dirty two faced politicking. Obama's rise to success is the epitome of the American Dream - self made and earned. Hillary to me has gone from mildly annoying coattail rider to full on symbol of everything wrong with American politics.
Please Americans, stop resting on your laurels in comfort when Obama is "aquitted from NAFTAgate" or other supposed scandals, its not enough to feel justified. You need to fight back, kick and scream until they recognize our outrage over the duplicity of Hillary's camp on NAFTA/NAFTAgate, etc. You cannot let Hillary steal this election this way, and you cannot let moronic views like Roseanne Barr's wrap absurd ideas in the cloak of reaching MLK's dream.
EDIT: 5pm - I am told that Randi Rhodes' accusations previously refered to in this diary may be out of date or inaccurate - I have removed them from the diary until more is known.