According the NYTimes, the Clinton Camp has raised a record (for them) amount of of 35 million dollars!!!!!!  However the according to experts the Obama campaign is claiming to have raised more than the previous record of John Kerry's 44 million in the 04 race, with a staggering amount of 50+ million dollars for Feb.  So the Clinton camp can now take home a moral victory in getting over the 30 million dollar club for the month.  But it should be a short celebration when your opponent raises 50+ million in a short month....  Plus he didn't have to loan himself 5 million dollars.....  

The Iowa Black and Brown Presidential Forum Debate is about to get underway with all of the Candidates present except for Mike Gravel who couldn't make it due to weather.  Dan Rather has it on HDNet and I'm loving the questions he has presented to those in the crowd that had the priviledge of attending....

During the runup to an 2002 vote to whip some Saddam ass of epidemic proportions Mr. Burns errr Rumsfeld and his posse wanted to go get some oil and their buddies paid errr after Saddam Hussein.  Little did they know that our next President; Hillary Clinton was ready to whip some ass too.  After going into Afghanistan and ousting the Taliban out of power, with a real coalition of nations, we started to act like a bully with ADHD by starting another fight without completely finishing the one we were in.  More after the Jumper.....

About a week or so ago turneresq had a diary about a Newsweek article addressing some concerns in some part of Black communities about Senator Barack Obama's authenticity and his commitment to "Black" causes.  In my opinion he knows what is at stake in this struggle for a generation of youth.  I've seen the results of growing up in the projects and ghetto’s where on the 1st and 15th drug dealers pulled 16 hour shifts.  They were selling rocks to their classmate’s parents, brothers and sisters and terrorizing everyone else.  The only time they took off during the summer was to go ball, and like Biggie said you either slang the crack rock or had a mean jump shot, luckily for me I had the latter (not the jumper but a mean handle, my jumper was above average but I was a true PG) and I got out of that life and that mentality using sports as an avenue to the Air Force.  More below.