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Don
I really believe that Bernie Sanders doesn’t care about the black vote in that he wants the black vote, but if he doesn’t get it he’s okay with that. I think that Sanders mentally is stuck back in the 60’s when it comes to the way he views African Americans. I think that Sanders admired the young black fire brands of the 60’s, I think that it instilled in him the way that he thinks African Americans should act. But Bernie’s problem is that he got left behind, those young black fire brands of the 60’s are now doctors and lawyers and teachers that now believe that to make a social change you must work within the system and not look for ways to blow up the system. I bet if you could read Bernie’s mind it would say “why aren’t these blacks out there raising hell and trying to blow up the system.” But what Bernie doesn’t understand is that in fact we are out there blowing up the system, we’re just doing it by becoming the first African American Attorney General, the first Latino Supreme Court Justice. That is how we blow up the system. You blow up the system by displaying a picture of a little black boy touching the hair of the first African American President in the Oval Office. That one picture alone is more powerful than anything Bernie Sanders has said since he decided to run for President.
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Sanders told a mostly white crowd that they're "too smart" not to vote for him on the same night he lost a heavily black state by 48 points.
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Jamil Smith (@JamilSmith) February 28, 2016Sanders' outreach to the black community was clumsy and disrespectful. The "know what's best for you" attitude: https://t.co/ns8xeVRofd
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Katherine Cross (@Quinnae_Moon) February 28, 2016****
The idea that what black people want from a president, is welfare. As though we are not lawyers, doctors, activists, educators, scientists, astronauts, and leaders in our communities. No, what we want is welfare. There are not enough f**ks yous in the world to the Bernie campaign
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He truly knows nothing about black voters. Helloooo…great migration?!
Bernie: I’ll Do Better With Black Voters Who Don’t Live In The Deep South buzzfeed.com/evanmcsan/bern…
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Katherine Miller (@katherinemiller) February 28, 2016
The Obama Diary 
1st!
First on a post with your commentary?!?!
*exploding fist bump*
Thank you, you pair of legends! Outstanding commentary yet again Don; Nerdy, you are the Marcus Rashford of TOD 😎
Primo! 😀
Congrats, Don! ….did you watch last weekend’s Northern Trust Open? It was one hell of a leader board and finish with Bubba Watson holding everyone off on the 18th. This weekends Honda classic doesn’t look to enticing of a finish, but there was a scare after the first round: http://www.golfchannel.com/news/golf-central-blog/bohn-suffers-mild-heart-attack-honda-classic/
Adam Scott might pull it out if he can control his putter and his nerves.
Has the PGA mandate on putters gone into effect yet? I know Adam had been using the old one plus I hate him b/c of his backstabbing former Tiger caddy!
LOL, I think the mandate is in place. Stevie gotta eat, after Tiger dropped him he had to find a job.
That’s not what bothered me….. it was all the interviews he would do in New Zealand trashing Tiger thinking nobody would see them here in the States. That SOB go 10% of Tiger’s tour earnings for over a decade & was the first caddy ever to get an endorsement deal. He really rubbed me the wrong way….I’m just overprotective of Tiger i suppose 😕
I do not like Tiger’s old caddie at all!!! But I don’t hate Adam Scott. I’ve never been a fan of Sergio Garcia. So between the 2, I’m rooting for Adam.
Hey, I’m watching the Honda Classic now. Love watching golf. I’ve tried to play but I’m awful. LOL I heard that Bohn had a major heart attack. He was lucky that they worked on him at the course. If he had waited to get to the hospital, it would have been too late.
Lowry just dropped two F-bombs on-air at the 15th after his shot went into the water…this was preceded by his playing partner breaking his club in half on the same hole 😀 😀 😀
I heard that. Why they follow them with live mics…SMH. And as soon as I say I’m rooting for Adam, he chokes. sigh.
I’m pulling for Blaine Barber, he is an Auburn grad (you can hear a “War Eagle” after he tees off on each hole….right now he is 2 strokes off the lead 😎
I don’t know Barber. I’ll have to look up his profile. Just enjoyed Garcia’s bogey. Speaking of people that have dogged Tiger. Sergio is high on that list.
http://www.pgatour.com/players/player.35545.blayne-barber.html
But Sergio has never won a major….so I relish htat fact 🙂
Thanks for the link. 🙂 He’s a young gun too. Barber has a shot. Anything can happen through the Bear Trap holes. Adam lost his 3 shot lead yesterday.
Auburn golf is ranked the #1 team in college right now…..the best golfer to come out of the program was 2103 PGA Championship winner, Jason Dufner.
I just followed you on Twitter. 🙂 I haven’t followed college golf much. The last time I watched was when the Stanford women won in 2015. I kind of stumbled on that when Stackhouse pulled out the win. (I had to look up her name. LOL)
Congrats to your guy Barber. Great pay day for him and he moved up the world rankings!
Thanks…(have to admit I had never heard of him before today…only the mic catching a “War Eagle” after his shot perked my ears up)
I missed Gary Woodland dropping trou earlier to hit a shot out the water 😀 😀
Oh I saw Woodland. LOL The announcers said we would be seeing a lot of this clip. He’s in great shape. 😀 😛 😉
Don, I agreed with your comment when I first saw it, and I’m glad it got FrontPaged.
Don – congratulations on your first and on your piece above. I will be sharing this far and wide with my friends who similarly don’t get it yet. Thank you, sir!
Congrat Don on #1! 🙂
Excellent commentary – you speak the truth for all of us, and I’m glad it was front-paged by Nerdy.
Excellent piece, Don. Especially LOVE the last line. Thank you!
Great comment, Don and congratulations on 1st. Glad that Nerdy front paged it, because I didn’t get a chance to check out yesterday’s comments.
LP, these two tweets alone have made my day!
Glad I could put a smile on you face, Jackie!
Tell it, Sistah Nerdy!
HA!
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NW,
you preach that Twitter Truth 🙂
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Nerdy, thanks for this whole post. I’m starting to think that Bernie Sanders has been caught in a time warp. He sounds as if he’s been off in a far land for the last several decades and has not registered any of the changes that have taken place in our culture. The Bernie people I know have that same “where am I” quality as if they were searching desperately for their lost youth. You can’t speak for ‘revolution’ when you don’t have the foggiest idea what you’re revolting against.
Bernie has revealed his soul to us…..PL/RW 2 sides of the same coin
Hear! Hear!
Great tweets as always, Nerdy. Thank you.
Fixed typo
Thanks Nerdy!
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Sanders was so eager to find black people to help him, that he accepted Cornel West. He might as well ask for support from Allen West (RWNJ from Florida) or Clarence Thomas. Most of us don’t give a crap about either one of them. SMH
Had PBO given Cornel West a role in the administration, Cornel would have been the scandal of the decade inside 12 months. PBO has good judgement, and gave West a wide berth. Cornel’s lack of grace and class comes through very clearly in his various rantings about PBO.
I’m of the thinking that Trump can’t be harmed by the other Republican clowns in the race because they all believe the same bullshit as Trump. You have a bunch of liars lying about everything and Trump being the most entertaining liar of them all.
Great insight, Don. Since every one of the Republican candidates comes from the same rotten place, their criticisms of each other ring hollow. It will take a true Democrat to decimate Donald Trump. He is an smelly bag of hot air. His whole act has to be punctured so we can all go about taking the stink out of the air for our democracy.
Its like a kind of extortion going on. Trump is unafraid to say whatever he needs to to retaliate and the rest of the GOP field and the down ticket as well are sitting ducks. Trump has the goods on them. He must watch as much left wing info as right which is very different from the rank and file tea party GOP. We will be hearing all our own grievances coming out of Trump’s mouth. He will already have the Rubio point of backing a failing private college and will use it the moment anyone brings up his being sued himself for fraud.
Who will be next to do the time for the crime family GOP? Jeb has bowed out, Paul has bowed out, etc. etc. Are these people more willing to accept being sent off the island than challenge Trump who has no bounds to his willingness to harm others. Romney realized I think that he had more at stake than he wanted to lose challenging Trump on his taxes.
THISSSSSSS!!!
when i listen to the speeches of Sanders and how he disses POC…and as you have pointed out…he is not all that concerned about getting our vote…i am thinking that he is try to get the GOP vote that does not want to vote for Trump
Not only that, but they all say how awful and dangerous he is….but if he’s the nominee, they’ll vote for him! What a crock of shit they all are.
I have said this for awhile. They don’t disagree with WHAT Trump says.
They disagree with HOW he says it.
If Trump were saying it in Luntz-approved language, they’d have no problem with him.
The question is: Why was this Republican, Obama-hating mole allowed to rise to such a prominent position in the DNC?!?!? I guess now that her troubling behavior is no longer convenient for the D establishment because HRC is on the ballot, they’re letting her go….
That’s a good question, hopefruit2, how did she rise up the ranks? It seems as though she was against everything that had to do with the rights of our brothers and sisters in the LGBT community.
NYT calling her a “rising star in the Democratic Party.” NOPE.
She had a few things going for her: combat veteran, broke with GOP and her dad’s cronies, and of course a telegenic young woman. Honestly, I think #3 was what really boosted her profile. Not sure if she’s taken a hard right turn somewhere, or if this was all just waiting beneath the surface. I’m just hoping for a good primary.
LoL!!!! Christie is really Trump’s errand person.
Now someone correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t believe Hillary or Bill insulted the intelligence of black folk in 08′ like Bernie does now. Now I’m not saying that the Clintons have clean hands, but I don’t remember them questioning our intelligence.
Not in my memory. They sure trashed PBO but they didn’t treat POC like mental defectives. Bernie is toast, at least among Latinos after Nevada & most probably among AAs after South Carolina. Bernie & his bots do seem to be showing their racist underwear.
FYI Bern…
Most Black people in America LIVE IN THE SOUTH.
… and the ones who don’t have LOTS & LOTS of family in the South.
Go ahead and educate them Rikyrah!
I’m sticking with America needs more #LoveAndKindness and truly hope Hillary Clinton does as well – until the end of her 2nd Term ….
The BURN BERN is about to experience is obviously going to be a big surprise for him … what a delusional dude …..
back to work ………….
Hope and Change => Love and Kindness! 🙂 Natural progression.
Bernie isn’t smart enough to be President if he learned nothing from the Democratic disasters of 2010 and 2014 when his base stayed home from the polls to “teach Obama a lesson.”
Bingo! Please tweet that!
BS is a zealot? Facts don’t matter
…It is an affront….it is not just a subjective observation…it is the Press that wants to pretend ortherwise
So do I and I don’t happen to be an AA…There is no other way TO see it!
Ditto, df.
Exactly.
And it is….
Not only African-Americans – does this writer think most white people don’t see it as a lack of respect and completely and utterly wrong. Outside of the US people see it as quite unbelievable – regardless of the color of their skin.
We all see it as an affront to Obama, because it is.
Okay, this one was actually a good one, but still not advisable in a stump speech! 😀
Even Rubio’s own crime family connections can’t protect him from the Donald. Now Rubio is a sitting duck and the countdown starts for when Trump raises the issue of Rubios connections to a failing private university that did much more harm.
I had no idea about Rubio’s family. Looking forward to all their skeletons being exposed.
A lot of the USWNT in Soccer have said they may not go….this doesn’t even include the sewage/bacteria filled river where rowing/swimming is supposed to be held….
Yeh, I was wondering when this was gonna come up.
This is really gonna be a pretty depressing Olympics.
I chuckled reading the tweet about the mom hanging up on her kid after it was admitted the child donated to Bernie. I spent several phone calls trying to talk my son out of caucusing for Bernie in NV. I gave up on even the idea of trying with his wife as she fits the narcissistic profile of a Berniebot.
Sounds familiar. My alarm went off as my soon to be daughter in law accused me of hating on police when I brought up the Ferguson issues in a visit not long after the first demonstrations (tanks and snipers and all). It filled me with a rage I can not fully explain but I just told her that I didn’t feel that way about police. (Thanks, no drama Obama) That’s when I knew she was a reactionary and went home and felt depressed. She hasn’t changed my opinion in the year since.
I use avoidance with my DIL since I have noticed she baits me inorder to start a conversation she knows she disagrees with me on then she ends up in a temper tantrum if I have a different opinion than her. I notice she loves conflict so I have learned to recognize her baiting and just avoid.
The baiting sounds difficult to say the least. I haven’t experienced the baiting thank goodness but I am so convicted about things that I tend to bring them up myself. I haven’t been as free to express myself since I realized I am in the presence of a reactionary. Don’t want to fall out too obviously and then not get to see my son and brand new grandbaby.
Is that you in that picture, Judith? AWESOME!!! 😀
Yep. We are organizing a flash mob across the street from that courthouse in downtown Portland for the OFA National Day of Action this Thursday on SCOTUS. There will be events similar to this all over the country that March 3rd to demand Senate GOPers do their job and to thank Senators like mine who are pledging to follow their Constitutional mandate. Look for one near you on barackobama.com/events
Will do. Thanks!
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Excellent! Mahalo nui~
I’ve called both my senators and used the Bundy standoff as an analogy, with the defecation aspect and all.
Excellent, catrst!
Judith, I really admire your dedication to OFA/PBO and civil engagement….it seems like you’re at it 24/7 😎
My husband would agree with you.
There’s our warrior! Good job, Judith!
Yep! Go Judith! Woooooot!
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Chips & GGail just saw this in my TL! How no idea of the context but 😀 😀 😀
http://www.nbcsports.com/show/men-blazers
Carol, don’t shoot me 😀 😀
THE PIC. LOOKS A LITTLE ALTERED!..GREAT DAY AT CHURCH AND FED SOME DUCKS…GOING BACK OUTDOORS…YAHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO…GORGEOUS DAY!
FYI….Costco’s has a great frozen lasagna meal.
They’ve got great ev’rything. 😀
so cute
one last time….sheesh
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LOVE THIS
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now he thinks that he can get the white GOP vote…smh….talk to the blue dogs who lost their seats running from the President and embracing that white racist vote…GOP voters are not looking for a GOP-lite candidate…
I have had an uneasy feeling that if Bernie decided knowing he was losing the Dem election that he could break off to run Independently. He might think he could take the Berniebots with him and get GOP votes. It might mean Donald could win since it would lose us more Dem votes.
OUCH!!!! That’s going to leave a mark!!!!
There it is:
wow. Criminy that’s scary. Looking at this picture gives me fracking goosebumps
Before I forget Meta, I saw you mentioned not having cable and realizing the game Dubs game was on ABC last night…..They just started Saturday prime time games every week at 8:30 PM EST. This is new and hasn’t been done since NBC used to air games nationally back in the day when the ESPN, FOXsports, and local broadcasting rights were not part of league deals. They waited until the NFL season was over and it was a smart move. Last night’s game was the highest rated, non-X-mas broadcast ever!
Wow, cool. Thanks for the info!
Lookin’ bad for the Bernster……
I’d like her to pull out a win in MA, I don’t care by how much. BS stood a chance of taking MA a week or so ago. However, Gallup showed a remarkable shift in popularity, BS falling and HRC gaining. We will have a much better picture in a few days. But to solidify her position, HRC needs some Midwestern and New England states.
Poll from Boston Globe today has her up +8.
Thanks, Bill
LIVE NOW: Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton holds a “Get Out the Vote” event in Nashville, Tennessee with “Scandal” actor Tony Goldwyn.
http://www.msnbc.com/shift/watch/live-clinton-holds-get-out-the-vote-event-633075267861
New post
http://theobamadiary.com/2016/02/28/the-week-ahead-51/