I may be getting a little too sensitive, but was the bling reference racial?

I’ve been following the primary results pretty closely, and it seems like the wheels are really falling off for Hillary.  This speech in particular was absolutely horrible…from her chanting “we will win” by herself, to coughing in the mic, to making a weak attempt to match Obama’s fainting supporters with her own, very public fainting fan episode.  I mean, really, just absolutely pathetic.

I’m no political strategist…but here are some notes for Hillary.

-If you start a chant and no one else chants with you, then you look like an asshole.

-And once you realize that no one else is chanting with you, please stop shrieking.  You should like a 60 year old chain smoker trying to get their dog to ‘roll over.’

-The phrase “I’ve seen people that literally feel invisible in America” does not make sense.  Or at least, ‘literally’ in that sentence doesn’t have the impact that you think it does.

-Referring to someone that is risking their life to protect you as “Mr. Secret Service Man” sounds condescending and makes you look like a cocky, ungrateful cunt.

-If you really want to be like Obama, it would be more convincing to come out in black face than to point out that an audience member ‘got a little too hot on the rhetoric’ and therefore fainted after hearing your words.

-I mean really, is it me or was the whole give-water-to-person-in-the-crowd-that-needs-it bit a complete rip off of Obama’s speeches.  Like, we’re talking about theatrics here.  I mean, that is the most pathetic ploy I have ever seen.

-Please don’t cough into the mic.  Like, when you know you’re going to hack disgustingly…lower the mic.

-Presidents are elected, not hired.  Don’t ask people to ‘hire’ you for president.

-At least shell out for a 1-800 number.  I mean, really.  And when you read the numbers, you don’t have to rap them out convincingly with hand motions.  It’s just a phone number.

-John McCain is not the republic nominee yet.  And you just lost 9 states in a row.  Calling out McCain at this point is a bit premature, no?

-Could we put the CNN cameras in a location where people’s signs won’t block you entirely?  Please?  I like to see the actual hacking motion, along with the hacks themselves.

Louisiana just elected its first non-white governor this weekend.   Bobby Jindal of Indian descent became Louisiana’s first non-white governor since Reconstruction.  This story is even more astounding since Bobby was able to defeat two multimillionaires who vastly outspent him in the election race.  Jindal ran under a reform platform that emphasized the idea that voters should be feeling “buyers remorse” for electing someone who bungled the Hurricane Katrina reconstruction effort.

Another astounding feat is that Jindal is the nations youngest governor at 36 years old.  Too bad he’s a republican.

The NY Times has a few good articles about Barak Obama’s history in Hawaii.  They have a nice pic of him in elementary school, posted above (guess which one is Obama) and playing for Punahou’s basketball team, below.

Jason Whitlock on MSNBC keeps it real and says Jesse and Al seized on this issue to push their own money making agenda.  It must be tough to go against the grain and upset the African American cognoscenti. 

Maybe its just me but I think asking Condoleezza Rice what she feels about the Don Imus comments is pretty racist.  Is it because she is black and a woman that her opinion on this issue should be especially weighty? OR is it that they want to bring something clearly offensive and throw it into her face and say What do you think about that?

I’m sure Condi knows that just asking her opinion on the matter is  pretty loaded, what can she possibly say that isn’t already said?  She could perhaps say that Imus just made a bad joke and everyone shouldn’t be so worked up about the issue. Come on!  Is that even a possibility?  She’s a public figure and whatever she says is going to dissected by her critics, the strategy is to stay safe.

I’d like the see the popular media respond to my critique that they are the worst type of racist, the undercover secret racist.

I’m debating if I should pick up some of this Obama gear, to sport it before the primary.  Where’s your Punahou pride

  The San Francisco Chronicle today had an article about how Barack Obama’s successful Internet campaign has allowed him to match the $26 million raised by his opponent Hillary Clinton.  I think this is extraordinary evidence of the Internet effect on contemporary politics.  Bloggers are becoming more of legitimate form of media as evidenced by this quote:

“Leading Silicon Valley insiders noted that Obama raised nearly $7 million on the Internet thanks to an aggressive effort involving bloggers, social networking and other activities that far outpaced the endeavors of other leading Democratic candidates. It includes 4,000 My.BarackObama.com groups, 9,000 Obama bloggers and 50,000 online donors.”

I wonder if Hillary is going to attempt some sort of a viral web presence now that Obama has shown the effectiveness of social networking.  With 9,000 bloggers on board, Hillary might be hard pressed to find any undecided bloggers.  If Barack is elected this might be our very first web 2.0 president.

I feel you brother

Matier and Ross today wrote about the firestorm in the Gavin Newsom’s office surrounding the comments made by his current girlfriend Jennifer Siebel.  Those comment where she directed blame towards Ruby Tourk seemed to strike a particular chord with Tourk and Gavin’s staff.  This has been the only time where anyone in the Newsom camp has shifted any blame away from himself onto Ruby; and now Ruby is mad.  If I were Gavin Newsom I would put a lid on this quick before it invites futher ire from the Ruby Rippey-Tourk camp.   I wonder how dinner conversation between Jennifer and Gavin has been lately.

“What the F were you thinking”

“I’m sorry”

“Willie Brown’s bitches didn’t post comments on blogs”

San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom’s girlfriend apologized Monday after making disparaging comments on a local Internet site about Newsom’s former commission appointments secretary, with whom he had an affair.

Jennifer Siebel, an aspiring actress who splits her time between West Hollywood and San Francisco, commented extensively about Newsom’s affair on the blog SFist.com, in which she said Ruby Rippey-Tourk is someone with a “checkered history.”

ouch:

Siebel Strikes Back

It looks like the “Gavin Newsom girlfriend” fluff piece in yesterday’s Chronicle is creating some negative backlash. I noticed some bloggers are pointing to Gavin’s girlfriend’s comments that he never dated Brittanie Mountz as being a point of consternation. SFluxe’s site has a few pictures and videos that show them together. If I was to guess, it looks like they are “dating.”

Someone claiming to be Jennifer Siebel posted a response comment on Sfist today. She’s surprisingly defensive when the post author implies she somehow betrayed her sex by blaming Ruby Tourk for the affair. I don’t know about that. I’ve never really seen women show any loyalty to strangers. I find it interesting that in “Jen’s” comments she mentions setting up a google alert to find out mentions about herself. That doesn’t sound like someone that isn’t looking to get in the press. Also on a side note, the use of multiple ellipses doesn’t bode well for that sanity defense.

SF Bay Guardian has a hilarious opinion piece on the interview.

Get down girl, go head get down. -Kanye West

Gavin Newsom’s (current?) girlfriend appeared in the San Francisco chronicle today espousing the virtues of Gavin Newsom and the scandalous nature of the newspaper industry. 

Read the article for yourself and tell me what you think.

Player haters chime in:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1799046/posts

Meet Gavin’s Girlfriend - Has an interesting take on the article.  Looking at it from their perspective I definately see something being negatively protrayed in the piece.  I just hope this actress has a good head on her shoulders and uses this publicity to further her career rather than fuel some poorly planned Gavin rebrand.

Associated Press reported today that a blogger in Egypt was thrown in jail for speaking ill about Islam.

He was sentenced for three years for “insulting Islam and the prophet and inciting sectarian strife and another year for insulting President Hosni Mubarak.”

Just something to think about when all you hippies decide to diss Bush and bash the United States. Try being a hippie in Egypt, you wouldn’t even exist!