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Huffington Post caught Fox News misidentifying a black man as Sen. Barack Obama in a polling place. I’m guessing the network was eager to quickly identify Sen. Obama entering a voting place. Unfortunately, Fox News was incorrect (Fox and Friends … incorrect … not much of a surprise there) in its reckless hurry to be first.
Huffington Post:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/04/fox-friends-host-steve-do_n_140967.html
Megyn Kelly, who a few weeks back talked down to Bill Burton (a spokesman for Sen. Barack Obama) as if he was some kind of runaway slave or an uppity black who had overstepped his bounds, is back at it again trying to stir up controversy. I should mention, Burton remained firm and handled himself with dignity and class. He held firm on his position of Fox News right-wing bias. I apologize for digressing. Many of the anchors and pundits at Fox News (sometimes it’s difficult to tell the difference since it all blurs together) have tried to play up this rift between Sen. Obama and Sen. Hillary Clinton, who narrowly lost to Sen. Obama in the Democratic primary. Fox also has been working to push the angle that Sen. Clinton is trying to somehow sabotage Sen. Obama’s presidential bid just so that she can run in 2012. Of course, no one is denying that Sen. Clinton is justifiably ambitious. Kelly, like so many others at Fox, are trying to get the Democrats to open up fire on each other. So, Fox has been pushing the angle that Bill and Hillary Clinton are pretty much voting for Sen. John McCain so that Hillary can run in four years.
Here is a passage from the Huffington Post article:
As the Clintons arrived at their polling place in Chappaqua, New York, Kelly said, “Who do you think they’re voting for? Seriously. It may not be Barack Obama if you believe a lot of theories. IT MAY BE JOHN MCCAIN! Their last hope that Hillary can come back four years from now and take over in the Oval Office.”
Kelly then said, “I would love to be a little birdie over their shoulders, Bill and Hillary…oh!”
Typical Fox News … or maybe it is Fix News as MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann is so fond of saying.
Huffington Post:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/04/fox-news-megyn-kelly-sugg_n_140977.html
Sen. Barack Obama is a classier man than most of us could ever dream of being. He has had to face more hatred (people calling him a terrorist, communist, socialist, anti-American and more), racism (people calling him an Arab or a Muslim … as if those are slurs) and bigotry (people who have flat out said they would not feel comfortable enough to vote for a black man to become president of the United States) than perhaps any candidate ever to run for president of the United States. On Monday, he faced the death of his grandmother with unbelievable dignity, class and strength.
That is the reason I want to share these words as documented by Huffington Post:
No matter what happens tomorrow, I’m going to feel good about how it has turned out because all of you have created this remarkable campaign. She is gone home. And she died peacefully in her sleep, with my sister at her side. And so, there is great joy as well as tears. I’m not going to talk about it too long because it is hard, a little, to talk about.
I want everybody to know though a little bit about her. Her name was Madelyn Dunham. And she was born in Kansas in a small town in 1922. Which means she lived through the Great Depression, she lived through two world wars, she watched her husband go off to war, while she looked after her baby and worked on a bomber assembly line. When her husband came back they benefited from the GI bill, they moved west and eventually ended up in Hawaii.
She was somebody who was a very humble person, a very plainspoken person. She is one of those quiet heroes we have all across America, who are not famous, their names are not in the newspapers, but each and every day they work hard. They look after their families. They sacrifice for their children, and their grandchildren. They aren’t seeking the limelight. All they try to do is do the right thing. And in this crowd, there are a lot of quiet heroes like that, people like that, mothers and fathers and grandparents who have worked hard and sacrificed all their lives and the satisfaction that they get is in seeing their children or maybe their grandchildren or their great-grandchildren live a better life than they did. That is what America is about. That is what we are fighting for.
Time will tell if Sen. Barack Obama becomes president of the United States of America. If he does become our president, I think the nation will be much richer for his presence in the White House. It will be yet another example than anyone can truly become anything in the greatest country our world has ever known. Sen. Obama, clearly, is the right man for the job. Sen. John McCain is a good man who has served his country well, but the United States of America needs new and fresh leadership. Our nation needs someone who will not only build us from the ground up in the United States, but will also go worldwide to build a coalition of partnering nations working together to stamp out evil. We’ve seen that the go-it-alone approach can have horrific results. It’s time for a coalition builder to bring our nation and our world together. Today and tonight, the world is watching. What will they see when they look through our national and international media? Will they see the greatest country in the world hungry to reach out to other nations of our planet to bring us together? Or, will they see a nation that still thinks might is right and that we can go it alone if everyone else is not willing to follow our direction. We need new leadership. We need Barack Obama as president of the United States of America.
Huffington Post:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/03/obama-on-grandmother-and_n_140698.html
Sandy Gholston