I think I sense an ass kicking here. What do you think?

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- General Wesley K. Clark, U.S. Army (Ret.), will join Karl Rove for this month's UB Distinguished Speakers Series (DSS) election debate. The program is scheduled for 8 p.m. Sept. 26 in Alumni Arena on UB's North (Amherst) Campus.
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At UB, he will be sharing the stage with Rove, former White House Deputy chief of staff and senior advisor to President George W. Bush. Clark will join the Distinguished Speaker Series program in the place of former Senator John Edwards, who yesterday cancelled all public appearances through the November election.

Tickets already distributed for "Rove-Edwards" will be honored and there is no need for ticket holders to exchange them. Additional tickets for the Rove-Clark lecture are now available at the UB Alumni Arena Ticket office, all Tops outlets or online at Tickets.com.

For more information mand to read the rest, please go here:
http://www.buffalo.edu/news/9620

If you find faults with our country, make it a better one. If you're disappointed with the mistakes of government, join its ranks and work to correct them. Enlist in our Armed Forces. Become a teacher. Enter the ministry. Run for public office. Feed a hungry child. Teach an illiterate adult to read. Comfort the afflicted. Defend the rights of the oppressed. Our country will be the better, and you will be the happier. Because nothing brings greater happiness in life than to serve a cause greater than yourself.
--John McCain, Convention speech

On the other hand, you have a resume from a gifted man with an Ivy League education. He worked as a community organizer. What? He worked -- I said -- I said, OK, OK, maybe this is the first problem on the resume. He worked as a community organizer.
--Rudy Giuliani, Convention speech

I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a community organizer, except that you have actual responsibilities.
--Sarah Palin, Convention speech

Good morning everyone!

A few days ago I rode my first century.  A century is a 100 mile ride, though I actually clocked in at 101 miles.  I went out west for quite awhile, going through some farm country and cleared my head.  It takes a lot, I mean a lot (!), of effort and stamina to do this for the first time.  I had a lot of time to think, as I was out for over eight hours (it'll be less the next time!).

There may not have been a lot of talk about poverty and the economy in the coverage of the national political conventions during the past two weeks -- but you can bet there will be a lot of talk about it today at a national convention of community organizers and activists taking place in Los Angeles, Chicago and Birmingham, AL.

Follow me over the fold for the story of how and why more than 16,000 people from across America are coming together to ratify a bottom-up anti-poverty platform that has been more than a year in the making.

Palin's Church Promoting Conversion of Gays to Heterosexuals

Gov. Sarah Palin's church is promoting a conference that promises to convert gays into heterosexuals through the power of prayer.

"You'll be encouraged by the power of God's love and His desire to transform the lives of those impacted by homosexuality," according to the insert in the bulletin of the Wasilla Bible Church, where Palin has prayed for about six years.

What biased, left wing media source is reporting that?  Fox News of course.  

There are reasons why Palin's church bothers me more than Obama's.  Obama, while he does seem to believe in Jesus, joined his church because he was amazed at the good work he could do by being a member of that community.  Palin joined hers because she believed in it.  Obama has denounced the controversial messages of his church.  Palin hasn't said one word either way.   Obama doesn't bring up the themes of his church at all.  Palin speaks in the language of hers and makes anti-abortion legislation her most important issue.   Some of you might want to add that  I like Obama and hate Palin, and I can't deny that bias, but the reason I dislike Palin so much is because of this.  

There's a reason they're keeping Palin off the trail.  Their approach is to lay low and hope that only the right people hear about her beliefs.  If she can't be asked about them, she doesn't have to either defend them (and lose moderates) or denounce them (and lose her supporters).  It's the Internet age though and I believe the truth will get out.

I am back from vacation and back into the political arena. Next week I hope my friend, Devin Cohen, succeeds getting elected as a civil court judge in Brooklyn. And I hope another friend, Steve Harrison, gets the nomination for Congress in the NY-13 district. I hope any readers in those districts can help out! As the remnants of Gustav bear down on NYC and Hanna and Ike approach the US, I hope everyone is staying dry and safe.

Notice how Sarah Palin, not John McCain, was the big story of the week from the Repub Convention? I am so pleased that we are finally at a point in history where even the Repubs are willing to nominate a woman to VP, more than 2 decades after the Dems did. And I am pleased to live at a time when America will finally get either a woman VP or a black president. That is very real progress. But...

Well, IMO, we are almost at the moment when the die is cast.

There are probably a group of Independents who haven't made up their minds, but after both conventions, non-stop media coverage, one of the longest primaries in history, if you haven't made up your mind, what is that last bit of information you need?

Crossposted from MY LEFT WING

His first comment:

How can Obama juggle being president and a Black Man?

Intersted (sic) in hearing comments on this issue!

I mean really how can a black man handle being president?

We all know that it would be IMPOSSIBLE for a mom to be VP...right?

A My Left Wing regular responds:

what do you think
the problems would be that need juggling? What is it about being a Black man that you think conflicts with being president? Is there some job or policy about which Obama will have to say, "You know, Joe, I'm a Black man, so i can't do this one.  You'll have to take it?"

Give us a guideline by outline the problem as you see it for us.  Please.

To which I respond, with my usual irrepressible aplomb:

That giant swinging cock will get in the way, of course.

Everybody knows that.

And the possibly syphilitic troll comes back, using those tactics they probably teach in Seminars for Conservatives Who Blog:

Giant swinging cock

Well it might be more pleasing to the interns!! But see that's a positive...this thread is here to explore the negatives of being a black man and trying to juggle responsibilities.

Could it that black men are inferior to the rest of the population? You know similarly to being a women and having children...women can't multitask and juggle responsibility like a white man can..as this has been pointed out so very well in the media since Sara Palin has come on the scene.

Now... here's my response to THAT...