Conservatives in love with a crazy Harlem pastor

A lot of you guys keep sending me emails asking, "Who is this crazy pastor from New York who is dogging Obama and supporting Hillary?"

His name is James Manning, and he's the pastor of Atlah Ministries. Apparently he doesn't believe Harlem should be called Harlem, so he's decided to change the name.

A lot of the conservative talkers have had him on their shows, and they are loving them some James Manning. Basically, he's the latest minstrel show/flavor of the month. I read a story that suggested that WABC Radio in New York plays his anti-Obama rants over and over.

I even called him and had him on my radio show to understand what his problem is, and for an hour he was all over the place, calling Obama every name under the sun. This was early on. He's gotten worse since we talked.

Let me simply explain what is going on here. James Manning is a nobody. He has a ministry that no one knows about. He has no significant theological standing. But he knows how to use YouTube. And what is he doing is using technology to spread his hate, and then get picked up by radio shows and TV shows across the land.

Everybody wants their 15 minutes of fame, and by dogging Obama, he's getting his.

We've seen this game before. OK, fine. That's how he wants to be known. He loves to talk about the breast size of Obama girl; says Obama pimps white women; and other trash.

This is not about news. It's not about substance. It's simply about a guy who otherwise would NEVER get on TV all of a sudden getting on TV.

Pure and simple.

If you want to view him in all his glory, go to YouTube and check him out. I won't sully the reputation of this website with his nonsense.

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[HUGgy bear, GOD's Leading Lady]

What 'TIME' is it?

The 'TIME' has come for "POLITICS" and "RELIGION" to go into THE GUTTER.

PRAISE Be To The ALMIGHTY GOD!

[Patrice E. Oakland, CA]

I have seen some of his sick sermons about Obama. He is nothing more than a house negro with a loud mouth and nothing meaningful to say. This is the guy that called his mother a "Whore" and his father was the "Devil that created the "Anti-Christ", and all of that other mess.

Now, what James Manning is speaking is actual hate....yet the conservatives are singing his praises. I don't pay any attention to him or any of these other people. I pray for Obama and his supporters everyday. I believe that the father ill protect him from of the demons that are attacking him

[NPC from Columbia SC]

He might be the Pastor that Morning Joe brought on after Barack's concilatory speech addressing Rev Wright's retired minster. I don't know because I turned off Morning Joe during his negative gloating of the speech (after firing off a truthful email to Joe ) and haven't watched Morning Joe since.

[Barbara]

Patrice,
I have stopped watching Morning Joe, too. Can't take anymore of the Obama-bashing that comes out of Joe Scarborough's mouth. It's even worse when Pat Buchanan is on the show. I have also sent e-mails to MSNBC to express my concerns about Pat Buchanan's racist remarks on their shows, especially when he told a fellow guest (an African-American female) to "shut up" on Live with Dan Abrams. Now, as for this Pastor, I haven't seen him, yet. Evidently, there is NO reason for me to even want to hear him. Thanks, Roland for telling us about this "character."

[Leila]

I've received lots of emails and texts about Fox News last night.

I hope you don't think Hannity was actually defending Barack! Fox News featuring the lunatic, Rev. Manning, is just a precursor to more attacks on Reverend Wright and the Black Church as a whole.

Hannity is making mockery of the oldest institution in Black America. They dug up the most outrageous reverend we have ever witnessed! You can youtube that jerk - Atlah Ministry of Harlem.

The sad part is, the fall from grace of Christian ministers has left the door wide open. Sellouts, prosperity preaching, buckdancing, etc...they don't believe their own hype. The Savior has been made to look as silly as those who come in his name. That's why the Church should have NEVER taken money from the Faith Based Initiatives of George Bush! That was the foothold they have always needed. Now, you don't even have sanctuary in the church. Look out for all of the dirty laundry of the Black Church on television during prime time.

This leaves me asking - will the real Jesus please stand up?

Wasn't it the Joker who said - This town needs an enema...

[Cynthia,TX]

Just pure craziness! I couldn't watch 2 minutes of it. Thanks for not letting it clog up your blog.

[rikyrah]

Roland,

thanks so much for defending Dr. Rice and her statements in The Washington Times today. I, too, thought Dr. Rice was on the money. You set Lou and them straight.

[Jody Gaddy]

There are many Black people like this James Manning. They are in every Black community and in every Black nation.

Even before Obama started his run for the presidency, I have seen many of them on TV, as leaders, as authorities on Black issues, either criticizing Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson or other Black people. While they hate themselves, they perpetuate hate and racism against us, thereby helping in keeping many down and in destroying many Black communities.

There one particular guy they love on the Fox News. He recently wrote a book titled "The Stupid Black Man". Like the rest of the self-haters, this guy has no original ideas and no thoughtful contribution to any issue. He simply repeats his hate for Black people and his audience (his masters) bring him back over and over again.

ALL the self-haters are exactly like this James Manning - they are BRAINLESS hustlers, pimps, thugs, and murderers, who believe that the only way to get notriety or to make money is to show their hate of themselves. I will post many articles on this topic to show how deep and how diverse this particular problem is in every Black community in every part of the world.

[Jody Gaddy]

By now most of you know what happened between Obama and the Clintons.
Some (not all) of you probably believed John Lewis when he was selling us for a piece of silver.

We all have seen the pattern of the racist behaviors of the Clintons. Read thru this article carefully and reflect on the words of Rep. John Lewis. Notice how he uses his clout, association with MLK and Presidents to justify his self-hate:

Rev. Joseph Lowery vs. Rep. John Lewis on the Jim Lehrer Hour
By: BWP NewsWire
Jan. 17, 2008

JIM LEHRER: And suddenly the Democrats have a racial argument. Judy Woodruff has our story.

JUDY WOODRUFF: For most of the presidential campaign so far, the issue of race has stayed in the background. Indeed, when Senator Obama has brought up his own race, it's been in telling his life story. And he's invoked the civil rights movement in the context of his emphasis on hope in American politics.

SEN. BARACK OBAMA (D), Illinois: Is JFK looking up at the moon and saying, "False hope, too far, reality check, can't do it"? Dr. King standing on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, looking out over that magnificent crowd, the reflecting pool, the Washington Monument, "Sorry, guys, false hope, the dream will die, it can't be done"?

False hope? We don't need leaders to tell us what we can't do; we need those who can inspire us to do.

JUDY WOODRUFF: But Senator Clinton now stands accused of injecting race into the campaign, highlighted by her comment last Monday to Fox News.

SEN. HILLARY CLINTON (D), New York: Dr. King's dream began to be realized when President Lyndon Johnson passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

JUDY WOODRUFF: Clinton added, "The power of the dream became a reality in people's lives because we had a president who said we're going to do it and actually got it accomplished."

Some prominent African-Americans seized on those words, saying she had minimized the role of Martin Luther King, Jr., in effecting change during the civil rights era.

Appearing yesterday on NBC, Clinton pushed back.

SEN. HILLARY CLINTON: Dr. King had been on the front lines. He had been leading a movement. Does he deserve the lion's share of the credit for moving our country and moving our political process? Yes, he does.

But he also had partners who were in the political system. And I think it is such an unfair and unwarranted attempt to, you know, misinterpret and mischaracterize what I've said.

JUDY WOODRUFF: Clinton accused the Obama campaign of spinning her words and playing politics.

Senator Obama responded in a conference call to reporters, saying, "Senator Clinton made an unfortunate remark, an ill-advised remark, about King and Lyndon Johnson. I didn't make the statement. I haven't remarked on it. And she, I think, offended some folks who felt that somehow diminished King's role in bringing about the Civil Rights Act."

"She is free to explain that, but the notion that somehow this is our doing is ludicrous."

Later in the day, Clinton campaigned in South Carolina with Robert Johnson, the founder of Black Entertainment Television. He came to her defense with a swipe at Obama.

ROBERT JOHNSON, Founder, Black Entertainment Television: I am frankly insulted that the Obama campaign would imply that we are so stupid that we would think Hillary and Bill Clinton, who have been deeply and emotionally involved in black issues... when Barack Obama was doing something in the neighborhood that I won't say what he was doing, but he said it in his book.

JUDY WOODRUFF: Back came the Obama camp, arguing that was a thinly veiled reference to their candidate's admitted drug use years ago.

The question of race is coming to the fore with just two weeks to go before the Democratic primary in South Carolina, where fully half the votes are expected to be cast by African-Americans.

We take a closer look at the role of race in this presidential campaign with two veterans of the civil rights movement. Congressman John Lewis of Georgia led the 1965 voting rights march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama. He has endorsed Hillary Clinton for president.

And the Reverend Joseph Lowery, co-founder, along with Dr. King, and president emeritus of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. He has endorsed Barack Obama.

Gentlemen, thank you both for being with us. Clinton attacked over MLK remarks JUDY WOODRUFF: Reverend Lowery, to you first. The comment that Senator Clinton made last Monday that has gotten so much attention, some are saying this was what started it all, when she in essence said that Dr. King's work wouldn't have been realized if it hadn't been for President Lyndon Johnson. How did you interpret what she said?

REV. JOSEPH LOWERY, Co-Founder, Southern Christian Leadership Conference: Well, I didn't hear her make the statement from the beginning, but I can understand how some people may have felt that it implicitly diminished the role of Dr. King.

If Mrs. Clinton says that's not what she meant, then I'm willing to take her word for it.

It was divisive, unfortunately. We have to avoid that as best we can and stay on the issues. I think the American people want to hear us talk about the critical issues that face us as a nation in the future.

JUDY WOODRUFF: Representative Lewis, how did you interpret? And you just heard Reverend Lowery say he can see how some people felt that that diminished Dr. King's role.

REP. JOHN LEWIS (D), Georgia: Judy, I knew Martin Luther King, Jr. I marched with him. I worked with him. He played a major role in inspiring people, giving people hope.

I also knew Lyndon Johnson. I was there with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., on March 15, 1965, when we watched Lyndon Johnson deliver his speech in response to what was happening in Selma, when he said, "And we shall overcome."

I looked at Dr. King. He looked at me, and tears came down his eyes. And he said, "We will get the civil rights bill, the voting rights bill passed. We will march from Selma to Montgomery."

I think there's been a deliberate, systematic attempt on the part of some people in the Obama camp to really fan the flame of race and really try to distort what Senator Clinton said. I understand and I think most right-thinking people understood what she said.

Martin Luther King, Jr., created the climate, created the environment, but it took a Lyndon Johnson to get the legislation through the Congress.

No one is trying to say Dr. King did little. He did a great deal. He is not crying out from his grave in Atlanta saying, "Defend me." His legacy doesn't need any defense.

JUDY WOODRUFF: Reverend Lowery, what about -- there seems to be a fundamental, at least a difference of opinion here on what the role of Dr. King was, at least as it's been referenced by Senator Clinton.

You're saying you can see how some people would have seen this as diminishing his role, and Representative Lewis is saying no.

REV. JOSEPH LOWERY: Well, I don't think there's any need to defend Martin Luther King. I don't hear anybody say that his role was diminished. I think some people may have read that, but it wasn't the Obama camp, as I understand it, that raised the issue.

It was media. The media saw something in the statement that Mrs. Clinton denies was there.

I'm willing to take Mrs. Clinton's word. And I chastise those in the media who raised it from that perspective.

We don't need that. We don't need that. We've got candidates who are good candidates.

I think all of them have to avoid saying what's divisive. That's what I like about Obama. He is trying to heal and bring us together. And I think we all ought to avoid anything that divides us. In the end, we all want to be together and change the direction of this country.

REP. JOHN LEWIS: Let me say, Judy, President Clinton and Senator Clinton have a long record of working to bring people together. Long before President Clinton ever dreamed of running for president, long before Senator Clinton ever dreamed of running for president, they have a history, a very, very long history.

And no right-thinking, informed American would ever believe that President Clinton or Mrs. Clinton would do anything to use the race card. Obama camp accused of exploitation JUDY WOODRUFF: Well, Reverend Lowery, what about Representative Lewis' comment that he thinks that there's a systematic attempt on the part of the Obama campaign to make something more out of this?

REV. JOSEPH LOWERY: Well, I think that's absolutely false. I never heard the Obama people respond until media had done it. A columnist in the New York Times and others on radio and television and in the print media all raised the issue, was this below the belt?

If Mrs. Clinton says that was not her intention, I accept that. And I don't think John or anybody else ought to try to blame the Obama campaign for raising the issue. They did not.

And I think all of us ought to urge all the candidates to stay on the issues, the economy, the war, justice, fairness in our country. Those are the issues.

And I don't think we need to defend -- I certainly don't need to defend Martin Luther King. And I don't think John needs to defend the Clintons.

What we need to do is concentrate on the issues facing the American people and keep the campaign where it ought to be: around the issues.

REP. JOHN LEWIS: Well, I agree with you very much, Joe, that we should stay on the issues. And that's what Mrs. Clinton has attempted to do.

She only referred to the issue of Dr. King when Obama, Mr. Obama, raised the question of leadership in his speeches. Mrs. Clinton was saying we need more than rhetoric. We need more than speeches.

Dr. King gave some great speeches. He took to the street, and there was action, but he needed a president to pass the legislation.

JUDY WOODRUFF: You're saying this came out of the language that Senator Obama is using on the campaign trail?

REP. JOHN LEWIS: Well, I think it did come out of the language that Mr. Obama is using, but the Obama camp is also doing something else. They're sending out memos to members of the media, trying to suggest that the Clintons are playing the race card.

JUDY WOODRUFF: Reverend Lowery?

REV. JOSEPH LOWERY: Well, when you use words like "fairy tale," when you try to -- when you get into comparative structure and situations, you open yourself to all kinds of implications.

And I think that's why I think it's wise for candidates to stay on the issues. As I said before, if Mrs. Clinton denies, I don't think, John, you need to spend your time defending Mrs. Clinton.

REP. JOHN LEWIS: I'm just trying to set the record straight. Joe, I must tell you...

REV. JOSEPH LOWERY: If she said that's not what she meant, good. I take it from there. Let's move from there and deal with the economy, the war, health care, the issues that people care about.

REP. JOHN LEWIS: That's what Mrs. Clinton has been all about and her campaign has been all about: the issues, health care, education.

REV. JOSEPH LOWERY: But Mrs. Clinton -- let her say that. Let me hear her say that's not what she meant. When she does, I'll accept it. Clinton supporter assails Obama JUDY WOODRUFF: And, Representative Lewis, these other comments, the Bill Shaheen comment, the co-chair of New Hampshire stepped down after he referred to the drug use in Senator Obama's past.

Just yesterday, Bob Johnson, founder of Black Entertainment Television, appeared to again bring that up. He said "what he was doing in the neighborhood." We just played a clip of that. How do you explain those comments?

REP. JOHN LEWIS: Judy, I think you really have to ask Mr. Johnson. I don't know what he had in mind when he made the reference to what is in his book. He could have been talking about the community organizing that Mr. Obama had been involved in on the south side of Chicago. It's very hard and difficult for me to read his mind.

REV. JOSEPH LOWERY: But it's very difficult, also, to listen to the demeaning tone that Bob used and think he was talking about something as positive as community organizing. Obviously, he was referring to something that he considered less than right.

And I regret that very much, because again that's a distraction we don't need. We need to talk about what these candidates plan to do about the critical problems facing the American people. And we need to do everything we can to heal wounds and to bring people together. That's what I like about Obama's campaign.

REP. JOHN LEWIS: Well, I'll tell you, President Clinton and Senator Hillary Clinton for many, many years have been all about bringing people together and not dividing people according to race, agenda or class. Worries of polarization, division JUDY WOODRUFF: How sharp are the divisions in the black community over this, Representative Lewis?

REP. JOHN LEWIS: Well, I think there are strong feelings, because people are divided over whether to support Senator Clinton or to support Senator Obama. I happen to believe, at this juncture in our history, that we need someone with the experience to lead and prepare to lead.

JUDY WOODRUFF: But how confident are you, Reverend Lowery, that it is going to come to an end, given the fact that the two of you, even though you both say you want it to end, you do have a different interpretation of what's been going on here?

REV. JOSEPH LOWERY: Well, that's healthy for America. And I don't have any problem differing with John. We've differed before.

And just as I don't feel a need to defend Barack Obama, I think he's done very well. And I think Mrs. Clinton can speak for herself.

I don't know what the devil Bob was talking about, but I don't think there's as much division as we think. I think the division came -- it was people who have not taken a side, people like Clyburn in South Carolina and Donna Brazile, people who haven't taken a side, who raise the issue of the inference of the remarks that came from the Clintons, not the Obama campaign.

REP. JOHN LEWIS: I think some people like Donna Brazile or even maybe Clyburn or some others in the African-American community are trying to use this as a cover to come out and endorse a particular candidate.

JUDY WOODRUFF: You're suggesting that Senator Obama...

REV. JOSEPH LOWERY: Well, I think you ought to let those people themselves, John.

REP. JOHN LEWIS: Well, you raised it, Joe. I did not.

REV. JOSEPH LOWERY: I raise it because it's in the news. You said the Obama campaign raised the issue; I'm telling you they did not. It was media people and other people who have been relatively impartial.

REP. JOHN LEWIS: Well, you have tried...

REV. JOSEPH LOWERY: And I simply said I can understand how they could read that in those statements, "fairy tale," "false hope"...

REP. JOHN LEWIS: Fairy tale has nothing...

REV. JOSEPH LOWERY: ... Johnson. That's not a positive approach. Let's stay positive. Let's stay on the issues and serve America.

REP. JOHN LEWIS: President Clinton referenced the fairy tale. It had nothing, not one word to do with the issue of race. It was all about the Iraq war.

REV. JOSEPH LOWERY: Listen, John, I don't know anybody who is more articulate than Bill Clinton and nobody who can choose words wisely. So I know how Bill chooses words, and I think he's able to do it.

And I don't want to defend him. And, you know, if he says he didn't mean anything negative, I take his word for it.

But I just don't want you jumping on the Obama campaign saying they raised the issue. Talk to people who were neutral, who've been for neither side, like Congressman Clyburn, like Donna Brazile.

And I don't think they're wicked people who are trying to cover the issue with race. I think they're both very objective, very useful citizens who have this country's good at heart. They want to serve the common good.

And I believe we can serve the common good by staying away from remarks that can be taken out of context. Let's stay on the issues.

JUDY WOODRUFF: From both of you, it's coming through loud and clear. And we thank you very much for joining us.

REP. JOHN LEWIS: Thank you.

JUDY WOODRUFF: Reverend Lowery, Representative Lewis, thank you very much.

REP. JOHN LEWIS: Thank you very much.

REV. JOSEPH LOWERY: Thank you, John.

REP. JOHN LEWIS: Thank you, Joe.

Source:
http://www.blackwebportal.com/wire/DA.cfm?ArticleID=3367

[Jody Gaddy]

Here is Rep Charles B. Rangel. He was quick to dump Obama and to defend the Clintons even though Obama did noting wrong. Before this incident, I looked at Rangel as one of those who wish us well and fight for our rights.

Even if the Clintons promised a lucrative position to Rangel, he could have informed the Clintons to tone down the rhetoric on race. But NO! To Range, Obama was at fault. Obama was stupid. Obama was responsible for playing the race card. This self-hate and dishonesty gave the Clintons the guts to continue to tear down Obama. This ultimately led them to air Wright’s sermon on Fox News. Can you see how dangerous some of these Black folks can be even they profess to work for our interests?

NY1 Release on Rangel Interview
By Mark Halperin
March 28, 2008

In a candid interview on “Inside City Hall,” Rep. Charles Rangel calls Barack Obama “absolutely stupid” for attacking Hillary Clinton for remarks she made about President Lyndon Johnson and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

“How race got into this thing is because Obama said ‘race,’” Rangel tells Political Anchor Dominic Carter. “But there is nothing that Hillary Clinton has said that baffles me. I would challenge anybody to belittle the contribution that Dr. King has made to the world, to our country, to civil rights, and the Voting Rights Act. But for him to suggest that Dr. King could have signed that act is absolutely stupid. It’s absolutely dumb to infer that Doctor King, alone, passed the legislation and signed it into law.”

Rangel was responding to remarks Obama made Sunday while campaigning in Las Vegas: “I am baffled by that statement by the Senator. She made an ill-advised statement about Dr. King, suggesting that Lyndon Johnson had more to do with the Civil Rights Act. For them to somehow suggest that we’re interjecting race as a consequence of a statement she made, that we haven’t commented on, is pretty hard to figure out.”

(Campaigning in New Hampshire last Monday, Clinton said: “Dr. Martin Luther king led a movement. He was gassed. He was beaten, and then he worked with President Johnson to get the civil laws passed. The dream couldn’t be realized until finally it was legally permissible.”)

Rangel, a prominent Clinton supporter, also spoke about Obama’s admission of past drug use in his memoirs: “I assume that the book was not written for political purposes. It was honest..It was a big mistake for him to have done it [used drugs.] For him to be honest enough to write about it, I guess he thought it might sell books.”

Source:
http://thepage.time.com/ny1-release-on-rangel-interview/

Rangel: Obama remarks 'absolutely stupid'
by Christi Parsons

Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton declared a truce in their recent war of words last night, but an important Clinton ally was still actively engaged last night.

Rep. Charles B. Rangel said in a CNN interview that Obama was "absolutely stupid" in his part of the exchange over the relative influence of Rev. Martin Luther King and President Lyndon Johnson in passing civil rights legislation.

"How race got into this thing is because Obama said 'race,'" Rangel said in an interview. "But there is nothing that Hillary Clinton has said that baffles me."

Clinton and Obama yesterday were trying to de-escalate the conflict, which began when Clinton said that King needed the help of a strong president, Lyndon Johnson, to get legislation passed. Some leaders complained she was giving Johnson more credit for civil rights progress than King, and Obama said her remarks were baffling.

Even as the two candidates were calling for an end to the back-and-forth yesterday, Rangel was criticizing Obama publicly.

"I would challenge anybody to belittle the contribution that Dr. King has made to the world, to our country, to civil rights, and the Voting Rights Act,” said Rangel. “But for him to suggest that Dr. King could have signed that act is absolutely stupid. It's absolutely dumb to infer that Doctor King, alone, passed the legislation and signed it into law."

Source:
http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/politics/blog/2008/01/

[candygirl, Illinois]

Obama was featured on "The View" today and he did an excellent job. He looks more and more presidential every time I see him.

[candygirl, Illinois]

Roland,

I don't have anything to say about this Reverend. Not all African Americans are friends and not all Whites are foes. We have to judge people as individuals, so it doesn't bother me that this Black reverend has decided to bash Obama. He doesn't represent me and I think he is just making himself look stupid.

As African Americans, we have to stop thinking that every other person that is Black is a friend. The truth is there are alot of sell-outs out there. We are not all the same, and we are not all collective having the same ideas and thoughts.

We can't take this stuff so personally. Clarence Thomas has sold us out every chance he has gotten. Some Black people are jealous and they want there 20 seconds of fame at any cost. Don't let this guy bother you.

[Jay]

I read Pat Buchanan's blog yesterday and it is filled with the most hate and racist comments I've ever heard from someone on a national television show. Its even worse than what Don Imus said. He even said that Obama's speech is like a old shakedown that black hustlers run.

Roland - I know you probably have read this by now but if not, here it is:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/03/24/pat-buchanan-compares-oba_n_93075.html

If you haven't read this, please check it out and blast him on CNN. CNN should be eager to bring down a racist pig on a competing network. This man gives commentary day in and day out that is labeled as "objective" about the 2008 elections. How can someone like this be "objective" about anything?

No wonder American people have the facts wrong when they count on stations like MSNBC to give them honest journalistic news.

What ever happened to journalist giving it to you straight and letting you decide what to do with it? Those days need to return.

[Jody Gaddy]

Jay wrote:

"No wonder American people have the facts wrong when they count on stations like MSNBC to give them honest journalistic news.What ever happened to journalist giving it to you straight and letting you decide what to do with it? Those days need to return."

The above is why I will keep repeating that Black-owned TV networks are needed. There should be more than three of them opened at the same time. They can compete successfully with CNN, FOX, and MSNBC. The owners will make profits while challenging the current networks to be better.

I am telling you that this can be done and it will help to make things better for this nation. Remember that the same thing happened in basketball, baseball, football, military, and in other fields.

[Jay]

Jody Gaddy wrote:

"The above is why I will keep repeating that Black-owned TV networks are needed. There should be more than three of them opened at the same time. They can compete successfully with CNN, FOX, and MSNBC. The owners will make profits while challenging the current networks to be better.

I am telling you that this can be done and it will help to make things better for this nation. Remember that the same thing happened in basketball, baseball, football, military, and in other fields."

You are so right. I'm sure that if a black network could be so successful that their owner could sell it for billions off of booty shaking, a network could do the same putting out real news.

What’s even more interesting to me is that the guy that made a billion off of us is now a Clinton supporter and sending threatening letters to the Speaker of the House on Clinton's behalf. It’s so funny to me that Bob Johnson was silent on BET's portrayal of black women, but as soon as it looks like Hillary might be out of the race he's sending letters.

Wish he fought like that for us.....

[Jay]

I forgot to add the link so that you can see who the donors are that are threatening not to back the DNC if Speaker Pelosi keeps it up. Keep what up? She has said from the beginning that the person with the most delegates should win the nomination. Even though this benefits Obama now, she said that before he racked up all the states and now the rich donors are threatening not to back the DNC if she doesn't come out and say that the superdelegates should vote for who they want instead of the person that has won the most delegates, popular vote and states. She told them hell naw and shes sticking to what she said in the first place. (Good for you Speaker Pelosi!)

http://wonkette.com/372588/pro+hillary-fat-cat-democratic-donors-threatening-nancy-pelosi

Another thing that I found interesting is a letter that Rev. Wright wrote to the New York Times. It shows a glispe of this mans heart and what kind of man he really is. Wonder why we haven't heard anything about this from the main stream media. Hmm....

In March 2007, New York Times reporter Jodi Kantor published a brief story about how Rev. Jeremiah Wright had been uninvited from delivering the invocation before Barack Obama's official presidential announcement.

Wright responded by writing the following letter:

March 11, 2007

Jodi Kantor
The New York Times
9 West 43rd Street
New York,
New York 10036-3959

Dear Jodi:

Thank you for engaging in one of the biggest misrepresentations of the truth I have ever seen in sixty-five years. You sat and shared with me for two hours. You told me you were doing a "Spiritual Biography" of Senator Barack Obama. For two hours, I shared with you how I thought he was the most principled individual in public service that I have ever met.

For two hours, I talked with you about how idealistic he was. For two hours I shared with you what a genuine human being he was. I told you how incredible he was as a man who was an African American in public service, and as a man who refused to announce his candidacy for President until Carol Moseley Braun indicated one way or the other whether or not she was going to run.

I told you what a dreamer he was. I told you how idealistic he was. We talked about how refreshing it would be for someone who knew about Islam to be in the Oval Office. Your own question to me was, Didn't I think it would be incredible to have somebody in the Oval Office who not only knew about Muslims, but had living and breathing Muslims in his own family? I told you how important it would be to have a man who not only knew the difference between Shiites and Sunnis prior to 9/11/01 in the Oval Office, but also how important it would be to have a man who knew what Sufism was; a man who understood that there were different branches of Judaism; a man who knew the difference between Hasidic Jews, Orthodox Jews, Conservative Jews and Reformed Jews; and a man who was a devout Christian, but who did not prejudge others because they believed something other than what he believed.

I talked about how rare it was to meet a man whose Christianity was not just "in word only." I talked about Barack being a person who lived his faith and did not argue his faith. I talked about Barack as a person who did not draw doctrinal lines in the sand nor consign other people to hell if they did not believe what he believed.

Out of a two-hour conversation with you about Barack's spiritual journey and my protesting to you that I had not shaped him nor formed him, that I had not mentored him or made him the man he was, even though I would love to take that credit, you did not print any of that. When I told you, using one of your own Jewish stories from the Hebrew Bible as to how God asked Moses, "What is that in your hand?," that Barack was like that when I met him. Barack had it "in his hand." Barack had in his grasp a uniqueness in terms of his spiritual development that one is hard put to find in the 21st century, and you did not print that.

As I was just starting to say a moment ago, Jodi, out of two hours of conversation I spent approximately five to seven minutes on Barack's taking advice from one of his trusted campaign people and deeming it unwise to make me the media spotlight on the day of his announcing his candidacy for the Presidency and what do you print? You and your editor proceeded to present to the general public a snippet, a printed "sound byte" and a titillating and tantalizing article about his disinviting me to the Invocation on the day of his announcing his candidacy.

I have never been exposed to that kind of duplicitous behavior before, and I want to write you publicly to let you know that I do not approve of it and will not be party to any further smearing of the name, the reputation, the integrity or the character of perhaps this nation's first (and maybe even only) honest candidate offering himself for public service as the person to occupy the Oval Office.

Your editor is a sensationalist. For you to even mention that makes me doubt your credibility, and I am looking forward to see how you are going to butcher what else I had to say concerning Senator Obama's "Spiritual Biography." Our Conference Minister, the Reverend Jane Fisler Hoffman, a white woman who belongs to a Black church that Hannity of "Hannity and Colmes" is trying to trash, set the record straight for you in terms of who I am and in terms of who we are as the church to which Barack has belonged for over twenty years.

The president of our denomination, the Reverend John Thomas, has offered to try to help you clarify in your confused head what Trinity Church is even though you spent the entire weekend with us setting me up to interview me for what turned out to be a smear of the Senator; and yet The New York Times continues to roll on making the truth what it wants to be the truth. I do not remember reading in your article that Barack had apologized for listening to that bad information and bad advice. Did I miss it? Or did your editor cut it out? Either way, you do not have to worry about hearing anything else from me for you to edit or "spin" because you are more interested in journalism than in truth.

Forgive me for having a momentary lapse. I forgot that The New York Times was leading the bandwagon in trumpeting why it is we should have gone into an illegal war. The New York Times became George Bush and the Republican Party's national "blog." The New York Times played a role in the outing of Valerie Plame. I do not know why I thought The New York Times had actually repented and was going to exhibit a different kind of behavior.

Maybe it was my faith in the Jewish Holy Day of Roshashana. Maybe it was my being caught up in the euphoria of the Season of Lent; but whatever it is or was, I was sadly mistaken. There is no repentance on the part of The New York Times. There is no integrity when it comes to The Times. You should do well with that paper, Jodi. You looked me straight in my face and told me a lie!

Sincerely and respectfully yours,

Reverend Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr., Senior Pastor
Trinity United Church of Christ

[columbia4obama]

Thanks Jay.. This is the first time that I have read a long post since I've been on the blogs and I really do appreciate the letter that you provided from Rev. Wright because I had never heard his voice except the negative soundbits. However, I really felt that he had to be someone very special, spiritual, and powerful because some of the conservative and liberal media want to paint him with a negative brush. I'll have to add his letter to my Barack scrapbook. (Just a little something for my generations to have and to hold since another Barack might not come along again in my 56 years)

[columbia4obama]

About Pat Buchanan -- 1. I had watched him (03/21/08) on David Gregory's new MSNBC show and his take for the day was that "Barack would be ghettorized and go back to his people" and 2. When I heard him on MSNBC Dan Abrams show tell the AA Political Strategist to "shut up," I just knew that the community and advertisers would rise up. I thought it would be another "Don Imus" moment-- Oh Well! Of course, the Barack hate spews from Morning Joe's mouth everyday, now Mika is a Joe-defender-and-Barack-negative cheerleader and Little Willie Geist--I've fired off an email to them and MSNBC weeks ago and don't watch them anymore. I started back listening to TJMS and Jazz in the morning.

[columbia4obama]

Roland, Do we need to start a petition to get you on the Tuesday and Thursday TJMS for the morning commentary? Since you are on CNN (and telling it like it is), with Essence, and has a radio show, then we can all call you "Roland 365."

[krish]

roland...

Considering you recently called out Sean Hannity to debate the Rev. Wright issue, I think this would be of use to you.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdrQUauLIHU

This is a recounting( by The Young Turks Show) of the racist statements by Sean Hannity's pastor, Jesse Lee Peterson.

Seems like Hannity can dish out it, but can't take it.

[Jane]

Here is Andrew Young.
=============================

Civil Rights Icon Calls Obama Too Young
By ERRIN HAINES | December 8, 2007

ATLANTA — Civil rights icon Andrew Young says Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is too young and lacks the support network to ascend to the White House.

Source (Read all of it here):
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20071208/obama-young/

Andrew Young: Obama's Time Will Come

"I want Obama to be president," said former UN Ambassador Andrew Young, "... in 2016. It's not a matter of being inexperienced. It is a matter of being young."

Sources (Read the entire article here):
http://www.npr.org/blogs/newsandviews/2007/12/andrew_young_obamas_time_will.html

Fox News loved Andrew Young’s Insights:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,316366,00.html

[Jane]

Here is Andrew Young again. Obasanjo commited more genocides in Nigeria than Hitler committed in Germany. Andrew Young was the best friend of Obasanjo from the African American communities
====================

Q: What other African American leaders would you like to speak out on Nigeria?

Soyinka: Well, it's not up to me to decide that.... But, OK, take, for instance, someone like Andrew Young. He has occupied a position on the world stage which would make his voice terribly important and influential. And Andrew Young has been close to Nigeria. He was a friend of Obasanjo. They were quite chummy. And he has represented business interests in Nigeria when Obasanjo was in charge. I would expect someone like him to be more vocal. I mean, I really would. Jesse Jackson has also swung around now. At the beginning, he was on the other side. I remember when Babangida was in power, and Jackson was attacking the Clinton government for not having invited Babangida on a state visit, when we were trying to get rid of Babangida. But he also appears to have moderated his position. But they're not vocal enough. It's not enough to make a statement when, before, you've made far louder statements in favor of the status quo. You need something more dramatic.

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1295/is_n8_v61/ai_19622664/pg_5

[Jody Gaddy]

Hear the words of Andrew Young from one of the articles provided by Jane:

"Bill Clinton is every bit as black as Barack. He's probably gone out with more black women than Barack”

When did Bill Clinton date black women - after or before marriage to Hillary, when he was doing Monica Lewinsky? Andrew Young should explain????

Andrew Young must be one of those Black pimps that supplied Bill with Black call girls.

This is the man people refer to as an icon for civil rights. No wonder he thinks that Obama is not qualified to be president.

Compare the qualifications and skills of Obama to those of Hillary:

+ Hillary has the entire democratic machine behind her; Obama had nothing
+ She had a popular brand name; Obama was nobody
+ She owes her chief strategist $2.5 million; she owes 700 unpaid debts, nearing more than $8.7 million; Obama owes nobody or too little

Here is an article that refutes Andrew Young

NY Times: Clinton finishes February 'essentially in the red'
The Caucus blog at the New York Times says Democrat Hillary Clinton's financial report for February shows she finished the month "essentially in the red," taking into account her outstanding debts and her personal loan of $5 million to her campaign.

Clinton raised $35 million in February and finished with $33 million in cash on hand, "but $21.5 million of that is earmarked exclusively for the general election. That left her with $11.7 million for the primary," Michael Luo wrote. She owes $8.7 million in debts, on top of her loan to herself.
Rival Barack Obama raised a record $55 million in February and finished with $31.6 million in cash on hand for the primary and $7.3 million set aside for the general. "He also did a much better job paying his bills, listing just $625,000 in outstanding debts," Luo said.

http://blogs.usatoday.com/onpolitics/money_in_politics/index.html

http://news.yahoo.com/s/bloomberg/20080321/pl_bloomberg/agfn8vfmva1w

Read the comments under this link:
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/21/clintons-february-fec-filings/

[Jody Gaddy]

Here is the video of Andrew Young discouraging Obama. Watch the video if you have not seen it before. It is interesting how the mouth talks his trash with smiles all over his face.

Notice that he indirectly made death threats to Obama’s life by talking about Blacks who died or went to jail during the liberation struggles. Also note how he uses fear as a weapon to discourage Obama. This was also done by Tavis Smiley.

Who is the man sitting next to Andrew Young?

http://www.newsmakerslive.com/index.html

[AMK]

I think it is disingenuous to lump conservatives in with Manning. I'm a conservative living in Harlem - a few streets from Manning's Atlah church - and I think he's a raving loon. He's crazy. And not the fun, life-of-the-party crazy, but take-him-out-in-a-straightjacket-'cause-he-is-scary crazy!

That said, I think I can disagree with Obama on policy matters without being told that I'm the same as Manning. Manning has unfairly attacked Obama's parents, the person who created the "Obama Girl" videos (who has nothing to do with his campaign) and has called Obama all kinds of names. Hannity and Buchanan haven't done that - agree with them or not (and I know you don't), they've talked about the issues. In all fairness, I think you need to acknowledge that.

[Jody Gaddy]

Mr Jonathan (AKA SEO and AMK):

Do three things to convince some of us to join you in your Yoruba ways:

1) Define conservatism and explain your definitions with concrete examples

2) Explain how your definition of informs your policy viewpoints and how it contradicts Obama’s policy positions

3) Explain how your viewpoints on conservatism and policies agree with that of Hannity and Buchanan.

Note to Roland:
The blog CMS you use for this web site tracks IP address of posters. It can also trace Ip addresses hiding behind proxy servers. Check the IP address of Jonathan, SEO, and AMK and hold on to it. These childish comments are coming from one and the same hater.

Let’s see if he will return here to explain his half-baked, ignorant nonsense.

[BlackPeop]

I have just finished one video and one radio discussions with James Manning.
The video is on Karina. The radio show is on Obama. To avoid offending Roland, I will not post the links here.

But this man says many startling and fearful things. Everything he says happens in every Black nation in Africa with the so-called leaders doing the deeds.

Did you know this: In the last 8 years, Nigeria government took in enough revenues from crude oil to house, feed, and send every Black person to Harvard or Yale? But Black people in Nigeria have no running water, no electricity, and no drivable roads. About 95% of the population in Nigeria lived on less than $5 per month within the last 8 years. The president, Obasanjo (a Yoruba man like Jonathan), the best friend and business partner of Andrew Young, were busy squandering the revenues of Nigeria. This will prepare your mind for the words of James Manning.

On the video, he says:
God sent Katrina as a blessing to teach Blacks some lessons.

Blacks are cursed and despicable.

Black men were raping women and children instead of helping them

Black men were killing each other instead of working together to help themselves.

Black men wanted to leave women and children behind when help came.

On the radio, he says:
Obama is not a Black man, but a Whiteman

Obama is not Black enough to understand Black issues.

Obama has not done anything in his life to become the president.

Black leaders are using Obama to help themselves.

Question:
People, please tell me this: Where did things go wrong with the Black people of this world?

[Nola]

Manning is the crazy uncle we all want to hide in the basement. Another uncle that I would like to hide is Mayor Nutterm(Philly, PA.) This uncle does not see nor realize that the Clinton's have and will use African Americans to achieve their goals and objects - once they are reached they toss us out like yesterday's garbage.

[Yvonn C.]

David Manning is the same ex-con who for only last year was spewing garbage about Bush and then ranting about the Mega-Preachers until they must have threatened to sue him. He was ranting about the gentrification of Harlem and how the whites were taking away Harlem, etc. This mans rhetoric and sermons are vile and full of evilness and contempt of all people in general. I don’t see how any one follows him. Pay no attention to this man because he is only a puppet. And as far as the mainstream media goes, I can't understand how you all can watch their biased propaganda? The media is also guilty of manipulating the American people. The truth shall conquer the corporate owned media. Never trust the mass media again, they are losing their hold on the people, we are finally waking up and I'm praying next, we'll be STANDING UP!! It’s the peoples voices we want to hear, not the voices of hate and their ideas. Thank you, Roland for continuing to reveal the truth!

[Jody Gaddy]

It is very easy to dismiss the words and behavior of James Manning. This man is about 60 years old, enough to me my father. He has a PhD in philosophy. Before you get a BA in philosophy, you must pass an introductory course in logic and an advanced course in symbolic logic. This man has preached for 25 years, which means he has studied the scriptures for 25 years.

Now it is easy to discard him as a nut and psychopath, but I say NO. He could have taken money from the Clintons and still tone down his words and curses on all Black people. He could have played the self-hate game like Andrew Young, Obasanjo, Bob Johnson, Allen Keyes, John Lewis, Charles Rangel, etc, etc. Instead, he went further, calling us, our children, our mothers, our fathers, and siblings all kinds of names for being Black. But we did nothing to him. 99% of us gained nothing from Bill and Hillary when and after they were in the White House. There is something deeper here than we are willing to accept. No person can have this kind of deep-seated self-hatred without some deep-seated underlying issues.

[Jody Gaddy]

When somebody is smart and caring, it shows in her words and actions. I have always maintained enormous respect for Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas. She is always intelligent and rational.

She has supported Hillary throughout this campaign, but I have never heard any word of rancor or ill-will towards Obama from her. This is how politics should be, rather than the antics of tear and burn of the Clintons and some of our elected and unelected Black people.

It will be sad to see this intelligent woman defeated in her next election. The blame for such an outcome will go squarely to the Clintons and to the rest of the Black people who decided to introduce rancor and hatred as the only way of showing support for Hillary and Bill.

Note that if she loses her seat, it will be a great loss to her constituency because she is simply a smart lady. Also note that if Hillary and foolish Black supporters had as much grace and intelligence as this dignified Black woman, she (Hillary) could have done better in this nomination process. Hillary had to show her true colors, and her foolish Black supporters had to adopt the same ignorant mindset. The rest is history.

Sheila Jackson Lee Booed By Her Obama Supporting Constituents At Democratic Convention
March 29, 2008, 11:59PM

This can't be excellent news for Sheila Jackson Lee. At her district's convention today she was booed and interrupted continuously by the same people who have been re-electing her. Why? Her support of Hillary Clinton in a district where he received 90% of the vote. This could be bad news for her when she comes up for re-election. This has to have shaken her. At one point she said:

"What would I be if I went back on my word to an individual that I've worked with for more than a decade and sat down talked to me about her vision for
America,” said Jackson Lee.

What would she be if her constituents held her accountable for not acting in regard to their wishes? She might find out.

http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/2008/03/sheila-jackson-lee-booed-by-he.php

See the booing video here:
http://www.khou.com/topstories/stories/khou080329_tj_jacksonlee.11d275a3.html

[HUGgy bear, GOD's Leading Lady]

Beware! Using the Bible, they are saying that Christians should "RESPECT THE AUTHORITY THAT BE, and LOVE THEIR COUNTRY." Therefore African-Americans should remain subjected to WICKEDNESS; SPIRITUAL WICKEDNESS IN HIGH PLACES.

Any minister of a PROTESTANT church, denominational or "non-denominational", who is preaching this message, in order TO KEEP THE PEOPLE IN BONDAGE, must first RETURN TO THE CATHOLIC CHURCH and subject himself or herself to The AUTHORITY OF THE POPE.

After doing so, he or she can then read from the same Bible (The AUTHORIZED KING JAMES VERSION ONLY), the following passage: "Submit yourselves therefore to GOD. RESIST the devil, and he will flee from you." Also read Ecclesiastes 3:1, "To every thing there is a season, and a TIME to every purpose under the heaven." WHAT TIME IS IT???

So after SUBMITTING to GOD ALMIGHTY, one has the GOD-given right to resist (REJECT) all forms of SPIRITUAL WICKEDNESS in high places!

Put on the Whole armor of GOD ALMIGHTY, because this is just the beginning!

[HUGgy bear, GOD's Leading Lady]

In addition, they must all go back and subject themselves to the AUTHORITY of THE KING/QUEEN OF ENGLAND before they preach their message of subjection to authority, which is simply designed to keep The people of GOD ALMIGHTY in bondage.

Satan knows who the "African-Americans" are. Satan knows who the "Native Indians" are. CHRIST'S TIME has come!

[HUGgy bear, GOD's Leading Lady]

Brother Roland:

Thank you for the opportunity you have given me to communicate through your blogs (here and at rolandsmartin.com) . May The ALMIGHTY GOD bless you.

I think I am through. So please allow me to post this info here for anyone who might want to communicate with me, especially in response to my comments here.

You can email me at:
emmaloveschrist@gmail.com

Or visit my blog at:
http://letTRUTHprevailoverERROR.blogspot.com.

Be strong and be of good courage.

[NjT]

Hi Roland
Hi Everyone:

Some friends and I are embarking on a collective means to release positive energy into the negative election climate we are now facing in our country-- one which, left to its own devices, will surely get even more negative in the upcoming weeks and months.

This election season, more than ever, it seems we are on a spiritual journey as a country. As with any spiritual journey, it is an opportunity to face and fix things soulfully, to reverse the downward spiral, to change the way we see ourselves and the way the world sees us.

There is power in collective consciousness, especially when that consciousness is fueled by noble intent. So we invite you to join us and to extend this invitation within your own circle in an effort to collectively bring clarity, peace, fairness, and wisdom to our process of selecting our next national leader.

We believe that Barack Obama is the human being who can best guide us toward meeting the global challenges of this moment in history, a pivotal moment when we must decide whether to move toward healing and unifying our country and our troubled globe. If you agree, please join us in directing your positive energies to a collective Tuesday effort. Here's what we're doing:

Each Tuesday, from now through the general election on Tuesday November 4, we invite you to join us in doing one or both of the following, with the first 5 minutes being the most crucial:

1. Meditate for 5 minutes each Tuesday from 12 noon to 12:05 pm your home time-zone:

Close your eyes and sit quietly. Engage in conscious deep-breathing. Exhale-- releasing tension and fear and doubtfulness. Inhale-- claiming victory and unity and clarity and peace. Ask the Creator to guide us all in good courage. Visualize a peaceful positive outcome for November, and a path toward peace and justice and a greater human sharing for the years to follow.

2. Fast for 6 hours each Tuesday from 12 noon to 6 pm your time-zone:

In as much as your health permits it, consciously cleanse your mind, body, and spirit by refraining from all potentially toxic consumption. For these 6 hours each Tuesday: don't eat anything; don't smoke; don't watch television; don't listen to the radio; don't read email or newspapers; don't shop; discard negative thoughts should they arise; and avoid interacting at length with troublesome people. Only drink water to remain hydrated. Use this period as a time to repel and discard all the negativity and to draw strength from your own positive well of energy. Cleanse, then consciously release positive energy into the world.


And that's it. Connect for 5 minutes. Cleanse for 6 hours. It's simple. It's powerful. It's healing. Note your calendar to remind yourself to join us in coalescing around this collective positive effort over the next 7 months, beginning Tuesday April 1 at noon and continuing each Tuesday thereafter through November 4.

Yes we can heal our nation. And it begins with healing our thoughts.

~NjT

[PPJ]

Two positives always lead to a positive situation. Always! A negative and a positive lead to a negative depending on the modality. If those pushing the negative side of things are not effectively challenged by positive side of the equation, the modality of the situation does not matter because the outcome will always be negative.

What of two negatives, a situation where one side is dogged in falsehoods and wickedness, where the group is convinced that it is entitled to lord it over the other side because it believes in entitlement, it thinks that it has the right to continue be where the brainless and parasites? If this is the case, then the other side must go negative because the modality can only lead to positive outcomes. The Founding Fathers of America serves as an example here. They had to fight the British to lead to the Jim Crow democracy. Lincoln had to fight the South before the Union tended toward democracy. The Blacks had to fight to gain their chance at the table of democracy. Hitler had to be deposed before Germans could enjoy prosperity. Every generation has its Hitlers and Lincolns. This is not seeking for negative thoughts simply for the sake of fight. Rather, this is the reality of human evolution – you create your negative roadblocks with your wicked mindset; others have no choice but to respond to your negativity, until a positive situation forced out of your negative mindset.

[ed Tan]

Lincoln could have conducted meditation sections, hoping for your kind to change. The Allied Forces could have prayed to Budhha seeking for heavenly redress from Hitler’s racist and hateful rants.

According to your twisted logic, perpetuated by your twisted mindset, Dubya Bush could have conducted positive thinking sections about WMD in Iraq. He did not because of your very mindset. He cannot because of your entrenched wickedness in hate. He will never because of people like you, who believe you can come here to deceive like a snake, so that you can continue to live off the suffering you helped to create. If you get your way, Obama should quit because your ignorant mindset says so. Not this time, for the stakes are too high!

[ed Tan]

Chuck Hagel For Barack Obama? - Charlie Rose
By Connie Manes
March 29, 2008

Did you see Charlie Rose’s interview of Senator Chuck Hagel (R) last night?
He seems to be very impressed with Senator Barack Obama. When asked by Charlie if he would endorse him, Hagel first said something like, “I don’t know….I might” Rose immediately said, “Do you realize what you just said?” Hagel quickly changed his comment to include that he would want to talk to John (McCain) first, then Obama to see where they were headed and then make a decision. It was only after Rose said, “And Senator Clinton too”, that Hagel said something like, yes, if she is the nominee of course.

When Charlie Rose pressed Hagel to tell him who he thought had the best skill to ‘Bring people together’in Washington, Hagel said, Barack Obama.

His whole interview seem to be saying the same thing that Obama’s been saying all during his own campaign, that now is the time to bring Americans together to get things done. This is a defining moment in our history.

I’m betting if Obama plays his card right, Chuck Hagel, a Republican, just might end up endorsing him for President.

This would be very good. Chuck opposed the war in Iraq also and he disagreed with the Bush administration on several of their foreign policy maneuvers.

http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/2008/03/chuck-hagel-for-barack-obama-c.php

Phony Patriotism
By Craig Williams
March 30, 2008

I am tired of phony patriotism. Real patriots speak out when their country’s government betrays its founding values. Too many people today play at patriotism as if it were a sport and they are merely the adoring masses. It matters not that the coach might be fixing the games or the players using illegal drugs, it is a cardinal sin to take the name of the Home Team in vain. It’s as if ritual means more than virtue.

Real Patriots use real words to call out their country’s faults. Our Founders used fiery words and much more when faced with injustice. Many of their fellow countrymen, complacent in the status quo and fearful of change, also tried to shame them for their disloyalty. Yet they persevered. And today, we all owe such a great debt of gratitude to their Obnoxious Belligerence.

http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/2008/03/phony-patriotism.php

[John]

Here is this young man called Obama. He continues to make us proud with his words and actions. He continues to walk the talk while Hillary continues to talk the trash while ripping off firms and workers.

Obama brings down the costs of health insurance, so that workers can afford it. Those who cannot afford it are subsidized. Hillary puts a mandate that will force you to buy it or your paycheck will be garnished or you go to prison.

If your employers (the firms) are not able to keep you working because they are not collecting some money from partners like Bill and Hillary, then you will have no health insurance and you will end up in prison. Read every word of the following article to understand how Hillary's mindset will make this situation real if she lies herself into winning this thing. James Manning and Bob Johnson should consider sending some funds to Hillary:

Cash-strapped Clinton fails to pay bills
By KENNETH P. VOGEL
3/30/08 7:00 AM EST

And word is getting around that Clinton’s campaign does not promptly pay those who labor to make her events look good, said an employee of the event production company Forty Two of Youngstown, Ohio.

“I feel insulted by the way that the campaign treated this company and treated us personally,” said the employee, who did not want to be named talking about a client.

“We worked very hard to put together these events on a moment’s notice and do absolutely everything to a ‘t’ to make it look perfect on television for her and for her campaign,” said the employee. “Sen. Clinton talks about helping working families, people in unions and small businesses. But when it comes down to actually doing something that shows that she can back up her words with action, she fails.”

Forty Two also has done events for Obama’s campaign, which has paid its bills promptly, according to the employee. FEC records show Obama’s campaign paid the company $18,500.

Page 1
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0308/9259.html

Page 2
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0308/9259_Page2.html

[Cynthia, TX]

Roland, Roland, you know the conservative talk show host are not going to jump on the open discussion of racism. It would force them to talk about the "ugly" of their platform. The Rice story is buried and dead with them.

I also found an interesting article on the host Joe Scrabrough of FOX News morning Joe show. Do you know much about this one? I would be interested in hearing your thoughts.

http://truthalliance.net/News/CommunityPublications/Vault/tabid/76/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/583/Default.aspx

[Cocoa]

I was just discussing this guy who just recently lied on God right in the front of america, and who is he manning. My very words is that he was looking for attention now when God can confirm what you say then you know God is talking, So eat your heart out mannning. Why because you claim to know God but your calling Obama and his mother trash then lieing and saying these words is God. If you really know God repent and turn away from sin, it's only what you do for Christ will last.

[Cocoa]

Roland i like seeing you on the news keep up the good work.

[Sharon]

I checked out James Manning and Atlah World Ministries website and here is my take on him. I think he needs in-depth Psychiatric evaluation. On his church website he actully lists Bill Clinton as one of the witches in America who need to be removed of taken away. Can't quite remember how it is written. One good look at his Church website and one can only hope that he is not taking advantage of the souls who are geniunely seeking God. He talks aquite a bit about Africa, he probably does not know half of what he is saying and needs some education about Africa. I do not think he should be paid any attention and if any Radio of Television Show Host is bringing him on their shows, I can only say they are looking for anything in any shade of black to speak against Obama. I doubt that this will work.

[New Yorker]

A good leader:

1. Has INTEGRITY! (U listening, Hilary?)

2. Shares great affection with supporters/partners, and is about the common good over personal ambitions.

3. Has Big Picture vision for the nation.

3a. Knows that economics IS NOT 'complicated' if one is learned. (Listening George?) lol

4. Has the ability to motivate and mobilize citizens.

5. Has intelligent and practical plan to materilize vision.

6. Has the stones to take decision on life and death over sworn enemies!

7. Is President Barack Obama

[Okpang]

Whenever you think of James Manning, think about the problems in Africa; think about the self-haters called Yoruba people.

Olusegun Obasanjo is a typical Yoruba man. His thoughts, words, and actions are 1000 times worse than what you hear from James Manning. He murdered more than 5 million Black people. He was the best friend of Andrew Young, another hater of Obama. These types of Black people - Obasanjo, Manning, Andrew Young, Bob Johnson - are the reason Blacks are not making any progress collectively. They make money and live off our suffering by working with racists like the Clintons. This explians the only reason they hate Obama - the money they get from the Clintons. That a Black man will become the president of America is less important than their pocket change from the Clintons.

Manning said gave the reason why he hates Obama on one of his videos - that Clintons spent $1.4 millions in Harlem for Black people while Obama did nothing for us; therefore we should not dump the Clintons. It is about money -if the Clintons win, Manning will make some money. Like Obasanjo of Yoruba haters, Andrew Young, Bob Johnson, and the rest of self-haters, the historical importance of having Obama as the first US President is not as important as the pennies for them. These are supposed to be Black leaders. This expalins why we are the laughing stock of the world.

[Charlene]

This Pastor is a Sad, Sad, Sad Person.

[Charlene]

The Only reason Bill Clinton is in Harlem.
He could not find "cheap" office space Downtown.

[Kevin Facey]

I have yet to hear this person. I have been on some black sites that have discussing this guy. From the talk that I have heard, this guy sounds like a nutjob, or he knows what he is saying, so he is trying to get some attention.

[New Yorker]

It is only the bigots among whites who will continually harp on Mr Right's religious rhetoric.

Mr Right is a former Marine who for six year put his life on the line for the liberties and FREEDOM OF SPEECH guaranteed by the US Constitution, and served the sick President Lyndon Johnson.

Essentially the bigots are representing the history of American racism, which suggests in effect that Black Americans should, be silent, 'sit down and shut up'.

For those who think that the destructive actions of an individual or of a nation do not carry negative consequences are living in fools paradise.

That is why 911 happened: Americans are fed a substandard education, which make them divorced from the reality of cause and effect.

The words Americans should be more concerned about are the threats from the insane islamists, who are allowed to build mosques in America, and whose words are the prelude to suicide bombs!

[Charlie, NY]

Hi Roland!
Thanks for all your help!

Okpang wrote these statements:

“Olusegun Obasanjo is a typical Yoruba man”

“This explains why we are the laughing stock of the world.”

I have been following James David Manning since his name was revealed here by Roland. If you visit Manning’s website today (April 2, 2008), you will see two new videos added on the site recently. One video has the title “Half of a Negro, 3/5 of a Man in the White House”. Another new video added has the title “Pastor Manning Says wait on the Lord!”

What Pastor Manning has to say about Africans and African-Americans in the first new video will make every honest black man vomit. He says that the white people should not allow a black man to be president because for the black are not ready. He further says that this nation would be ruined if a black man is allowed to be a president at this time.

These statements really sound like what would come from the mouth of Olusegun Obasanjo of Yoruba people. Obasanjo destroyed Nigeria with the typical self-hate of every Yoruba man. Nigeria used to have a national airline managed by black Nigerians until Obasanjo came into power and destroyed the airline and handed over the management of international flights to a white man called Charles Branson from Britain. Obasanjo did this because he believes, like Manning, that black people are not ready to manage airlines. Obasanjo and Andrew Young are best buddies, and Andrew Young possibly hates Nigerians the way he hates Obama or he would have informed this ignorant Obasanjo to do otherwise than to hate the progress of black Nigerians. James Manning is doing the same self-hate as Obasanjo. These people call themselves our leaders, but they do everything to sell us to whites for money and gold.

How could a sane black person look at the educational achievements of Obama and the way he managed his campaign and still believe that no black man is ready to be president in this country? How can millions of blacks in this nation with excellent achievements in education and industry be regarded like this by this man? How can some of our people be this hateful of black progress? Jody Gaddy is 100% right that the entire black race is suffering because of these black traitors among us. Even Hitler loved the German people. This is sickening.