Many people still think it’s a tight race between the two candidates. I on the other hand think the point of no return was the hit in South Carolina, and it’s only a matter of time before more states and more politicians throw their support behind Barack Obama instead of Hilary Clinton. First, let’s break down a few of Hillary’s weaknesses; not because I personally am trying to bring her down, but these are all points that would be exploited against this so called front-runner.1) She’s a Clinton, and she will be attacked for maintaining a dynasty in a way that never seemed to stick on George W. Bush. And voters are very aware that we have been Bush/Clinton/Bush for 20 years, another four of the same pattern is a hard sell. Especially when so many feel the country is on the wrong path.2) She’s still a Clinton. As we’ve seen in South Carolina, Bill is using all his influence and tricks to keep her on top. The Clinton’s (even with all the good they did get done) have never been known as a force for co-operation, so much as leveraging and manipulating others to their view. We’ve seen where 8 years of a political cudgel got us, it’s seems likely that her opponents will see and use this too.3) Hillary claims experience is one of her greatest defining traits, and even went so far as to say that she’s been fighting in Washington for the past 35 years, oddly this is

Dearest Comrades:

It seems that I have fallen on tough times. My wheel is empty, my testicles have swollen up to ungodly proportions, and my food bowl contains foodstuffs that only the most deprived West Coast vegan would consume. I do not have much left in me, but what I do have left, I will share with you. Thusly, I present, Hamsties as Celebrities and Politicians:

The Article: The Truth About Jena: Why America’s black-and-white narratives about race don’t reflect reality by Amy Waldman in the Atlantic.

The Text: In the fall of 2006, Mychal Bell was a football hero, and his hometown, Jena, Louisiana, loved him for it. As his high-school team posted its best season in six years, Bell scored 21 touchdowns, rushed for 1,006 yards, and was named player of the week three times by The Jena Times. The paper celebrated his triumphs in articles and photographs, including a dramatic one in which Bell, who’s black, stiff-arms a white defender by clutching his face guard. But within weeks after the season’s end, Bell was transformed into a villain, accused of knocking out a white student, Justin Barker, who was then beaten by a group of black students. The parish’s white district attorney charged Bell and five others with attempted second-degree murder. Six months later—after the DA had reduced the charges against Bell—a white jury convicted him, as an adult, of aggravated second-degree battery, a crime that carried a possible 22-year prison sentence. By then, he, along with his co-defendants, had been transformed yet again: together, they’d been dubbed the Jena Six and had become icons of a 21st-century civil-rights movement.

The artist of the day is Your Black Star [ yourblackstar.com ] [ myspace ]