Comments on: The Great White Hype

By: Martha

Martha — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:46:52 +0000

I feel insulted having read this article. Barack’s not qualified and he’s not Black. He’s biracial. This Black woman will be voting gender and race in November: Cynthia McKinney. I’m so sick of seeing this kind of garbage at Dissident Voice. Salah’s the little boy worshipping on Jordan one moment, Nas the next. He goes through heroes like toilet paper. Cynthia’s the real deal.

By: Lloyd Rowsey

Lloyd Rowsey — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 13:12:51 +0000

I remember driving back east to my second year in college in 1960, and hardly thinking about this guy JFK. And I believe the vietnam war was his war, unless we give it to the fool who wants it most, Robert Strange McNamara. But JFK, quite visibly, changed. And Barak O. could too.

Before he disappeared into the wooods in Northern California, in…oh…1980 or so, my psychotic friend Michael Chilton – who’d served on a destroyer off Vietnam in 1964 – said, “Without hope, there is no…hope.”

By: Rich Griffin

Rich Griffin — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 13:04:52 +0000

I want both McCain and Obama to lose. They are both despicable. I truly believe we are in for four years of awful McCain rule, and that he will pick my least favorite person on the planet, Mitt Romney, as his running mate. Either way, we all lose. If everybody would just WAKE UP and vote for McKinney or Nader. (insert huge sigh).

By: John Hatch

John Hatch — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 00:31:13 +0000

I think to tell the truth in American politics makes one unelectable, and to toe the neo-liberal line makes the whole exercise irrelevant.

Whether it’s Obama or McCain, it’ll be business as usual. Bad business.

By: Michael Dawson

Michael Dawson — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 18:46:11 +0000

Obama is losing, but it’s not because of his confidence. It’s because of his craven conventionalism. Hell, he just chose running mate that not only voted yes on the war, but less than a year ago massively insulted African-Americans and called Obama “not ready.”

No doubt a solid half or two-thirds of whites remain racist fuckheads. But this is about Obama selling out and betraying liberals, who remain the large majority of potential voters.

By: Diane

Diane — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 21:50:54 +0000

Last year Australia voted out a neocon lookalike for a Labor Party led by a catholic intellectual, almost as bad as being black here :-)
As an outsider who follows your elections closely, due to your ability to impact on the world severely, one thing seems to stand out
In Australia we seem to be less interested in the ins and outs of the candidates and more interested in what they can deliver, ie we are more interested in policies it may also indicate that we still have some faith in democratic processes, Silly us.
From what I can see, from regularly watching the Jim Lehrer News Hour, it seems that there is a head in the sand, everything is really ok mentality, which reduces to, we are all good old boys, and there is no real need for change.
Seems very dangerous to me