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As America was force-fed by the right wing faction and the irresponsible media the erroneous claim that Obama somehow made a sexist remark when he claimed that Palin's policies when applied to McCain's policies would simply be putting "lipstick on a pig" (a saying that McCain himself used when speaking about Hillary Clinton's health care proposals, yet he was never called a sexist) we were and are still suffering from an economic recession in which our politicians will waste away at least 50 million dollars to protect their political pageantry.

In the past few weeks I've seen anarchists bum rush big business and break windows. I've seen poor people and their advocates and activists march for their lives. I've seen people lay their bodies down in front of police horses and bear the burning pepper spray of riotous police. I've seen rappers spit lyrics and punks stomp their boots, all to bring attention to a broken and corrupt system that seems to only benefit the people who already have all the benefits they need.

I've debated in heated and emotionally charged conversations about which candidate best represents the revolutionary movement and the people who fill that social location. I have battled with my conscience, engaging in an internal examination of what it means to revolutionize.

Recently a colleague of mine who had emotionally supported the Green Party ticket, but would be voting for Obama-Biden in November, reversed his decision, surprisingly, believing that it was a question of internal integrity. He simply could not vote for Obama considering what McKinney-Clemente had contributed to the movement. This revelation sent me again into a tail spin about the election. But as our conversation moved forward we agreed that perhaps pushing for the Democratic ticket and getting Obama into the White House, simply just the lesser of two evils, it would allow for the movement to highlight the establishment parties' similarities and push for that third party option.

It is not hyperbole when we say that the Bush Administration has run the United States into the ground. The Republicans have lied, cheated, stole, killed, maimed and spit on the American people to further exclusive personal agendas and fill the pocketbooks of an extremely slim population of affluent individuals. Lying to the American people to send our youth off to die based on outright fabrications is an impeachable offense that makes getting a blow job in the oval office look like stealing candy from your grandmother's cupboard.

However, the Democrats have been complicit in their ignorance of the corruption and instead of exposing the gross abuse of power they instead tried to slyly manipulate and blackmail the administration into filling the Democratic pocket book as well.

While I am still undecided about whom I will pull that lever for in November, the notion of getting a Democrat into the White House so that we can expose that the Democrats are no friend of a revolutionary change, that what Americans need is a third party option not the same tired two-step, sounds more enticing by the moment.

So, I am asking that my fellow revolutionaries consider voting for Obama in November as a strategic political and counter-establishment maneuver. A maneuver that will put the multi-cultural working-class revolutionary movement in a position to present the push for a third party (or even further, for a multi-party) option on future ballots. Obama is not a civil rights leader. He is an establishment candidate. He is the lesser of two evils. Obama is the lipstick on the pig.

September 27th National Day of Action: Green Jobs Now!

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http://events.greenjobsnow.com/partners/hiphopcongress

So, Rupert Murdoch has disbled my ability and everyone elses to post and view the information and video footage being put forward through the bulletin board about the RNC protests and the police response.

The Hip Hop Congress website has been hacked and shutdown by the Feds in an attempt by all parties to block our freedom of speech and our right to timely information.

I will continue to post updated information on this blog until they came after me here at this website.

Check out the footage from the March For Our Lives at the DNC 2008!!
POWER TO THE PEOPLE!!

Sarah Palin's vice presidential nomination eclipsed the morning aftermath of Barack Obama's historic presidential nomination acceptance speech. Then Gustav came like a bat outta hell gunnin' for NOLA, in turn, eclipsing the historic nomination of Governor Palin. While Gustav began to subside into a category one hurricane, the Internet bloggers began buzzing rumors about Palin's teenage daughter being pregnant. Even asserting that Palin's own newborn was actually the 17 year-old daughter, Bristol's, baby. Eventually, the McCain campaign had to to quell the rumors with the truth: that Bristol Palin, the governor's teenage daughter, is in fact 5 months pregnant.

Now, with all that said; I was at first sinfully ecstatic with the fact that the so-called party of (I don't know what kinda) family-values was once again showing the deep scratches and obvious damage in their political armour and failed policies. But then my elation subsided and I was ashamed that I had let my disgust for the GOP dictate my reaction to this intriguing news.

My stomach sank as I looked out of my living room and into my hood and watched two young girls with swollen bellies, one pushing a stroller with a baby already in it, walk down the street when they should have been in school. I thought about what Bristol's baby had in store for his or her life and what those two youngsters, on my block, babies' had in store for their lives.

And as I began to assess the supposed ills that have plagued certain individuals in this presidential race, such as McCain's infidelity, his wife Cindy's drug abuse, Barack's past stereotypical young black male behavior (his categorization, not mine); Palin's husband's DUI and her teenage daughter's pregnancy, I realized that the drama that allows conservative right wing outsiders to look into my neighborhood as though they don't share a damn thing with us, is the same drama that those conservative right wing outsiders hypocritically face in denial.

Now, I am not mad at Sarah Palin or the GOP because of the issues they have had to overcome and deal with in their personal lives. But I am mad at the fact that they steep themselves in denial and do not acknowledge that perhaps their stringently stale policy ideas do not work.

If Sarah Palin, a staunch supporter of abstinence-only sexual education, a belief that claims sexual education starts in the home, cannot realize a positive outcome within her own family regarding these practices, then why in the hell does she think herself and her Republican party should force these failed strategies onto people outside of their own homes.

And this is what we see time and time again from the right. They want to shove so-called family values policy down our throats when their own lives prove why their policies are intrusive, lack critical thinking and are not grounded in the realities of everyday people.

If Bristol Palin who has access and options to role models and educational programs that are at least above average and yet she shows up knocked up at 17 years-old, what would make these self-righteous right wingers think that the impoverished teenagers in my ghetto even have a chance?

I feel sorry for Bristol Palin that her mother put her career ahead of her daughter and now has exposed her daughter to a harsh public eye. The media should not take Sarah Palin to task for having a pregnant teenage daughter, but should take her task as a shining example of why the right wing does not have a lock down on family values policy.

Sarah Palin's nomination may be historic but her ideas on America are archaic. She needs to be held accountable for her weak-minded policies, it is a shame that her own life is our greatest example.