Obama aligns foreign policy with GOP

Sen. Barack Obama said Friday he would return the country to the more "traditional" foreign policy efforts of past presidents, such as George H.W. Bush, John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan.

At a town hall event at a local high school gymnasium, Obama praised George H.W. Bush - father of the president - for the way he handled the Persian Gulf War: with a large coalition and carefully defined objectives.

Obama began a six-day bus tour through Pennsylvania, the largest remaining primary prize in the contest with Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton for the Democratic nomination. Sen. John McCain is the Republican nominee-in-waiting.

"The truth is that my foreign policy is actually a return to the traditional bipartisan realistic policy of George Bush's father, of John F. Kennedy, of, in some ways, Ronald Reagan, and it is George Bush that's been naive and it's people like John McCain and, unfortunately, some Democrats that have facilitated him acting in these naive ways that have caused us so much damage in our reputation around the world," he said.

Obama faced criticism in January from Clinton and then-challenger John Edwards for saying Reagan had changed the trajectory of American politics - and that Republicans had been the party of ideas for the last decade or more.

In one of the more heated moments of the Democratic debates, Clinton challenged him directly on the topic, saying those GOP ideas were "bad for America, and I was fighting against those ideas."

In his speech Friday night, the Illinois senator charged that Clinton, for all her criticism of the current President Bush, has too often gone along with his decisions.

"I do think that Sen. Clinton would understand that George Bush's policies have failed, but in many ways she has been captive to the same politics that led her to vote for authorizing the war in Iraq," he said. "Since 9/11 the conventional wisdom has been that you've got to look tough on foreign policy by voting and acting like the Republicans, and I disagree with that."

McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds said Obama "represents an absolute departure" from Reagan and other presidents "whose strength in the face of an outspoken and determined enemy won the greater peace for a generation."

Hillary is staying put

Senator Hillary Clinton said she will NOT drop out of the Democratic presidential race. But she needs to.

"The more people get a chance to vote, the better it is for our democracy," the New York senator and former first lady told supporters at a rally in Indiana, which holds a May 6 primary.

Obama says she should stay in as long as she wants to.

My response:

I don't care what Hillary or Barack says, Hillary should pull out of the race and try again in eight years. Whether she wins the nomination or not, she will not be the next President. And if you've followed my blog at all then you know that I support Hillary and would rather see her win the nomination over Obama. But the majority of Democratic primary voters disagree with me. Hillary can not get enough delegates to overtake Barack and even though he can't get enough to get the necessary majority, he is in the lead. If the super delegates decide it in Hillary's favor, Obama supporters will be so ticked off that they will stay home or vote for McCain.

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T.I.'s road to redemption...I hear ya, baby

I'm impressed.

Wonder why they didn't let Vick do community service.

Say That!

"There is a paradox for this country and a contradiction of this country and we still haven't resolved it...But what I would like understood as a black American is that black Americans loved and had faith in this country even when this country didn't love and have faith in them, and that's our legacy." -- Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of State

T.I. pleads guilty

Taking a page from Bishop Weeks play book, Rapper T.I. has pleaded guilty to federal weapons possession charges, and is to be sentenced in one year, after completing a period of community service.

In the year that he is awaiting sentencing, T.I., whose real name is Clifford Harris, must complete at least 1,000 hours of a total 1,500 hours of community service, talking to youth groups about the pitfalls of guns, gangs and drugs.

Good luck with that, Cliff. I'm praying for you. Amen.

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Condi says Obama speech is "important"

Sometimes touted as a contender for the Republican vice-presidential slot, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has aired her thoughts on race in the United States, a prominent issue in the presidential election campaign.

Rice, the top ranking African-American in President George W. Bush's cabinet, told The Washington Times she had watched Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama's major speech on race last week.

"I think it was important that he (Obama) gave it for a whole host of reasons," said Rice in a transcript of the interview released by the State Department on Friday.

Obama would be the first black U.S. president if he wins the Democratic nomination and beats Republican candidate John McCain in the November election to succeed Bush.

While saying repeatedly she did not want to talk about the election campaign -- "I don't do politics" -- and also reiterating her lack of interest in the vice presidential slot, Rice said the United States had a hard time dealing with racial issues.

Rice said her own father, grandmother and great-grandmother had endured "terrible humiliations" growing up in the segregated south and yet they still loved America.

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Kwame and Beatty plead not guilty

Legal experts said Tuesday that the heart of the perjury case against Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick — steamy text messages that seem to contradict his sworn denials of an affair with an aide — might be less open-and-shut than many believe.

Kilpatrick's attorneys want to keep the intimate and sexually explicit text messages out of a trial, and at least one outside defense lawyer says the admissibility of such high-tech communications is an unsettled legal question. Even if they are admitted, experts say the defense will exploit any ambiguity in the messages, in the questions the mayor and former Chief of Staff Christine Beatty were asked under oath, and in their answers.

"If the questions were not clear, and that's going to be used to prove the case, then that's another avenue in trying to establish a reasonable doubt," former federal prosecutor Matthew Orwig said Tuesday.

On Tuesday, the usually gregarious Kilpatrick was subdued as he stood mute to eight felony charges of perjury, conspiracy, obstruction of justice and misconduct in office during his arraignment in Detroit. Beatty also stood mute to seven of those charges.

Not guilty pleas were entered for both. They were released on personal bonds and are expected to appear at a June 9 preliminary examination that will determine if they will face trial in Wayne County Circuit Court.

The charges stem from a lawsuit filed by two former police officers who won a jury verdict last year. They said they were fired for investigating claims that the mayor used his security unit to cover up extramarital affairs.

Kilpatrick had said he would challenge the verdict, but prosecutors allege that a multimillion-dollar settlement was reached after the officers' attorney showed the mayor's lawyers references to the text messages, which had been left on Beatty's city-issued pager.

The Detroit Free Press published excerpts of the messages in January, prompting an investigation that led to charges against Kilpatrick and Beatty on Monday.

Kilpatrick's lawyer Dan Webb is a former U.S. attorney known for his three-hour cross-examination of former President Ronald Reagan in the Iran-Contra scandal. Webb won a conviction, later reversed, against Admiral John Poindexter on charges linked to the scandal.

Webb also was the chief defense attorney in the corruption trial of former Illinois Gov. George Ryan, who is now in prison.

Webb says the release of the text messages violates federal law.

"Under the Stored Communications Act they absolutely should not have been produced in civil litigation," Webb said Monday. "Because of that, everyone who sees them is clearly tainted because the initial production was illegal."

Miami criminal defense lawyer Milton Hirsch said Webb's effort to bring the 1986 act into play is a good move.

"He's a very fine lawyer," said Hirsch, who specializes in defending public corruption cases. "There is very little law on this, but I think it's a motion worth filing. It could make good law and could establish an important point."

Kilpatrick and Beatty denied having an intimate relationship when they testified in the police officers' lawsuit.

"Mayor Kilpatrick, during 2002 and 2003, were you romantically involved with Christine Beatty?" asked Mike Stefani, who represented the police officers.

Kilpatrick's response: "No."

Beatty said "no" and rolled her eyes when asked if she and the mayor were "either romantically or intimately involved" during the period covered by the case.

Text messages published by the Free Press told a different story.

"I'm madly in love with you," Kilpatrick wrote on Oct. 3, 2002.

"I hope you feel that way for a long time," Beatty replied. "In case you haven't noticed, I am madly in love with you, too!"

On Oct. 16, 2002, Kilpatrick wrote Beatty: "I've been dreaming all day about having you all to myself for 3 days. Relaxing, laughing, talking, sleeping and making love."

The messages also included dialogue about where to meet and how to conceal their trysts. Hirsch, however, said the messages may not be enough to prove perjury.

"The world is full of people who are in the habit of exchanging salacious phone calls, e-mails and text messages," he said. "It doesn't mean they are having an actual relationship. Did they say (under oath) they didn't have physical sex, or have no personal relationship or interaction, at all?

"If the witnesses testified 'we have nothing but a business relationship, we scarcely even talk about anything besides business matters,' that's a different matter," Hirsch said.

Sex is not the only issue surrounding the text messages. The prosecutor's office filed an investigative report Tuesday that included an excerpt of a text message from Kilpatrick asking members of his staff for help in explaining the departure of former Deputy Chief Gary Brown, one of the former officers who sued.

On June 24, 2003, he wrote: "We must answer the question? Why was Gary Brown fired. It will be asked, I need short, powerful answer ... I just need a good answer. Whatever it might be."

During the whistle-blower suit, Kilpatrick said Brown was "un-appointed."

"He was not fired," he testified.

Perjury, under Michigan law, is defined as "willfully" swearing falsely while under oath and is punishable by up to 15 years in prison.

A 2004 Michigan Supreme Court ruling could help prosecutors' case. Reversing more than 150 years of precedent, the court said prosecutors don't have to prove that a lie was material to a case.

My response:

What ever the results of this case are one verdict will still stand: Kilpatrick is an idiot.

Hillary is desparate

In a move that might be seen as desperate, Hillary Clinton has suggested that delegates pledged to Barack Obama due to primary and caucus results are free to “flip” and vote for her instead.

During a meeting with the editorial board of the Philadelphia Daily News on Monday, Hillary was asked what she would do if Obama continues to hold the lead in pledged delegates.

He currently has edge of 1,413 pledged delegates to Clinton’s 1,242, according to the latest CNN count.

“I just don’t think this is over yet, and I don’t think that it is smart for us to take a position that might disadvantage us in November,” she said.

“And also remember that pledged delegates in most states are not pledged. You know, there is no requirement that anybody vote for anybody. They’re just like superdelegates.”

Two weeks ago Clinton made a similar statement, telling Newsweek magazine: “Even elected and caucus delegates are not required to stay with whomever they are pledged to.”

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White People picking cotton?

Just say no to drugs, dude.

We the people...

Florida Democrats will not get a "do-over" vote

The Florida Democratic Party gave up on trying for a "do-over" presidential primary.

Democratic Party Chairwoman Karen Thurman, who last week proposed a combination of vote-by-mail and in-person balloting, said the state party will continue its efforts to get the state's 211-vote delegation to the Democratic National Convention seated in Denver next summer.

My response:

I wonder if they would be trying so hard to get these delegates seated if Obama had won Florida. Rolling my eyes...

I spoke with a friend of mine today whose name I can not call because of his position in the Democratic Party, but he expressed the sentiment that many Black folks have.  If they give the nomination to Hillary, he is switching parties.  Come on other, brother.  Come on over to Red side!  :-)  I told y'all the Dixiecrats ain't bout nothin.

Obama set to deliver speech on race

Far from putting the controversial issue of race behind him, Barack Obama has decided to address the issue head on in a speech Tuesday.

"I am going to be talking not just about Reverend Wright, but the larger issue of race in this campaign — which has ramped up over the last couple of weeks," Obama told reporters in Monaca, Pennsylvania.

The article goes on to say "He will address the broader questions of race and politics, these are complex issues that transcend Barack Obama, and are fault lines in our politics and society, and, ultimately, can be a barrier…They’re easily exploited, and hard to address," he said.

My response:

Ut oh.

Obama did it...ok

It just dawned on me who Geraldine Ferraro is.  She is the first woman to be placed on a presidential ticket.  She was the Vice Presidential nominee on the ticket with Mondale.  This heffa got a lot of nerves.  One could certainly argue that the only reason she was placed on the ticket with Mondale because she was a woman.  A very unattractive woman at that.  If I were her, I'd keep as much attention off myself as possible given she is a political failure.  Every campaign she touches turns to dust.

Even worse, she blames Obama.

One day after she stepped down from her role in Hillary Clinton's presidential bid, Geraldine Ferraro said she blames Barack Obama's campaign for the uproar over her recent comments.

In an interview Thursday with CNN affiliate WJAR in Providence, Rhode Island, the onetime vice presidential candidate also said the Obama campaign made a mistake in taking aim at her remarks.

"I do think this was a mistake on part of the Obama campaign," she said. "They didn't have to do this, and they did it to hurt Hillary. I just think that's bad. I think it's bad business, and I think it's bad politics.

"I was accused of being divisive. I think those tactics are divisive," she added. "And the amazing thing is it's not something I started, its something they did in reaction to this."

Ferraro also implored Obama's campaign to turn "the spigot off the hate mail I am getting."

"I find it very, very upsetting," she said. " I've been called all kinds of names, and the attacks are ageist, they're sexist, they're racist. It's been very, very uncomfortable.

My response:

So what.  That's what you get for making stupid statements and continuing to make them.  Note to Ferraro:  When you find yourself in a hole...stop digging, stupid.

Hillary Clinton Apologizes to Black Voters

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton did something Wednesday night that she almost never does. She apologized. And once she started, she didn't seem able to stop.

The New York senator, who is in a tight race with Illinois Sen. Barack Obama for the Democratic presidential nomination, struck several sorry notes at an evening forum sponsored by the National Newspaper Publishers Association, a group of more than 200 black community newspapers across the country.

Her biggest apology came in response to a question about comments by her husband, Bill Clinton, after the South Carolina primary, which Obama won handily. Bill Clinton said Jesse Jackson also won South Carolina when he ran for president in 1984 and 1988, a comment many viewed as belittling Obama's success.

''I want to put that in context. You know I am sorry if anyone was offended. It was certainly not meant in any way to be offensive,'' Hillary Clinton said. ''We can be proud of both Jesse Jackson and Senator Obama.''

''Anyone who has followed my husband's public life or my public life know very well where we have stood and what we have stood for and who we have stood with,'' she said, acknowledging that whoever wins the nomination will have to heal the wounds of a bruising, historic contest.

''Once one of us has the nomination there will be a great effort to unify the Democratic party and we will do so, because, remember I have a lot of supporters who have voted for me in very large numbers and I would expect them to support Senator Obama if he were the nominee,'' she said.

The Clintons long have enjoyed overwhelming support from black voters, but that has been eclipsed during the primaries and caucuses by enthusiasm and support for Obama, who has pulled huge margins among black voters. Arguments over the role of race and gender have flared up repeatedly throughout the contest between Obama, who would be the nation's first black president, and Clinton, who would be its first female one.

Earlier in the day, Hillary Clinton supporter and fundraiser Geraldine Ferraro gave up her honorary position with Clinton's campaign after she said in an interview last week that Obama would not have made it this far if he were white. Obama said Ferraro's remarks were ''ridiculous'' and ''wrong-headed.''

Of Ferraro's comment, Hillary Clinton told her audience: ''I certainly do repudiate it and I regret deeply that it was said. Obviously she doesn't speak for the campaign, she doesn't speak for any of my positions, and she has resigned from being a member of my very large finance committee.''

As first lady and senator, Clinton rarely cedes an inch to her critics. On the issue of her vote to authorize the Iraq war, for instance, she steadfastly has refused to apologize, coming close by saying she regrets it, despite calls from many anti-war voters in the party to make a more explicit mea culpa.

Her third conciliatory statement of the evening was more in keeping with that fighting stance.

Asked about the government's efforts in the Gulf States after Hurricane Katrina, Hillary Clinton turned an apology into a criticism of President Bush, who happened to be speaking at a Republican event in another room at the same hotel.

''I've said it publicly, and I say it privately: I apologize, and I am embarrassed that our government so mistreated our fellow citizens ... It was a national disgrace,'' she said.

Heffa Please

Geraldine Ferraro's old decrepit behind is now playing the race card.

And you know that Heffa is not what I wanted to call her but I'm trying to be saved...this week.

Bishop Weeks pleads guilty

Is this the beginning of a reconciliation? Hmmm...

Bishop Thomas W. Weeks pleaded guilty Tuesday to aggravated assault in the summertime attack on his estranged wife, national evangelist Juanita Bynum.

In Fulton County Superior Court before judge T. Jackson Bedford, Weeks admitted that he grabbed Bynum, threw her down and kicked her in the parking of the Renaissance Concourse Hotel, near Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport on Aug. 21.

Weeks immediately was sentenced to three years probation, 200 hours of non-church related community service and ordered to attend anger management counseling. If he successfully completes these conditions, the conviction will be expunged from his record.

The contrite pastor apologized to Bynum.

My response:

No comment other than I hope both of them get in the presence of God and get it together...for real.

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17 year old football star slain

Jamiel Shaw was just three doors from his house on March 2. His father told the 17-year-old high school football star to be home before dark. That is exactly what he was trying to do when, just before dusk, gunshots rang out.

Gang members pulled up in a car and asked Shaw if he was in a gang. Shaw didn't have time to tell them "no." He was mowed down before he could answer, police say.

His dad heard the shots from inside his house and immediately called his son's cell phone to warn him to stay away. But within seconds, the father realized what had happened...

More than 7,500 miles away, Army Sgt. Anita Shaw was serving her second tour in Iraq. Her commanding officer called her into his office and told her to sit down next to the chaplain. He then informed her that her son had been killed on the streets of Los Angeles...

Police announced Tuesday that an arrest had been made in the shooting. Pedro Espinoza, a 19-year-old member of the Hispanic 18th Street Gang, was charged in the killing and could face the death penalty if convicted, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office said. Espinoza is scheduled to be arraigned March 25...

Shaw's mother, the Army sergeant, compares the gang members who killed her son to those she's fighting against in Iraq. "To me, they're terrorists."

My response:

This is a low down dirty shame.  If Pedro did this, he deserves the death penalty.  If Tookie had to go then Pedro needs to go.

Obama: Ferraro's comment about him 'absurd'

Sen. Barack Obama on Tuesday called a comment by Geraldine Ferraro, a top Clinton fundraiser, that he was a major presidential contender only because he is a black man "patently absurd."

I don't think Geraldine Ferraro's comments have any place in our politics or in the Democratic Party. They are divisive," he told the Allentown Morning News.

"I think anybody who understands the history of this country knows they are patently absurd. And I would expect that the same way those comments don't have a place in my campaign, they shouldn't have a place in Senator Clinton's, either," he added.

Earlier, Obama's top strategist, David Axelrod, called for Clinton to sever ties with Ferraro.

I was going to say something really mean but I won't. I will say that this is a prime example of a racist Dixiecrat. I betta not here another person call me a sell out because I'm a Republican. Democrats don't like us either. They just use us and we are dumb enough to let them.

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McCain Slams Rep. King’s Obama Comments

John McCain’s presidential campaign has condemned remarks by Rep. Steve King, who claimed that terrorists will be “dancing in the streets” if Democrat Barack Obama is elected president.

"The senator rejects the type of politics that degrades our civics, and this campaign will be about the future of our country," said Jill Hazelbaker, spokeswoman for the presumptive Republican nominee.

"McCain could not be clearer on how he views these types of comments, and obviously that view extends to Congressman King's statement."

My response:

I'm glad that McCain rejected those idiotic comments. It makes me feel better about possibly voting for him in the upcoming election if the Democrats do something stupid.

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Barack says Clinton tried him

Democrat Barack Obama on Monday ridiculed the idea of being Hillary Rodham Clinton's running mate in the U.S. presidential elections, saying voters must choose between the two for the Democratic nomination.

The Illinois senator used his first public appearance of the week to knock down the notion that he might accept the party's vice presidential spot on the fall ticket. He noted that he has won more states, votes and delegates than Clinton so far.

"I don't know how somebody who is in second place is offering the vice presidency to someone who is first place," Obama said, drawing cheers and a standing ovation from about 1,700 people in Columbus, Mississippi.

N.Y. governor apologizes for prostitution link

New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer, who swept to office as a no-nonsense crimebuster known as the “sheriff of Wall Street, apologized to his family and the public Monday after being linked in news reports to a prostitution ring.

“I have acted in a way that violates my obligations to my family ... [and] my sense of right and wrong,” Spitzer said in a brief statement he read to reporters at his Manhattan office. “I must now dedicate some time to regain the trust of my family.”

Spitzer, with his wife, Silda, looking on, did not specifically refer to reports earlier Monday that he had been discussed on a federal wiretap as having arranged to meet with a prostitute last month in Washington.

He so dumb.

Stupid. Just stupid.

Al Sharpton prepared to sue the DNC

Laying the groundwork for a court battle that could divide the Democratic Party, the Reverend Al Sharpton is threatening to sue the Democratic National Committee if it counts Florida's primary results in the official presidential delegates tally.

And y'all know Al ain't playin'.

I tell you what...if the DNC does count the Florida and Michigan votes, and if Hillary is given the nomination despite Obama having the popular vote, the Democrats can hang it up because it's a wrap. I want Hillary to win and I think she deserves to win, but the majority of the people who voted in the primaries disagree with me. So, their voices should be heard and the DNC needs to give the people what they want and Hillary needs to accept that. In the words of my grandmama, the Democrats are about to "tear their drawers" with the black community. I already can't stand 'em.

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Say That!

"The greatest Civil Rights Bill that has ever been passed is the dollar bill." -- Benjamin Crump, Esq., partner of Parks and Crump, LLC in Tallahassee, Florida.

I know dat's right.

Not on my watch

I can't stand foolishness and the one thing I will not tolerate is gang activity in my community.  Now I'm mad and I'm going to pray because...

Monday, six boys armed with guns burst into the mobile home of a Sawdust resident, terrorizing her and her two young children. They demanded money, but all she had was $7. The boys were arrested later that night and taken to a juvenile facility in Tallahassee. They told law enforcement they're part of a gang called the Sawdust Connection Boys.

"This was a gang that we had absolutely no idea that existed," said Lt. Jim Corder of the Gadsden County Sheriff's Office.

Sawdust, a community 7 miles southwest of Quincy, has been torn by gang violence. Investigators said the seven indicted men are part of a gang called 773 and responsible for three homicides. The Sheriff's Office launched a probe into the suspected gang three years ago after it began to take a closer look at cold-case murders.

But apparently, some people aren't buying it...   

The Rev. John Battles of St. Peter Apostolic Church said he doesn't think the Sawdust Connection Boys is a real gang. "They're just hard-headed, stubborn children who don't want to be obedient to their parents," Battles said.

Battles said the root of the gang problem lies with parents who are afraid to spank their children. Some kids threaten to call the Department of Children and Families if their parents try to discipline them, he said.

He sounds like an idiot.  While I agree that parental control, or the lack thereof, is a problem, when parenting does not work, the penal system will.  Put their butts in jail and make them do hard time.  I have no sympathy for thugs who terrorize women, young children, or even law abiding men for that matter.  On this issue, I am a Republican.

Stop the killing

Walter Hoye, founder of Issues4Life Foundation, expressed his outrage after reading Live Action's Winter Quarter 2008 issue of The Advocate, a UCLA student magazine on the right to life, which revealed Planned Parenthood accepting money specifically targeted to "lower the number of Blacks in America."

"According to The Advocate, 79% of Planned Parenthood clinics are in minority cites, and kill an estimated 1,500 Black babies every day." Hoye said. "According to Dr. Johnny Hunter, president of the Life Education And Resource Network, from 1882 to 1968, 3,446 African-Americans were lynched in the U.S. and that number is surpassed in three days by abortion."

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Ward "Coon" Connerly is at it again

Come election time in November, voters in five states might have a decision to make as big as whom to elect president.

Ballot initiatives have been proposed in Arizona, Colorado, Missouri, Nebraska and Oklahoma that would give voters the chance to decide whether they want to do away with affirmative action in government-funded projects and public schools.

Ward Connerly, who heads the American Civil Rights Coalition -- a nonprofit organization working to end racial and gender preferences -- and the main backer of the ballot initiatives, says the 37 word initiative would read: "The state shall not discriminate against or grant preferential treatment to any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity or national origin in the operation of public employment, public education or public contracting."

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Good for them

A Clayton County School Board member who does not live in the county was voted off the board Monday night, just hours after another member resigned.

Police escorted board member Norreese Haynes from his seat amid the cheers of 1,500 emotional and vocal residents worried about a possible accreditation loss.

to the board meeting at Clayton County Performing Arts Center in Jonesboro to implore the school board to do everything in its power to hold on to the district's accreditation. About 1,000 people were not allowed inside.

Inside, heckling and booing were often heard, while a heavy police presence outside included a helicopter patrolling overhead.

Several hours earlier, board member Rod Johnson resigned, according to board chairwoman Ericka Davis, who said the resignation is effective March 9.

Johnson said he is resigning after he addresses some of the mandates needed to hold on to accreditation, but declined to give a date.

The board voted 5-3 to remove Haynes from his District 8 seat because a police investigation revealed he is not a legal resident of Clayton County. Haynes has 10 days to file an appeal, according to board attorney Dorsey Hopson.

Johnson and Haynes are two of the four board members asked to resign by a string of groups, including the county's largest teachers' union, a coalition of high school students, the local NAACP and a state association of 48,000 real estate agents. The other two members are Lois Baines-Hunter and Sandra Scott.

The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools accused Johnson of a possible conflict of interest, alleging he voted on issues that affect his wife, a teacher in the district. SACS recommended last month that the 52,800-student Clayton school system should lose its accreditation on Sept. 1 unless it can meet stringent guidelines.

Johnson denies the allegations and said he has recused himself from all votes concerning his wife.

Um huh...

I am so glad the parents and community members of Clayton County took a stand against mediocrity and incompetence when it comes to the education of our children. Frankly, I am tired of the worst schools, with the most violence and the most unqualified teachers being filled with kids who look like mine.  Anybody who doesn't think the public school system needs a complete overhaul is a fool.  That's why I am a Republican and that is why I will remain a Republican until the Democrats stop pandering to the NEA and come up with a plan for real reform.  Our children's futures depend on it.  Mine and yours.  Put that on everything.

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Liar, Liar

In “Love and Consequences,” a critically acclaimed memoir published last week, Margaret B. Jones wrote about her life as a half-white, half-Native American girl growing up in South-Central Los Angeles as a foster child among gang-bangers, running drugs for the Bloods.

The problem is that none of it is true.

Margaret B. Jones is a pseudonym for Margaret Seltzer, who is all white and grew up in the well-to-do Sherman Oaks section of Los Angeles, in the San Fernando Valley, with her biological family. She graduated from the Campbell Hall School, a private Episcopal day school in the North Hollywood neighborhood. She has never lived with a foster family, nor did she run drugs for any gang members. Nor did she graduate from the University of Oregon, as she had claimed.

Her sister is the one that told on her. I'm more mad at her hating sister than I am at her.

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Obama says "Don't call it a come back..."

Obama does not appear to be moved by Hillary Clinton's recent primary victories stating: "We know this: No matter what happens tonight, we have nearly the same delegate lead as we had this morning, and we are on our way to winning this nomination."

And you know what Hillary was thinking..."Yeah, Negro...we'll see" Just joking. Hillary would never think such a thing. Tee hee.