BackyardConservative (Free subscription) | 09/30/2008
Wanna bet--the Dems want the ACORN slush fund . That's why so many Dems didn't support the bill. Barack, you could be a leader. Do a sister souljah. Just say no to ACORN first. (Did you deliver one vote? nOpe)
PajamaHadin (Free subscription) | 09/16/2008
From Carolyn Lockhead: Obama needs a Sister Souljah moment to distinguish himself to independent and weak Republican voters who are agreeing with GOP claims that Obama is a classic liberal Democrat, and sliding right into the familiar ground of the culture wars. Obama has a golden opportunity with the U.S. financial system falling apart at the [...]
Darwiniana (Free subscription) | 08/31/2008
What Kind of Christian is Palin? Sunday August 31, 2008 posted by Steve Waldman @ 1:06pm The always-shrewd Jeff Weiss at the Dallas Morning Newsy characterizes her as a post-denominational Christian. Doug Weed, a Bush friend, notes that Palin not only helps with evangelicals but with Pentecostals in particular, who have been especially cool to McCain. He also raises [...]
Darwiniana (Free subscription) | 08/31/2008
Palin sets a P.Z. Myers trap for Dems Steve Waldman foresees that some liberals won’t be able to keep themselves from making fun of Sarah Palin’s views sympathetic to intelligent design, thus leaving Obama’s outreach to people of faith in tatters: In fact, this is almost inevitable that some liberal bloggers will do just that and the [...]
Patterico's Pontifications (Free subscription) | 08/31/2008
[Guest post by DRJ] CNN reports Sarah Palin gave another shout-out to Hillary Clinton supporters today in Pennsylvania but this time she was met with boos, groans and grumbles: “As she did at in her debut speech in Ohio yesterday, Palin appealed to the women in the crowd here in Pennsylvania with a political shout-out to Geraldine [...]
The Crossed Pond (Free subscription) | 08/27/2008
Adam mentioned that Daddy Yankee endorsed McCain. There’s apparently a bit more to the story. He did so because he got Sister Souljah’d by the Obama people: There’s some amusement today about John McCain’s endorsement by the Puerto Rican performer Daddy Yankee, who has an assault charge and some some seriously racy lyrics. There’s a [...]
The Guardian Music blog (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008
Radical hip-hop artists like Sister Souljah and East Coast Avengers put most supposedly alternative musicians to shame by having politicians publicly denounce their outrageous statements
Riehl World View (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008
Turns out Al Sharpton just might speak for a larger portion of the black population than I had imagined. The commercial comes against a backdrop of lingering resentment by some black ministers in Memphis at Mr. Cohen’s election in 2006....
Ta-Nehisi Coates (Free subscription) | 08/01/2008
Because denouncing a rapper who calls your colleague a "bitch" after a primary charged with gender and race, clearly is an attempt to garner white voters by showing that your not in the pocket of Teh Blacks: Likewise, the Obama...
Hip-Hop Is Read (Free subscription) | 07/31/2008
A charismatic Democrat runs for the highest office of the land. Wait a minute! Enter: The rapper with a controversy-arousing tongue. What, is it '92 all over again? I refer of course to that odd moment which now resides in political infamy: the " Sister Souljah Moment ". Maybe it was inevitable that hip hop music, an outspoken art form which was established as a means by which to give a voice to the...
Townhall.com (Free subscription) | 07/30/2008
Here's the short version of THIS story I just filed.-Obama like to listen to Ludacris and thinks the rapper is a pretty cool guy.-Ludacris likes Obama so much he writes a song about him. -In the song, Ludacris suggests...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
In the age of reality TV, there is a danger that the paradigms of pop culture have become the model of the American Dream for a generation of young people. Barack Obama is addressing that danger.
The New SteveSilver.net (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
I agree with Publius:I keep hearing that Nutsgate is a Sister Souljah moment for Obama. Frankly, it's annoying me. First it's not a Sister Souljah moment at all. Second I'm sick of that term. It's time to retire...
LA Times (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
CINCINNATI -- Unswayed by the Rev. Jesse Jackson's disapproval, Sen. Barack Obama pressed his message Monday that African Americans needed to take more responsibility for their lives and families, a theme that had angered one of the icons of the civil rights movement.Obama got a standing ovation at the annual NAACP convention here, presenting himself as a symbol of the political power that earlier...
Ta-Nehisi Coates (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
I don't think we've reached the stage where the Imprimatur Of Ta-Nehisi Coates means much, but if it did I'd offer that imprimatur to Obsidian Wings. What a great blog. Somehow I missed this beautiful post form Publius analyzing the...
