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Barack Obama has taken his charity further than simply asking his supporters to donate to Hillary’s debt, he has chipped in the maximum amount allowed from his own pocket, $2,300. That has to be an insult. Kicking a dog when it’s down.

I wonder if Barack called Hillary and said, “I can’t pay it off, but I can put something on it.”

Hillary has started campaigning with Barack and they have a number of events scheduled together over the next several days. That should help his already strong lead in the polls.

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I thought when I received my daily e-mails from Barack Obama, I thought he was just sending them to me. Not really, but that is what Scarlett Johansson thought.

Barack Obama has downplayed his email communications with Hollywood star Scarlett Johansson stating she doesn’t even have his personal email address. Johansson is a huge supporter of the democratic White House hopeful, and told reporters last month how she regularly offers the politician advice via e-mail.
And the actress admitted she was left stunned when Obama began a computerised correspondence with her.

She was noted as saying:

“Someone like the senator (Obama), who is constantly travelling and constantly ‘on’, how can he return these personal e-mails?”

However, in a meeting with journalists on Wednesday, Obama insisted he had only sent one email to Johansson, and that was after her original message was forwarded to him by his assistant Reggie Love.
Obama explained:

“She sent one email to Reggie, who forwarded it to me. I (wrote) saying, ‘Thank you Scarlett for doing what you do’, and suddenly we have this email relationship.”

What advice does she think she can offer? That is crazy that she thinks he is waiting on her e-mails for advice on how to become President of the United States. She got added to the list like everyone else that donated. I almost feel like I need to insert a blonde joke.

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Things have changed from a few months ago between Russell Simmons and Barack Obama from when Simmons called Obama a Mouse. Obama has praised the pair as “great talents and great businessmen”, insisting he’s happy to have the support of the duo in the upcoming November election.
But Obama admits he still has reservations about the current state of music in the U.S., and hopes the industry will begin to take its cues from the business-minded music duo.
He says of his concerns of hip-hop culture:

“I am troubled sometimes by the misogyny and materialism of a lot of rap lyrics, but I think the genius of the art form has shifted the culture and helped to desegregate music. It would be nice if I could have my daughters listen to their music without me worrying that they were getting bad images of themselves.”

I know Obama is all about change, but our country has a lot bigger fish to fry than rap music. Plus I am sure this is causing Russell to use some not so nice words right now.

It definitely will not stay this way, but will all of the thoughts of Hillary’s supporters not supporting Obama, and how the general election would be different, early polls are looking good for Barack. With just over four months to go until voters weigh in at the polls, a new survey suggests Sen. Barack Obama is holding a double-digit lead over Sen. John McCain among registered voters.

According to a new a Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg Poll, Obama holds a 12 point lead over McCain in a head-to-head match up, 49 percent to 37 percent. But when third party candidates Ralph Nader and Bob Barr are added to the list, Obama’s lead over McCain extends to 15 points, 48 percent to 33 percent.

The survey is the second in a matter of days to indicate McCain may face a sizable deficit as the general election campaign kicks off. A Newsweek poll released four days ago showed the Illinois senator with a 15 point lead.

Obama has even been nice enough to do some charity work yesterday when he asks his contributors to help Clinton with her debt. Yeah right, the check is in the mail.

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One of my favorite movies is the American President. In it, Michael Douglas plays a fictitious Democratic President. He is a widower and single father. He meets and starts to date a Washington lobbyist played by Annette Bening. They begin dating and a Republican Senator wanting to be President—played artfully by Richard Dryfus—seizes on their growing love affair as fodder for his attacks on “value” issues. For a long time Douglas’ character won’t respond to the attacks; but finally he does. In doing so the writers put together what I think to be one of the best explanations about Democracy that I have ever heard. In a spur-of- the-moment press conference Douglas’ character talks about our living in a country in which one who truly believes in the idea of democracy must rise to defend the right of free speech for someone who is making statements at the top of their lungs that which the defender would shout at the top of his lungs to oppose. He goes on to say that we live in an advanced democracy, and to live here one has to want the ideals of democracy… badly. Wow.

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You have respect Mike Huckabee for being truthful and expressing his real thoughts in a time when it is definitely not the most popular thing to do in the Republican Party. In response to Barack Obama’s speech about race and dealing with the offensive comments of his former paster Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Huckabee says:

And one other thing I think we’ve got to remember: As easy as it is for those of us who are white to look back and say, “That’s a terrible statement,” I grew up in a very segregated South, and I think that you have to cut some slack. And I’m going to be probably the only conservative in America who’s going to say something like this, but I’m just telling you: We’ve got to cut some slack to people who grew up being called names, being told, “You have to sit in the balcony when you go to the movie. You have to go to the back door to go into the restaurant. And you can’t sit out there with everyone else. There’s a separate waiting room in the doctor’s office. Here’s where you sit on the bus.” And you know what? Sometimes people do have a chip on their shoulder and resentment. And you have to just say, I probably would too. I probably would too. In fact, I may have had a more, more of a chip on my shoulder had it been me.

Very few people would even consider viewing the situation from the perspective of the person who said and even less would say it publicly. Much respect to Mike Huckabee for doing so.

For the transcript of the full interview, go here.