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This is what a revolution looks like, it is a black man going to Cuba and confronting Cuba’s past as well as challenging her people to look to the future. President Obama doesn’t just talk about revolution, he embodies revolution.
BAM! BAM! BAMMITY-BAM!
THIS!!!!! :)
Lol
yayyyyyyy booooooooooy
BOOM BOOM BOOM
Wow!
I have a feeling that our dear VC was called in to work today. There is no way she would be this silent and not be in the Village on her birthday. Well, she will have a treat and warm well wishes waiting for her :-) <3
Yep, I was waiting to serenade her with some music when she showed up. :-)
So, what are we? Chopped liver?
We could do with some music while we’re waiting for the birthday girl :-)
🎹🎤🎧🎼
I’m sure you are right on with this, GGail, it is my feeling as well. Guess we shall have to party on anyway!! She would expect nothing else! 🎈🎉🎁🛍💌🎷🎺🎸🎻🍾🍺🍰🎂🍧🍨🍕🍤🍓🍊🍇🍐🍉🍎🍏🍌🍒💐🌻🌺🌸🌼🌷🌹
Whew.
Yes MP, we’ll have to struggle on with this party until the girl of honor shows up :-)
Hey! where’s my champagne??!!! :D :D
🍾🍾🍾🍾🍾
(Just a start 🖖🏻) 👁
Congrats Don on First. :-)
Thanks Chips - for - everything! <3
Hearty congratulations to Don! What you said about revolution!
Dear VC - hope you are out celebrating your birthday!
Indeed.
Just have to comment again……TOD, you all rock!!
I’m following POTUS’ trip because of TOD.
Good! Throw the book at him and his whole crew of insurrectionists.
Once he and his cohorts are put in a cell (just one), throw away the key.
META you are a saint for finding and posting that baseball link, I had looked and looked. You are officially my 2nd fave person of the day, after PBO of course, who again hit it out of the park with his speech earlier.
If you listen to the presidential campaign, you’d think that the only foreign policy questions any president will confront are whom we might go to war with, when we might go to war, whom we can threaten, and who might try to kill us all anyway. It’s all about threats and dangers. And as far as Republicans in particular are concerned, the most important factor determining the outcome of every foreign policy challenge is whether we’re being sufficiently “strong,” which always means acting as though every threat is a disaster waiting to happen and the answer is to be as belligerent as possible.
Baseball!
http://theobamadiary.com/2016/03/22/baseball/
hat tip-BJ
Beyond Good and Evil
The Virtue of Being Ted Cruz
BY CLANCY MARTIN
March 11, 2025
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There is a mistaken idea popular among liberal pundits that we are presently witnessing a race to the bottom between Donald Trump and Ted Cruz, and that the craving for authority driving Trump’s popularity among primary voters is the same primal force behind Cruz’s candidacy. On this account, Trump and Cruz are appealing to the same voter—Trump is besting Cruz because he is better at playing the fascist. Trump understands populism, while Cruz does not; Trump can evoke and articulate our ugliest xenophobic fears (The wall will be 30 feet high! Fifty feet high!), while Cruz ineffectively appeals to his track record of combating the Gang of Eight. (Who are they again?) Trump speaks in the vernacular of a third-grader, bad versus good, winners versus losers; Ted Cruz, despite his best efforts to impersonate a good ol’ boy, winds up showing off his Ivy League credentials and alienating his own base. Despite, or perhaps because of, his nerdiness, he just can’t figure out how to become the demagogue the Republican Party so ardently desires.
But Cruz and Trump are in fact appealing to different segments of the Republican Party, and they know it. Trump is the candidate of the disoriented, the confused, the needy; Cruz is the candidate of the dogmatist, the moralist, the convicted. Trump gets the voters who fear and adore; Cruz gets the voters who hate and resent. Trump is all show; Cruz means what he says. Trump wants to be everybody’s boss; Cruz wants to be everybody’s master. Ted Cruz is much, much more dangerous than Donald Trump.
I so agree, Cruz is much more scary.
Our learned Dr Bobfr or any other TODDER’s I need some education on this, I was watching ESPN and some of the analyst mostly those of Cuban heritage not happy with POTUS over Cuba, I am just wondering what type of governance was in Cuba before Castro’s takeover, how did the people in power treat the minorities like mixed race and blacks it just occurs to me is that mostly the white Cubans are really not happy with POTUS, I know a most lost all belongings and life, and some still in jails when the Castro took over but at some point we need to change direction after 50yrs of policies that is not working. Imagine how Black’s feel about slavery and how blacks are still treated today by Americans even when we have a Black President
http://m.motherjones.com/mojo/2016/03/watch-terrorism-expert-school-donald-trump-his-calls-torture