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Words to live by
The power of slaveholders to exploit, expose, and control the sexuality of black women was overwhelming. Slaveholders could keep black women and their children in a state of near-nakedness while asserting that modesty and civility required full clothing. They could and did encourage frequent slave pregnancies through a variety of punishments and rewards. They then interpreted black women’s evident fertility as evidence of their uncontrolled sexuality. The insatiable, sexual black woman did important work for Southern society. The myth of Jezebel created space for white moral superiority. Because she was a seductress, Jezebel justified the sexual brutality of Southern white men. Jezebel not only protected white men’s morality, so assured the purity of white women by offering a sexual alternative to white prostitution. The point here is that Jezebel is more than a demeaning and false stereotype of black women [...] Jezebel is a deliberate characterization that does a specific service in the context American politics and society. Subscribe Buttons                    | |
McCain is doomed
McCain won't get the nomination, he is doomed. His strengths were always his appeal to independent voters. These are voters who are now aligned against him on the Iraq war. He is on the wrong side of the Iraq war issue and too hawkish to get the independent vote anymore and conservatives do not like him or trust him. All those pictures of him with Bush also paint him as establishment, which disaffects those past admirers of his who thought of him as NON-establishment. All of this spells doom for him. This is not his time. This country is not going to elect a president who wants to escalate the war over there, and send more troops over. That is just not going to happen.
I could see him ending up as the vp if his buddy Guiliani is nominated, although I am still highly skeptical that Rudy G. will get it either.
One thing I do like about McCain is that he has pledged that if the Democratic opponent agrees to take matching funds in the general election, that he will as well. The one Democratic candidate who has agreed to take matching funds IF the GOP candidate does is Barack Obama.
So an Obama vs. McCain general might be the only scenario where spending could be controlled.