Audio- Limbaugh on Obama jobs meeting with African American leaders: "Have any of these people ever run anything besides their mouths?"

Reverend Sharpton's Fabulous Registration Bus Tour

BFCE. Al's pretty popular with the older AA demographic so this could be a real shot in the arm for registration.

Al Sharpton is hitting the road on a bus tour for voter registration. His goal -- to register an “estimated 9.5 million unregistered blacks nationally. The campaign is targeting Pennsylvania, Ohio, Missouri, Florida, North Carolina and Michigan, possibly pivotal states in the contest between Obama, a Democrat who would be the first black U.S. president, and Republican John McCain."

Quote of the Day

Amen.

"I know you think you are, but you're not. You are over-rated in your own mind. You will not play in the NBA."

-- Sen. Barack Obama, quoted by ABC News, suggesting to a group of African-American students that they are better off staying in school than thinking they can play professional basketball.

Haysbert: Prez role on '24' may have helped Obama

By Paddy


Ahem, I do believe Morgan Freeman did it before, way back in '98.

RENO, Nev. (AP) -- Dennis Haysbert likes to believe his portrayal as the first African-American U.S. president on Fox's "24" may have helped pave the way for Barack Obama.

"If anything, my portrayal of David Palmer, I think, may have helped open the eyes of the American people," said the actor, who has contributed $2,300 to the Illinois Democrat's presidential campaign.

"And I mean the American people from across the board - from the poorest to the richest, every color and creed, every religious base - to prove the possibility there could be an African-American president, a female president, any type of president that puts the people first," he said Tuesday.

Obama's sister helps reach out to Asian-Americans

By Paddy


I know Obama jokes about how racially mixed his family is, but consider how revolutionary this would be. What wonderful growth for the United States.

SAN FRANCISCO - The throng of Asian-American donors drew closer, drinks in hand, to hear Barack Obama's sister describe the wide arc of his life: beyond politics and Chicago, into his childhood in Indonesia and Hawaii.

To many in this crowd Obama's Asian-American half-sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng, represents yet another aspect of Obama's identity that makes him unique as a presidential candidate, although it has been underplayed amid the excitement surrounding his shot at becoming the first black president.

"It would be the first time that the first family is comprised in part of Asian-Americans — as well as African-Americans, of course," said Keith Kamisugi, a coordinator with Asian-Americans for Obama. In early June he organized a fundraiser along with two other Obama events focusing on Asian-American voters in San Francisco.