Read the Freedom Rider. I never could stand Barack Obama or Michael Eric Dyson, anyway. And when I see Ford, who has research and analytical skills, talk to Dyson, who has only sophistry, I feel well justified in preferring journalists to professors.
I think people are voting for Obama because they think he can cause them to be reborn free of sin. It’s like a vaccination. “If I do this racism will be over and I will never again be accused of it or made to feel responsible for it.” “If I do this I will turn white and I will never suffer white racism again.”
Observe Obama’s economic advisors. This entire campaign embodies the Latin Americanization of U.S. politics I have been observing for almost thirty years – neoliberalism and imperialism with a Creole face.
Lagniappe: observe Viggo Mortensen who makes several excellent points. And ask John Edwards what his Latin American agenda might be. I do not think he has one and the default position is, as we know, Chávez fever. I know Chávez and Castro are caudillos and all, but that does not make Venezuela and Cuba “rogue states” as Obama claims.
Axé.
coldhearted scientist وداد 
Democracy Now is great–it was enlightening to hear that conversation. Go Viggo!
Thanks for linking to Freedom Rider. That’s good information, though I’m disappointed to know it since there’s such a real possibility this man could wind up in the White House. This makes me feel hopeless…
Just heard Kucinich this morning on Democracy Now –
This morning’s Times-Picayune had a column pointing out that on domestic policy at least Obama was to the right of Clinton and Edwards, and that Edwards is, of those 3, the one pushing the most progressive agenda.
What did Kucinich say on Democracy Now and does he still have a chance … ? … I, like Mortensen, find it so *weird* to hear people say, “yes, Kucinich is the best candidate, that is why we dare not vote for him.”
Anyway, if he drops out I guess I will vote for Edwards. (What happened to Mike Gravel?)