madskillz said:
He's a fairweather pol. I think MLK was awesome - and mad respect for Medgar Evers, Rosa Parks, John Lewis and others who fought and died for our right to vote. Jesse was there at the right time. To be a leader, he should have should leadership and not bashed Obama, and definitely shouldn't have said any derogatory about him. Obama will acknowledge him for his past efforts, but he has no role in his admin. Mark my words - he may allow him to do a few things, but that is out of appearance only. They aren't the best of friends. I am shocked - I rarely disagree with my dog Akuma.
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Its cool, and I probably mispoke a little. I'll say that NOW Jesse Jackson is the underbelly of the black rights movement. In the past he wasn't so bad. But he makes black people look pretty damn crazy these days. Obama may not be more representative of the average black person than Jesse, but at least you don't have to keep him hidden from the public like your alcoholic relatives.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
