Saturday, September 08, 2012

So [Conservatives] Are Mad That Snoop Dogg Endorsed Barack Obama?

Snoop Dogg endorses Barack Obama. Took on the name Snoop Lion for a new album.
Snoop Dogg, the world famous rapper and advocate for the legalization of marijuana, has endorsed President Barack Obama for reelection. Reinventing himself as the reggae singer Snoop Lion, the entertainer has been in the crosshairs of conservative ire. The rapper has a long history of arrest records for possession of his "sticky icky" and disorderly conduct. In 1994, he managed to beat a murder rap. After releasing two successful albums, Snoop left the controversial rap label Death Row Records in 1998.

Death Row Records was the home of Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Tha Dogg Pound, Lady Of Rage, and a newly freed Tupac Shakur. The rap label was founded by Dr. Dre and Marion "Suge" Knight. The label dissolved in 2010 after Knight failed to pay for its past debts. Big Suge has been feuding with Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg for years. He felt that Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg sold out when Death Row was at its peak of success.

The Drudge Report has worked itself into a frenzy when the rapper stated his interest in Barack Obama being the choice for fixing the struggling economy.

Where was Matt Drudge when the rapper endorsed Congressman Ron Paul (R-Texas)?

Last year, the rapper was in favor of the Republican congressman and perennial candidate for president.

Congressman Paul's controversial stances including deregulating to marijuana and cocaine laws and mandatory pull out of U.S. military from the war in Afghanistan, and repealing laws that could hurt the middle and lower class.

While in Canada, the endorsement was made, the controversy ensued.



"[Former President George W.] Bush fucked up for eight years so you at least gotta give (Obama) eight years. He cleaned up half the shit in four years realistically,' the rapper said on Friday.

'It ain't like you gave him a clean house. Y'all gave him a house with a TV that didn't work, the toilet was stuffed up; everything was wrong with the house.'

Americans "need to give Obama four more years," Snoop added during a press conference at the Toronto International Film Festival, where he premiered a documentary on his turn to reggae under the moniker Snoop Lion.

"Then he went and knocked down the most hated, most wanted, the one who had our terror alert on Orange or Red, whatever color it was on," Snoop said. "He went and found him, the one that Bush couldn't seem to find, that seemed to fly away the day of 9/11. Remember all that? He went and found him and knocked him down, so don't forget about that. Now everybody is peaceful and able to move and have a good time -- it's because he made that happen."

Like most Americans, it seems, Snoop has evidently been paying attention to the Democratic National Convention. "You heard what Clinton said. You loved Clinton, didn't you?" he said. "Give [Obama] four more years to get his thang together and finish his deal out."

Snoop Dogg aged 40, who appeared in an all-white outfit with a white rastacap over his long hair, was asked numerous times whether he would continue to play his rap songs in the wake of his transformation. "One thing about me as a performer, I understand the business," he said. "A lot of my fans want Snoop Dogg, and I'm gonna give it to them. I can give you a little bit of both, or I can give you one or the other -- it depends on what the people want. And whatever the people want, I'm gonna give it to em, up close and personal."

He also cleared away any confusion over whether he will continue to use the name Snoop Dogg or switch entirely to Snoop Lion, the moniker imprinted on his name tag during the press event. "I'm Snoop motherfuckin' Dogg till the day I die, but at the same time when I'm making my reggae music I'm in the light of the Lion. But if you disrespect me or get out of pocket, you will get the motherfucking dog."


Drudge be lion, dogg!

The Drudge Report post stories that paint President Barack Obama and the Black community in a negative light.
The race-baiting gay conservative agitator is strongly in favor of Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan. The conservative agitator's website The Drudge Report zeroed in on the rap legend's endorsement of Barack Obama for president. He knows that Romney isn't going to win any of the Black vote. So in order to rile up people who think Snoop Dogg is a "natural born criminal" and President Barack Obama is a "racist", Drudge put this on his website.

The conservatives want to rile up White voters who have bigoted views towards race, gender, sexuality, nationality, religion, political and economic standings.

Besides Snoop Dogg, many other entertainers endorse the president.

Jay-Z, Chris Rock, Madonna, Kerry Washington, Eva Longoria, Kanye West, Scarlett Johannson, Denzel Washington, and Samuel L. Jackson been in the crosshairs of conservative ire for endorsing the president.



Friday, September 07, 2012

Dr. Dre Tops Forbes Richest Rappers!


 Rappers Dr. Dre (L) and Snoop Dogg may be together on stage, but the Dr. is the only one on the Forbes’ annual list of Cash Kings — not that Snoop is hurting for green.
Mighty D.R.E. Is Still Beating The Boards And Packing In The Millions. Rapper/producer Dr. Dre is Forbes Magazine's richest rappers. His estimated earnings top over $110 million in 2011. Beats By Dre are the successful headphones from the rapper. He attended the 2012 Coachella Festival with Snoop Dogg. Big Snoop is releasing a reggae album under the moniker Snoop Lion.
We're still waiting on the comeback of Andre Young, 47, professionally known as Dr. Dre. The famed album producer and original gangsta has crafted the works of Snoop Dogg, Eminem, 50 Cent and newcomer Kendrick Lamar.

Andre Romelle Young (born February 18, 1965), is an American rapper, record producer, record executive, entrepreneur, bodybuilder and occasional actor. He is the founder and current CEO of Aftermath Entertainment and a former co-owner and artist of Death Row Records.

The Mighty Mighty D.R.E. is the world's richest rapper. He beats out media mogul/rapper Jay-Z, Kanye West, Sean "Puffy" Combs, Lil' Wayne and Eminem.

The good doctor hasn't released an album since his masterpiece [Chronic] 2001 in 1999.

Dr. Dre was working on the long awaited Detox album. The album is slated for release in 2013. The album was scrapped this year after numerous tracks failed to bring mainstream buzz. The first single "Kush" with Akon and Snoop Dogg was released last year. The second single was a leftover from Eminem but it was released. "I Need A Doctor" was released a few weeks later. He decided to focus on Eminem, Kendrick Lamar and 50 Cent's album releases.

The Beats By Dre headphones are a factor to the riches. Besides the royalties and the rap label Aftermath Entertainment, Dr. Dre is a self-made man.

Dre began his career in music as a member of the World Class Wreckin' Cru and he later found fame with the influential gangsta rap group N.W.A with Eazy-E, Ice Cube, MC Ren, and DJ Yella which popularized the use of explicit lyrics in rap to detail the violence of street life which lead to the controversial albums Straight Outta Compton and Niggaz4Life.

Dr. Dre is credited to the success of Eminem (right) and 50 Cent (center).
Since the days of co-founding the gangsta rap label Death Row with former business partner Marion "Suge" Knight, Dre had released the classic Tha Chronic. The mix of g-funk, weed smokin', soul friendly and truly gangsta classics.

He produced Snoop Dogg's debut album Doggystyle, produced the hit single "California Love" off Tupac Shakur's All Eyez On Me and made notable contributions to Tha Dogg Pound.

Dr. Dre has made enemies in his time reaching the top.

The feud with Suge Knight is an ongoing saga. Dr. Dre has sued the media mogul for royalties of the albums he produced and played a role in having his old label shut down. Dre left Death Row in 1994 after the label got involved with the Bloods street gang. Even Tupac Shakur released singles targeting Dre for selling out.

Dr. Dre got involved in the conflicts with Atlanta producer/rapper Jermaine Dupri. Dupri declared his production skills was bigger than Dr. Dre and Timbaland. Dre, Eminem and West Coast rapper Xzibit sent Dupri numerous responses about his "obsession with little boys!" They ended the feud in 2001.

When Dr. Dre signed 50 Cent to the label, he and Eminem were engaged in a feud with Murder, Inc. Records and their main act Ja Rule. Ja Rule claims that 50 Cent's rise to fame was a sham. Ja Rule warned Eminem and Dr. Dre not to side with 50 Cent in this feud. This lead to a major feud which elevated to near violence. Ja Rule allied with The Source Magazine co-owner rapper Raymond Scott (known as Benzino) in a public boycott campaign of 50 Cent and Eminem. Dr. Dre's longtime mentor Jimmy Iovine decided to pull advertising from the magazine and move revenue to The Source's rival magazine XXL.

Dr. Dre has engaged in a minor conflict with 50 Cent. When 50 Cent decided to ditch Beats By Dre to jump onto Sleek Audio for his own headphones, he made Dr. Dre angry. The rapper threaten to leave after the conflict and Dr. Dre's lack of attention on his follow up albums. The conflict was resolved and Dr. Dre will produce a fraction of 50 Cent's album which is slated for Winter 2013.

Dre has produced albums for Jay-Z, Game, Nas, Ice Cube, Eve, Gwen Stefani, T.I., Rick Ross, half-brother Warren G, Nate Dogg, Lil' Wayne, Mary J. Blige, The D.O.C., Busta Rhymes, Raekwon, Slimm Tha Mobster, Xzibit, and Obie Trice.

The World's Richest Rappers
  • Dr. Dre (Aftermath Entertainment)
  • Sean "Puffy" Combs (Diddy) (Bad Boy Records)
  • Jay-Z (Roc-A-Fella Records/Roc Nation)
  • Kanye West (Roc-A-Fella Records)
  • Lil' Wayne (Cash Money Records)
  • Bryan "Baby" Williams (Birdman) (Cash Money Records)
  • 50 Cent (Shady Records/Aftermath Entertainment)
  • Drake (Cash Money Records)
  • Nicki Minaj (Cash Money Records)
  • Eminem (Aftermath Entertainment)
  • Ludacris (Disturbing Tha Peace/Def Jam Records)

Most of these entertainers comes from Universal Music Group. The home of Def Jam, Motown, and Interscope Records.

* UPDATE: The Drudge Report is making light of Snoop Dogg's endorsement of Barack Obama. Again the race baiting gay conservative agitator is trying to find reasons to dog whistle white voters. Mitt Romney and his campaign are desperate. They're in the process of throwing everything including the kitchen sink at President Barack Obama. I will cover the Snoop Dogg (Snoop Lion) endorsement of Barack Obama in the next day!

Did He Tease? A$AP Rocky Gets A Hold Of Rihanna!

A$AP Rocky and many others appear at the MTV Music Awards. The biggest controversy of the week was the rapper's grab of the pop singer Rihanna's bottom. This was done after a performance in front of Rihanna's former boyfriend and pop rival Chris Brown.

The MTV Music Awards headline winners included the pop singer, fellow pop singer Katy Perry, band One Direction, rappers/singers Nicki Minaj and labelmate Drake (with Lil' Wayne), British rapper M.I.A., singer Calvin Harris, media mogul/singer Beyonce, Demi Lovato and rocker Skrillex.

The awards occurred during President Barack Obama's acceptance speech and will likely overshadow.

Most people are into popular themes like controversial entertainers such as Rihanna, Eminem, Madonna, Lil' Wayne, Lady Gaga, Britney Spears, Justin Bieber, and Katy Perry.

See the butt grab here!

rihanna butt grab asap rocky

The 49er Democracy Experience - Special Report #4

Crash Course!

                           
    8.1% 
    FED SET TO PUMP 




Ok, the conservatives are going to cry foul. 

The job reports are out and now we're seeing a modest improvement. The Labor Department has reported that 96,000 jobs were created in the month of August dropping the job rate to 8.1% 

Not bad. Not bad at all.

Conservatives will think the books are being cooked to help President Barack Obama win reelection. The progressives will say that jobs are here and the president is delivering. The only thing standing in their way is Republican obstruction.

Republicans and Democrats will debate over the remaining term trying to pass an extension of the national debt, another jobs bill and making tougher decisions to keep the economy rolling.

Now as for the Drudge Report's siren, it's a trademark of a juicy story sponsored by the conservative agitator. He rang the alarm signaling the conservatives that there's something big or something deceptive about this one!

President Barack Obama is an embattled president. He just finished his acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention. He acknowledged that the path to the future isn't solved in four years. 

Mitt Romney is the weakest nominee for president.

The Republican has crafted himself as a successful business executive (not a former governor and perennial candidate for higher office). He leads in the national polls as the best one to handle the economy. But his poll numbers are sliding downward.

He maintain his stance as a effective problem solver and yet he hasn't put forth policies that could match or better the embattled president. He has been practicing for the national debates where he could use a backdrop of failed policies or controversies such as the job report to hammer the president.

Congress is at is worst. The Republican-led House of Representatives hasn't achieved much of their goals. They've pass the infamous Paul Ryan Austerity Bill only to be stopped by the Democratic-led Senate. The President's job package is passed by the Senate but halted by the House. Congressman Paul Ryan (R-Wisconsin) is the vice presidential nominee of the Mitt Romney ticket. He's a longtime fixture in Washington, DC. He hasn't really produced much until his rise in late 2010. 

Congress job approval is at a record low of 10% according to Gallup.

President Barack Obama is right now feeling a convention bounce which could tip him over the watermark of over 50% in the coming days. But it will decrease very soon. The issues of high gasoline prices, still unemployment is over 8%, the debt is over $16 trillion and the war in Afghanistan are dragging him and Congress down.

Mitt Romney wanted to be a Washington insider for most of his political life. He's failed. His only bright side to the issues that the world is facing, is the fact that Romney is a new face to Washington.

Even though he's long been out of office, Romney thinks he could be the best one! 

President Barack Obama urges patience. The country is on the right path. The constant obstruction from his political rivals stalled progress and the American public should know this.

If it wasn't for the third rail, I guess he would be more effective.

Update: Republican nominee Mitt Romney stated that the unemployment drop in simple fashion. 'If Last Night Was The Party, This Morning Is The Hangover'.

The White House released a statement saying that there's sign of modest growth in our economy.

133 Days: The Democratic Supermajority!

For 133 days not two years, President Barack Obama's Democratic Party had a majority of the Congress.

When will the Republican Party ever tell the American people the truth?

Fox News, The Drudge Report, conservative talk radio and the Mitt Romney Presidential Campaign have produced the message, "Are You Better Off 4 Years Ago?"

Stephen Colbert debunks the claim.



If they thought the Democrats had two years of filibuster proof U.S. Senate, they're completely wrong.

The Democrats managed to obtain 60 senators after two events. First things. You have conservative Senator Joe Lieberman (I-Connecticut) and liberal Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont). They caucus with the Democrats which gave them 58. Arlen Specter, the Pennsylvania senator who was a moderate Republican endorsed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (The Stimulus). When Republicans ceased their fundraising for the senator, he defected and joined the Democrats giving them 59 votes.

The Minnesota recount. When Minnesota senator Norm Coleman and then GOP governor Tim Pawlenty challenged the count of declared winner actor/writer Al Franken, they delayed his seating for six months. The victory of Al Franken finally gave the Democrats 60 votes in July 2009.

This short lived supermajority had its effective strategy to passing legislation. But when it came to the final leg of the year, they've seen the death of Massachusetts senator Ted Kennedy. That put the Democrats in a vine. They had an interim senator fill the void. But the seat was then occupied in January 2010 by Scott Brown, a little known state legislator who rose to become a voice of the conservative Tea Party Movement.  The death of West Virginia senator Robert Byrd put the Democrats at 58. The people of West Virginia elected their governor Joe Manchin to fill the remaining term of Byrd. Manchin has hinted that he'll defect to the Republicans if he manages to win reelection in 2012.

So what the Democrats had was 58 senators. In 2010 U.S. Midterms the Democrats lost seats in Illinois, North Dakota, Massachusetts, Arkansas, Indiana, Wisconsin, New Hampshire, and Pennsylvania.

Overall the Democrats have 51 members with two independents and Republicans have 47 members. The Republicans are likely going to recapture the United States Senate.

When Republicans and their conservative allies appear in the media, you'll hear them lie about the so-called Obama Majority. They'll claim that the Democrats managed to pass everything that the president wanted. They claim that the Democrats and President Obama failed.

You also got to admit that members of the Republican Party had openly stated that they'll never support President Barack Obama whatsoever. Rush Limbaugh, the conservative agitator declared he hope the president failed. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) stated his only mission for his Republican allies is to deny the president a second term.


Whenever the president or his campaign team go onto the Fox News Channel, they're expected to have a combative interview with the host.

Whether it's Chris Wallace, the folks over at Fox & Friends or even the primetime conservative agitators, President Barack Obama and his team understand the purpose of the network.

The network is conservative. It's pro-Romney. It's misled viewers with stories that paint the president as an enemy of the state.

“The claim that Obama ruled like a monarch over Congress for two years — endlessly intoned as a talking point by Republicans — is more than just a misremembering of recent history or excited overstatement,” the Chicago Tribune‘s Eric Zorn wrote. “It’s a lie.”

“It’s meant to represent that Obama’s had his chance to try out his ideas, and to obscure and deny the relentless GOP obstructionism and Democratic factionalism he’s encountered since Day One,” he explained.

“They seem to figure if they repeat this often enough, you’ll believe it.”

Democrats only had a filibuster proof majority for 133 days.

The president goes back on the campaign trail. The president's DNC speech was overshadowed by former president Bill Clinton. But still it was the most praised acceptance speech by President Barack Obama.

Like Republican Mitt Romney, the main headliner was overshadowed by Governor Chris Christie (R-New Jersey) and actor Clint Eastwood.

A bonus feature.

Talking Points Memo is a liberal investigative blog. The website debunks the Republican National Committee's newest campaign ad. It features a former Obama supporter who actually is a paid RNC staffer.

The recent commercials and the Romney/Ryan ticket have produced the new slogan "Obama's Isn't Working!" They're desperate. They are now trying to find "disappointed Obama voters" to make it appear that the president's likability ratings are negative. This is also the infamous video in which a "white woman is upset with a Black man over an issue!"

We know what it means, grab the dog whistle and blow again!

Thursday, September 06, 2012

Barack Obama: We're Moving Forward!

President Barack Obama makes his case for reelection.

What did he say?

How would you grade this speech? A success or a flop?

I know it's not the passionate speeches from First Lady Michelle Obama and Bill Clinton, but it's worth the wait. It wasn't a boring speech. It was way better than Mitt Romney's acceptance speech for the Republican nomination.

President Barack Obama accepts the nomination for the Democratic Party. The embattled president is facing  a tougher reelection this time. And tonight's speech on the floor of the Time Warner Cable Arena is......modest at best. I mean I was hoping for the dazzle and sparkle, and the magic of 2008.

Well, I mean they did canceled the Bank Of America stadium event due to "rain"! It seems like he couldn't fill a soup bowl.

President Barack Obama didn't bring out the best, but it was well worth the wait. I mean the president acknowledged his achievements and knocked his rival Republican Mitt Romney for lacking the courage to stand in the face of an economic crisis.

The optimism is growing but will it help.

The election map is looking better for the president but still it's a long road ahead.

Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa, Nevada, Florida, Virginia, North Carolina, Colorado, and New Hampshire could make or break President Barack Obama.

The map has the president sitting at 247 electoral votes and Mitt Romney at 191.

If President Barack Obama wins either Ohio or Florida and any state he's carried in 2008, he wins.

Mitt Romney has a long way to go in order to beat the president.

Tonight the president accepts the nomination for reelection.




The Passion Of Joe Biden!

A then young man who became a Vice President. From the state of Delaware a senator becomes Barack Obama's running mate and now the second man to the presidency.

The passion of Joesph Robinette Biden. The average "Joe" as most describe him. The president's right hand man makes a spiritual speech at the Democratic National Convention.

Biden was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania and lived there for ten years before moving to Delaware. He became an attorney in 1969, and was elected to a county council in 1970. Biden was first elected to the Senate in 1972 and became the sixth-youngest senator in U.S. history. He was re-elected to the Senate six times, was the fourth most senior senator at the time of his resignation, and is the 15th-longest serving Senator in history. Biden was a long-time member and former chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee.

His strong advocacy helped bring about U.S. military assistance and intervention during the Bosnian War. He opposed the Gulf War in 1991. He voted in favor of the Iraq War Resolution in 2002, but later proposed resolutions to alter U.S. strategy there.

He has also served as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, dealing with issues related to drug policy, crime prevention, and civil liberties, and led creation of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act and Violence Against Women Act. He chaired the Judiciary Committee during the contentious U.S. Supreme Court nominations of Robert Bork and Clarence Thomas.

Biden unsuccessfully sought the Democratic presidential nomination in 1988 and 2008, both times dropping out early in the race.

Barack Obama selected Biden to be the Democratic Party nominee for Vice President in the 2008 U.S. presidential election. Biden is the first Roman Catholic and the first Delawarean to become Vice President of the United States. As Vice President, Biden has been heavily involved in Obama's decision-making process and held the oversight role for infrastructure spending from the Obama stimulus package aimed at counteracting the late-2000s recession.

His ability to negotiate with Congressional Republicans played a key role in bringing about the bipartisan deals that resulted in the Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010 that resolved a taxation deadlock and the Budget Control Act of 2011 that resolved the United States debt ceiling crisis.

Joe Biden has been instrumental in deal making with the stubborn Republican leaders in Congress.

This year, the election took at turn with the vice president's "put y'all back in chains" comment. Just like the president's "you didn't build that" comment, the Republicans seized upon the comments and took it to the campaign.

Tonight Vice President Joe Biden makes a passionate plea for the reelection of Barack Obama for president.

Eva Longoria and Gabrielle Giffords Shakes Things Up.

Eva Longoria, speaks at the DNC

The actress of Desperate Housewives is a big supporter of President Barack Obama. Her time to shine comes at the Democratic National Convention. Eva Longoria shares her stories of living in Corpus Christi, Texas. She tells her stories of growing up in a family with a sister with special needs. Tales of working at fast food restaurants, day laboring and now acting, Longoria makes her case to make to help the president win reelection. The actress joins Kerry Washington, Scarlett Johansson as major contributors to the president's campaign.

Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (D- Florida) assist Gabby Giffords in pledge.
A huge standing ovation and plenty of tears for former Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords.

The tragedy in January 2011, killed six and severely injured the congresswoman. The shooter Jared Lee Loughner was arrested and charged with a federal crime for the death of a federal judge and state charges for the deaths of the remaining five.

Giffords has suffered significant brain damage. Due to the injuries she had resigned from U.S. Congress the following year.

Jared Lee Loughner was sentenced to life in prison after the prosecutors gave him a sanity drugged up.

She got the opportunity to say the Pledge of Allegiance with Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (D-Florida), the Democratic Party National Leader.

View these videos here.






Big Willie Style!

Bill Clinton makes the case for President Barack Obama.
For nearly 50 minutes, former president Bill Clinton lays the ground work for an awesome speech. President Barack Obama biggest ally comes to the defense of Republican attacks.

Many Republicans and even conservative agitator Sean Hannity had tried their best to make the case that Bill and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton are angry at the president for the 2008 U.S. Democratic primary elections.

When you look at how much Bill loves to talk, many of the party's faithful were eating it up!

Bill Clinton puts the Democratic (Save Obama) National Convention in the spotlight. The economy is the major focus. President Barack Obama is embattled by the struggling economy.

Hopefully the president can win back his voters.

Others include women's right advocate Sandra Fluke and U.S. Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren.

Wednesday, September 05, 2012

A Declaration Of Women At DNC!

From private citizen to the face of the women's right movement, 31 year old Sandra Fluke became the target of Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly and Monica Crowley's attacks on her. In 2012, Rush Limbaugh called Fluke a "slut" and "prostitute" for testifying at congressional hearing.
U.S. senate candidate Elizabeth Warren is in a race against Republican senator Scott Brown of Massachusetts. The firebrand liberal activist is appearing at the Democratic National Convention.

The country's most hottest races for U.S. Senate is squarely on the states of Missouri, Ohio, Florida and Massachusetts, all considered toss ups according to most polls. Republicans need only four states to have control of the Senate.

Warren was drafted to be President Barack Obama's choice for the Consumer Protection Bureau that was established in 2010 after the Democratic controlled senate passed banking and financial regulation reform.

The president couldn't get her under the wing because of Republican obstruction and she resend her nomination. The president went forth with a recess appointment of former Ohio attorney general Richard Cordray.

The Republicans despise her more than Hillary Clinton as of right now! They've been pouring money into this race giving the embattled Senator Scott Brown a 3:1 advantage in fundraising.

Now appearing for the national spotlight, Warren along with another figure that's made political buzz are to appear with former president Bill Clinton at tonight's Save Obama National Convention.

Let's get something out the way. The Republicans are pouncing on the cancellation of the president's acceptance speech being held at the Carolina Panther's stadium. The event was supposed to be held at the Bank of America Stadium but due to bad weather, I guess the president's acceptance speech will be at the current location, the Time Warner Cable Arena. Many figured that the president couldn't squeeze the supporters so they've cut back, making some volunteers upset. Fox News reporters and conservative agitators were gleeful that the magic of 2008 isn't here in Charlotte, North Carolina.

I question the judgement of this decision as well as the pressured delegation's acceptance of "god" and acknowledgment of "Jerusalem being the national capital of Israel" is another political expediency to keep the remaining support among Jewish and Catholic voters. These blocks are shaky on the president. Although Jewish voters still have support for President Barack Obama over Mitt Romney but its waning.

Elizabeth Warren will make her speech before former president Bill Clinton.

Now let's continue.

The birth control issue has been a major issue among Catholic voters and the president. They don't support abortions and mandatory enforcement of giving women birth control. The president got into a heated controversy this year when a Georgetown law student and activist was roundly criticized by the conservative media for standing up for birth control. Her rise to fame came when conservative agitator Rush Limbaugh gave a not so subtle attack at her.
Elizabeth Warren, a consumer rights advocate is running for the U.S. Senate in Massachusetts. She became the voice of the common worker. Her inspirations created the Consumer Protection Bureau. She is in competitive race with U.S. Senator Scott Brown (R-Massachusetts).
Sandra Fluke was the Democratic Party's choice for a congressional testimony hearing being chaired by Republican congressman Darrell Issa of California. Congressman Issa and Congressman Elliah Cummings (D-Maryland) held hearing on the mandate of birth control at private and religious institutions.

Republicans brought forth a testimony with mostly men to discuss the topic of birth control. That cause an uproar. The Republicans wanted to do damage control. They allowed Fluke to testify in an off the record testimony. When she appeared at the congressional hearing. She had an opportunity to show her concerns about a friend who was struggling to pay her bill and was diagnosis with a disease. The story managed to win over the attention of Rush Limbaugh.

Limbaugh didn't know the name of the woman at the time of the testimony. He called her Susan Fluke at first. He then went on to criticizing her hairstyle, her demeanor, why she's a 30-year old still in college and labeled her a prostitute and then a slut. He spent a portion of his three hour show trashing the woman. The worst thing about it was the fact that he wanted to see a sex tape of her and the other woman she had shared a story about.

By the end of the day, the firestorm was brewed. Media Matters for America, a liberal activist group monitoring conservative figures in the media took the transcripts to the web and it lit up.

By Friday, over a 100 thousand people were outraged over the comments and demanded the conservative agitator was punished for his comments. The controversy generated a lukewarm apology from the conservative agitator. He wrote a message stating that he was sorry for making this comment and placed the blame on President Barack Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama and the liberal media for misquoting him.

By the start of the new week, Think Progress and Color of Change has put forth a national boycott on Rush Limbaugh. They went forth to target his sponsors. Carbonite, Avis, Walmart, General Motors, ProFlowers, Burger King, UPS, Lowe's, State Farm, Office Max, Toyota, Advance Auto Parts, Bullfrog Sunscreen, The Home Depot, Rite Aid and numerous others.

President Barack Obama called in Fluke later that week and express his gratitude and support of her. Rush Limbaugh reacts to it. He calls the president a coward for meddling in this affair and demands apologies for Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-Minnesota), Sarah Palin, Michelle Malkin and Ann Coulter after being targeted by controversial figures. Libertarian comedian Bill Maher is a primary focus of the conservative media's outrage because he mocked the conservative women.

Rush Limbaugh blames the media for his advertising drop and yes he demands retribution. He urged his conservative allies to make the case for him whenever a public figure or even a private figure attacks any conservative based on their race, gender or religion (primarily Christian Catholic or Jewish).

Rush Limbaugh continues to be the top dog in talk radio. Although Mike Huckabee is growing in popularity and Sean Hannity is looking forward to take Limbaugh's mantle someday, the unprecedented Big Voice of The Right will stay on four more years of Barack Obama if he's reelected.

Sandra Fluke gets her digs at Rush Limbaugh, Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan at the Save Obama National Convention.

View these videos here.



Inside UNC Charlotte - 49er Democracy Experience Special Report #2



Our second daily report from UNC Charlotte's engagement in the presidential nominating convention in Charlotte features more students experiencing once-in-a-lifetime opportunities, a 49er who was a delegate to the GOP Convention in Tampa, the thoughts of Charlotte leaders who helped bring the DNC to the city, and some of the images from the streets of Uptown Charlotte.




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