Obama donates, asks donors to help Clinton's debt

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WASHINGTON — Barack Obama told Hillary Rodham Clinton's top financial backers Thursday that he personally has donated $2,300 to her campaign and more significantly has asked his biggest donors to help pay off her more than $20 million debt.

Obama made the announcement at a meeting with Clinton donors who have been frustrated that the Democratic presidential nominee-in-waiting had not done more to help her pay the bills even as they are expected to help fund his campaign.

My Blog is Two Years Old

This month marks the second year of my blog. I want to thank my contributors to my blog. I thank you from the bottom of my heart.

Here's several news and links:

A requiem for James Byrd whose life was taken by hate:
http://kathmanduk2.wordpress.com/2008/06/25/james-byrd-jr-may-2-1949-june-7-1998/#comment-7482

Thanks, Ann, for posting the article and the beautiful rose that was presented in James Byrd's memory. May he rests in peace.


Abagond's post on why so few White men marry Black women:

http://abagond.wordpress.com/2008/06/25/why-so-few-white-men-marry-black-women/
A very hard-hitting, yet truthful article. It's not for those who are invested in the status quo.

Hate Crimes, More than Black and White:

http://kathmanduk2.wordpress.com/2008/06/25/racism-not-always-black-and-white/
That's so true as this nation is becoming more and more multiracial, multicultural, and mutiethnic by the hour. People who hate the changes are getting more vocal and sometimes violent. This is a must-read post by Ann. Thanks, Ann!

Ann also have another post regarding how America treats Black women who are victims of serial killers:

http://kathmanduk2.wordpress.com/2008/06/24/from-the-archives-poor-black-female-cheap-lives/
From slavery onward, Black female lives have always been expendable by the larger society, even from our own Black community. As long as people think that there are no Black serial killers, that Black women's lives worth little from the larger society, no woman is safe. Check out my older article here.

Thamia Kelley is missing

9 year old Thamia Kelley of Fruitridge California has been missing since June 14. See this beautiful child's picture and learn more about her case by clicking the link below. Let's all pray that she is found alive and in good condition.

http://www.letstalkhonestly.com/missingblackwomen.html

A Jihad For Love

Queen Strips Mugabe of Knighthood

Queen Strips Mugabe of Knighthood - NYTimes.com
Queen Elizabeth II has stripped Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe’s strongman president for nearly 30 years, of his honorary knighthood as a “mark of revulsion” at the human rights abuses and “abject disregard” for democracy over which he has presided, the British Foreign Office announced Wednesday.

The rebuke showed the extent of international frustration over Mr. Mugabe’s insistence to go ahead with a presidential runoff on Friday, even though his sole opponent, Morgan Tsvangirai, pulled out of race on Sunday because of the persistent violence and intimidation against him, his party and their supporters.

Five Myths About the New Wiretapping Law

Why the new wiretapping law is a lot worse than you think. - By Patrick Radden Keefe - Slate Magazine
Sometime today, the Senate is likely to approve the most comprehensive overhaul of American surveillance law since the Watergate era. Unless you're a government lawyer, a legal scholar, a masochist, or an insomniac, chances are you haven't read the 114-page bill. Don't beat yourself up: Neither have most of the 293 House members who voted for it last week. Ditto the mainstream press, who seem to have relied chiefly on summaries provided by the same lawmakers who hadn't read it.

James Dobson accuses Obama of `distorting' Bible

James Dobson accuses Obama of `distorting' Bible - Yahoo! News

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - As Barack Obama broadens his outreach to evangelical voters, one of the movement's biggest names, James Dobson, accuses the likely Democratic presidential nominee of distorting the Bible and pushing a "fruitcake interpretation" of the Constitution.