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Friday, January 11, 2008

CAN'T TRUSS IT

So the Vaunted Political Polls were drastically inaccurate in predicting Obama’s smashing of Hillary in the New Hampshire primary (one of them polls has Barak up 13 points! Like that was ever to be believed?! I would have shit on that poll result the minute I saw it).

The innate problem with using matrixes to predict the outcome of anything is that one is dealing with a limited sample, and you can never never never never ever predict the behavior of the surprised –

Even though a certain swath of the American electorate wants Obama, they were not going to allow a nigga whup up on a political stalwart in such a critical time. And most likely throughout the rest of the democratic campaigns, there will but those whites, blacks and other people of color who will subconscious steer away from Obama – will shouting his name, mind you – and his candidacy.

But he's not the only one having to overcome a certain level of discrimination. When Hillary hecklers yelled “Iron my shirt!” at her in Salem on Monday, it stirred sisterhood and she claimed a whole buncha chicks who were thinking about the svelt Mr. Obama – white, black, brown, didn’t matter they all wanted to bask in the glow that is Barak Obama, they HAD to vote for Hillary, especially after she exhibited her "choked up" moment.

The funny thing about Obama is, all the little jokes that Black comedians have been making since Bill Clinton was in office (when he was dubbed the “black president” by some), i.e. eating only fried chicken from the White House kitchen and usin’ Black ‘n Milds as sex toys, don’t seem to work with Obama being the one being dumped on. His blackness isn’t in question, but his ghetto-fabulousness, niggadom most definitely is – and SHOULD be; because that hyper-stylized form of so-called “blackness” might represent what is considered “real” in the hip-hop world, but is suspect in the military-industrial world that churns the nation’s economic backbone.




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