strange trees bear bitter fruit

i am not a superdelegate.

i do not have a cable news show ... yet.

and america is the strange tree by the way.

but in my parent's living room in early, early april i declared that barack obama would win pennsylvania.

i got grandparents in KOP (king of prussia, PA) which is the home to the 2nd biggest mall in america. i used to live in philly ... does that make me an expert? well, what makes any of these pundits experts? i just got a gut feeling cuz what i know is that pennsy is not ohio ... thank God.

i got a gut feeling in the middle of hardball with chris matthews ... that obama would win PA.

who knows where it came from? but if i've learned anything after too many years of formal education it is that ... you must trust your gut.

and then the bitter battle blew up. and i thought: God works in mysterious ways.

cuz at first (on mid-Friday of april 11th) it seemed as if this bitter bullshit was gonna bite bam bam in the butt and cost him votes all throughout blue-collar america.

but it has not. my points below are going from least intelligent to most intelligent. the first point is the most obvious and the least profound and it kinda builds from there ... it's also going in order of the way people think ... people think about sensationalism first, and truth last ...

first off, clinton and mccain's "elitist" attacks are blowing up in their faces. ery body in blog-o-ville is already saying what most of america knows - they (mccain and clinton) are the elites of the elites! and it has also been revealed that senator hills' own husband made similar remarks to obama's.

second, obama was right. nuff said.

third, 2008 is not 1998 and it really aint 1984 (geraldine!). hillary clinton has been in a time warp throughout this entire campaign. she thinks red states are still red ... she thinks women can't appear human ... she thinks she has to pander ... she thinks she has to 'play the game' ... i don't uh blame her but i call a spade a spade - she's misreading the american landscape of TODAY, 2008 ... and now, she assumes that she can take the sexy words out of obama's mouth and stuff them down america's throat as if it was the total truth.

hillary clinton is having GOP flashbacks ... she's acting as if she is in a 1990's campaign. hillary thinks that the tactics republicans used so successfully against gore and so on will work against her own democratic rival. what she doesn't recognize is that obama is too smart and has elevated the conversational bar too high for that.

she's acting like the american people are not fed up with the iraq war - both parties ... she's acting like george w. bush gave idiocy, soundbites, and the republican party a good name ... i think g-dub innoculated america from nepotism ... america is now (post-9/11 and post-george w. bush) ready for some substance, real experience, and a whole lotta hope ...

fourth, the words are out of context (surprise surprise). never mind that obama said many words before and after the bitter quote ... i got a more balanced account of what was said and how it was said from someone else who was there (click this link to read it for yourself here : http:// www.huffingtonpost.com/david-coleman/ i-was-there-what-obama-re_b_96553.html).

turns out obama also talked about urban, large-city people in the same manner. what strikes me as HILLARIOUS is that mayhill fowler, who broke this story on huffingtonpost.com, had NOTHING to say about obama's critique of low-income city dwellers. i think it reveals fowler's own personal issues - like the fact that she is preoccupied with how SHE experiences america and this campaign - as evidenced in her other blogs. it also shows a lack of balanced journalism. sure, you can say obama said bitter this and bitter that ... but to be 'fair' and that is what journalism 'strives' to do she should also have said that obama did have comments about urban blight.

i'd love to see THOSE quotes - about how ghetto folk are self-destructive - thrown about on cnn, politico.com and the ny times in equal measure. but that would be too much like ... wright, right? that would mean that all the white newcasters would have to think about people who don't effect them ... they would have to stop worrying about how blue collar (code for WHITE) small town residents will be offended by obama. the majority-white media is stuck on these quotes because they feel that obama is talking about their FAMILY. they are also stuck in the same campaign paradigm as hillary which is so 2004. you know that pol talk i heard on meet the press this sunday: the democractic party always fails to reach the centrist southerner, the mid west miner ........ they are not so concerned about obama's prescriptions and sociological analysis of the majority of colored people who live in urban areas.

well, i'm still calling it. obama gonna take PA. both clinton and bam bam gave a speech in pennsy this morning of april 14th and both referenced obama's 'bitter' remarks. bam bam was met with applause and cheers. clinton got BOO-ed.

pennsylvania can smell bullshit a mile away. which is why my prediction will come true. oh, yes, it can.