Unconventional Wisdom

Go here to take it. I got 10 out of 10 with a couple of very shrewd guesses!

Apparently Drinking with Bob is more upset about the fact that no one running for President is talking about getting things done while the big issue of the election is Obama’s middle name. I’m with him though what does it matter about his middle name?

It pisses me off when they kept mentioning his middle name and the precepts of his church but this could certainly be a problem. Hattip Newsalert from Chicago Tribune...

Speaking to thousands of members of the Nation of Islam in Chicago at their annual convention, Minister Louis Farrakhan on Sunday praised presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama as the only hope for healing America’s racial divisions.

Farrakhan spoke about the war in Iraq, the nation’s ailing economy and the increase in natural disasters, saying the world was in a perilous state and Obama could help it recover.

“We are witnessing the phenomenal rise of a man of color in a country that has persecuted us because of our color,” he said.

“If you look at Barack Obama’s [diverse] audiences and look at the effect of his words, those people are being transformed from what they were,” Farrakhan said. “This young man is the hope of the entire world that America will change and be a better place.”

The speech, titled “The Gods At War—The Future is All About Y.O.U.th,” closed the Nation of Islam’s annual Saviours’ Day Convention, which commemorates the birth of the movement’s founder, Wallace D. Fard Muhammad.

Five months later, in February 2007, Farrakhan appeared at Ford Field in Detroit, suggesting it was time for a new era.

The Sunday speech at McCormick Place convention center again contradicted statements that Farrakhan’s speech in Detroit last year was his final public address. Speculation arose about a potential successor to the controversial 74-year-old Muslim leader after September 2006, when an ailing Farrakhan handed leadership of the Nation over to an executive board.

Let’s hope the NOI leader doesn’t actively campaign with the budding leader for change.

And there will be some more as I come to them! I really want to try this. I like to cook and I like to really make an attempt at this.

Andrew Sullivan thinks we might be nearing the end of the Clintons’ run for the Presidency. What might you think about that?

Either this is a lame attempt at mocking Obama or she really wants to be President!

For both the Democrats and Republicans at CBS News. Obama has got a ways to go and so does McCain. They both need a certain amount in order to secure the nomination. It’s almost like securing electors for the Electoral College.

I wonder if both of these races are going to go down to the conventions this summer. Might someone come out of nowhere and win the nomination in either party?

There are still a few more primaries to go because apparently Texas, Pennsylvania, Ohio, North Carolina, haven’t had their primaries yet. There are primaries up thru June according to CBS’ election calendar so who knows when the nominee will finally be determined!