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We are working very hard to develop a brand new website, a brand new project umbrella for all of my new media productions and now we are getting very close to launching the new version of my radio program "The Marcus Carey Perspective".
Here is a taste of what it will be like. Today I talk about Governor Palin.
When I return from court today I will publish my in depth look at the glitz, the glamor and the gloom which was the recipe for Obama's Denver dazzle last night with insights you can only get by seeing the world through "The Marcus Carey Perspective."
Keep checking back.
***UPDATE***
When I predicted yesterday that Barack Obama would hit one out of the park in his acceptance speech at Invesco field I went out on a limb. Why? Because there was so much hype surrounding the event that expectations were almost too high, which of course set the stage for a big disappointment. Instead Obama hit the first pitch deep into left field.
No one can credibly claim that the venue, the staging, the fireworks and the historic energy of that moment were anything but spectacular. Last night was a great night for Americans of all political persuasions. A black man received his party's nomination for the presidency of the United States. We must all stand up and applaud that progress. But too, we are all entitled to claim that accomplishment.
Not just democrats, not just the Obama organizers not just Barack Obama, but every American owns a share of that progress. As Barack Obama himself said we are not a divided nation, we are the United States of America, and it is we, all of us, who gave birth to that historic accomplishment. That birth was painful at times, the labor was long and the outcome uncertain, but it is our nation, our liberty and our perseverance which never gave up and did not terminate the birth, but pushed hard to deliver it.
Now the confetti is being placed into bags, the stage dismantled and the lights coming down. Now the question is not did we do enough to celebrate a great milestone in American politics, the question is which direction do we go from here. And in that respect, Barack Obama let us down.
Yes he spoke glowingly of America's future, yes he paid homage to the sacrifices which are being made everyday, by everyday people to defend liberty and provide hope for a better tomorrow, yet he let us down by pandering to our doubts and our insecurities.
When he claims that America is broken he appeals to our sense of failure as a nation in the same breath he gives credit to us for bringing him to that moment. When he claims that all Americans are struggling he panders to those who are struggling and those who are not but who he knows will weep in a movie theater at a sad story, well orchestrated by Hollywood, after driving to the multi-plex in a BMW, paying $20 for a ticket and $20 more for a popcorn and a soda.
When Obama says that the policies of the last 8 years are a failure he is talking about a United nation, one where the Congress has been under the control of his party for the last two years and a government which has been at work like a functioning alcoholic, operating as a bloated bureaucracy created, funded and expanded by his party, his ideals and his plans for the future.
When he talked about reaching out to each other and being our brother and sister's keeper, he was not talking about personal accountability, he was asking for permission to make government everybody's big brother.
And when he said he would cut taxes in the same paragraph he said he wanted free health care payments, free college and freedom from want for all Americans, he pandered to the uninformed who fail to recognize that government has no money of its own, only the power to take it from its citizens under threat of imprisonment, or confiscation of property.
Yes it was a great moment in history and the fireworks made the celebration of that event all the more memorable. But it's not the ceremony upon which we should focus over the next several days, rather it's the fact that the man who came so far, has no ability to take us any farther because he all about the honeymoon, and incapable of doing the honey-do's.
We should applaud Barack Obama. We should remember that night. But more importantly we should not allow the intoxicating nature of that event to cloud our judgment this morning or lure us into an addiction to the euphoria that event was carefully crafted to create.
Instead today we are back at work, we need to be clear headed and understand that while the party last night might have been fun, there is important work to do and that party is over.
Congratulations Barack Obama. With the bases loaded you pointed at the stands and delivered what could be the winning run, just like you promised. But in the end you didn't put the ball over the wall. Instead you hit the ball hard and it landed deep in left field. Now you've got to run like the wind to make it home before being thrown out by a much more experienced team with strong arms and an intense desire to win.
Will McCain trump Obama's diss of Hillary and by picking Governor Palin of Alaska win both the women's vote and the male vote by sending a very clear message that:
TWO BABES ARE BETTER THAN NONE?
Jan 18, 2007
Memphis police are investigating a home invasion that ended in a shooting.
Police say 84-year-old Willie Hancox called 911 around two Friday afternoon to say that he had shot an intruder.
Hancox says he fired two shots, hitting an intruder twice in the head.
Hancox says he is sick of the crime in his community.
"He said if they come in the door, I'm not gonna let them kill me and he meant that," says neighbor, Dorothy Dickerson.
Dickerson lives across the street and looks after Hancox.
Dickerson adds, "I say God is good, cause they had no business in there, and whoever did that got what they deserved. And, I say it in front of they face, not behind they back and I mean it."
Dickerson's sentiment is shared by most neighbors.
"He did the right thing," says neighbor, Markel Dickerson. "People that's law abiding people is getting tired of being pushed around by the thugs and thieves and dope dealers."
As reported by WMC-TV Memphis
With the development of a brand new website underway and the planned re-tooling of my radio program "The Marcus Carey Perspective", I am pleased to announce several all new "New Media" projects which we will roll out beginning next week. I am very excited by this new venture and hope you enjoy what we will be doing.
And since Monday, September 1st is the opening day of dove season in Kentucky, here is a new episode of "THE WOODSMAN'S HOUR" where we will cover hunting, shooting and all things outdoors. Plan to tune in and keep looking for our new website.
Happy hunting everybody!
I have said it many times and it bears repeating, the democrats are much better at political campaigning than republicans. And the DNC convention thus far with Hillary, Bill and Biden on base is the classic set up for Obama's chance to hit a grand slam tonight.
Hillary's speech was dramatic, self aggrandizing and her orange pantsuit vivid against the light blue background. It was effective.
Bill's speech was classic Slick Willie, filled with the kind of populist appeal that could talk a twenty year old intern out of her panties. He strummed the heartstrings of America like the slick talker he is. His speech was very effective.
Biden made a solid hit, hard down the middle and just enough to set the stage for Obama's chance tonight. He was very effective.
Now comes the cleanup, the great orator, The One.
Despite McCain's ridicule of the setting for tonight's acceptance speech, calling the venue with its Greek inspired columns "Temple Of Obama" and "Barackopolis", Obama's surrogates are out describing the setting as intended to remind people of the columns on the portico of the White House.
They point out that their staging is intended to show Obama walking to the podium on a long carpet like the one presidents stride upon to deliver important speeches. They say the stadium is a metaphor for an open campaign, a big house of ideas which will enthrall voters with the imagery of a nation enthusiastically ready for change.
And with a sharp eye focused on their 90% plus support among African American voters, the Obama campaign believes that the historic timing of tonight's speech, on the 45th anniversary of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I HAVE A DREAM" speech, will forever solidify this moment in history and will deliver voters to the polls in November with tunnel vision loyalty to and the singular purpose of electing Barack Obama the first black president in America.
Will it work? Will he deliver? Will Obama hit one out of the park tonight? I say he will. I think that the critics of the timing of the Hillary speech on one night and the Bill speech on another night as being too much Clinton and not enough Obama once again failed to see the big picture.
When Bill Clinton ran in 1992 my republican friends could not wrap their minds around the idea that an unknown Arkansas governor and his radical wife could make it to the White House. OOPS!
And then, with all of his foibles, all of his baggage, all of the hatred toward him the GOP ginned up, there was no chance he could win again in 1996. Double OOPS!
And against that record of debauchery his running mate, the lisping, arrogant dunderhead Gore surely had no shot in 2000, yet he won the popular vote, turned the contest into a lawsuit and damned near won the presidency.
If anybody out there in the GOP thinks that Obama/Biden have no chance because America is not ready to elect a black man, or because the world is too dangerous to trust the presidency to an inexperienced half term senator from the thugfest of Chicago politics, you better learn from history, and fast, unless you want to be doomed to repeat it.
This convention has so dramatically defied the model carried around in the heads of republicans that many conservative pundits have to be asking themselves this morning, "What just happened?"
Well here's what just happened. Once again, while the GOP remains focused on policy, the DNC is focused on politics, and between now and November the only game in town is politics.
The democrats will come into Invesco field tonight not only determined to win that game but by all indications, they intend to do so in dramatic fashion.
The bases are loaded, and all Americans are sitting on the edge of their seats. You've seen the windup, now here comes the pitch of a lifetime.
Remember the story posted here recently about a young woman who was escorted from a Richmond mall over her short dress? Who did she sue? A website that allowed what she alleges was a false and defamatory comment to be posted, yet later removed.
From the Lexington Herald Leader:
A college student who says she was kicked out of a Central Kentucky mall for wearing a short dress has filed suit over comments posted about her on a newspaper's Web site.
Clem's attorney says an anonymous posting four days later alleged that Clem had exposed herself to a woman and two children. The comment was posted on a forum on the Richmond Register newspaper's Web site.
Attorney Wesley Browne says the comment was "false" and "malicious." The newspaper erased the comment, and the poster, known as "12bme," was banned. The paper reported the lawsuit Tuesday.
THIS PROJECT
