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What’s interesting about American Crossroads’ “Celebrity” attack ad against the president (above) is that it glamorizes Barack Obama and, frankly, makes him look cool. Now, this may whip the plastic-sofa-cover crowd into a frenzy—and there is a certain logic to that because they’ll actually show up and vote—but the video is dynamically entertaining to anyone under age 85. Worse, it underscores how boring and out of touch Mitt Romney is. The faux-“gangsta” music is intended to evoke black fear, to strike the same chord that unnerves middle-aged whites when they hear those jungle drums rumbling down the block toward them (usually to find some scrawny white kid behind the wheel). It is a patently and blatantly racist ad, but I actually don’t mind it. I like the music. I find myself wishing the ad were a little longer. And I’m educated enough to know virtually all of the grim statistics at the end of the ad are courtesy of Republican obstructionists who have delayed the recovery and worsened the recession by blocking or watering down every initiative this president has ever made, only to now attack him for our bleak situation. This is how ardent and skillful liars provoke and capitalize on fear, loudly if not proudly playing the race card and demonizing “cool” as if it’s something bad or something to be ashamed of. These people are nitwits, and the people blindly invested in them, to the point of abandoning every core value they’ve claimed to stand for in order to back a clearly disingenuous liar like Mitt Romney, are even bigger idiots. But this is how they win: they scare the Leave It To Beaver crowd into showing up, stirring them up to a frenzy. Turn down that music! Get off my lawn! Meanwhile, the tens of millions of young people, who outnumber these reactionary racist fobs perhaps 5 to 1, are too selfish, stupid and lazy to show up at the polls. They will bop to the commercial and scowl at the people who made it, but they won’t show up. Not deliberately, they’ll just forget or oversleep or be too busy fornicating and smoking dope. Or they just won’t feel like getting dressed. This is the president’s core constituency: a veritable army of navel-starers overwhelmed by the tyranny of having to register and show up. But grandpa Joe, his nerves rattled and his blood boiling from the hippity-hoppity music in this ad, will be there at dawn to throw the president out on his ear, even if it means voting in a pro-life, gay-affirming Mormon liar. Oh-BAH-ma! Oh-BAH-ma! Oh-BAH-ma!

Bill Clinton vs. Billy Graham On Gay Marriage

MSNBC News
As North Carolina prepares to vote on a controversial amendment to the state constitution that would define marriage as between a man and a woman, both sides are making their final push, including enlisting high-profile backers -- such as former President Bill Clinton and evangelist Billy Graham -- to their cause. The amendment, also known as Amend-ment One, would make marriage the only domestic legal union that would be valid in the state. Opponents say the measure is unnecessary since North Carolina already has a statute in place banning gay marriage, and it could jeopardize domestic violence protections for women and affect health benefits for domestic partners. But backers say those fears are overblown.
Voters head to the polls on Tuesday to cast their ballot on the amendment and candidates races in the 2012 primary, but 508,000 people already have participated through absentee ballot, according to the State Board of Elections. That record turnout surpassed even the 2008 primary between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, according to Democracy North Carolina. On Sunday, hundreds of thousands of North Carolina homes received an audio recording of Clinton encouraging people to vote against the amendment. In it, he raised the health care and domestic violence concerns, and also said it could hinder efforts to lure new business to the state.
"So the real effect of the law is not to keep the traditional definition of marriage, you’ve already done that," Clinton says in the recording. "The real effect of the law will be to hurt families and drive away jobs. North Carolina can do better.” READ FULL ARTICLE

Black Cornell University Students Taunted With Trayvon References

CORNELL DAILY SUN
Allegedly taunting them with references to Trayvon Martin, a group of people on the roof of the Sigma Pi fraternity house reportedly threw bottles and other objects at black students who were walking by the house early Sunday morning, according to several accounts. Sigma Pi President Zach Smith said in an email Sunday afternoon that the fraternity has “figured out who the perpetrator was, and will turn his name over to police.” The individual identified was not a brother of the fraternity, he said.
     Cornell Chief of Police Kathy Zoner confirmed that people were “reportedly making racial references” and throwing bottles from the roof of Sigma Pi. She added that she could not disclose more information because the investigation, which is being led by Ithaca Police, is ongoing. Beverly Fonkwo said she was walking home with a friend when, unprovoked, the group on the fraternity roof began throwing objects that landed near a group walking behind them.
     When the people walking behind Fonkwo asked them to stop, the people on top of the fraternity continued to throw objects — including a Jack Daniels that landed near the group behind and an unopened beer can that landed near Fonkwo and her friend — she said. Smith added that he was “shocked” upon learning of the incident later Sunday morning.
     “We pride ourselves on having a very diverse house,” he said. “It’s not the character of our house and not any way we’d like Sigma Pi to be represented.” READ FULL ARTICLE