After 8 stupid years, I’m glad the American public has finally woken up.

I like this comment (from http://www.blackagendareport.com ):

Proud of Obama, why not Rice or Powell?
written by Aluta , November 09, 2008

We have a Black man who has reached the presidential position even though Black people did nothing instrumental to get him into that position. Popular votes are virtually meaningless. Obama’s success; patterns the rise of both Rice and Powell. Why did we never embrace Condeleeza’s success? She’s African American She also does her job extremely well! Powell also did a more than eloquent job presenting the reasons to go to war with Iraq to the UN. If you are going to embrace Obama, then we need to start to give all our competent, well spoken; African Americans some long overdue praise because ‘They’ set the stage for an Obama win not Black people in general. Like our Black CEOs eg former Fannie Mae exec Franklin Raines have done a great jobs working for the ’system’ Not the betterment of Black peoples. For all those who say the symbol of a Black man as president is ‘enough’ lets look at South Africa. The site of Mandela walking out of prison (not blasted out) by SA Blacks and installed as the President (not by a coup,) for South African Blacks especially; had to be the equivalent; if not more; exhilarating than what many Blacks in America are experiencing now. However, the truth about SA is obvious now. It is going to be even ‘harder’ to empower Black SA than it was under the obviously oppressive apartheid regime.
Some say;
“Looking at Obama our Black children have a lot to look forward to” But what do they really have to look fwd to? To becoming Secretary of Commerce (courtesy of Ron Brown) Secretary of State (courtesy of Powell & Rice), Chairman of the Joints Chiefs of Staff, (Powell) Assistant Secretary of African Affairs, Ambassador to SA (courtesy of J. Frazer), Head of Africom (courtesy of General’Kip’Ward and now President (courtesy of Obama) We’ve come a long way, Baby! It’s time to detox from the Kool Aid’. With all this ‘intelligence’why are we still the most exploited people on the planet? Is this what we are raising our daughters to be ‘Condeleeza?’ Also. There can be no ‘preference’ (Obama vs McCain)discussion when it comes to Obama. There was no preference discussion in SA with Mandela. Many popular PAC leaders could have been president of SA. Many SA Blacks feel betrayed by the Mandela presidency. They have invested 17 yrs of their lives for that dream of Black sovereignty only to have the perpetual misery that still exists their today. So if you are indeed proud of this moment in history do not be arrogant enough to belittle/criticize your Black Brothers who warn you in the most kind moderate way to be ‘vigilant’(because they know our mental suffering needs a triumphant ‘moment’) and also don’t be hypocritical because we have had many competent, well spoken, intelligent Black people in our history we’ve just shunned them quickly when it became apparent that they were not working for ‘us’/against ‘us’ </

Biden – Christian (in the loose sense of it maybe, i don’t know)

Emanuel – Jewish

Sonal – Hindu (extremist at that)

Has he appointed Muslims to any influential positions?