John McCain Have You No Shame?

John McCain gaffes, flip-flops and now rips off the Obama Campaign slogan. Maybe John should try to make a decision on his own before Barack does.


UPDATE: A comment on my blog rightfully pointed out there was not anything to back up Barack Obama's statements for Change and that Michelle Obama was possibly a closet racist. I apologize for that oversight so I've now included some facts.

He went on to earn his law degree from Harvard in 1991, where he became the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review. Soon after, he returned to Chicago to practice as a civil rights lawyer and teach constitutional law. Finally, his advocacy work led him to run for the Illinois State Senate, where he served for eight years. In 2004, he became the third African American since Reconstruction to be elected to the U.S. Senate.


Michelle Obama at her home in Hyde Park. (Tribune photo by Zbigniew Bzdak)

Girl was likable, but Black
by BRIAN FEAGANS @ ajc.com

Catherine Donnelly shopped at Kmart, settled into her dorm room and soaked up the Gothic stone buildings where, over the next four years, she would grow into her own woman.

But her first day at Princeton held a surprise, too. And Donnelly knew it would mean confronting the past.

She walked into the historic Nassau Inn that evening and delivered the news to her mother, Alice Brown. "I was horrified," recalled Brown, who had driven her daughter up from New Orleans. Brown stormed down to the campus housing office and demanded Donnelly be moved to another room.

The reason: One of her roommates was black.

"I told them we weren't used to living with black people — Catherine is from the South," Brown said. "They probably thought I was crazy."

The future Michelle Obama, from Chicago's Southside, would playfully tease the third roommate, who was white. Obama's long fingers still narrate stories in Donnelly's mind. "From the minute we met," she says, "I liked her."

Michelle Obama's senior thesis, however, delved into the experience of black alumni at Princeton and provides some insight into her mind-set at the time.

"Regardless of the circumstances under which I interact with Whites at Princeton, it often seems as if, to them, I will always be Black first and a student second."

Closet racist, who knows? Feeling different and out of place sometimes, you bet. Does that make a woman a racist? I don't think so. I think it makes her a fighter for change and that's just where her education and career took her.