My Candidate - Barack Obama
Friday, February 1, 2008 at 8:58PM
I have never made a contribution to a political campaign in my life. I was born in a country where for the first 20+ years of my life no one could vote. I grew up under monarchic Middle Eastern regimes where the word "democracy" did not exist in our political lexicon. It was not until 2000 that my homeland saw the face of true democracy for the first time since our independence more than forty years earlier.
That year I became a US citizen, and the first vote I ever cast in my life was in an American election. And yet until now I've never contributed financially. I've always felt there were better uses of my money than to support what I've perceived to be a pervasive disingenuity and ineffectiveness that at times appears almost endemic to our political climate. This year, for the first time I have found a presidential candidate I can truly believe in - one who has the ability to stand not only for my interests, but for those of all of us as a nation.
As a registered Independent I've never been interested in voting for the party - on Tuesday I am voting for the candidate. And my candidate is Barack Obama. I hope you will make him yours as well.
Join me and make a donation now:
https://donate.barackobama.com/match
Every dollar counts. Please reach out to your friends and ask them to stand up and be counted!
Thanks,
D.N.A
P.S. Don't sleep folks, Democracy is ALIVE in 2008! This is our country and we can make it whatever we want it to be. Get excited, get informed and GET INVOLVED! Peace.
General
Reader Comments (16)
I'm with you. This is the first time I've ever contributed to a political campaign, too.
I found the Soulfège website through a post on jackandjillpolitics.blogspot.com where Derrick really lays it on strong with an arrogant interviewer. By the way, the track posted on soulfege.com was beautiful and inspiring. Thanks.
I found your blog through links from a video showing your smooth, informed response to a rather obnoxious interviewer asking why you support Obama. Bravo! YES WE CAN!
http://jackandjillpolitics.blogspot.com/2008/02/my-boy-derrick-ashong-holds-it-down-for.html
Hey Derrick,
I just saw this video over the BMF list and wanted to give you props for the way you handled this interview. It was like watching intellectual judo, simply beautiful how you responded to his initial animosity and made your points respectfully and reasonably. Keep on inspiring us young kids.
Much love from Mali,
-oludamini
Expect quite a bit of web traffic....
Following your articulate and educated response to the questions posted to you while campaigning (you know..that lovely little interview where the independent reporter Mike tried to sterotype you as an uneducated voter)....the video feed has gone viral...and linked massively on Obama's official campaign website blog.....
I found out who you were...and since then have continued to post the link as well as your bands site for those who want to know more about you and your music.
YES WE CAN!!!!
Wow, your interview was so powerful, rang so true. Thank you for being the amazing young man that you are. I am an avid Obama supporter and I too, made my first contribution to a political campaign and MAN, DOES IT FEEL GOOD to have a candidate that speaks words I believe in! Thanks again DNA - I love your message as well.
I just saw your interview about Senator Barack Obama's policies on youtube. You were excellent and informed. As a fellow Obamacrat, I was proud of you. Thanks.
Thank you for your contribution to Senator Obama. I like you am an immigrant, and even so I voted before, I never contributed, never felt so inspired, so full of hope. I have also seen that this is the one time in history where we the people can make a difference and the one leader that can bring peace, unity, good leadership (honest and integrity ) is Senator Obama. I hope everyone who reads send contributions, we can do it, we can make change.
Hey Y'all--
I saw your interview with that reporter drilling you down about the specific reasons you support Obama and I just want to give you a shout out for confounding his stereotyping in 3-D. Democracy is ALIVE! I'm 40 and have never ever truly participated and I'm so fired up I don't know what to say. I'm on the committee to create events for Obama in PA and would love to feature your band--your music hits me at the core--this from a former college DJ (world music). So let's talk and see if we can collaborate. Your message is on target and I'd love to promote you while supporting our main goal - putting the big O in the White House!.
Peace,
Jude
It is the first time I've contributed too. Obama is the only politician who has ever inspired me. Because of him, I feel like there is hope for our country.
[...] You can also read Derrick’s original explanation of support for Obama here. [...]
Hey Derrick, I watched both of your vids and was pretty impressed and touched by your fervor. You truly give me hope about the existence of young, intelligent and informed black men. Keep up the good work.
Hi Derrick,
I am so disappointed that I did not get to see the video. I am also for Obama and I am proud to be apart of history. Not for the idea of a Black Man running for president with the possibility to win, but for witnessing a time when the America takes back their country. Please let me know how I could see this video.
Ruth Calabria, Chairperson
We endorse Barack Obama as the next president of the United States.
This is the most important election America will ever have, possibly the last if Barack Obama is not elected.
The Evolutionary Party derives its politics from the equation for evolution shown on the flag that has been in the textbooks for the last eighty years. A mathematical elaboration of it supported by data ranging from chemical kinetics to the evening news indicates that our “war on terror” is slowly but surely escalating to World War III, a truly terrifying thought. For that reason we support Barack Obama, for he is the only real anti-war candidate.
Hillary? Before Hillary came Bill. Let us recall Bill Clinton and his lovely first lady with a clear eye. This all smiling couple sang their song of health care so sweetly to the public but delivered, not on an increase in medical protection, but an increase in prison building and in the number of police roaming the streets, federally paid, looking for a reason to hassle the public and put those who get annoyed rather than cowed into one of those new Clinton prisons. And we accepted it all because it came from such a nice American couple with such nice smiles. Hillary, show us that your showboat is something other than a total fake.
What the Clintons did very much pleased the conservatives, who believe in lock ‘em up law and order because our laws are made by and for the eternal betterment of the moneyed class in America. What the Clintons did took America to the highest per-capita prison population in the world, a statistic historically associated with police states like Stalinist Russia and apartheid South Africa. No, the Evolutionary Party is not saying that America is a police state, if it were, you’d have heard about it on the evening news.
The Clinton presidency also ended social protection for out of work people, again quite pleasing the conservatives. The Clintons ended Lyndon Baines Johnson’s war on poverty and put all the homeless people you don’t see on TV onto the streets of Las Vegas and Sacramento where they are as thick as flies and can’t be missed unless you are blind. As some in the media actually are. Have you ever noticed Carol Costello’s eyes? Right out of the Stepford Wives. She is blind. You are sure of that by what she and the rest of the show your tits newscasters don’t say. Nothing that you actually see on the streets of America and on its busses and in its workplaces is ever talked about on TV.
And you have to wonder who Carole is banging for in the front office. We are not picking on her for that reason, though. Working women all across America have to fuck for their bosses, one way or another, to get ahead in life. So it is very unlikely that Carole is alone as a CNN down on her knees newscastrix. No, we are picking on Carole and on Anderson and on the rest of the well paid greasy mouths on TV for not seeing the more stark realities we lesser people have to live with.
And to all you middle class who don’t care if the Clintons brought us the hoards of homeless beggars that don’t exist in your life, don’t turn your head so soon. It could be you and your family next. Either as one of the homeless, when the economic realities of our trillion dollar war rob you of your job and retirement savings when the market crashes. Or as a victim of the homeless when their rage at being kicked by the police on top of being starved reaches the mass murder point. As it has in a number of other sectors in America where control is abusive, as at work and in our well policed schools.
On a lighter note, Hillary does have a few things she can be proud of. She is a most talented actress and a profoundly adept social climber, our American Evita. But whatever Hillary’s personal accomplishments, she is never going to go against the wishes of the money class that created her and Bill and supported them as their adorable political puppets. Hillary would not show her tax returns, as Obama asked, because they would show the largess showered on the Clintons by the moneyed class. No, Hillary is not going to stop this war, whatever she may say to get elected and star her next movie: Figurehead President II.
Of course, there are those of you that think that Hillary would never lie to us. Bill said he would never lie to us. And he said it so well that I yet don’t believe he lied to us about Monica. Monica who? That is how good an actor Bill is. He’s even a better actor than Brad Pitt. One night Bill crawled into Angelina’s bedroom in Beverly Hills with a cigar in his mouth. Hey, Angelina, he said, my wife’s going to run for president this year. Open your legs and give us your vote. Pass the popcorn, please. It’ll be another four years of that movie, but with Hillary smoking the cigar.
Of course, transgressions are relative. Who is not totally revulsed by the smell of a public rest room fused to the Bible squeezing, boy hustling conservative senator from Idaho? Nobody has caught Bill at that yet. Still, what character is there in a first family when the head of the most powerful nation on earth sticks a penile object, not even his own, up some college kid’s vagina? If this were a movie, would they play the Star Spangled Banner during this scene?
And doesn’t it make you wonder about the guy’s wife? Does any sane female over the age of 22 really think Hillary felt bad about Bill and Monica? Behind all the media hype that protects those who help control the little people, you have to wonder:
A.) Is Hillary is lesbian, a married one, not that unusual in modern America. If Hillary was mad about anything with Monica, it was that she didn’t get a shot at her too. Watch one of Hillary’s lovers surface soon to clarify her tastes as to penile object.
B.) The smiling Clintons are so phony and so slimy underneath that one would not be surprised to find that the inarguably unconfident and possibly mildly retarded Chelsea Clinton was the product of her pervert parents abusing her when she was four years old, the age she seems to be stuck in. Certainly there is as much truth in this outrageous conjecture as the Clintons being good people because they go to church on Sunday. No, what the Clintons are is not good, but likable. Likable is a banana split. You just like how it tastes. You don’t need a reason. The Clintons are an imitation banana split, very likeable, like artificial sweetener that causes cancer eight years down the line.
You can trust what a Clinton says like you can trust what a Bush says. That whole family, George I, George II, Lady Barbara and Lady Laura, are all great actors too. And isn’t it interesting that the Bush daughters, Jenna and what’s her name, are as unconfident and inept as Chelsea. Makes you wonder if Bush uses a cigar too. But on Lady Laura, the Virgin Mary of conservatives?
True, this skit by the one writer’s guild writer who didn’t get rehired is a bit insane. But there are a lot of people around today that are actually insane, not the least of whom are the conservatives, all of which are unbalanced emotionally because of their castration in childhood from the pains of physical punishment and strict obedience. They are inherently defective however much their endless charades from Senate podiums and on Fox News try to hide it. And dangerous when they have weapons in their grasp.
If you want the war and the police state to end, vote for Barack Obama. Not for Hillary, who is so self-serving and devious that you wouldn’t be surprised if she teamed up with Huckabee as VP on a national reconciliation ticket. Or some such curve ball the moneyed class would use to block Obama from getting in and ending our descent into irreversible totalitarianism and worldwide war. Hopefully Obama will not be removed by assassination.
Who are we to say such dark things?
matrix-evolutionsdotcom
When Slippery Willy got caught double dipping nothing changed for him. The Clinton duo also slithered out from under investigations of the Whitewater financial shenanigans, even as the feds were selectively picking off their luckless co-conspirators. William Clinton lost neither his high appointment, nor did his career or his status, such as it was, seem to suffer in consequence.
The eerie acceptance of Clinton wrongdoing may have led them to suppose their constituents and potential constituents weren’t alert enough to notice such moral digressions, or have woefully short memories, or are just too brainless to comprehend the magnitude of the wrongdoing.
In that former case even a knee-trembling grand jury subpoena failed to prise out the Madison Guaranty files and deliver them into the hands of the law. But, after being barefacedly declared ‘lost’, the papers mysteriously, perhaps inadvertently, surfaced, in of all places, the Clinton’s private suite in the White House. The smooth pair somehow extricated themselves from even that potential nuclear event.
The Republican inspired impeachment proceedings against Clinton failed of course. It was not for want of evidence, but because the Democratic party was just too strong. The aftermath was that the Democratic Party suffered severely for both its leader’s failings, and for its own failure to respond to the will of the people.
This latest chance exposure of high office sexual misconduct and financial chicanery in the case of the Democrat Governor of New York, is only the latest dip on the downward slide of morality in high office, and a further betrayal of the people. At least the pathetic miscreant had the decency to not try to lie his way out of it, and to resign the governorship – although, unlike Clinton, he probably recognised from the very start that the evidence against him was unequivocal.
That ably-demonstrated unmitigated gall of Hillary Clinton should not preclude her and her ex-President-spokesman-clone from unashamedly voicing its collective outrage at this new case of what is becoming so discouragingly repetitive a breach of trust in positions of high office.
What exactly is the Hillary Clinton experience she constantly brags about, yet without visible means of support?
There is the experience of dealing with Presidential matrimonial infidelity of course – once upon a time adultery was considered a crime of some gravity. It is still considered so by those who sincerely espouse biblical teaching I understand, if not by those who promote accounting by civil law.
Both the Clintons were involved in the notorious scheme to defraud investors, for which some of the culpable were called to account, though not the Clintons. But why? Either the Clintons were so gullible as to get unknowingly drawn into a rat’s nest of deceit and corruption, in which, incidentally, they were foolish enough to invest and lose a large sum of money, or the Clintons are just another shady, greedy pair, who, as soon as the public prosecutorial trumpet blew, were quick to disown their co-conspirators and cunning (or influential) enough to evade the sweep for the blameworthy. This surely speaks to character and record.
Let’s not forget that Hillary, the big shot big income lawyer was appointed to the board of that ubiquitous retailer most notable for the shabby treatment of its employees. Hillary has become rich on the backs of those she claims to speak for.
Hillary says she is a fighter. Yes, Hillary IS a fighter, not for those she is addressing, but for herself. She is an anything goes, no holds barred, promise whatever you need to win, street-fighter - in her fight to get to the top of the pile.
Have you ever noticed when Hillary delivers her supercilious, self-aggrandising messages to her bemused electorate, it is all ‘I’, ‘I’, ‘I’.
We have been assured it would be at the Pentagon where the red phone ring in the middle of the night should a national security problem arise, not at the White House. But supposing it had rung at the White House (and supposing that was a night Bill was in his own bed), what would have been her input, and therefore her experience?
“Bill, it’s for you!”
True to her experience-honed propensity for deceit, Hillary has knowingly floated many a spurious slur and innuendo in a sleazy campaign of denigration in hope of damaging the capable, diffident, but relentlessly vote-catching, Barack Obama. As Hillary’s fortunes have waned, her campaign with its disingenuous, hollow moral tone, has taken on a distinctly unpleasant smell. There have surely been more than a few higher-principled Hillary campaign workers who could no longer take it and quietly jumped ship in the night.
A Warning for Barack Obama. Concerning your upcoming debates with McCain. Go as the Barack whose white mother comes from Bedford Stuyvesant and whose black father deserted him when he was less than two years old. This is not the debate club. This is not Confirmation class. This is the boxing ring. And best you be a Mohammed Ali. He should have been your first pick as wise advisor, not your dear, if wise, family oriented wife. You tell McCain: I don’t believe your prisoner of war shit any more than I believe you didn’t have the questions ahead of time. You tell them you don’t believe it, Barack, because you have an email from a mathematician who says it was probabilistically and experientially too obvious, the ease with which McCain answered the important first set of questions so presciently perfect.
Our mathematics can also prove that Iraq was an invasion of American Forces, not a coalition, other than in words. And our bio-mathematical analysis also suggests that the conservatives are all perverse homosexual rapists and liars, collectively a Mark Foley, Larry Craig flag-shipped ludicrous bunch of power mad crackpots. McCain’s mistress while he was still married, Cindy, was an upper class piece of cake for her rich parents who fucked her when she was a child, as often happens to daughters in rich families in their having both the requisite perversity and the power to get away with it. Take a second look at this blank eyed plaything who was McCain’s mistress while McCain trashed his first wife who waited faithfully for him the five years after McCain’s plane was shot down while bombing the life out of a hundred thousand Vietcong women, children and primitive men living in thatched huts whose prime sin in their napalmed life was that they lived in a land that had oil off its shores when the North Vietnamese were kid brothers of our Orwellian foe, the Russians. Or, if your prefer the soapier explanation, McCain’s first wife was screwing for other soldiers even before John was shot down. That’s as typical for military wives as it is for the daughters of the rich. The military is too powerful in its officer rank to allow for anything vaguely resembling love except in a Ronald Reagan propaganda movie. Contrast to Dwight Eisenhower’s love affair with his secretary that had no love in it because our General and President was admittedly impotent. Which is typical for a Republican. It’s the orderliness of living at that level of military hierarchical control that ends freedom. If the soldier’s superior officer owns your husband, you’re not going to be nice to him? Rape and coercion is the reproductive strategy followed in the military, both heterosexual and homosexual. Yes sir! It’s said perfectly in the movie, The Sergeant, starring Rod Steiger. McCain ditched his unfaithful whore of a wife. Or alternatively, if she really was June Allison, McCain messed her up bad by sneaking off with another woman, the aforesaid, child molested, Cindy, I like to have my tits pinched by my mother, McCain.
This is a slightly more realistic view than you may have, Barack. Open your eyes to it or otherwise you can kiss your family goodbye. Dukakis’s faithful loving wife, Kitty, started taking cough medicine like it was Gator Aide after they lost the election with egg on their faces. It wasn’t what the Dukakis’s had succeeded at that mattered, Governor of Massachusetts and sparkly wife as presidential candidates. It was what they didn’t succeed at that mattered. So Barack, put Michelle’s advice aside. And listen to Mohammed Ali, I am the greatest, today. In the next round, kick McCain in the balls. We wrote a letter to your Denver Campaign Coordinator, Victoria Scott-Haynes, whose husband played football for the Denver Broncos, telling Victoria, way back in May, that your just taking the crap, as started in the ABC debate, is deadly. But Victoria and the rest of your campaign are as blind to the reality of the game up at the next level as you are. Your fate, Barack, is as in the movie, Field of Dreams, as the guy who gets one time at bat in the major leagues and strikes out. If you lose, and you are going to if you don’t listen up, it will be, as we make clear on our website, your ass strewn across the backboard in a very public way with them waiting down below bucket of tar and basket of chicken feathers in hand.
We say all this scientifically, mathematically. We agree with and actively defend Robert Scheer’s insight in the San Francisco Chronicle that Saakashvili and the Georgia war were schemed up intentionally to make McCain look good and fire up his once sputtering campaign and beat you. It’s in the SF Chronicle. Obampa Bumpa, you don’t get to play it a second time around, dummy. So I suggest you pay attention to the insults hurled at you on www.matrix-evolutions.com for being such a chicken shit pretender, when what was expected and is still needed is that you be the fearless, out of the night, super hero leader you once promised to be with your tone and style. You have superior talent. You should be able to beat McCain, an ass fucking, military brat, liar. You think his mother was any less a whore than his wives? And mummy owns her Johnny sonny boy next president like Aunt Tillie owns her aging Labrador Retriever. Barak, baby, promise you will take risk quickly, throw Jesus and Pastor Warren and other rabbit foot superstition out of the car, and know, oh last hope of us all, that you have nothing to lose by completely putting your ass on the line. There is no tomorrow for you, or for the rest of us. Put some truth behind your saxophone. Or toss it into the ocean and step aside and make room for Hillary. While there’s still time to repair the huge hole torpedoed into the Democratic Part ship of state, the only Ship of State we have left, because if it goes down, competitive government shifts to the totalitarian, no real opposition, kind, aka, THE END.
Mrs. Ruth and Dr. Peter V. Calabria and family.