I haven’t had a decent political post on here for a little while, so I thought I’d check out the news and see what we have cooking! Let’s start with Pennsylvania’s upcoming Primary. While everyone assumes Clinton will win, suddenly there were tons of “Obama can win it!!” articles and polls showing him either tied or in the lead. Weird how those polls work, as the polls released today show Clinton in the lead between 5 and 18 points. Did something change… or did all that hope make it seem like he was gonna win? There are still 13 days left before the Primary, will anything change by then? I guess the question is, is there anything in the news that could hurt him? Well, just from the past week this is what I found:
We Need More White People | ABC News
At a Michelle Obama event, reporters from the Carnegie-Mellon University student newspaper “observed one event coordinator say to another, ‘Get me more white people, we need more white people.’ To an Asian girl sitting in the back row, one coordinator said, ‘We’re moving you, sorry. It’s going to look so pretty, though.’
“‘I didn’t know they would say, “We need a white person here,”‘ said attendee and senior psychology major Shayna Watson, who sat in the crowd behind Mrs. Obama. ‘I understood they would want a show of diversity, but to pick up people and to reseat them, I didn’t know it would be so outright.’”
Yes, nothing says “diversity” like a call for “I need a white person”. Moving on… Read the rest of this entry →
