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The Bible has many Anti-African references, says Mack. "Some concepts such as intelligent design of the universe are just unscientific and bad for Black people," he says. Mack’s team will be pitted against a team of equally qualified scholars and activists who say the Bible is good for Black People.

I ask: why can’t we in Philadelphia set up forums like this New York one in our community to engage each-other on the politics of the Black community?

Thomas Jefferson is a national hero: Worshipped as a demigod and romantically idolized as the prototypical statesman and Renaissance man, barely anyone mentions Tommy was an adulterer, vicious racist, and rapist as well

"Father Newman is off base," said Steve Krueger, national director of Catholic Democrats. "He is acting beyond the authority of a parish priest to say what he did. … Unfortunately, he is doing so in a manner that will be of great cost to those parishioners who did vote for Sens. Obama and Biden. There will be a spiritual cost to them for his words."

Jackson’s support spans the state of Illinois – he is favored for the appointment by a wide margin in the Chicago area and in the St. Louis metropolitan area, but also is favored in the suburbs and the rural areas of the state.

Palin launched her attack on Obama’s association with William Ayers, the former Weather Underground bomber, before the campaign had finalized a plan to raise the issue. McCain’s advisers were working on a strategy that they hoped to unveil the following week, but McCain had not signed off on it, and top adviser Mark Salter was resisting.

"Senator Obama’s grandmother, Madelyn Dunham, has always been one of the most important people in his life, along with his mother and his grandfather," Gibbs said.

It would be a serious blow to our democracy if droves of voters, perhaps excited for the first time about their participation and choices, are turned away at the polls. Given the low voter turn-out rates we have witnessed over the past 30 years, our democracy cannot afford to disillusion people who may be participating for the first time.

Rick Davis is one of the conservative scumbags—I’m sorry, there is really no other word for it—who have made millions lobbying on behalf of special interests, both nationally and abroad, during the corrupt presidency of George W. Bush. And it is sad, almost tragic, to see the once-proud McCain stoop with him.

The Republicans have brought back the racism widely practiced in America during the civil rights days of Dr. Martin Luther King in which Africans Americans and other people of color were hated and treated as sub-humans in America. In April 2008, the media reported that members of the Ku Klux Klan in Alabama, Mississippi and South Carolina declared their support for Sen. McCain.