Media Alert

Famed Surgeon Dr. Ben Carson has had his life story turned into a tv movie.
Called 'Gifted Hands', it premieres tonight on TNT at 8 pm EST.
It stars Cuba Gooding, Jr. and Kimberly Elise.

Dear Senator Obama, watch out for snakes.

Dear Senator Obama,

Just in case you didn't know, there are a lot of snakes in the grass. Maybe you need some reminding.

I'll begin the list of snakes that are to be trusted at your peril. These are folks that mean you harm, and don't wish you well.

I won't get them all. I'm sure that Mirror On America posters will be able to add to it.

The Mirror-On-America-Snakes-Can't-Be-Trusted List:

1. Bill and Hillary Clinton - they aren't your friends. They haven't even moved into detente with you. Assume at all times that they are NEVER to be trusted, and are working behind the scenes at every moment to undermine you. Period.
2. Anyone who worked for Hillary Clinton - yes, I know you hired some of those folks. Do it at your peril. Trust them at your folly. But, when they sell you out, don't say you weren't warned.
3. Anyone who was in Camp Clinton that works at Fox Noise - whatever commentary they would say isn't worth spit, and you best believe it's not going to be for your benefit.
4. Harold Ford, Jr. - The Dark Sith loathes you. And, I can count on one hand the number of times he's been complimentary towards you during this campaign season. Don't ever turn your back on him, and don't remotely believe he's a surrogate FOR you.
5. Joan Walsh - Anyone who runs a site that actually CALLED you 'UPPITY' - that just about says it all.
6. All the feministas for Hillary who were yelling sexism 24/7 for the last month on any television show they could find...you know the bunch I'm talking about. They've been awfully silent about the attacks on Michelle...so, only 'some' women are worth defending to them.
7. The old Civil Rights Establishment - pick and choose. You don't know what's going to happen with this group.
8. The Half of the Congessional Black Caucus that supported Hillpatine - STAY AWAY from those Negroes. Don't even return their phone calls.
9. Shelby Steele - this could be for most of the Black Conservatives, but Steele deserves special notice. He's lost his mind during this campaign, turning his back on his writings of the past 15 years because of you.


Now, I'm opening it up to Mirror On America....tell me of the snakes you see out there.

Remembering Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

The bloggers here at Mirror On America didn't choose to write anything formally about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

But, I believe we would be remiss if we didn't just offer our readers the opportunity to drop their thoughts and feelings on what Dr. King meant to them.

Dr. King died before I was born, so my viewpoint of him is always in historical context. I didn't get to know the real, complex Dr. King until I took a course in college on the writings of Dr. King. I was stunned by their depth. How this man was touched by powers beyond our grasp. He was a gift to Black America, then America, and finally the world.

I have written before that I believe Black Americans are the 'truest' Americans, because we're the only populace in this country that has FOUGHT FOR America - not just in terms of putting on the uniform, picking up a gun and fighting in its wars - we've done that, going back to the Revolutionary War.

No, we've FOUGHT FOR America to live up to its creed. To live up to its promise -IN ACTUALITY - and nobody is a better example of this than Dr. King. While his fight could be described as one ' for the Negro', in fact, Dr. King was trying to save America itself.

With the passage of the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act, Dr. King achieved - legally - full citizenship for Black America. And, it only took nearly 200 years from the first gunshot fired in 1776.

But, he also understood the ECONOMIC component of all of this, and reading that about him made my esteem for him grow leaps and bounds, for that was the next step for him before he died.

He was 39 when he shot down at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, leaving a wife and four small children.

39.

For me, I would like to thank him for the opportunities in life that I admit, I arrogantly usually don't think about twice. To say that I appreciate what he did, well, appreciate is such an inadequate word.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

January 15, 1929 - April 4, 1968

Flipping Mitt LIED about his father and MLK, Jr.

He frigging LIED about his father and Martin Luther King, Jr.

Remember his Meet the Press moment about his father and Martin Luther King, Jr.

"You can see what I believed and what my family believed by looking at our lives. My dad marched with Martin Luther King. My mom was a tireless crusader for civil rights."

LIE
LIE
LIE

This guy is gives snake oil salesman a bad name.

The actual article is here: Romney fields questions on King

Money Quote:

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has said he watched his father, the late Michigan Gov. George Romney, in a 1960s civil rights march in Michigan with Martin Luther King Jr.

On Wednesday, Romney's campaign said his recollections of watching his father, an ardent civil rights supporter, march with King were meant to be figurative.

"He was speaking figuratively, not literally," Eric Fehrnstrom, spokesman for the Romney campaign, said of the candidate

FIGURATIVELY?

If we're speaking FIGURATIVELY, then I can say I hung out with Harriet Tubman, Booker T, and W.E.B. DuBois.

FIGURATIVELY?

WTF?

Andrew Sullivan really explains it well:

There really is a character issue here. Romney is at almost Clinton levels of deception. He has become so used to trying to say what people want to hear that he has lost all touch with actual reality.