Open Thread outta Echo Park
JM, Downbeat Blue, 12.18.07
You guys are way too bored in the rain. Talk to us.
Labels: echo park, los angeles politics
Posted by Joseph F. Mailander @ 12/18/2007 03:31:00 PM
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
JM, Downbeat Blue, 12.18.07
You guys are way too bored in the rain. Talk to us.
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What is going on with the City reservoirs? The bromide thing looks serious. The Times barely mentioned it but it was a banner in the DN.
Tell me, how do they know the problem was between June and October WITHOUT TESTING IN JUNE?
Good thing I only drink beer.
I don't think there are any Federal standards...which is lame, there probably should be, but that's the way it is.
But yeah, reservoir contamination and zuma is worried about his right to wear a mask.
Who was that masked man?
Magic for Mayor??
Magic takes a pass on a mayoral run (for now)
Magic Johnson had one campaign on his mind this morning in Des Moines. But he got asked about another (prospective) one.
The Times' Peter Nicholas was there as Johnson visited a supermarket with Hillary Clinton -- his choice in the Democratic presidential race -- and the candidate's husband (a certain former president).
Johnson greeted a group of high school basketball players, signing autographs and posing for pictures. He seemed a natural on the campaign trail (much as he was on the basketball court), so Nicholas tossed the obvious question at him: Might he run for mayor of Los Angeles?
Magic replied that he was troubled by the condition of L.A. schools but has confidence in Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and has no wish to run.
"The citizens have asked me to run for many years now, but I think I can do a better job going around helping the mayor,'' he said.
He expanded on that later: "I'm helping the mayor right now with getting more control of the school system. We are having a problem right now in inner-city schools. What I have been trying to do is to talk not only with the school board, but also parents and kids to try to make the school system better.... I do a better job at that than actually being the mayor.''
We can't help but notice that Johnson's comments did not include a Shermanesque, never-gonna-do-it, rule-it-out-at-any-time quality.
During a brief news conference featuring the trio of campaigners, Johnson -- who since the end of his playing days with the L.A. Lakers has done much to spur entrepreneurialism among African Americans -- was asked why he wasn't backing Barack Obama's bid to become the nation's first black president....
He nodded to Hillary Clinton. "Only 30 years of experience right here,'' he said.
He returned to that theme later in the day, after he and Bill Clinton went off to Davenport, on the eastern fringe of Iowa, to tout the New York senator.
During a rally at a high school gym (appropriately), Johnson expounded on the theme that the ex-president broached a few days ago in an interview with PBS' Charlie Rose.
"You don't want somebody in there [as president] that is young or a rookie at politics," Johnson said. "We want somebody in there that knows what they're doing, because this job is so huge."
He continued: "The more I practiced the better I became. That's why I support Sen. Clinton, because she is the only one with 30 years of experience."
Johnson -- perhaps out of modesty, perhaps because it would not jibe with his message -- did not mention the fabulous success he enjoyed as a rookie in the NBA. He not only was an integral part of the Lakers team that snagged a world championship, but started firmly establishing himself as a legendary pro in the game that won the title.
Playing out of position, he filled in for injured center Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and dominated, scoring 42 points and recording 15 rebounds, seven assists and three steals. More experienced players were left in his wake -- and in awe.
Politics ain't basketball and not all black men can jump.
Good for Magic, laying it straight. If a white man or even white woman said her international experience consisted of living abroad as a kid, she/he'd have been laughed out of Iowa.
As for Iowa polls, they don't mean nothing, those people are simpletons who eat too much pie and enjoy the personal warmth of Obama and the other wanna-be's, and believe anything they're told (like they can have universal health care and balance the budget and lose weight while eating half a pie for desert every day).
Hillary only says what she knows she can deliver, she's learned that from experience. You can lie to get elected, but then --
I had no idea Obama is bidding to become the nation's first black president. This whole time I thought he was running for president.
7:29: Bernie Jr, shut up.
You people do nothing but pander to the black community and hold yourselves up as leaders of that community even when it's stupid like with defending MLK till the bitter end as a civil rights issue, the Gloria Jeffs issue just because she's black, bla bla ten thousand times.
You're the least color bling about yourselves and always dredge it up when you think it will benefit you.
Like Obama hasn't been, right. And every time he says he doesn't want to be thought of as a black man, or Oprah says it, they're reminding you he's a black man but YOU'd better not remind them of the race game they're playing.
Go away, Bernie Jr. Go eat some o' that greasy food in the hood.
If y'all don't be eatin' it, how cumz Miz Perry gotta be bannin it? Cuz all dem white folks go dere and eat all dat fried chicken and waffles and don't leave you none?
Do the porch monkeys actually think they can be elected to the office of president? I say no to porch monkeys and mexican midget mayors.
Magic Johnson should laugh down the idea of being Mayor and shoot straight for President, pun intended.
He's way too cool and way too tall to be a midget Mayor of Los Angeles.
Anyone who can come from nowhere and outshoot Kareem Abdul Jabar's record at 42 points gotsta be President.
As for foreign policy experience, he must have had a trip somewhere as a kid, and by now he sure has, touring and shooting as a tall man and basketball player.
Not that anyone would ever notice he's black, just way too tall to be a midget Mayor and taller than any of the white guys or gals running for President, and everyone knows that you have to be taller than the average white guy let alone the midget Mexican Mayans to be President, and he sure is tall.
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