While away from his blog your author was quite entertained by the shenanigans of Democrat Senators Hillary Clinton and Barak Obama during a recent stint at Selma, Alabama. Both are vying for the Democrat Presidential nomination.

While Barak Obama, who in your author’s opinion is enjoying putting it to Mrs. Clinton, it was the outlandish pandering performed by the Madam Senator that struck your author. Besides her awful attempt at affecting a southern accent and her mention of New Mexico’s governor Bill Richardson, who claims he could be the first Hispanic President, it was Mrs. Clinton’s desire to drudge up the past that made your author take note.

As many know or should know Selma is where the earliest signs of the civil rights movement of the 1960s began. This town was the birthplace of one of the greatest demographic and cultural shifts to ever impact the States. However in the cases of Clinton and Obama they continue on with the common myth that current black America is still facing the same denials as experienced some 40 years ago.

Why is that some cannot let go of the past? Your author can only say that some have built an identity around this timeframe. Others such as Jesse Jackson wish to exploit it for profit; while some such as Obama look to test the waters to determine if there is fruit to be found. It is Senator Clinton that should know better. She fails to mention how a US Census report that failed to make the mention among the press dubbed civil rights leaders-Reverends Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and the NAACP-the fact that black owned businesses have grown in leaps and bounds over the past decade. Nor did she mention the burgeoning black middle class in America that fails to garner attention from the big media machine.

No Mrs. Clinton was peddling to the lowest common denominator. Once again how Washington DC has failed them. How the government has ignored them whether it be with the events following hurricane Katrina or whatever else she can levy against the Bush Administration. Of course she takes no personal responsibility, particular the eight years she served as First Lady, for the failures but rather places the blame on some unknown, invisible entity. Mrs. Clinton and her colleagues would be best advised to review the latest census information as the state of Alabama claims a poverty level of 17% while the town of Selma’s is almost twice that amount with 31%. One must question why this historical town has been quite possibly left behind while the state has advanced forward.

Readers currently the American Liberals refer to themselves as ‘Progressive Liberals’, which is a descriptive used decades ago. They want you to think of them as progressive. Playing with semantics, your author draws the conclusion that if you disagree with them you are regressive or you wish to go back. However in the case of Mrs. Clinton, Obama and several others who are vying for the Democrat Presidential nomination, they seem to wish to revisit the past or attempt to point out that the civil rights struggle is alive and well in 2007. In other words they wish to be regressive. They are anything but progressive.