Author Archives: Nik Bronder

The Race Has Begun.

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John Kerry gave the speech last night which many hope will push him over the top with the ‘swing voter’. Here are some of the direct challenges to the President:

“I want an America that relies on its own ingenuity and innovation – not the Saudi royal family.”

“We have it in our power to change the world, but only if we’re true to our ideals – and that starts by telling the truth to the American people, as President, that is my first pledge to you tonight. As president, I will restore trust and credibility to the White House.”

“I will be a commander in chief who will never mislead us into war. I will have a vice president who will not conduct secret meetings with polluters to rewrite our environmental laws. I will have a secretary of defense who will listen to the advice of the military leaders. And I will appoint an attorney general who upholds the Constitution of the United States.”

Funny thing happened yesterday about 4 hours before John Kerry was supposed to give his speech; the administration announced the capture of a High Level Al-Quieda Operative in Pakistan. I guess timing is everything. The funny thing is in May The New Republic published an article claiming the Administration was planning this exact move. TNR claimed the Senior members of the Bush Administration were pressuring Pakistani leader Musharraf to ‘capture’ and handover a High Level Terrorist right around or on the week of the Democratic National Convention. Well everything seemed to work out fine when like clockwork at around 5:30PM EST news outlets across the nation began reporting the capture of a major Al-Queida suspect(CNN& MSNBC)

In another example of the politics of fear the FBI has issued a Terror Warning for the Western States. Maybe John Kerry was planning on campaigning out West this week.

Sharpton: No Mule, NO SALE!

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Look out Barack Obama; Sharpton has just taken the stage. With possibly the line of the week Sharpton sticks it to the man:

Mr. President, as I close, Mr. President, I heard you say Friday that you had questions for voters, particularly African- American voters. And you asked the question: Did the Democratic Party take us for granted? Well, I have raised questions. But let me answer your question.

You said the Republican Party was the party of Lincoln and Frederick Douglass. It is true that Mr. Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, after which there was a commitment to give 40 acres and a mule.

That’s where the argument, to this day, of reparations starts. We never got the 40 acres. We went all the way to Herbert Hoover, and we never got the 40 acres.

We didn’t get the mule. So we decided we’d ride this donkey as far as it would take us.

I couldn’t have said it better myself.

Here’s the full text.

Here’s the video

Tyson happy as can be on Eve of Destruction.

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In recent interviews leading up to his latest comeback Iron Mike has been, well Happy.

The game plan is for Tyson to fight 7 times in the next two years to regain his finical footing. I would have to assume with the current heavyweight field (besides the Klitschko Brothers Vitali & Vladimir, who is there?) and an able Tyson he could easily reunite all the belts in less than two years. He’s technically no more than three fights away. Is this the new Tyson?

This Tyson is definitely a humbled man. After all, what humbles a man worse than going broke? Where he once had expansive mansions across the country with a fleet of luxury vehicles in each garage with a pet tiger or two thrown in, he now lives in a modest two-bedroom house — just him and his pigeons.

So what’s that like, living like one of us?

“I don’t know,” says a reflective Tyson. “That doesn’t define a man. What defines a man is someone who’s failed time after time again and still has the same enthusiasm, as a winner. And those are people who are men, people who don’t stop and don’t give up and stay persistent in their goals in life. Finance doesn’t make a man, because you have a great deal of fur coats and houses and fancy cars — I used to enjoy that life, but that doesn’t make you a man.

“I could’ve accomplished that now; the only thing I have to do is just fight and I’ll be a multi-millionaire. If I fight for a year straight, then I’d have all those trinkets and toys, but I don’t think I’m that person anymore. I’m interested in raising my children and just providing for them.”

I think the story of Tyson losing it all, even his craziness and then heading out West is a truly American Story. Picture Tyson some where in the Arizona desert training for possibly the greatest comebacks of all time. Out of the Wilderness Came the Man.

The only problem I see is if and it’s still a big if, Tyson manages to obtain the unimaginable will Lennox Lewis be all to eager to take it away?