David Dinkins, the first African-American mayor of New York City calls out President Obama for not doing more to help out the Democratic candidate Bill Thompson who lost to incumbent Michael Bloomberg.

From New York Post:

“The president should’ve done more. He found time to go to Virginia, he found time to go to New Jersey and he should’ve been here,” former Mayor David Dinkins, who was in office from 1990 through 1993.

He was referring to Obama’s stumping with New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine, who lost to Republican Chris Christie this week, and Virginia Democrat Creigh Deeds, who lost the gubernatorial race to GOP candidate Bob McDonnell.

By comparison, the country’s first black president gave the most lukewarm of endorsements to Thompson, who lost to Mayor Bloomberg by a mere 5 points on Tuesday.

The Republican National Committee is under fire from bloggers and progressives after a member of their Facebook group posted a photo of the President of the United States eating fried chicken with caption that calls miscegenation, or interracial marriage “a CRIME against American Values.”

The creator of the image made reference to Loving v. Virginia–the landmark 1967 Supreme Court case that struck down laws banning interracial marriage.

Perhaps the person who uploaded the image on Facebook was inspired by the justice of the peace who recently refused to marry an interracial couple in Louisiana.

Finally, after being on their Facebook for close to a week, RNC officials removed the image on Tuesday.

Rush Limbaugh and Lou Dobbs owe the President and their listeners/viewers an apology.

Limbaugh and Dobbs thought they had the story of the year as Time reporter Joe Klein discovered Barack Obama’s college thesis paper in which the then 20-something Columbia University student insulted the ‘Founding Fathers” and said the Constitution oppresses poor Americans.

Too bad the whole thing was made up.

The satirical blog was posted on Jumping In Pools and was meant to be a joke. But when another blogger for conservative blog network Pajamas Media picked up the story it reached as high up as CNN and Limbaugh.

When the real Joe Klein said that he has never seen the President’s thesis,bloggers from all over the country apologized for running with an unsubstantiated story. As for Limbaugh, he said this–even after realizing the story is bogus.

I’m sure no one on the campus of Hampton University, one of the nation’s leading Historical Black College and Universities (HBCU’s) expected their annual Homecoming Pageant to become national news.

But when a non-African-American woman is crowned Homecoming Queen then writes a letter to the President of the United States complaining about the racial overtones on campus…it becomes national news.

Nikole Churchilll, a 22-year-old senior nursing major became the first non-African-American to be named Ms. Hampton in the history of the institution on Friday.

While her victory has split the campus with some saying she does not deserve the award because of her Guam and Italian ancestry as well as attending classes at the Virgina Beach satellite campus instead of the main campus, her letter to the President is seemingly causing the most angst.

In her letter to Obama, written Sunday, she said her victory was the best moment in here life, however the attitudes of some students on campus has sullied her victory.

“It would be much easier to say that possibly some were not accepting of the news because I wasn’t the most qualified contestant; however, the true reason for the disapproval was because of the color of my skin. I am not African American.”

Churchill, like Obama, is a Hawaii native and is hoping the President will speak to students about racism.

There has been no response from the White House. (The Administration is a little busy right now with dealing with two wars, health care and the economy.)

Being a proud HBCU graduate myself, I’ve seen enough examples to know Homecoming pageants always come with some controversy, but get over it. The judges voted for the woman they believe to be the most qualified. There is no rule against a student attending classes on a satellite campus being Homecoming Queen.

Did she overreact by writing the President? Perhaps, but she is an American citizen with the right to contact her elected officials at her desire.

By the way, the coronation is Oct. 21.

UPDATE: Churchill Apologizes for Letter

If Rush Limbaugh becomes an NFL owner, he will have a hard time finding black players to work for him.

From the New York Daily News:

Mathias Kiwanuka (New York Giants) and the Jets’ Bart Scott made it clear Thursday that they would never play for the Rams or any team owned by the controversial conservative radio host.

“All I know is from the last comment I heard, he said in (President) Obama’s America, white kids are getting beat up on the bus while black kids are chanting ‘right on,’” Kiwanuka told The Daily News. “I mean, I don’t want anything to do with a team that he has any part of. He can do whatever he wants, it is a free country. But if it goes through, I can tell you where I am not going to play.”

Read more about it here.

Speaking of Limbaugh, listen to his comments about Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize.

The nation’s first African-American President woke up Friday morning to receive another prestige honor; Nobel Prize recipient.

In what was a complete surprise to the President, the Norwegian Noble Committee awarded Obama due to his “extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples. The Committee has attached special importance to Obama’s vision of and work for a world without nuclear weapons.”

Obama is the first sitting US President to win the Nobel Peace Prize since Woodrow Wilson in 1919.

While some bloggers ask legitimately if Obama accomplished enough–with only being President for nine months–to earn the award. Of course, Obama’s political opponents are not cheering who they perceive as the first “Affirmative Action Nobel Prize Winner.”

UPDATE: FOX NEWS RESPONDS

SO DOES MSNBC:

Just in time for the holiday season, the company that creates the Chia Pet Plant brand has created (drumroll, please) Ch-Ch-Ch-Chia Pet President Obama.

But according to a report on BlackVoices, you may experience some difficulties purchasing the item.

We can’t make this stuff up. During a speech at the “How to Take America Back” conference in St. Louis, Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ) said the the President is “an enemy to humanity.”

Hear it for yourself.

Today Franks explains that he was referring to Obama’s stance on abortion when he made his remarks.

From USA Today:

Bethany Haley, spokeswoman for Franks, said the congressman was referring to “unborn humanity” and should have clarified his statement. She also said that Franks meant to say that Obama’s abortion-related policies have no place in government, rather than that Obama has no place in government.

Haley said she spoke to Franks early Tuesday before he boarded a plane from Arizona to Washington.

“He was just referring to the way President Obama has set himself up as the most pro-abortion president in America’s history,” Haley said. She ticked off a list of the president’s policies and appointments she said were favorable to abortion rights.

Oh well, at least the Congressman didn’t use his Facebook page to do it.

Adressing the United Nations as the first time as President of the United States,Barack Obama gave a blunt and sober message to the assembly of world leaders: The US cannot fix the worlds problems alone.

From BET.com

“We have sought in word and deed a new era of engagement with the world,” Obama said, echoing the cooperative theme he promised as a candidate and has since used as a pillar of his foreign policy. “Now is the time for all of us to take our share of responsibility.”

He said if the world is honest with itself, it has fallen woefully short.

“Extremists sowing terror in pockets of the world,” Obama said. “Protracted conflicts that grind on and on. Genocide and mass atrocities. More and more nations with nuclear weapons. Melting ice caps and ravaged populations. Persistent poverty and pandemic disease.”

Obama is also expected to meet with the leaders of China and Russia to discuss security concerns.

The political right wing hates President Obama because he’s Black, former Cuban leader Fidel Castro said, according to conservative FOX News commentator Sean Hannity, who’s all too happy to make a link between the Communist leader and the U.S. president.  “President Obama has acquired a new and unexpected ally,” said Hannity in his FOX column. “Cuba’s ex-president Fidel Castro is sticking up for Obama, blaming the right wing for sabotaging the president’s agenda!” Hannity cites an editorial in Cuba’s state-run newspaper, in which Castro writes, “The extreme right hates him for being African-American and fights what the president does to improve the deteriorated image of that country. …I don’t have the slightest doubt that the racist right will do everything possible to wear him down, blocking his program to get him out of the game, one way or the other.”