STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Joyce Susick, a Democrat who calls Pennsylvania — the state Hillary Rodham Clinton crowed would deliver her a win, and did because of all those “hard-working white Americans” — minced no words, exhibited not a hint of restraint when she told The Associated Press: “I don’t think our country is ready for a black president. A black man is never going to win Pennsylvania.”
Susick, by the way, ranks George Bush “among the worst presidents ever.”
But she is as firm in her pronouncements as she is when it comes to her vote. There are many who believe as she does, and they probably are right. They will never vote for a black man, even if he is the best candidate, even if the other guy in this case, Sen. John McCain, is a Bush clone and has voted 95 percent of the time with the Bush administration on a whole range of issues, many of them counter to her best interests — and those of millions of others.
Susick is representative of some voters, many of them Clinton backers,who deny race is at the root of their anti-Obama fervor. Instead they point to “inexperience,” or “youth,” or over-the-top, irrational anger that their candidate was bested by — in his words — the skinny black man with the funny name and big ears from the South side of Chicago. The man who had the audacity to take on, and beat, the fabled Clinton machine.
On the very day that skinny black guy made history by going over the top in delegates and popular vote to win the Democratic Party nomination for president, another man of dreams who inspired hope and urged us to dig deep for the better angels within ourselves was being targeted for assassination. Dreamers and those who hope don’t last very long on the in this world of ours. They fall victim to America’s favorite weapon of mass destruction — the gun.

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"Alien vs. Predator: Requiem" is a rare case where the sequel is far superior to the original, but still is hardly a good film. I say this as a fervent fan of both science fiction series that forms the genesis of the AVP franchise and as a person who despised the first AVP entry, "Alien vs. Predator." The first film was simply awful and had very little value in watching the film aside from seeing the big-screen return of the "Predator" creatures. Its plot was laughable and the human characters that populated the film were best served as food dishes to the hordes of aliens. Thankfully, screenwriter Shane Salerno decided to allow these feared xenoforms to the general human populace and provide a concept that the longtime fans of the "Aliens" series has long waited for. If it weren´t for one or two plot missteps and poor human characters, "Alien vs. Predator: Requiem" would have been a clear-cut winner.
The film takes place directly after the events of the first film. The corpse of the scarred Predator warrior from the first film is shown on-board the alien ship. A Chest Burster leaves the corpse and it is quickly revealed that the offspring of the Predator host is the first big-screen appearance by the ´Predalien´ (Tom Woodruff, Jr.); an Alien that takes on half of its characteristics from Predator DNA and is able to produce full-strain Alien offspring without the need of a Face Hugger. For those unfamiliar with the Alien universe, an Alien typically requires a spider-like creature to cling to a host victim´s face and this creature places a single alien offspring into the chest of the host. Eventually, the newborn alien will burst through the chest of its host and enter the world to begin its life of carnage and death. The Predalien simply transfers its offspring, which take on none of the Predator characteristics, by mouth-to-mouth transfer.

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