Proof That it Takes All Kinds

Hear my radio show that caused a listener to call me disgusting, a fraud and a disgrace -- no kidding. They didn't call in, but their thoughts were posted in the chatroom. Sadly, the person's user name included Hillary - its sad to see someone acting like that and associating it with Hillary. This person obviously didn't hear the very good things we mentioned in the beginning about Hillary Clinton and anyone who read Earl Ofari Hutchinson's columns knows he is a staunch Hillary supporter. Learn more about How Obama Won on this call - www.learnhowobamawon.blogspot.com

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/nikkileigh/2009/01/19/Nikki-Leigh-Talks-with-Earl-Ofari-Hutchinson-About-How-Obama-Won

The X Factor for Obama

During February - I'm working with author, Earl Ofari Hutchinson to promote his timely new book. He is featured on the virtual book tour site - www.inspiredauthor.com/promotion. Each evening on the news and throughout all primary news coverage, we hear about how the black vote and the Latino vote have an effect on each vote. That is the message in The Ethnic Presidency. Mr Hutchinson delves into the many ways ethnic voters have impacted elections throughout the years for democrats and republicans. There is much more behind this topic than the fact that there is a black man and a white woman in the race for the presidency of the United States.

Excerpts from Chapter 1 - The Ethnic Presidency: How Race Decides the Race for the White House by Earl Ofari Hutchinson

In a wide-ranging interview with Newsweek in July 2007, Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama was piqued at the very suggestion that he was the transcendent racial candidate. This implied that he was racially neutered and was a living and breathing repudiation of the politics of racial polarization that supposedly characterized Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. Obama took even greater umbrage at the notion he deliberately stoked thoughts among whites that he was the prototypical post civil rights African-American who no longer saw the world in black and white hues and whose mantra was racial conciliation, compromise and outreach.

Obama had good reason to be miffed at such talk. There was absolutely no evidence that he had ever experienced an identity crisis about his blackness. He spoke candidly about his bi-racial lineage, his early childhood years in Hawaii and Indonesia, his half-Indonesian sister, his campaign for editor of the Harvard Law Review, and his Illinois campaigns for the state house and senate. He never shied away from proudly embracing his blackness. He didn’t have too---back then.

Now that he was in the race for the biggest prize of all, the White House, things had changed. The slightest hint, let alone perception, that Obama was the “black candidate” would be the political kiss of death for him.

For more information visit -

http://inspiredauthor.com/promotion/Obama+X+Fac+tor

News for the Virtual Book Tour Site

We’re having a great week at the Virtual Book Tour website and I’d like to extend an invitation to each person to visit us. We have three great authors touring this month and they have posted a wealth of information about their books. You will find book summaries, excerpts, information about how current events tie into their books, why they decided to write that particular book and much more.

For people who haven’t heard of the Virtual Book Tour website – let me share a few details. Each month a variety of authors are featured on the site and they share all sorts of information about their books. The website is www.inspiredauthor.com/promotion. Each touring author has their own tour page and all information about their tour can be accessed from that page. This is the page for February – http://inspiredauthor.com/promotion/february-authors-2008.

Feature Authors for February 2008 -- Click for tour details

Earl Ofari Hutchinson - The Ethnic Presidency
http://www.inspiredauthor.com/promotion/Earl+Hutchinson+-+Feb+2008

Steven Clark Bradley - Nimrod Rising
http://www.inspiredauthor.com/promotion/steven-clark-bradley-author-nimr...

Virginia Vassallo - How The Stars and Stripes Began
http://www.inspiredauthor.com/promotion/Virginia+Vassallo

We invite you to visit each author to learn more about their books.

The Ethnic Presidency by Earl Ofari Hutchinson - Who hasn’t heard about the presidential primaries this week? In many of the news programs, one of the topics of conversation is the part that voters’ race and gender will play in their vote. This is the topic of The Ethnic Presidency. Take a look at the part race plays for each and every candidate in 2008 and he provides many examples throughout the last century to show how race affects the elections. On Thursday February 7^th, Mr Hutchinson is making a guest appearance on several different sites. You can visit him at any of these links - http://philipharris.blogspot.com/2008/02/ethnic-presidency-how-race-decides-race.html, www.americanchronicle.com/articles/51521 and http://community.myfoxmaine.com/blogs/PhilipHarris

Nimrod Rising by Steven Clark Bradley - Nimrod Rising is a book about the history of life itself and the origin of evil. The story and the geographical and historical background, centered around current events, will cause readers to pose such profound questions as, Who are we? Where did we come from? What was here before us? Where are we going? Are there answers to the question of why the world faces its current condition today? Nimrod Rising offers “possible” answers to those questions. It will awake the imagination and the cause self perception as they read. I am convinced it will hold your attention to the very end.

How The Stars and Stripes Began by Virginia Vassallo – Have you heard of the military newspaper, the Stars and Stripes? Have you ever wondered how it was started and who was the driving force behind its birth? If so, you must visit with Virginia. Her grandfather, Guy T. Viskniskki, the dynamic first officer-in-charge and editor-in-chief of The Stars and Stripes newspaper. This book is partially based on his autobiographical notes, family history and military records.

Any questions, feel free to contact me at nikki_leigh22939@yahoo.com. You can also visit the website to learn more about book promotion. There are over 100 promotional articles and interviews posted at http://www.inspiredauthor.com/promotion/node/46.

Nikki Leigh

www.nikkileigh.com/promo.htm