I’ll admit it. I have a soft spot for Barack Obama because I like what his candidacy says about our great country.
Now, I live in a small town in Pennsylvania so people out here were talking often and vehemently about his recent comments. And I spoke with a few people who said there’s no way they’d ever vote for Obama after that. It had me thinking, “Hey, how great is America?” I mean it. I know Barack Obama wouldn’t agree. He doesn’t seem to much like America. He believes we need a transformation, a new kind of politics, a new way of looking at problems, a new this and a new that.
But I can’t help but think about how far we’ve come in just one generation. Just 50 years ago there was a real discussion in our country over whether African Americans deserved civil rights. And there was a struggle and there was violence and it was awful. And the right side won.
But now just 50 years later there is an African American running for President and many many people I know are rejecting him, not because he’s black. But because he’s a snob. He’s an ivy league elitist who looks down on regular folks who “cling to their guns and their religion.”
And many Americans don’t like him not because he’s for civil rights but because on the great civil rights struggle of our time for the unborn, Obama is on the wrong side.
If you ask me America should get points for that. This is something the media will never point out but I think it shows real advancement towards a color blind society. Kudos to America. We dislike Obama for the right reasons.
One of the other reasons I worry about Obama is he seems to have very big ideas. Not necessarily grounded in reality but big ideas nonetheless. There was something always reliably small about Bill Clinton. He wanted to be liked too much to do anything permanently damaging to the country. Obama’s different. He really wants to change America into something else…something European? I get the sense from him that because he looks down on middle America he doesn’t trust us to handle our own affairs. We’re not capable like an Ivy League lawyer/politician is capable. There’s something anti-American about Obama’s view of America. There’s something anti-American about Obama. And that’s why many people won’t vote for him. So yeah a lot of us aren’t going to vote for Obama and the country can hold its head high because it’s for the right reasons.
April 25, 2008 at 9:01 pm
Come on. Isn’t all this talk just a cover for racism? If Jeremiah Wright were white you guys wouldn’t have a problem with what he said either. Pat Robertson blamed 9/11 on America and nobody said a word.
April 25, 2008 at 9:33 pm
Pat Robertson blamed 9/11 on America and nobody said a word.
Well, I guess if you ignore the hordes of right-wing pundits, bloggers, and others who absolutely excoriated Robertson for his moronic remarks, you might have a point. Otherwise, not so much.
Good points all, though his elitism doesn’t necessarily bother me as much.
April 25, 2008 at 10:59 pm
The jr. sen. from Illinois has a toxic quality about him more befitting the successor to President for Life, Robert Mugabe. I assume that President Mugabe is mortal like so many of us, so there is hope that the jr. sen. from Illinois could still be President…of Zimbawe.
Or a dozen other countries in need of change–east of Greenwich. And the jr. sen. could also get a whole military uniform complete with ribbons.
April 26, 2008 at 5:39 am
“Come on. Isn’t all this talk just a cover for racism? If Jeremiah Wright were white you guys wouldn’t have a problem with what he said either. Pat Robertson blamed 9/11 on America and nobody said a word.”
Please tell me that you are joking! There just as many black babies being aborted as there are white and Obama is still wrong! This stopped being about race and started being about LEGAL MURDER the moment he threw his hat into the ring. So please for the love of Christ Almighty say you are joking and not simply a murder supporting idiot!
April 26, 2008 at 2:03 pm
“Come on. Isn’t all this talk just a cover for racism? If Jeremiah Wright were white you guys wouldn’t have a problem with what he said either. Pat Robertson blamed 9/11 on America and nobody said a word.”
LOL! Do you still believe that the brouhaha over “Reverend” Wright was about race? No, it was about anti-Americanism. When he said “God d*** America” or talking about “the chickens coming home to roost” with 9/11 he showed his disdain for America.
As a non-white myself (Asian/Hispanic), I take offense at what Wright said. Minorities have struggled for acceptance in this country, to be considered “fully American”. Now comes this clown in pajamas casting that shadow of doubt. Shame on him.
-Rich
April 26, 2008 at 3:20 pm
Curiously missing in the Obama narrative is an accounting of the great “civil rights” and “community activist” work he did on Chicago’s South Side.
If you ask the locals, they will tell you he was a lawyer for a housing swindler, and had little to do with his neighbors his ward, aside from smoking cigarettes outside his building.
“Community Activism” in Chicago is a swindle, and has been for generations. Trying to keep the status quo of segregation, economic blight and terrible schools is the about all the “activists” every accomplish.
JBP