My first resentment is that I need to state that I'm a politically active African American, who in the past has supported all of the struggles you would expect: criminal justice reform, affirmative action, afrocentricism, etc.
Yet, my main resentment is toward Barrack Obama and the media for his allowing them to "create" him. If people would take a sober look:
Obama has done 1 thing of note in relation to Presidential politics: he won a U.S. Senate seat. The history of that race is so unbelievable in the context of both his primary and general election opponents that those few who don't believe in God, really have a hard time with that one.
So we have a black guy, who gave a speech in 2004 that everyone (including me) loved, and now he's a presidential contender?
Look at Carol Mosley Braun in Illinois for example:
November 3, 1992--Carol Moseley-Braun of Illinois became the first Black woman to win a U.S. Senate seat on this day. Moseley-Braun, with support from a broad-based political coalition, handily defeated Republican Richard Willliamson. She held the post until 1998. A Chicago native, Moseley-Braun earned a law degree from the University of Chicago in 1972 and served as an assistant U.S. attorney in the mid-1970s. Moseley-Braun won a seat in the Illinois House of Representatives in 1978, serving until 1988 when she was elected Cook County Recorder of Deeds, a post she held until her election to the U.S. Senate. She later served as U.S. ambassador to New Zealand and currently is a Democratic candidate for the U.S. presidency.
Imagine if she had given a great speech at the time, and the msm annoited her a contender?
But wait, she did what every other politcian besides Obama has to, which was go to work.
In the process, she met scandal, and poor results, and when she stood before the people to be re-affirmed, SHE LOST.
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Look at George Allen, in Virginia, according to Virginia Republican standards, he did a great job in the Senate. Add to that, he was a former governor of the State. He was poised to become the frontrunner of the Reagan Wing of the Republican Party.
Yet while in the re-election battle he loses a race, very few people even had on the radar when it began.
Now he is finished in national politics.
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I could give an endless list of people who were "Presidential" until they lost:
Tom Daschle
Harold Ford
Kathleen Kennedy Townsend
just to name a few.
The point is the media became so invested in obama that they didn't demand that he actually be qualified to run. That would risk that he would do something unpopular, or lose an election along the way.
Obama has not done anything to deserve this platform. Given a speech in 2004 at a convention is not sufficient.
Add to that, that he laughed, "he'd be crazy" to come to Washington and start running President, yet everyone else didn't laugh him off is a sad sign of our politics today.
The answer of course is all in race. An ivy-league educated A.A. who speaks the language of liberal democrats. Being that they control the media, add that to an unshakable black community support, and its' unstoppable in the Dem. Primary.
People can search all they want for reasons why HRC is behind, right now. The answer is all about race and elitism. It is also about why a frontrunner with a dominant financial advantage, and unanimous support in the media is scheduled to lose bigtime in West Virginia, and it is being totally discounted.
Obama should have either done something to deserve all of this, or rejected it in words and deeds. But to stoke these fires as a demagogue is bad for America.
along the way, i've given example of "real change" that would justify this hoopla.
BUT NOT 1 SUPPORTER CAN COMMENT BELOW, ANYTHING, that Obama proposes to change that is worthy of this hype. I've suggested radical education reform, a Dennis Kucinch type refuse to fund the war in Iraq, an effort to fight the cultural decay in Hollywood, war against the violence in the black community, etc.
but from obama, it's the same old, same old, with a deceptive package.
I can get that from HRC. That's why I still support her. Her dishonesty is actually honest because I know she's pandering and lieing on many things. But at the end of the day, I believe she loves this country, is a smart/tough leader, and is the best person to lead this country.
(Update): btw I would have written similar things about HRC in 2004 if she had ran the same kind of race Obama has run. She would have had to offer something so unbelievable for me to skip over the fact that she hadn't done her job and gotten re-elected. So if she ran this 2008 race in 2004, I guess I'd be called a sexist.|
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