Politics
I try to stay out of it as much as I can. I’m not even sure I believe in the system any more. It is like a circus to me.Neither Obama nor Hillary really speak to me deeply.
McCain just scares the crap out of me as an out of touch, Roe vs. Wade overturning, Patriarchal “Christian” - the last thing our country needs.
Barack Hussein Obama - who’d of thought the American public would even consider a candidate with such a name? Perhaps that is a sign of the public’s collective intelligence - being able to distinguish a name from a person. Of course being Arab or having an Arabic name does not make one bad by association. But try to imagine the collective support of a president named Mitsubishi after WW II. Or perhaps it is just evidence of the manipulation the political machine is putting over on us regular folks.
The man really hasn’t said anything very concrete I can say I feel good about one way or another. My joke is that everything he says sounds like, “Ice cream and cake for everyone!” to me.
His voting record in the Senate is one of abstaining - he just seems like the kind of guy who won’t take a stand, lets his minions do the dirty work, and runs away when the smoke gets too thick.
As for being a “Black or African-American” candidate - his mother is white and his father is from Kenya. He is not a descendent of slaves; his relatives weren‘t exploited bringing America into the industrial age. His neighborhood wasn‘t ravaged by crack. I doubt he was ever hassled by the police or screwed over by the criminal justice system because of his color. He’s lived a life of privilege, more “white” in nature than most whites. He has a Columbia and Harvard education. More importantly HE DID NOT GROW UP IN A TYPICAL AFRICAN-AMERICAN HOUSEHOLD OR CULTURE. He is not Black, nor is he an African-American in the sense of our great African-American politicians and statesmen: Fredrick Douglas, Martin Luther King, Jesse Jackson and yes even big mouthed Al Sharpton (whom I curiously really like quite a bit). At least these guys really knew what being Black in America was. They grew up or at least spent significant time either growing up in, or working in the urban centers of Black population.
So why are people so in love with him? I don’t understand. Isn’t the true meaning of racism making decisions based on skin color? If you presented this guy on paper, folks might say ho hum… typical politician, rich guy, Ivy League educated, Harvard Law. Mention the fact that his skin is dark and suddenly he’s the great new hope for America, despite a white American mother, and a father from Kenya - and early childhood education in Indonesia.
I’d love to see a real Black president. The country could use that perspective in office - big time. But Obama - he is NOT the guy.
The fact that both Kenya and Indonesia are the sites of major overseas terrorist activity (attributed to fundamental Islamic Al Qaeda) also concerns me but seems to bear little mention).
I’m left with Hillary. But I like her. Something about the Clintons has always appealed to me. I thought the whole thing over Bill’s hanky-panky was a joke, and our response as a nation made us a laughing stock. Consider other presidents who funded secret wars, manipulated foreign governments, provided arms to Iran, lied to the American public to go to war. Is a little hanky-panky in the Whitehouse so bad? It wasn‘t nice. It was embarrassing. But, please. Put it in perspective. If anything it made the man seem more human to me. Humans make mistakes. Humans deny things to avoid embarrassment to themselves, their nation and their family. Sociopaths go to war and lie about it completely; or make up false intelligence and false pretenses. Why does it seem few can see that distinction?
But we aren‘t talking about Bill. We are talking about Hillary - who spent all that time in Whitehouse with Bill. Not the President, but close I’d say. She represents a shift from the patriarchal nature of our government. She doesn‘t drag religion into it. She is a brilliant woman. She has good ideas. She does not deeply move me - but in terms of the candidates out there, I feel a whole lot better about her than I feel about anybody else. I think the nation could do a whole lot worse.So here is my little poll thing from NewsVine.com Here’s to the best woman for the job.
