The long arduous presidential campaign season is coming to
close. Thankfully, we all have endured
the constant and deafening cries of half-truths and lies. The candidates have done much to obfuscate
and stay clear of issues that are the more compelling, like gun control and
global warming. I lean to the left on
all issues and hence my man is the president.
I dislike “etch-a-sketch” Romney not so much for what he is but what he
isn’t. He reminds me of the hard sell
snake oil salesman who will do anything; say anything to make the sale. He is a man without a core, a vacuous
salesman. The only true portrait I have
seen was on the Daily Show. Obama didn’t
do much when he had the chance and the fact that the “know nothings” and the “do
nothings” Congressmen can point that out is unpardonable in my opinion. Rather than attempt to work with the troglodytes,
on day one of his administration he should have pushed through a budget and a
single payer health care. That said, I still
have got to stick with the only hope of turning the corner on the mass stupidity
that seems to have a grip on our government.
Underlying this election, indeed the past four years, has
been the rampant racism that still holds this country in a death grip. While the right will scream at Obama yelling
he is dividing this country with his penchant for class warfare, the truth is
that the right and its noise makers are little more than a bunch of
racists. So bigoted are they, that if
they were to be truly honest with the people they would don white hoods when
they go on the air waves. The sad and
most troubling aspect of that scenario would be that they would not lose a
single devoted follower.
Fact is Obama started his presidency with three strikes
against him. Remember that for the
longest time, a black man couldn’t be a quarter back in football because of
their supposed inferior mental ability. What
preconceived notions did we hold for black politicians. Our society has place the bar for a black
person to be accepted so high that only the truly superior can measure up to it.
Thus, we can have a mediocre even an inferior white man, like George W. Bush,
and he can sail into a second term based on little save the ability of the apparatchiks
and devious handlers, especially the likes of Karl Rove. To touch a raw nerve of many conservatives,
we can see a senile old B actor raised to the status of an icon, based on the
some glib remarks and an affable smile.
Yes, President Reagan was slowly slipping into that dark and murky world
of an Alzheimer patient while in the oval office.
We have a president who is bi-racial and has overcome the
stiffest of all odds to become a highly educated man. Yet we can have a nincompoop like Palin mock
him as “jive ass” while she is little more than that. We have Sununu speaks of an endorsement as a
racial thing. Behind all this blather is
a deep seated prejudice that I would bet this collection of bigots would deny and
scream that the race card was being played if it were mentioned. Yet the race card was being played time and
time again, and it was they who were playing it, not overtly but subtly in all
they said and didn’t say.
The election will be tough and close because this country
was never really the land of the free.
It was basically the land of the free white people. It is ironic that the same folks who misread
the constitution claiming that it is Christian government oftentimes merely
overlook the key amendments to the constitution that truly made this country
free, at least on paper.
To understand how deep the divide is among us, just look at
the break down of who is supporting Romney; it is the white folks, especially
the old white males. Interesting to say
the least. Obama needs to be reelected
for no other reason than it is time for this country to shed that skin of
prejudice. Like a snake, we need a new
skin. We need to wiggle ourselves from
our past. Most importantly, we need to
give the President a fighting chance to do the things he wants to do. If the old bigots and hate mongers don’t want
to go along with this change than we need to do all we can to vote these people
out of office and send them back to their caves where they can live out their
days in the darkness that have spent their life in.
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