Posted by sebstar:
What was striking about the convention last night was the interplay between Barack and his family. The difference between the two candidates was glaring. In Barack you have a man who came from a broken home and through hard work and talent rocketed to the top of his Harvard graduating class and still never lost touch with trying to improve the lives of the working class. In his personal life, he has a beautiful family that he obviously loves very much.
In McCain you have a cat that left his wife for his mistress, an heiress who, by the way, stole from her own charity to feed her drug habit. The same woman who he has called a c*nt in public and offered up her services to a drunken biker rally in Sturgis.
Funny how Christian, right-wingers arent as giddy to apply the term "family values" and "hard working Americans" to the Obama's.
Thats not even a consideration.
I agree with you, but I gotta throw this out. Does it really matter how good a person Barak is, if he does not have the juice card to get it done?
No doubt Barak and his family are charming, youthful, smart, intelectual, and can offer hope. Im blown away by his youth, his good looking family, and can't help but be cynical to think that a young white guy could not get this far on merit alone. I ask, not offer to which is this country really just enamered with the idea of him more than really want his as our leader?
NOt that McCain is the man, but he is in place to run against Barak.
In truth I though Barak would have made a great VP to Hilary but was also thinking a women and a black man really was too much in one election for the public to handle.
Im thinking out loud here but I find this whole process really incredible.
I don't think Barak is really electable. While the whole change platform is a great ideal, in the end I think the status quo wins out as too much change just can't be digested by a fearful judo christian voter base who extropolates the past into the present.
Change? I'd like to see a flat tax enacted. I'd like to see universal health care with different tiers. Pay more, get more.
Thats massive, and not doable in this environment.
What can obama really do?
Obviously, I am a part of the problem that prevents change, but I also see that the grass is not greener in other places so before I enact change, Am I really changing for the better in reality? Or just the promise of it?
Isiah bought about great change, but it never added up to anything. Change is good, but not always effective.
Obama does not have the cred, and will have to sell more than emotions to win over many sects of the voting public.
Me included.
8/26/2008 7:10 PM