Ramblings from an Exhausted Democrat
March 18, 2008
Obama and Rev Jeremiah Wrightyes I see the irony in how white Rev. Wright is. =)
I watched Obama’s Speech today. It was good. I just wish he’s never had to make it
I generally have a high tolerance for politics, I watch Meet the Press and Face the Nation while getting dressed for church, I do my best to stay abreast of what’s going on in the political realm. But as a registered Democrat I am exhausted. I’m so tired of this campaign I could cry. Not because of the candidates but because of the media and their friends/supporters. I’m an Obama supporter and I genuinely have respect for Hillary Clinton
I don’t have a problem when we nit pick the things that candidates say. It may be annoying but it’s understandable because they are the candidate. But why are we getting all kinds of extra with the random people that are related to the candidates?? Now I am one of those people who got down o Geraldine Ferraro’s comment, but the key is that I got down on her, not Hillary! Now Ferraro was a little different because she is a politician herself and an active part of Hillary’s campaign, she is however not a candidate in this election. Hillary is and she should not and did have to make any speeches about what someone else has said. And then there’s the issue of Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Barack Obama’s “former” pastor. It’s no secret that as an older black man who’s lived through tons of injustice and inequality, the man has some issues. He’s very concerned with racism and says some stuff that a lot of black people may not agree with, But he’s said those things in his own pulpit, not as a member of Obama’s campaign team. He didn’t say “White people are the devil, Obama 08!” He was just using his freedom of speech and yet Barack Obama has to answer for him.
So I’m democratically exhausted, I need this to be over because the political over-coverage is draining me. Maybe I should join McCain for a mai-tai, I’m sure he’s relaxing and resting up for the big election, while us democrats nit pick ourselves to death.
Hmm. Excellent remarks. As a registered Independent I must admit that I know why the media is “vetting” Mr. Obama. After their last debate when one journalist asked Sen. Clinton about her tax records; she replied “that she would release it by April 15.” Now, this is critical because prior to this last debate in before the Texas/Ohio/Vermont/Miss primary the Clinton campaign said the media was going soft on Obama. Suddenly, all this information about Obama startd to surface. Here’s the point the Clinton campaign has thrown “the kitchen sink & refrigerator” at Sen. Obama and yet all we are concerned about is his “former pastor” whom stepped down a year ago. Why? because the Clinton campaign has successfully distorted the facts and cast effective aspersion on the Obama campaign. There are many facts in Sen. Clinton’s history that she doesn’t want to allude to. For example, they were given campaign contributions from South Africa, but the name was withheld. Hmmm? Also, there is Bill Clinton being tied to Chinese businesses. Could that be where she got the $5 million she donated to her campaign. She has yet to list that benefactor. Pastor Wright’s comments are no different than Rev. Falwell, or other conservative ministers who lace their sermons with fire and brimstone on the regular, but now we are so enraged by this man. The real deal is they have nothing on Obama, but this contrite story is makes good press while the real issues are thrown around like a political “football.” I think Obama said it best that if we just dismiss his comments without looking into what’s the cause of them then we are doomed to miss the message etc. I paraphrase. Black people have been “at the back of the bus” with every politician that has run for office. Moreover, we disproportionately recieve less resources for our hard earned tax dollars. Weve endured the “Tuskegee Experiment”; “Jim Crow”; “Legal Lynching”; “The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade”; “Chattel Slavery”; “THe CIvil Rights Era”; “The Black Power Movement” and still we languish in Economic, Political, and systematic oppression. I think Rev. Wright is justified in his “righteous indignation” about the plight of his people. Quite frankly, I admire his candor in an environment of “double-speak” and pervasive passivity from our leaders, teachers, preachers, and elected officials. Its about time. White America is asleep when it comes to race-issues. This was one alarm. It’s time to wake up and realize this country will never realize her promise as long as we continue the “3/5 of a human being mentality.”