Obama said what FINALLY needed to be said!
Sat Apr 12, 2008 at 01:12:09 AM PDT
You have Hillary and McCain trying to play politics as usual and addressing non-issues like those that actually cause a supposedly 'enlightened' people to vote for the likes of right wing shills like George W. Bush and John McCain. Unless McCain nominates an idiot like Mitt Romney, you will probably see him as the next President of the United States. Why? Because Hillary is not offering enough of an argument to actually make you believe that she--a polarizing figure already hated in most of the red states--could be a viable candidate for the Presidency in 2008. I have a friend in North Carolina who said to me, "If you don't think any Southerner capable of getting out of his/her deathbed to vote AGAINST Hillary wouldn't, then you're sadly mistaken. We didn't like Bill or his wife then, and we like her even less now!"
Obama is addresing the core problem of American voters today. Fact is, they don't want admit that America is no longer NUMBER 1 in the world, whether it be in literacy, healthcare, infrastucture, civil rights, education, etc.. When we were on top of the world--or so we thought--we thought the greatest threats to our SUPERPOWERDOM were such things as abortion, immigration, gay marriage or gun control. We were indeed that stupid that we thought rising economies like India and China, to which we shamelessly outsourced our labor and manufacturing base to, were not the actual threats to our way of life, but rather internal non-issues like gay marriage, abortion and gun control. We were so worried about what happened within our countrymen's bedrooms, that we missed entirely what was happening in the oil-consuming world around us. Yes, while we're sitting in churches 2 or 3 days of the week, getting upset about our pastors raving about gays, abortionists and liberals, the rest of the world was more concerned about lifting itself out of Third World and actually improving the lives of its people. The Iraq war further distracted from solving the supposed immediate threat of Osama Bin Laden and Al Queada...Saddam Husseign who was no threat and kept Iran at bay is now dead, while Osama Bin Laden still lives and Iran is working to acquire nuclear weapons. Problem is, without a draft, there is no way we can hope to keep Iran in check, because we've squandered the goodwill of our allies in Iraq.
So yes, let the country attack Obama for criticizing whitebread America for its obsession over non-issues, while the most basic issues of our ultimate undoing continue to burn away the foundations of this country. Yay, go Hillary! You and Bill may get the White House again for another 4 years, but then may so McCain. You'll live in the lap of luxury, while the rest of us suffer for your ambition. Vote Obama, or live to regret it later...as surely as many of us predicted--and most accurately--what four more years of Bush would bring us.
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