Obama's speech, and my daughter's tears
POSTED BY: RocketJock
UPDATED: Sunday, March 30, 2008 15:32
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Well, I suppose that's fair. I may be mistaken about this aspect and I'm more then willing to consceid that. I figure myself to be someone not affiliated with either of the two parties we're represented by today. I don't think it's going to look very good for Obama though when McCain isn't just sitting back and watching them two fight it out.
Obama's campaign has used race against her underhandedly, and while she was not the one who brought out the dirt on his old pastor, she also has not brought up his middle name and his questionable past once. I think that's already more class that she's shown than I would have ever given her credit for going into this.
That's a few big bombs to drop when it's the demon-rethug battle. If there is any dirt there anywhere I'm sure McCain has it by now. While they're wasting 10s of millions of dollars battling it out, he's free to focus his time and resources on his plan to build his rep an destroy the Democratic victor's rep.
My other concerns may not mean anything at all once the fearmoungering has begun. I might not be viewed as somebody with a head very firmly attached to his shoulders in here, but I am not a racist. I thank you for not calling me one either (though whether you believe me to be a religious biggot yourself is still up in the air).
I was simply stating my thoughts and concerns. I have no predetermined loyalty to either side, and I just know there are going to be a whole lot of people scared into voting at those polls.
But I do know that considering the state of affairs in the world now, if it turns out that he even went to a single Muslim sunday school growing up (or whatever the Muslim equivilant), not only will my vote against him be set in stone, but I can guarantee that we will be in for 4 years of McCain.
"A government is a body of people, usually notably ungoverned." http://www.myspace.com/6ixstringjack
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6ix- In a few years your fears of a "Muslim" President will look like those fears of "Saddam's WMD": Part of a mass hysteria whipped up by playing on people's fears, ignorance, and prejudice.
And quite frankly, it doesn't matter what anyone did or didn't do when they run for President. McCain's military record didn't stop his (Republican, neocon) detractors from calling him "coward" nor did they stop the dirty-works guys from claiming he had a half-black love-child or from attacking McCain's wife.
If you want to be independent of thought, you've got to by truly independent ... and that means independent of your fears as well. Because if your thinking is dominated by fear you will not see clearly, and it gives people a "hook" into you mind by which you can be led.
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Let's party like it's 1929.
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Signy. I'm thinking about things right now and I started writing things down and it turned into a million things that I didn't know what I was talking about.
Not going to say any of them here now, but I'm not ignoring the thread.
RocketJock.... didn't mean to steal your thunder or anything. I got a superiority complex and it can drive people away. I don't really mean to insult with my blanket statements but I use them to let go of a lot of frustration and tend to offend. This is your thread and I'll bow out of it and let Obama supporters talk amongst themselves.
Good luck to you, and if he wins, good luck to all of us, right?
Later,
6SJ "A government is a body of people, usually notably ungoverned." http://www.myspace.com/6ixstringjack
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