The more I watch the Obama campaigns the more “afraid” I become. Very concerned at the least.
Personally I do not care what color the guy’s skin is or if he prays to a rock. My suspicions about him are that indeed no one really knows much about him at all but yet people that are following him have developed a passion for him as if he is some kind of savior or messiah. And yes that scares me big time!!! 😮
Earlier today people were screaming OH-BAM-AH and YES WE CAN and people were even crying! I don’t know if you are my age or not but it was like how teenagers were behaving when the Beatles made their debut on the Sullivan show or when kids were screaming and crying over Elvis.
Anyway someone that is so charismatic that they draw that kind of passion and have this mantra threat they together will their follows can “Change the World” Save the World” or Save anything, my advice is to RUN!!!
When I see these campaigns and think about the mania I think about the Here Krishna’s, Moonies, The Jim Jones Cult and heck we can even add Manson and Hitler to the list.
I think debates are a good thing. It is how we learn and share ideas. You are entitled to your opinion as much as anyone else is. Voting is a part of the process. If you choose to abstain that is your choice but if you are a concerned American, then voting is important. Voters are what keep America a country of the people and by the people and not just giving license for a leader to run everything their way.
I really do not pay much attention to the media or someone’s campaign site or an anti site for that matter. I just base my thinking on the facts that are public knowledge as well as stay concerned about what we do not know or what does not add up. This way we can make truly informed decisions that affect us all rather than one on hopes and passions.
I fully agree with you and have much respect for anyone who has had to rise up against prejudice. I can understand how experiencing prejudice in the Southern USA has made you sensitive, as it should. I think we need to educate the ignorant about the horrors of prejudice.
But we also need to not assume that if someone is African American they have risen from the prejudice of the south.
Obama was born in 1961. Hawaii had just become a state two years earlier. The population of Hawaii other than white tourists and military who lived primarily on base, was Polynesians, Filipinos, Hawaii and a lot of mixed race dark skinned people. The brand new Americans in the year Obama was born were not American patriots. Instead they resented that they no longer had the ability to sustain their monarchy. Many still considered King Kalakaua and Queen Liliuokalani their leaders. Most of these new Americans did not consider themselves American and there was no white majority then. so Obama was not an oppressed African American. Then of course his childhood was spent in Indonesia, the largest Muslim population country. Muslims do indeed have Obama on their registry and consider him a Muslim just as many other religions keep such records. Did he practice Islam. We DON’T KNOW. It is the unknown that we should be concerned about.
Obama has far more in common with the thinking of growing up in a Muslim country than he has with any African American living in the Southern USA.
Barrack Obama is a member of Chicago’s Trinity United Church of Christ. Its minister, and Obama’s spiritual adviser, is the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. In 1982, the church launched Trumpet News magazine. Every year, the magazine makes awards in various categories. Last year, it gave the Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. Trumpeter Award to a man it said “truly epitomized greatness.” That man is Louis Farrakhan who is
the leader of the Nation of Islam (NOI).
For nearly 30 years, Louis Farrakhan has marked himself a notable figure on the extremist scene by making hateful statements targeting Jews, whites and homosexuals.
Farrakhan’s bigoted and anti-Semitic rhetoric has included statements calling whites “blue eyed devils” and Jews “bloodsuckers” that controlled the slave trade, the government, the media and various Black individuals and organizations. In 2006, he blamed Jews and Israel for the war in Iraq, for controlling Hollywood and for promoting what he considers immorality during his February Saviours’ Day address in Chicago.
In a 2007 interview with Arabic-language television news network Al Jazeera, Farrakhan accused Jews of anti-Semitism, charging that “The real anti-Semites are those who came out of Europe and settled in Palestine, and now they call themselves the true Jews, when in fact, they converted to Judaism.”
This does make you wonder how a man running for President feels when he espouses a church that reveres and honors such a man as Farrakhan.
Back to that University education. Here are some facts, NOT opinions. The cost not including expenses is $50,000.00 per year to attend Columbia and Harvard. Obama has a 4 year undergraduate degree from Columbia which makes with personal expenses for his four years there about $250,000.00. Then there is the graduate work at Harvard which would be at least another $250,000.00. So would it be anywhere near logical to assume that half a million dollars was paid off with a $12,000.00 a year job.
Ok I’ll give you grants, scholarships and loans. BUT prior to Clinton signing his education bill into office which raised the bat for many students that could not afford college, the cap on GSL was $2,500.00 per year and the cap on the Pell grant was $1,600.00.00.
Someone saw potential in Obama and invested in him. Why we do not know. But we do know there is money out there that people have to invest in people that can rise up for their cause. Do I know what that cause is and who the investor is. No. None of us know. More unknowns about a man that people want to elect to run their country.
The issues above are not my opinions. They are my questions based on facts that make things that Obama says not adding up at all.
I just have questions about him and all candidates.
Why do African American voters behind him when indeed Obama’s own bio identifies with them less than other candidates (except that his skin tone is darker).
What EXACTLY are Obama’s plans. Not rhetoric. What changes. How are these changes to be made.
We need to get past the thinking that just because we don’t like Bush we need something polar opposite even if that person is a virtual stranger to us. We need to use out minds and not just our passions and hopes. We are the ones in charge of a better tomorrow but we cannot just jump up and down and shout mantras. We have to play a very active role in all of this.
We need to stop being prejudice by being intelligent and not allowing ANY KIND of prejudice. We cannot honor Farrakhan because he is an obvious bigot and anti Semite, but think it is Ok because we feel bad about the oppression of blacks in the south. A bigot is a bigot no matter what and we cannot condone this no matter what color of skin the bigot has.
WE need to turn off the TV and go to the library and watch videos and listen to recordings and read facts, not opinions by people who want to believe in their passions true or not.
We need to register and vote and then research and learn and make wise decisions.
And we need to question EVERYTHING! This country is all about us and doing what is best for us and our children and grand children.
By going to the polls in November we will indeed be making history. But NOT because a candidate is female or dark skinned. But because we have weighed all the facts and because we will have a part of shaping history no matter who we vote for.
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