Hope for What?
"Caught up and rendered silly by Obamamania, Black progressives who should know better have unilaterally disarmed themselves in surrender to a media-amplified euphoria that most resembles a group drug fest. The faculties of memory and common sense shut down, as longtime activists effectively repudiate their former lives to join the mindless bacchanal swirling around Barack Obama's thoroughly corporate candidacy. We at BAR, who have consistently held Black politicians to the standards of the historical Black Political Consensus, find ourselves reviled by Black erstwhile progressives "based on annoyance that we brought a skunk to the party." But the stink does not emanate from us - it comes from Obama's own mouth, when he praises racist Ronald Reagan and the 1990s "ideas" of Newt Gingrich, in a blatant bid to make common cause with those who wish to destroy the last vestiges of a Black Movement, root and branch." (Black Agenda Report editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley on January 23, 2008)
Obama has been befriending the coal industry, a major producer of greenhouse gases. Tag-teaming with Senator Jim Bunning of Kentucky, Obama is promoting the Coal-to-Liquid Fuel Promotion Act of 2007, which, the Washington Post reports would provide incentives for research and plant construction.
As for ethanol, Obama explains his stance by invoking energy independence. PORK is the more likely explanation - Illinois is a major coal-producing state, and the senator would no doubt find it difficult to take on a powerful home state industry.
Luckily for Obama, there are no huge oil reserves buried beneath the Mississippi River or Lake Michigan; that at least spares him the embarrassment of having to rally behind offshore drilling.
Obama seems to come up on the wrong side of many issues. BUT even as he does, he gets a pass. Finally the working classes are beginning to see through this facade. ONLY, it may be too late, unless the super-delegates figure it out and chooses Hillary. However, if they do there will likely be an outbreak of nation-wide riots.
BUT if Hillary is not the nominee the Democrats will lose and it may just be the END of the PARTY as we know it.
The Game
The real conspiracy is democracy. Voting for Democrats hasn't changed anything, nor is it democratic. Money talks and democracy walks.
In a Washington Post column by Richard Cohen, Obama's Trouble With The Truth (Jan 1, 2008), Cohen writes:
"In a recent provocative essay for The New Republic's Web site, Princeton historian Sean Wilentz coined the phrase "the delusional style in American punditry." He applied it to Obama's fans in the American press. His argument is that certain journalists are so enthralled by the sheer Obamaness of Obama that they are willing to overlook everything they know about the fundamental value of experience."
"In this regard, Wilentz cites a Boston Globe editorial that used Obama's memoir "Dreams From My Father" to extol Obama's real-life experiences. Wilentz is not persuaded. To him, the book is "not exactly a portrait of sterling honesty or authenticity.""
"I and others have written that Obama -- as he himself says in the introduction -- invented composite characters and altered chronology. But as The Chicago Tribune also reported, some of the events Obama passionately details seem not to have happened at all. Maybe his memory played tricks on him. Mine sure does."
So it is OK for Obama to alter reality but it is not all right for Hillary Clinton to slightly adjust for a failed memory a reality during her trip to Bosnia over 14 years ago? Whereas, Barack Obama can't get the facts right on things which happened just 4 years ago.
The racial divide is huge. Over 90% African-Americans have voted for Barack Obama. It is becoming a "white" against "black" thing. As for the claim that educated whites vote for Obama, the truth told correctly is educated whites vote for both, but "liberal" whites, who also tend to be educated, though not smarter, vote for Obama, a white guilt, white liberal thing?
AND, it is not a "Smart" against "Dumb" thing. I know many professionals and educated "middle-class", like the majority of those over 50-60 who support Hillary Clinton, whereas young people are coming out in droves for Obama. They may or may not show up for the general election? They are not voting on issues; they are for their team, which is the younger Black man. This reminds me of a high school football game and they are being led on by cheer-leaders who only promise hope.
Hope for what?
Hank Roth
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Hank Roth (on the Internet since 1982)
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