After getting hammered for about a week over his former pastors comments, Barack Obama finally came out and made a definitive speach about race. Obama was trying to stay above this fray, but he was dragged down into it, so speak he did.
I thought it was a great speech. Bold, direct, and couragous. He layed it all out. As the cool kids say, he kept it real. I hope people listen to the speech themselves instead of taking what the mainstream media gives them as analysis. Don’t let others tell you how to think, do it for yourself. Conservatives will hate the speech, Democrats will largely accept it. That helps no one.
In the end, I think this will end quickly because people are far more concerned with what is happening to the economy. Are they going to be able to keep their house, their job? What about the complete mess that is health care? You want to find crazy pastors? They’re all over the place. Even John McCain has one supporting him. What’s most humorous about this is all the coverage on TV analyzing this to death is mostly being done by wealthy white men.
There is a notion that democrats are happy with both Presidential candidates and would support either one come the general election in November. Well, that’s not true.
I’m an Obama guy. I think he’s smart, eloquent, and different. A real breath of fresh air. The Clinton and Bush families have dominated the presidency for 20 years or two decades. We need a change. We need something different. The more I see and hear Hillary Clinton, the more I despise her. She’s old school, bare knuckles politics. She has a machine and most of the establishment behind her. Impossible odds really for anyone, even the wunderkind Obama.
But somehow Obama has done it. He has captured the hearts and imaginations of Americans. Than comes Hillary. To get back into the race in Ohio and Texas she went negative, big time negative. Now Obama promises to sharpen his attacks on Hillary. The bad news here for Obama is now he is playing in Hillary’s turf. Now he’s playing the old school game she wants him to play. Obama broke through partially because he changed the game, changed the playing field. His field is made up of hope and change and yes we can. I hope he does not abandon that with this new strategy. The Clintons are ruthless and I don’t think can be beaten on their home field.
Contrary to the popular belief, I don’t like both candidates, I will not be just as happy to support Clinton as Obama. I hate Hillary and I’m not sure if I can get myself to vote for her in November if she is the one. If the Republicans had a real hard core scary conservative, it would be easier, but John McCain is so liberal as a Republican, a middle of the road Democrat such as myself could go that way, maybe. I still think McCain is a nut and is so completely wrong on the Iraq war, that might just tip it for me.
If I have to vote for Clinton, I want to pencil in a note beside my vote that says “you suck”. I think I may just send an email to the campaign that says, I voted for you but you suck. The Democrats are being handed this election on a silver platter. It’s theirs for the taking, unless they completely screw it up. It could happen.
Amazing what you will find just popping around the net. I was on Ustream and found this great channel that shows a the front view from a train in Japan. That’s it. Simple, beautiful, cool.
Hillary Clinton is bringing daughter Chelsea out on the campaign trail in Iowa but won’t let her speak to the press. Predictably and quickly, this has lead to the absurd as she turned down an interview request from a 9 year old Scholastic News reporter.
Thus is the politics of control. In a hot presidential race, one statement, one moment can change fortunes forever. Just ask Howard Dean. The Clintons have always sought to protect and shield Chelsea from the press and I understand and empathize with that but if you don’t want to get shot, don’t go near the battlefield. If they are going to bring Chelsea along and make her part of the campaign in that way, than she is in the game, like it or not.
I don’t like the overly controlled and manufactured politics we have today. It’s almost impossible to get any kind of real read on a candidate. I’d love to hear from Chelsea and I’m sure other young people would too. She’s a smart girl for goodness sakes, let her speak. People are so afraid of making a mistake and the press is too quick to judge.
I has been said this is the YouTube campaign, but don’t let that fool you into thinking this is a new media campaign. We have had some “YouTube debates” but that’s just window dressing on a campaign that is still controlled by and manufactured for the old dog media. If anything, new media has intensified the control because of the way bad news can spread like wildfire across the Internet. We will not have a new media election until candidates are allowed and are courageous enough to let down their hair and let us see their real selves. Until control is broken down. Not until blogs, audio and video podcasts are treated as equals in the process and not a side show like the YouTube debates were. We’re getting closer every year and I hope someday we are able to break through and have a true new media election.
I haven’t had a cold in awhile, but Virginia got sick a few days ago and gave it to me. She is fine, recovering remarkably fast, but old dad is not taking it so well. Drinking tea, taking cold meds, and going through countless tissues. It’s a virus, so there’s nothing you can actually do but treat the symptoms. We’re going home soon and I have to get back to kung fu. I really need to shake this soon.
This is episode 66. What happened to episode 65? It’s a “lost” episode and will be posted soon. This a a wild ramble cast full of overly caffeinated talk about a range of topics. Bad language and strange diversions abounds.
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