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Title: BARACK OBAMA FOR PRESIDENT
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Black Men for McCain
URL Source: http://blackmenformccain.com/2008/10/18/barack-obama-for-president/
Published: Oct 18, 2008
Author: some line jumper
Post Date: 2008-10-24 18:24:18 by Tauzero
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Views: 214
Comments: 14
BARACK OBAMA FOR PRESIDENT My father is not well. He readily admits his time is short, and the encroaching spectre of The End has made him a more reflective man than I have ever known him to be. Over the past few weeks, he’s spent a lot of time talking about what he will take away from this life when he leaves it. Difficult stuff, to be sure, but hours I will cherish. To my surprise, Dad has not moved toward religion in his last days. Instead, he’s found his spirituality in family and friends. According to him, the people he loves are the ones who have filled his life with light, not the promises made in his Bible. Last week he said Christianity always gave him the same comfort he remembers from childhood–the feeling of cuddling up by a warm fire with a good story and a parent to reassure him that in the end, everything would be okay. But it’s the end. And everything is not okay. Dad is a self-made man who came up from nothing. To him, personal responsibility is the foundation of our society. He didn’t believe that men, black or white, should rely on anyone, especially not the government. But as he watched his life savings drain away with his health, and the dreams of his children fade as we struggled to pay the bills to keep him alive, that ideology began to feel disconnected from reality. The Conservatism he taught me encouraged unrepentant faith in the Free Market–if you believe, you will prosper. But we believed. And we are not prospering. We are withering away. Dad has long since abandoned the Conservative cause–not just because he felt betrayed by George W. Bush, but because his perspective on life changed the longer he lived it. As many of you have pointed out, I’ve begun to question my own devotion to the party as a result. In recent weeks, the debacle of McCain/Palin has accelerated my move away from Conservatism so rapidly, I can’t even see my old mindset on the horizon anymore. And in the wake of my retreat, a new question has emerged: why did I hold these beliefs so close for so long? Maybe I, like my father, needed that comfort of a parent reading a storybook, assuring me that I would be safe and secure if I would just close my eyes and go to sleep. I feel like a stranger to my all-too-recent self. There was an obstinance to my thinking, a stubborn determination to stick to the “values” of Republicanism, even when the moral failure of that ideology was staring me in the face. It is remarkable that in spite of the disaster of the past 8 years, so many of us continue to believe in that story, to stay Republican on faith alone. We have been told from a young age that belief is the greatest virtue, that faith makes a man. But it doesn’t. In this case, faith just makes a good consumer. We are the wealthiest country in the world, and yet we are the only industrialized nation where a health problem can bankrupt an otherwise secure financial existence. We tell our citizens that cutting taxes for the wealthiest will somehow “trickle down” to them, but it simply doesn’t. The idea that every man must live and work for himself has not served us well. If we are to survive, we must embrace a shared purpose. So I will vote for Barack Obama on November 4th. I will vote for him because I want to learn from our past and evolve to a better future. I will vote for him for my children, in hopes that their American story will not mirror mine. But most of all, I will vote Obama because my father would have done it, as a final dissertation on his experience in this life. He may not have the opportunity to put his change of heart into action. But by changing me, he already has.
Poster Comment: The guy who created the t-shirt started to flip when Palin was nominated. The comments from his blog readers are great, especially the ones that call him a house negro, and point out the "lack of diversity" at the convention -- the same "lack of diversity" to which Respectable Conservatives maintain a studious blindness that is patently RIDICULOUS to EVERYBODY but themselves.
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#1. To: Tauzero (#0)
I hope he and his Dad both can make it to the polls.
Minus accident of birth .. GWB, Mgr. Hardees ... McBomb, Mgr. Burger King .. (both flunked out at Hamburger U.)
Wonderful essay and thoughts, but, the lesser of the evils, is still evil. Baldwin, or abstain, here. I probably won't know until I'm in the booth.
But of course you do; he speaks to Americans in general as if they are darkies: The The negrification of America is nearly complete.
He pecks a few holes in a tree to see The guy who wrote this actually believes McNutz is a "conservative"? In what universe? "Conservatives" don't want to fill the country full of illegal aliens. Conservatives wouldn't vote to give huge gifts to bankers who made bad loans. Conservatives wouldn't have voted for the "Patriot Act" and the Military Commissions Act. No, McNutz is far from being a conservative.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. Total dumb@$$. Neither Obummer or McNutz is worth a vote.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. Yeah, just what the country needs. Idiots thinking they are doing the country any favors by voting for either of those losers.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. Sure he is ... he's been telling us for decades. Get with reality, James, the party ain't conservative. Don't blame the guy, he probably tunes in to Fox occasionally.
Minus accident of birth .. GWB, Mgr. Hardees ... McBomb, Mgr. Burger King .. (both flunked out at Hamburger U.)
Nice to see that people are finally wising up. But it's not all their fault, the corporate/elitist funded think tanks applied decades worth of psychological research and innovation to coming up with the most effective sales pitches possible when promoting their agenda, and then they found Ronald Wilson Reagan as a frontman to sell it to the public. It's sad, but now, nearly 30 years after that noxious philosophy really took hold here, the failure of it has become so painfully manifest that even the dimmest of the dim are starting to question it. I've said it before, and I'll say it again: We can learn a LOT from countries like Norway, Sweden, Finland and Denmark. I'm not saying we need to do things exactly the way they do them, but we sure can learn a whole lot from them overall. It's time to admit that we were sold an enormous bill of goods, that Ronald Wilson Reagan was NOT a "great president", that "trickle-down economics" was just a clever way of saying "the wealthy get to piss all over the rest of us and then say that it's raining", and that it's now time to wake up from our corporate-media induced slumber and realize that a better way of life does exist, it is attainable, and we really can do better than what we're doing now. And no, I don't think Obama is going to do any of this. I think he's just another corporate/elite owned shill who's just charismatic enough to convince a lot of people that he's somehow going to create "change", when in fact he's just going to find ways to kick the can a ways further down the road, and maybe toss just a few extra beans at the public while doing whatever his paymasters demand. But eventually hardship and hunger and deprivation are going to convince the majority of people that what we have is no longer working, and we need something better. And, once again, I submit that we don't need to re-invent the wheel, we don't need to resort to "utopian dreaming" and all of that nonsense, I'm saying that examples exist right now, that have been in place for many decades, and that actually work in the real world. We can either choose to learn from them, or we can continue pursuing the failed policies of corporate domination of every single aspect of our lives.
#2. To: Tauzero (#0)
#3. To: iconoclast (#1)
American worker [African American community] needs to be supported and given the tools needed to compete in the global economy. So I would pursue common-sense measures such as offering tax incentives to companies that create jobs in the United States [underprivileged communites], undertaking policies, such as supporting growth sectors like renewable energy [technology] and building up our infrastructure, that will lead to creation of well-paying jobs, and, most importantly, investing in education and job re-training programmes. The United States [Black America] has faced fundamental economic challenges before and it has met them by expanding opportunity outward, growing our middle class, and investing in the education and well-being of our workers [community].
If a redwood's really red
#4. To: Tauzero (#0)
In recent weeks, the debacle of McCain/Palin has accelerated my move away from Conservatism so rapidly, I can’t even see my old mindset on the horizon anymore.
Lord Acton
#5. To: Tauzero (#0)
So I will vote for Barack Obama on November 4th.
Lord Acton
#6. To: iconoclast (#1)
I hope he and his Dad both can make it to the polls.
Lord Acton
#7. To: James Deffenbach (#4)
The guy who wrote this actually believes McNutz is a "conservative"? In what universe? "Conservatives" don't want to fill the country full of illegal aliens.
#8. To: Tauzero (#0)
We are the wealthiest country in the world, and yet we are the only industrialized nation where a health problem can bankrupt an otherwise secure financial existence. We tell our citizens that cutting taxes for the wealthiest will somehow “trickle down” to them, but it simply doesn’t. The idea that every man must live and work for himself has not served us well. If we are to survive, we must embrace a shared purpose.
 | Gold and silver are REAL money, paper is but a promise. |
#9. To: iconoclast (#7)
uh huh. He has lied about other things too.
Sure he is ... he's been telling us for decades.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
Lord Acton
#10. To: James Deffenbach, Tauzero, Jethro Tull, christine (#5) (Edited)
Total dumb@$$. Neither Obummer or McNutz is worth a vote. You wanna hear sumthin funnie? On election day the lines will be out the door at the school across the street as people wait to cast their votes. But, even if none of them show up or twice as many vote it won't change the fact that Obama will get the three electoral votes from Delaware! I mean, why even bother? If BushCo's cronies have decided to steal it again and let the SCOTUS "make it all nice and legal like" then that is what will happen, and there ain't diddly that Americans will do about it. (Well, we could if we rose up and...but, why waste time on a dream? Most Americans won't do anything that may upset the next mailing of social security checks) But, if 'Racky is the designated hitter for the globalists then he will oversee the dismantling of the US, and that too will happen as planned. But, no matter what the plan is, DE's- 3 votes will go to the DEM and Delaware voters standing in line won't affect the outcome any more than scratchy bathroom tissue at The National Debutante Cotillion will because someone forgot the CHARMIN!
So I will vote for Barack Obama on November 4th.
#11. To: Elliott Jackalope (#8)
No, we need to re-invent the necktie party..
we don't need to re-invent the wheel
#12. To: Lady X (#11)
Great! I'll meet you at Wall St and Nassau. What time's good for you?
we need to re-invent the necktie party..
Minus accident of birth .. GWB, Mgr. Hardees ... McBomb, Mgr. Burger King .. (both flunked out at Hamburger U.)
#13. To: iconoclast (#12)
Actually it may be starting. I heard there was vandalism at some Minnasota politicos houses..
#14. To: HOUNDDAWG (#10)
But, no matter what the plan is, DE's- 3 votes will go to the DEM and Delaware voters standing in line won't affect the outcome any more than scratchy bathroom tissue at The National Debutante Cotillion will because someone forgot the CHARMIN! You make some good points there.
But, if 'Racky is the designated hitter for the globalists then he will oversee the dismantling of the US, and that too will happen as planned.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
Lord Acton
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