From the beginning I have supported Clinton as my candidate of choice. While my politics are more in line with a Kucinich or Edwards candidate I have felt that Clinton would bring a much needed moderate position to the White House. After the past decade of Republican dominance and far right wing politics our nation is nearly broken. Our infrastructure is old and outdated, our economy is getting worse by the day, and Bush’s bad management has placed fools at the head of every government agency. We need to get someone in the White House that knows how to fix these problems and unify the American people once again.
I felt that Clinton’s experience and character were perfect for this task. However her recent attacks on the experience of Senator Obama, coupled with her seeming praise of John McCain has made me doubt my decision. Don’t get me wrong I still think she is the best candidate, and it is perfectly reasonable to attack Obama, but praising the other parties nominee doesn’t make sense. How can she say positive things for McCain now, then turn around and attack him in the general election?
Well, as always Keith Olbermann has said this better than I will so I’ll just let you watch him. I’d like to thank Al Rogers over at DailyKOS for putting up these video’s first.
There you go, what do you all think on this?
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2008-03-07 12:21:34
I was leaning toward Obama but Clinton is right, he doesn’t have much experience. He has too much hope and not enough experience. I don’t like the subtle racists attacks coming from the Clinton operatives, including Bill Clinton. The Clintons always play dirty. It feels like they are beating down the black guy. It is his turn to head the party. The Clinton people, for example, on the sunday talk shows said that Obama did heavy drugs and implied he sold them, which is ludicrous. That is in his past. Obama is going to be the come-back kid and get more wins. Clinton you are yesterday’s new.
2008-03-07 14:33:00
Obama has pushing discrimination envelope also. His church’s pastor preaches black power. That is very exclusive. What about whites. He has also endorsed Farrakan, who is anti-white. I want to hear his response to those issues before he gets my vote.
2008-03-07 14:51:43
Sean, both of your assertions in this post have been soundly debunked. Unlike the recent endorsement of McCain by Hagee (who is a horrible hateful person who embodies everything wrong with religion) Obama has repeatedly rejected and denounced the endorsement from Farrakhan. The myth that Obama’s church is somehow anti-white has also been debunked. However the right wing spin machine keeps putting it back out there and sadly most people don’t do any research for themselves (and precious little thinking). If our media would do its job instead of just pushing Republican propaganda these myths would clear up. Of course if the American people wanted to stop being sheep they could do that no matter how the MSM acted. I’m not holding my breath.
2008-03-10 11:30:18
I was not sourcing the emails. Rather Obama’s official church mission statements tell us alot. This church puts blackness over God. And it is highly exclusionary. How do you think caucasions or hispanics feel when they hear statements like this? Trinity United Church of Christ adopted the Black Value System written by the Manford Byrd Recognition Committee chaired by Vallmer Jordan in 1981. We believe in the following 12 precepts and covenantal statements. These Black Ethics must be taught and exemplified in homes, churches, nurseries and schools, wherever Blacks are gathered. They must reflect on the following concepts:
(1) Commitment to God
(2) Commitment to the Black Community
(3) Commitment to the Black Family …
(6) Adherence to the Black Work Ethic
(8) Disavowal of the Pursuit of “Middleclassness”
(9) Pledge to make the fruits of all developing and acquired skills available to the Black Community
(10) Pledge to Allocate Regularly, a Portion of Personal Resources for Strengthening and Supporting Black Institutions
(11) Pledge allegiance to all Black leadership who espouse and embrace the Black Value System
(12) Personal commitment to embracement of the Black Value System.
If a white church made statements such as commitment to the white community and adherence to the white work ethic and pledge allegiance to all white leadership, then we would say that those statements are rascist. The work ethic is a biblical work ethic since the bible instructs to work 6 days and rest on 7th. And it instructs to work hard. In addition the bible instructs to worship god alone not man, which is contrary to pledge allegiance to all black leadership.
2008-03-10 12:41:36
As I said before this has been researched at length and soundly debunked. In addition to this Snopes article I would also point you to this on the Trinity United Church’s website which explains their commitment to bettering the black community. Here is a link to the Trinity United Christian Church’s website for those wanting to educate yourself.
2008-03-10 13:28:49
I have to disgree with the conclusion of the Snopes article. For example, number twelve - Personal commitment to embracement of the Black Value System, excludes other people groups. Aren’t we better off defining ourselves as Americans, rather than blacks, whites or hispanics? When we hear phrases such as white power and white value systems we immediately picture men with white hoods and burning crosses. The same can be said of black power and the black value system. We can envision hate-filled men yelling out such phrases. You are way off on this one.
2008-03-10 14:37:49
Sean, I have provided 2 unbiased references that debunks your unfounded and once again off topic allegations. Factcheck.org and Snopes.com. You have yet to provide anything except to repeat the same old arguments over and over. If you seriously don’t think that the vast majority of our culture society in general is set up for the benefit of white males then you would probably feel more welcome on a Ron Paul website.
If you are the kind of person who thinks that black people who are proud of their race and culture are racist, or sees groups of black people working together for their common good and thinks that they are anti-white I doubt anything will change that. I appreciate your posting your views and if I ever do a post on the hardships that white males face I would welcome them again. If you have anything of value to add to the topic of the post I would be interested in hearing it.