Truth And Consequences
Roll up your sleeves, speak in mindless platitudes, and connect with the people. Tell the truth and get your ass whupped. What happened to truth and honor in this country? Take Senator Obama for example. Obama commented on the bitterness of working-class people in a speech at an expensive San Francisco fund-raiser. “They cling to guns,” said Obama, “or religion, or antipathy toward people who aren’t like them, or anti-immigrant sentiment, or anti-trade sentiment, as a way to explain their frustrations.” Christ, nearly any working stiff is bitter, and has been for years.
I don’t usually write about politics, but this is enough to make me want to vote. And for Obama at that. Someone finally speaks a truth, and gets nailed to the cross for it. Clinton and others have called for an apology from Obama. For what?
The claim is he is elitist, that he has talked down to the working class. This is double-speak for denying that we have a class system in this country. Class in the US has always been here, and is ever widening. The liberal, cliché spewing, well-heeled, Ivy-league educated politico has never been “in touch.” At least we know where the stick-up-the-ass, war-mongering conservative stands. He will send our sons and daughters to war and make a fortune from the bodies of the working class.
If you are not pissed off, you should be. As long as the lobbyist paid heros in Washington can maintain the flag-waving, and tension among the ethnic and working classes, nothing much will change for the better. The first words of truth have emerged, and maybe there is some hope for those who do the work. But I am cynical, and I believe that what CNN, FOX and MSNBC tells the people to believe is what they will believe.
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Mari:
I changed my registration around so I can vote. I can’t vote in our primary in May, but I can vote in teh general election in November.
April 2008Hb:
I know quite a few people who quit voting in the general election. For one thing, here in Ohio you are never sure if your vote will be counted. But these people don’t vote because they don’t like either candidate.
Here’s an idea, let’s charge them to vote. After all, they pay for votes.
April 2008Mari:
I hear you about the general election. It’s a shame really. If I’d had my head with me, I’d have changed my registration before December 31st - then I could have voted in the primary. :sigh:
Charge to vote? Works for me.
April 2008