Posted by
OldRelayer on Sunday, February 08, 2009 5:39:03 PM
This post started out as just a comment to a couple of comments on my last post, which would not have been seen by even the people that originated the comments. But then it exceeded 2000 characters, oddly enough that is how the blog got started, comments to articles are only 1000 characters, I never get under 1000 characters so they suggest putting it a blog, so that is what I did. But posting 2 or 3 1000 character comments also works.
Don't forget, to call the capital and email your Senator tomorrow, if you can get to talk to an aid it is better than just the person answering the phone.
To Charlie and Donnie. Donnie, send me you email address and I will put you on the notification list.
Obama got a lot more than just the Black vote, but you are right many black people voted for him just because he was black, which is really stupid, if the same ratio of white people voted for McCain, it would have been a landslide for McCain.. People were convinced by the media that GW was the devil, the devil that kept our country safe. As many of you know that even with a few warts, I like George Bush, he knew what what was right and stuck to it, not to say I agreed with every decision but when would that ever happen. What change did they get, none. Same old same old. Mostly Clintonites in the administration, and ones that don't even pay taxes to boot and a left wing socialist President. It is great that the country can elect a black man to office, I support that aspect. I just wish it was a man that I could support ideologically. The media simply didn't do its job and lost all objectivity, there were many signs of what is to be and they ignored it. Yes, we that seek out information know all of this, but most people are either to lazy or to busy to do any of their own research and have the attention span of an ant, if it can't be presented in 20 seconds it is gone. Charlie there is nothing unacceptable about your comment and somewhat true. But unfortunately the black community is mostly one of dependency, caused by both their leaders and the Democratic party. I doubt if Martin Luther King Jr. would have supported affirmative action or the repression of the people that he tried to help and call welfare help when it is just enslavement. I am getting the sense that most black people would just have we white folk dead. There are many great black men and woman, but it is so hard, if they try to achieve they are labeled as one that is acting white. What is white about being a good citizen and a successful employee or business owner. I love to see black achievers and I can name a lot of them and of course they can add the stigma of being a republican to the list of things that contribute to the black community not liking them. I am not sure why they don't see that the republican party in general has been much better to them. They have gone into a different kind of slavery to the Democratic party,
Donnie you are right about government but what is obvious to you is going to take the average person a lot longer to learn. Hopefully we will see some change in the 2010 midterms like we did in 1994, we need a leader like Newt to light the way.
This is the short answer, could be a book.