Posted by
beltway girl on Thursday, July 24, 2008 1:52:05 AM
Who could have known all that time ago, outside the Illinois Statehouse at the beginning of 2007, the air heavy with cold clouds of breath, that Barack Obama would become the million dollar baby of the DNC?
It has been an incredible road from that time and place. The oratory has been brilliant. The campaign and organization? Diligent and effective. The ideas, though, while being almost revolutionary in nature, have been vague.
The Obama persona has carried him through to this point. Gifted, charming, talented, chiselled and different, Obama has taken the nation by storm. His success story has been an inspiration to millions. One has to wonder whether "Barack" is sure to become one of America's most popular baby names at some time in the future.
Even his detractors can't stop talking and thinking about him.
This is an interesting man, and he has captivated the country.
And it isn't just him. We've seen Michelle with her "The View" makeover. We've seen the kids, too.
It's an African American Norman Rockwell painting.
And for those of us who've always wondered why we had to have an "African American Norman Rockwell painting" as opposed to a Norman Rockwell that happened to have African Americans in it, it's a dream come true.
But this is not what has truly made Barack Obama the million dollar baby of the DNC. It's not true racial unity that makes their dreams come true. Rather than a concert for true racial healing reaching a crescendo, this is another DNC political ploy about to be played out.
The DNC, where the White Woman and the Black Man move forward. And where human beings-- including black men and white women, black women and (incidentally) white men, become "votes." That get to "move forward," perhaps in the hopes of-- one day-- being voted for by other votes.
In this election, one has to have noticed that this is all being done via hard work according to the DNC and their politicians.
Since when have politicians-- of any color or party-- been accused of doing hard work?
If they don't know what it is, how can they talk about it?
The running of this country is not a painting. Someone had better tell this, though, to MSNBC, where repeated trumpteting of, "He LOOKS presidential!" have become like the ringing of a bell over a eucharistic host.
The running of this country should also not be a political game. Human beings being reduced to veritable chess pieces being moved across a board of colors and political correctness.
The running of this country should be all about qualifications and ideas.
This is not the Harvard Law Review. It's not a board at a university. This is Your Life, and the life of your kids.
Think hard before you vote for a man who has a resume that could give you a paper cut.
Think hard before you vote for a man who clearly tailors his views on Iraq as to how they'll bear out in the polls.
And finally, with all of that said and done, think hard about block voting, and whether it really serves anyone in the end, including those members of the very block doing the deed.
This is all about life, and being a human being in the United States of America. The Democratic Party platform should tell you all you need to know about that.