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Mercnbeth -> RE: A man's voice should be his own. (3/18/2008 9:12:10 AM)
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Sorry my friend, Senator Obama lost me with this speech. If Senator Clinton doesn't, against all the numbers, get the first spot I'll be looking from the list of 'no vote' third party candidates.
My reasons have nothing to do with Reverend Wright. It would have been good to hear something to the effect that Reverend Wright is dead wrong. If the Senator then said he was "lazy" or "got too comfortable" or "excused what he said because I knew him a long time and he performed my wedding ceremony and baptized my kids"; he would have gained more of my respect. He did reference the old some of Reverend Wright's best friends are white by noting how he never heard the Reverend disrespect or insult a white person to their face. I guess I would be the only one who considered that Reverend Wrights private talk was hypocritical compared to his public sermons. At best he just called the Reverend a hypocrite, I'd say he was also a coward and liar, but that's me.
But a 'liberal', Senator Obama's description of himself, can never be or say they were wrong. There is always someone else to blame, always a victim to exploit. One of these subjects raised was the "quality gap between white and black education". The solution is more government money, without any reference to the lack of discipline or the current state of those poor inter city schools being caused by the very students and people living in those areas. How many "whites" are there to blame for those conditions? However, this shouldn't be about Reverend Wright. This is about a man who whats my vote for president. I can't do that.
Why?
I'm don't fall for image and style. He looked 'presidential', very eloquent. However, I hear and then read the words to understand the message. There were quite a few but respecting your beliefs how can you stand by a man who represents Sunday as "the most segregated hour in the US". That's a reference to people's choice of worship. Segregation doesn't come into play in a choice to attend church service. The idea that someone would think so portray beliefs of the paranoid. Will there be a move in a President Obama administration for a Church De-Segregation movement?
How about the impossible reconciliation of the US being "irrevocably linked" to its past of slavery yet representing change? Something is either "irrevocable" or can change. It can't be both.
Apparently the Democratic side of the election campaign is hoping to build a coalition of 'victims'. They want to create a majority who see themselves incapable of managing their own life. They want people who want to blame someone for their lack of advancement, lack of vision, lack of planning. They would never subscribe to "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your county." Instead they want all these victims to beg for the government to 'save them'. I don't see myself as a victim and if I ever did, the government would be the last source of 'help' I'd seek. My statement concerning Senator Clinton notwithstanding, it makes it a difficult party to support.
However, back on point...
I can't support Senator Obama. I could never vote for a racist regardless of his color.
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