Living in the Age of Obama

When they look at Senator Obama, what do they see?

I don’t know. I really don’t get it — I’ve never understood the appeal of this guy at all. I’ve never thought his speeches were “inspirational” or any of that silly praise; it’s always sounded empty and completely plastic and packaged to me. Even Joe Biden, with his ridiculous gaffes, comes across as actually REAL and sincere with all his unguarded blurbs. Obama, when not in front of a teleprompter, *is* a blank slate. He has nothing to say but “uh uh uh,” apparently because he’s smart enough to not say what he really thinks while he’s running for President. He’s fake, fake, fake, fake, fake. (And no, I don’t think he’s a “secret Muslim” or any of those silly things. Just FAKE.)

I can’t believe this race is even close — not with this guy running. I’m with you, I really, really hope there will be a healing of the racial divide in this country, and if he can do that, good. But I don’t see it with him; I see the opposite. He’s not a uniter, despite all the campaign hype about him being one. At the risk of breaking Godwin’s Law, it’s classic Goebbels — keep repeating a lie until it becomes “truthy.” I guess the only good thing if he wins is, at least young black kids will have a real role model to follow (but really, why not Thomas Sowell or Clarence Thomas or Condi Rice or Colin Powell?!) rather than the usual rap and professional sports thugs (or worse). He can at least give kids some confidence and belief in the American Dream, I guess, but it’s not like he’s the only one who can do that. And really, that isn’t enough reason for me to want him to win, not in these times of a global war and a sagging economy, and not with his ridiculously left-wing ideology. It’s not even close.

What disgusts me more than anything is that this charlatan may win over a genuine American hero, someone who has dedicated his life to serving this country – not for himself, but for America. McCain may lose to a guy who sees America as fundamentally flawed and in need of major repairs (change!). There’s always room to improve things, but a major overhaul? NO THANKS.

If after this election, the MSM has any credibility left, than we don’t deserve a free and democratic country. The MSM has lied and hid all the facts . A pox on them.

My Union Army ancestor died for Cleopatra Nelson’s ancestors.

Tomorrow night, half of America will be upset. If Sen Obama loses, those people you see weeping will be further alienated, ostracized, disappointed, and lost. If Sen McCain loses, his supporters will be disappointed, but probably most won’t be as disappointed as Cleopatra.

In any event, I hope and pray that the winners and losers, the supporters of each can find it within themselves to comfort each other and remind each other that we are all Americans. You vote matters, mine matters, and the result matters, but we are all Americans. I hope we can hold each other up rather than put each other down.

I do have my doubts about being able to do that, and so I feel for Cleopatra, and I am concerned.

@AF Sarge (Ret):

Was listening to WLS, Chicago. All three men on the program were saying Obama is going to win tomorrow.

But, as I was cutting through a neighborhood where there are five houses in a row that had Obama signs for weeks, they were all gone. All the the signs of down ticket dems were still there, but, no Obama signs. I almost stopped the car. As of today, there were a few other houses on the block with McCain/Palin signs that were not there previously. It’s not an area where people would be stealing signs either, hopefully, they changed their mind. Being Illinois, our votes won’t really matter, Illinois will remain blue because of Chicago, I vote anyway.

Being a denizen of Los Angeles, and hanging with the “arts” crowd, it’s almost like trying to quell a mob to listen to reason. But, they want more “empathy” from government, not logic about hurting corporations, which they view as “selling out”

It does get frustrating that find conservatism here is akin to the Underground Railroad.

They see themselves doing something, but they are doing it for someone else and not themselves. These are the same people that will probably end up giving Obama $1 billion since his first run as a state senator and they don’t even know him. Obama is running a new style platation where he inspires the millions of workers that get nothing back. Obviously they have the money, but it’s not obvious they know how to spend it. His aunt in the slums gave him over $200. That’s about a month worth of food for one person and probably enough money to cover her heating bills for the winter. Will Obama really be able to help them? No. But he says the things that the other leaders have promised and failed to give them and yet they still want to believe in hope and change. What they really need is a help up and it’s in Palin’s story and that’s something McCain’s camp failed to push.