The Big Con
On Tuesday March 18, 2008 I took the time to hear the entire speech made by Barack Obama. I have never listened to an entire speech by him before yesterday. I have a few ideas after hearing him speak.
1. An effective con man convinces few unwilling victims. They use your own wishes, desires and beliefs to get you to buy into the con. The speech yesterday was just that kind of con. That is why I believe that the word "Icon" to describe him is so fitting. Except that it should be seen as a verb not a noun.
2. The messages that came from the church Obama has called his spiritual home is defended by many in the audience yesterday. Preachers that were interviewed after the speech said that there was much truth in the message that was the core of the churches beliefs'. If the hate filled preaching were done by
a conservative minister that John McCain called his "spiritual mentor" the Democrats could have won with Congressman Dennis Kucinich. Of course this kind of diatribe is apparently common in most churches according to Obama. Of course the only place of worship that I've ever seen where they Damn America
on a regular basis is a Mosque.
3. Others have pointed out that in spite of the strong distaste that Obama expressed yesterday for the divisive comments that he heard in the church he continued to bring his young daughters to the church as they formed the belief system that will be the foundation of there moral and spiritual lives.
4. He used several moral equivalency comments to defend his own beliefs. Wright damns America and Grandma was afraid of black men in Kansas. Ferraro
makes racist statements by saying Obama has benefited from the struggles of all that preceded him, giving him a historically unique opportunity. Wright says The US of KKK a has murdered blacks deliberately with AIDS and drugs. Somehow the comparisons fall short.
5. He totally ignored the greater ill that the core of the church he attends is it's Afrocenterist beliefs. These purely racist views have been cleansed from the church's web site just this week. They really are the elephant in the kitchen when it comes to his faith. No real MSM review of this has ever been shown as far as I know.
6. He portrays the struggle for equality has being rather one sided. The most monumental event in the process of bringing freedom to blacks not only in America but throughout the world was the Civil War. He mentions it but only in passing and in a group of other generic struggles. That war was the result of a growing recognition of the basic inhumanity of slavery. Abolitionist were whites that saw the injustice and pushed hard enough that eventual outcome was a terribly bloody war and the end of slavery. Since then slavery of blacks has all but disappeared for the planet except where it is practiced in Africa black on black. How ironic is that?
7. There was no direct mention of the TRILLIONS of dollars on the "War on Poverty", a plan designed by the guilt ridden white males of the early 60's to transfer tax money from productive taxpayers and companies to millions of people, disproportionately black, that resulted in generational poverty we still struggle with on a daily basis. What the government failed to see was that failure would only breed more failure. A wise man once told me. What gets rewarded gets done. Boy was he right.
8. Obama recognized white angst as a result of uncertainty. He mentioned jobs and health care. The blame he said lies at the feet of big business more concerned about profits than people. HMO's and insurance companies are the cause of ourmedical ills. It's not our fault. And let's not forget about the evil Ronald Reagan conservatives that have worked so hard to stifle progress on race relations.
9. There was no Bill Cosby moment. No call to blacks to get off your butt and start doing for yourself. I heard lots of victim talk but very little push for hard work and personal responsibility.
10. Bad education was portrayed as the root of many of the problem that needs to be addressed. This is the closest to something that I would agree with. I'm just not sure that the cause of the educational problems and the possible solutions he would support would be something I would find agreement with.
11. This is clearly being played as "final". I've answered that question and let's move on to more important problems. Taken directly from the Clinton playbook. If Hill or Big John have the audacity to bring this up again they will be made out to be racebaiters for sure.
I fear for our future. Not because a black man might become President. There are plenty of them that I would vote for, but because the strongest leader that has come out of the black community in maybe decades has no new vision. He is a victim of the past and his hope for the future is too colored by this vicitmhood. In a letter to Travis Smiley requesting that his wife be allowed to speak on his behalf at the 2008 State of the Black Union conference in New Orleans he said: "Tavis, this is our movement and our time. I look forward to working closely with you throughout this election. Thank you for your continued support". Full letter:http://blogs.suntimes.com/mitchell/2008/02/sen_barack_obamas_letter_to_ta_1.html
"Our movement and Our time". Not the quite the uniter from the news I've seen.
1. An effective con man convinces few unwilling victims. They use your own wishes, desires and beliefs to get you to buy into the con. The speech yesterday was just that kind of con. That is why I believe that the word "Icon" to describe him is so fitting. Except that it should be seen as a verb not a noun.
2. The messages that came from the church Obama has called his spiritual home is defended by many in the audience yesterday. Preachers that were interviewed after the speech said that there was much truth in the message that was the core of the churches beliefs'. If the hate filled preaching were done by
a conservative minister that John McCain called his "spiritual mentor" the Democrats could have won with Congressman Dennis Kucinich. Of course this kind of diatribe is apparently common in most churches according to Obama. Of course the only place of worship that I've ever seen where they Damn America
on a regular basis is a Mosque.
3. Others have pointed out that in spite of the strong distaste that Obama expressed yesterday for the divisive comments that he heard in the church he continued to bring his young daughters to the church as they formed the belief system that will be the foundation of there moral and spiritual lives.
4. He used several moral equivalency comments to defend his own beliefs. Wright damns America and Grandma was afraid of black men in Kansas. Ferraro
makes racist statements by saying Obama has benefited from the struggles of all that preceded him, giving him a historically unique opportunity. Wright says The US of KKK a has murdered blacks deliberately with AIDS and drugs. Somehow the comparisons fall short.
5. He totally ignored the greater ill that the core of the church he attends is it's Afrocenterist beliefs. These purely racist views have been cleansed from the church's web site just this week. They really are the elephant in the kitchen when it comes to his faith. No real MSM review of this has ever been shown as far as I know.
6. He portrays the struggle for equality has being rather one sided. The most monumental event in the process of bringing freedom to blacks not only in America but throughout the world was the Civil War. He mentions it but only in passing and in a group of other generic struggles. That war was the result of a growing recognition of the basic inhumanity of slavery. Abolitionist were whites that saw the injustice and pushed hard enough that eventual outcome was a terribly bloody war and the end of slavery. Since then slavery of blacks has all but disappeared for the planet except where it is practiced in Africa black on black. How ironic is that?
7. There was no direct mention of the TRILLIONS of dollars on the "War on Poverty", a plan designed by the guilt ridden white males of the early 60's to transfer tax money from productive taxpayers and companies to millions of people, disproportionately black, that resulted in generational poverty we still struggle with on a daily basis. What the government failed to see was that failure would only breed more failure. A wise man once told me. What gets rewarded gets done. Boy was he right.
8. Obama recognized white angst as a result of uncertainty. He mentioned jobs and health care. The blame he said lies at the feet of big business more concerned about profits than people. HMO's and insurance companies are the cause of ourmedical ills. It's not our fault. And let's not forget about the evil Ronald Reagan conservatives that have worked so hard to stifle progress on race relations.
9. There was no Bill Cosby moment. No call to blacks to get off your butt and start doing for yourself. I heard lots of victim talk but very little push for hard work and personal responsibility.
10. Bad education was portrayed as the root of many of the problem that needs to be addressed. This is the closest to something that I would agree with. I'm just not sure that the cause of the educational problems and the possible solutions he would support would be something I would find agreement with.
11. This is clearly being played as "final". I've answered that question and let's move on to more important problems. Taken directly from the Clinton playbook. If Hill or Big John have the audacity to bring this up again they will be made out to be racebaiters for sure.
I fear for our future. Not because a black man might become President. There are plenty of them that I would vote for, but because the strongest leader that has come out of the black community in maybe decades has no new vision. He is a victim of the past and his hope for the future is too colored by this vicitmhood. In a letter to Travis Smiley requesting that his wife be allowed to speak on his behalf at the 2008 State of the Black Union conference in New Orleans he said: "Tavis, this is our movement and our time. I look forward to working closely with you throughout this election. Thank you for your continued support". Full letter:http://blogs.suntimes.com/mitchell/2008/02/sen_barack_obamas_letter_to_ta_1.html
"Our movement and Our time". Not the quite the uniter from the news I've seen.
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