So you want change do you? Can’t say I blame you. Things aren’t exactly going the way I’ve envisioned them either. But come on. Obama? What do we really know about the guy? We know he supported a racist, Anti-American pastor for the last twenty years. When he finally figured out this relationship was going to damage him politically, he dropped his church like it was a disease. That didn’t faze you. We know he doesn’t believe he needs to wear a flag pin on his lapel to prove he’s patriotic. I don’t believe so either. But now that he’s figured out it’s more politically expedient to do so, he’s decided to wear one. You don’t find this a little hypocritical? We know he’s had a long standing relationship with a man named Bill Ayrers, a man who bombed the Pentagon and says his only regret is that he wasn’t able to do more. You don’t see this as a problem? What the hell is wrong with you people? For some reason, he thinks we have 57 states in America. Again, no problem there.
For the first time in her life, his wife, Michelle is proud of her country. Excuse me? The first time in her life? I came across a You Tube video the other night of Ronald Reagan standing in front of the Berlin Wall. He was asking the Soviet leader to open the gates. He went on to ask him to tear down this wall. A request that was granted too. It was the beginning of the end of the cold war, and Reagan had sealed the deal. That might not have impressed you or Michelle Obama. But it sure as hell made me proud to be an American.
We know he’s jumped on the Global-Warming band wagon and he believes in the push for Government controlled health-care. You believe that’s a good thing? If you’d like to see Government controlled health-care in action, check out your local VA. Ask a few veterans about the quality of health-care the Government can provide. Google Walter Reed Hospital and see for yourself how good things can be. I know, you’ll just blame it on Bush. I hate to be the one to break this to you, but the problems with Government controlled health-care didn’t start with Bush and it won’t end with Obama. I know you’re not going to listen to me. You do what you want.
Some of you will whine and cry that people like me won’t support Obama because we’re a bunch of old white racists who can’t let go of the past. Whatever. Throwing the racist label around is getting more popular these days. I’ve even been called a racist because of my opposition to abortion. Go figure.
Here’s the bottom line for me, and yes, I know I’m not supposed to talk about it so much. But my biggest problem with Obama is his unconditional support of abortion. He’s one of the few Senators to vote against the ban on partial-birth abortions. He even supports the idea that if an abortion is botched and the baby lives through it, doctors should be allowed to withhold medical care allowing the baby to simply lie there and die on it’s own. This is progressive? This is the America you want? This is the thing that finally makes people like Michelle Obama proud to be an American? You gotta be kidding me.
In a recent speech, Obama said if one of his daughter’s made the mistake of having sex and ended up pregnant, he wouldn’t want her to be punished by being forced into having the baby. First off, if you don’t want to have a baby, don’t have sex. And if you do “choose” to have sex, use some form of birth-control. What have we become, a society of animals who can’t control ourselves any more?
That’s pretty much it for me. I cannot and will not support someone like Obama who’s demands the right to kill their own grandchild. If that makes me a racist, so be it.
Kevin McGinty can be reached at: kevinmcginty@sbcglobal.net
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Good point about not supporting any candidate who supports murder by abortion.
ReplyDeleteBut remember Kevin, Obama needs the tons of $$$ he gets from "Emily's List", which he won't get if he doesn't support their precious "choice - to murder".
That's one reason I'm seriously disappointed in the Republican party. They should have shut down the political fraud machine of "Emily's List" years ago, especially since it is dedicated to putting pro-abortion Democrats in office.
Everyone has the right to support candidates whom they agree with. But when you use federal tax money to support only SOME candidates (but not others), that's illegal. Yet Emily's list gets away with it, because elected leaders don't have the backbone to do anything about it.
Thomas Lessman
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There's something else about Obama and his supporters that really bothers me - they are racist and they are getting a free pass. Not just with Obama's pastor, Mr. Wright.
ReplyDeleteSonny Scroggins brought this up to me, and I respect Sonny's views on race issues, because he's not a hypocrite in the way the NAACP, Al Sharpton, and Jessie Jackson are. Consider what Sonny says:
"Obama would not be the first 'black president' if he wins, because Obama is NOT 'black'. He's half black (Dad) and half white (Mom)."
Yet Obama and and his supporters don't want to see it that way. Because remember, they don't see "white" as being "politically correct".
Thus, instead of emphasizing the bi-racial element (and showing that America has a legitimate black & white candidate), they instead perpetuate the race problems by highlighting Obama's black ancestory, and ignoring or downplaying his white ancestory.
*sigh* Some people will never learn. But we shouldn't be surprised - after all, usually the worst racists are those who scream racism the loudest.
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Hi Kevin ..
ReplyDeleteGreat article.
Be sure to blog with us too sometime.
I'm excited about Jim Cates getting back to the media through the Internet.
Jim needs some computer training.
How can I help?
God Bless,
Myron Holter
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www.myownfaith2.com
AMEN!!
ReplyDeleteDO YOU THINK I AM PROUD OF THAT
ReplyDeleteOut of the mouth of 'life experienced and savored' comes wisdom and truth. Not bitterness ..
This is definitely one to be shared & saved.
This truly is a wonderful response. read it, and re-read
it, then let it soak in. It has some powerful words and parallels.
Life's great in 2008
As a 78 year old American of African descent, I feel compelled to respond to all this 'much ado about nothing' when it comes to the statement that Michelle Obama made about the fact that this is the first time in her adult life that she has been proud to be an American.
The country needs to hear this from the Black perspective.
Long before I was born, my grandfather Joseph Burleson, owned a considerable amount of land in oil rich Texas . Because during that era, Blacks could not vote, nor could they contest anything in the courts of the United States , my grandfather's land was STOLEN by his White neighbor. My Grandfather, who was literate and better educated than my grandmother, drove to town. Seeing my grandfather leave, the covetous neighbor asked my grandmother to show him the deed to the property. He snatched it. She could no t insist that he give it back, nor could she have reported this THEFT to the sheriff because of the fact that Blacks had no rights in the 1800's. The prevailing law at that time was he who held the deed owned the land. Do you think that is something that I am PROUD OF? Right now I should be living off the oil and gas royalties.
In 1934 when my dad drove us to Texas to meet his family, when he stopped to purchase gasoline, his daughters and wife were not allowed to use the washroom. As a man it was easier for him to relieve himself in the bushes, but not for the females. We were, however, reduced to h aving to go in the bushes, also. Do you think I am PROUD OF THAT?
In 1938 when my oldest sister went to enroll in Hyde Park High School, she was told by the counselor that she did not want to take college preparatory courses, she wanted to study domestic science. Do you think I'm PROUD OF THAT?
Of course, when Beatrice Lillian Hurley-Burleson went to school the next day, that was the last time anyone thought that the Burleson girls wanted to study domestic science.
When in 1943 my parents attempted to buy the 2 flat at 5338 South Kenwood, where we had lived since 1933, in Hyde Park, Chicago, IL we were told that we could not buy it because there was a restrictive covenant that said that the property was never to be sold to 'Negroes.' Do you think I am PROUD OF THAT?
In 1950 when I graduated from college, I was unable to get a job because I was considered 'overqualified.' the code word for they would not hire me because of my race. All of the want ads called for Japanese Americans or Neisis ( the word given to Japanese Americans at that time). Do you think that was something that I should have been PROUD OF?
I understood that America was trying to make up for the interring of innocent and patriotic Americans who were our enemy by association.
My cousin's barbershop was bombed in Mississippi in the 50's because he was encouraging Black people to register to vote. His wife who had earned a Masters Degree from Northwestern University lost her position as the principal of the local school because of the voter registration activities. Is that something I should be PROUD OF?
Now we get to Rev. Jeremiah Wright, the pastor of the Obama family. Rev. Wright like so many religious zealots overstates many things, that many of his members do not agree with. To suggest that Senator Obama should leave the church of his choice is not only a double standard, but it is absurd. Would any of the talking heads who are so alarmed by Rev. Wright's thoughts and speeches suggest that Catholics should abandon their faith or denounce and reject the Pope because so many priests have molested children. These children were exploited and taken advantage of and they had no choice to even know they could resist, reject and denounce. To me the situations are parallel, except for the fact that the priest's behavior is a physical violation of the innocence of children who are marred for life; and the priest's behavior is a crime. Rev. Wright's speeches are just words, that one can listen to or not. The members have a choice.
Should Governor Romney denounce and reject the Mormon Church because some of their members practice polygamy?
As Senator Obama has previously stated, we have entered the silly season.
Barack Obama is an adult, and most importantly, he is an exceptionally Intelligent adult. Like most of us adults, fortunately, we do not accept all we hear or see. If we did, the world would be more amoral, debased and perverted than the world of today is. I see all these 'so called' pondering's as an attempt to marginalize the candidacy of Senator Barack Obama. I cannot truly call this racism because some ignorant Blacks have also spoken disparagingly about him. I accept this as the darker side of mankind who because of their own inadequacies, they project their deficiencies on others.
Barack Obama is a very rare individual, the likes of whom the world seldom sees. Like most geniuses, they are often misunderstood. They are objects of envy and jealousy. They are suspect because they soar above the average man who does not have the intellectual ability to understand the greatness of special people.
They are also targets to be pulled down to the level of the mediocre who cannot stand to see an individual with deep convictions and high standards. We have not seen a phenomena like Barack Obama in many years and many generations.
Like Ghanda, like Jesus, like Einstein, like Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., like Mother Theresa, genetically, intellectually and spiritually, these people offer the world so much, but they are often maligned and misunderstood.
Barack Obama is a Christian in the true sense of the word. A true Christian loves his fellow man unconditionally. A true Christian wants the best and tries to bring out the best in his fellow man. A true Christian wants to unite and bring the world together in peace and harmony. This is what Senator Obama stands for; but, unfortunately, he has had to get off point to answer these false charges, innuendoes, and just plain lies.
We are in the presence of an angel unaware in Senator Barack Obama, and this country needs him, more than he needs us. He is the only person at this time in history who can restore respect for America with the worlds' people. Be cause of his family background, the influence of his beloved mother who instilled great values in him, the influence of his absent father who vicariously inspired a son to go to Harvard as the father had done, the influence of a minister who brought him to an understanding of the value and meaning of Christianity, the influence of a brilliant Harvard educated wife who inspires him and keeps him grounded; he is the epitome of a citizen of the world. He is of the world because the world is in him; and this is what America needs to bring us out of the abyss to which we have sunk in the eyes of the world.
Like, Michelle Obama, after living in this country all of my 78 years, loving my country and not understanding why my country has not loved me, I now for the first time in my adult life feel PROUD OF MY COUNTRY because I sense a maturing, a recognition of talent and character, and not color, and a field of candidates aspiring to lead this nation coming from very diverse backgrounds of gender, religious beliefs, national origin, ethnicity, age and experiences. This to me is the HOPE that America is coming into her own and will begin to CHANGE and will embrace the philosophy upon which this country was founded, where all men are created equal and are entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Now I truly believe, YES WE CAN!