Don’t take this the wrong way or anything…it isn’t like i am saying she should have won the nomination…because as I have said before…i haven’t been terribly thrilled with any one of the choices we have had, put before us as a Presidential candidate; however, i was in my mind’s eye, thinking how “interesting” it would have been if when Hillary got up to give her speach for unity, if she would have said…ummmm..ya know…i have had alot of support thrown my way and well…i was thinking…maybe i will run on the party of a DemoPublican ticket. LOL I will just take my supporters and run with it! Wouldn’t that have made a statement? We all know how dissatisfied the Clintons have been with the process. Still, from all reports, Hillary stood her ground and called for unity…and buried her alledged upset at the situation.
I just hate the way that this whole thing has played out. People will vote who they want to vote for and that is as it should be…vote your conscience. However, i just don’t like all of the political maneuvering that has seemed to take place behind the scenes. I don’t like all of the celebrity hoopla that has gone on in this campaign. I am not a fan of let’s play pretend and say that we are a united party when you know, at the truth of it all…there was probably intense pressure, power plays, and promises for future support or endorsements; if only you do this for us…then, we will do “that” for you down the road. Who do they think they are fooling with all of this circus entertainment? It is detracting from the candidate and the foundation of his campaign.
If the point of a national convention is to make the candidate stand out and shine in their moment of nomination…why do we have all of the distractions that we have been hearing about for the last week? Trot out the old school and relive the glory days, have the national anthem sung by a former American Idol contestant, negative attack political commercials, bring in the star power endorsements, celebrity poker games to benefit world hunger, twist the arm of a former competitor to push for unity from her supporters, placate her husband and give him a podium to voice a message that we all understand is crucial to our country’s well-being…terrorism…instead of his forte, which some claim is strengthening the economy, pick a running mate that can growl like a tiger…say what you really want to say and take the flack for it, tout the experience of said running mate who is embedded in the old school ways of running the country; all the while, taking the focus off of the inexperience and uncertainty of whether the nominee is qualified to run the country in his own right. Don’t forget to add a little flash and dance celebration and emotional triggers about how historic this moment is to the evolution of our country to finally have both a black man, and a woman, running for President of the United States.
I could buy how far we’ve come as a nation, just for that particular milestone; if in fact, we didn’t pit those two “historic” candidates to run against each other in the same party, at the same time; and, if we didn’t have other members of the black culture calling the black candidate the “N-word” when they should have been extending him the respect he deserved as the candidate of choice. The Republicans are getting ready for their moment in the sun soon…wonder what we can expect from that particular convention? Oh man…isn’t it November yet?
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Fighting For The Right To Use Hurtful Words
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Talk about a intense flare up of a conversation. This week on The View, a conversation took place that was shocking in it’s intensity between the races. The show got onto the topic of conversation of using the “N” -word because of a conversation recorded between (Reverend and i use the term lightly here, only as a matter of clarifying which Jackson made the comment) Jesse Jackson and another person. Jesse Jackson, Jr. was horrified that his father made such statements; and publicly chastised him for doing so.
In that conversation, Jesse Jackson made a couple of inappropriate comments regarding Barack Obama.
It seems that Jesse Jackson takes issue with the way that Sen. Obama speaks to the African American population. He said it made him want to rip off his n–s. Then later, it was also revealed that he allegedly, also used the other “N”- word.
On the view, Elisabeth Hasselback made a comments saying, that she felt it was inappropriate to use that word in private or in public. Wow, did the other “ladies” of the view take issue with her. (more…)
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