Oh-bomb-uhhh!

I thought it necessary to focus on one of my earliest entries to attempt to reasonate on the current hot topic of Barack Obama Jr, our current superstar celebrity as President of the United States of America.

First of all, for those of who absolutley need a label for my views before reading, let me save you some time. I lean strongly conservative on the majority of national issues, so if you believe this corrupts or minimizes my words you may exit this site now. If not, understand I attempt deeply to see all the positives and negatives involved as well angles of perception. It's definitely not in my nature to ostracize and eliminate opposition when presented.

Barack Obama is our first African-American President and even though he's only 50% "black", this is a strong testament to the development of our nation. I saw many on t.v. of whom were the older generations of the black community in tears as he was inaugurated. I cannot relate but I felt for them 100%. Economic policy, foreign policy, illegal immigration, and national health care, while still important issues, took a back seat for this one moment as people who've been asked to sit in the back of the bus, drink from different fountains than whites, put in separate schools as if they were a disease and last but not least, lived in fear of all the hatred of groups like the K.K.K. He must have been like an eclipse to their feelings as the moment passed on very quickly but powerful enough to usurp their emotion. I am surmounted with respect when I imagine if that was me seeing what imagine what might have been impossible to see acceptance of the black community go from nearly ground zero to this level.

Now let us ask ourselves, should the color of our President's skin be important. I disagree completely. I find most people who voted for this man to be unaware of most of his policies in detail. It has mostly been emotional connections, racial bias, racial guilt and faith-like obedience
that won people over. One could argue this many ways, but I'd ask what his occupation was before becoming a U.S. senator in 2004. Without looking this up people struggle. It's because who he is or what he's done was never relevant to his triumphant voting block. It's about what he represents to them.

With vague and general phrases like "hope" and "change", everyone can mentally conjure what that means in their own way. Either way those words will appear to people who have neither, which means it isolates angry/jealous crowd who want more. When he says tax breaks for the "middle class", how may people sought to define this within numbers rather than associate themselves as down trodden under something or someone else. Images, symbols, hype, and generalaties are certainly the most effective conduits to misunderstanding.

Last, but not least, I wonder how much people understand civics and separation of powers. Nobody was concerned about all the congressional democrats attempting to force this man through as their nominee in the final stages of his primaries. Hillary, as we know, was well experienced but was arguably sabotaged by her democrat peers as they endorsed Barack Obama and suggested how qualified he was with his minimal experience left for everyone to interperet how they would like. Barack was obviously going to be a way of eliminating executive oppositon to these polarized legislators. In other words, a blank check for liberal lawmakers. Have questions about that? Ask yourself who wrote the latest 800 trillion dollar stimulus bill. House speaker Nancy Pelosi is the correct answer despit Barack getting the credit in the mainstream media.

My point. I really don't care about Barack Obama. I think he's just an empty suit. Probably intellegent and a nice guy, but a symbol to people nonetheless. As far as the country is concerned, I wouldn't waste my time on the guy. It's Congress we need to correct. Barack Obama will be a great distraction for overturning congressional seats in 2010 because the huge voting block behind liberals struggle when they feel in power.