Has Obama duped you?
Let’s face it. Barack Hussein Obama will be the next president of the United States. I feel kinda sorry for McCain, actually. His party left him out in the cold. At the same time, however, he sold himself out from the man he was in 2000. He pandered to the right wing and abandoned the very independent streak that made him alluring to many individuals. He should have known better.
That’s not the point of this, however. The point of this post is how unnervingly hypocritical Obama and his supporters are running on some dreamy premise of change.
Obama has raised more money than any candidate in history. His beaming white teeth have been showing up on the politics page of CNN for the past several months. He has had the funding to submit a 30 minute advertisement to the American people on the major networks, funneling money into the pockets of those whom he challenges to retain their grip of power over American democracy.
He outright lied about accepting public funding when it became readily apparent that he would not have to suffer from the shackles of having no money in current-day politics. It was a safe bet. It was a bet like .com’s going “beta” and Mountain Dew announcing “only-for-this-summer” flavors. If it’s a success, all the more power to ‘em. If it’s a failure, we chalk it up as an experiment.
Barack Obama is nothing different than what we have come to expect in American politics. He has shoveled money into duping the American people from a far-left (or right) perspective, only to join a centrist methodology. You know, the pragmatic one offered by Hillary Clinton. (Full disclosure, I am a Hillary supporter.)
What amazes me is this nouveau crowd that thinks he is going to change things in Washington! He’s merely going to come to the center and accommodate the process. For it’s the process that must be accommodated, not individuals. That’s fine and dandy and almost anyone is an improvement over the bone head George W. Bush, but who ran on this platform initially? Hillary Clinton.
It’s quite interesting to see Obama supporters attack McCain’s choice of Palin as a running mate based on “inexperience.” Hello. Your candidate is a first-term senator with a great smile, a temperate complexion, and as much accent as experience. Who’s being duped here? You’ve sold your souls to an individual that made you believe he was different. You, Obama supporter, are, in fact, completely myopic. You have been duped.
Yes, he’ll be an improvement. But he won’t have the statesmanship and command of policy that Hillary Clinton would have. You, Obama supporter, merely support the policies of the Clintons from day one.
I hope your bet pans out. As for me? I won’t abandon my principles. I’ll write-in Hillary.
word up!
i’m still with jerry brown