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Wednesday, June 04, 2008
Change I Can Believe In
Well, Barack Obama just about has the Democratic nomination sewn up. Hillary Clinton is expected to formally endorse him this Friday. While I have favored Obama since this past winter, he will still have to earn my vote in November.
The candidates have all been using that magic word "change" to win votes, when all we have been getting is more of the same. Same way of wooing voters, changing stances to woo certain groups of people. The only change I have seen is flip-flopping, having to eat words and try to wiggle their way out of "mis-speaking", etc.
Obama supported Palestine before he got into bigger politics and now is pro-Israel. Is he really pro-Israel or just saying that to win the Jewish vote? But what about the Palestinian Americans votes? How can he say he is going to "unite" people when he already has two groups who are nearly impossible to unite. And now he has taken a staunch support of Israel which is going to piss off the Palestinians.
Hillary talked a good talk about her health care plan, but is that all talk? Who do we believe, what do we believe. With McInsane we know we will get more of the same...Bush III. But then again, he might just soften if he is elected.
Like in past elections, no one really knows what to believe about all these candidates, and I really don't see any change coming at all except that the nation might just elect it's first African American president. That will be about the only change though, I am afraid. (We can look at that positively as proof of how far we have closed the racial divide.)
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*Shakes head*...
I just wasn't looking forward to either of these outcomes....
The candidates have all been using that magic word "change" to win votes, when all we have been getting is more of the same. Same way of wooing voters, changing stances to woo certain groups of people. The only change I have seen is flip-flopping, having to eat words and try to wiggle their way out of "mis-speaking", etc.
Obama supported Palestine before he got into bigger politics and now is pro-Israel. Is he really pro-Israel or just saying that to win the Jewish vote? But what about the Palestinian Americans votes? How can he say he is going to "unite" people when he already has two groups who are nearly impossible to unite. And now he has taken a staunch support of Israel which is going to piss off the Palestinians.
Hillary talked a good talk about her health care plan, but is that all talk? Who do we believe, what do we believe. With McInsane we know we will get more of the same...Bush III. But then again, he might just soften if he is elected.
Like in past elections, no one really knows what to believe about all these candidates, and I really don't see any change coming at all except that the nation might just elect it's first African American president. That will be about the only change though, I am afraid. (We can look at that positively as proof of how far we have closed the racial divide.)
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