4 posts tagged “black”

There was that Charles R. Black Jr. person, a key advisor to Senator John McCain who stated  that a terrorist attack during the campaign would strengthen Senator McCain’s presidential bid. 

Then there was that General Wesley Clark person, a supporter of Senator Barack Obama that said “I don’t think getting in a fighter plane and getting shot down is a qualification to become president.” 

Then the camp of Senator McCain responded by arranging a phone interview with several military officers and Republican Senators to blast these comments and the terrible practice of Swiftboating.  Then the Democrats informed us all that one of those people who was so opposed to the “Swiftboating” and these comments, a certain Air Force Colonel, Bud Day, was one of the people in the original Swiftboat adds that coined the phrase “Swiftboating.”

After that there was a surprise curveball.  Independent Party candidate Ralph Nader informed the world that Senator Obama was “talking white,” and when questioned about it Mr. Nader informed us that he was afraid of sounding like Jessie Jackson.

Next, a Senator Obama supporter named Jessie Jackson, thinking somehow that whispering made him completely silent to the naked ear (even though he was in front of a microphone and cameras), told the entire planed that he wanted to castrate Senator Obama for “talking down to black people.” I guess maybe Mr. Nader and Mr. Jackson are on the same page.

Senator McCain, who for months admitted that the economy was not his strength took it on the chin for comments his top economics adviser, former Sen. Phil Gramm made.  You ready to hear from the guru of McCainonomics.  He said:  America is “"a nation of whiners" that there are no real economic woes or recession we are in a "mental recession."

The icing on the cake for Senator McCain, who finally appears to be overcoming the question of his age, came when female surrogate and possible Vice-presidential pick for Senator McCain, Carly Fiorina went into a public rant about Viagra and birth control funding.  This not only brought up the age question (and jokes) again, but also sent a shock through the conservative right of his party.

When Senator McCain was asked about the Viagra question he covered his face and with his hands but could not cover the incredibly obvious stress this line of questioning caused him.  The Senator was reduced to a mumbling mess.

Then comes the infamous magazine cover from the liberal magazine the New Yorker.  The picture shows Senator Obama dressed in the attire worn by Osama Bin Laden and his wife with a large afro, AK47 assault rifle slung over her shoulder.  The couple is “fist-bumping” in the Oval Office in front of a picture of Osama Bin Laden with a flag burning in the fireplace.   The paper says this picture was satire and was intended to show how ridiculous these accusations are.  The way that it actually looks is more like a clear attempt to attack Senator Obama and an attempt to be rude.

It is as if the candidates are running through a minefield of idiots hoping to survive the explosions of stupidity.  What it is not like is a serious campaign.  I have been forced to ask myself if every person who comes into contact with either of these candidates or who even mentions one of their names suddenly has a fit of stupidity. 

It is a shame that with all of these people around the candidates blurting out so much stupidity we hardly ever get a moment to hear the stupidity of the candidates.

I am going to call this “four ‘S’” sickness short for Supporter Sudden Stupidity Syndrome.  It is a disorder where supporters of the candidates running for president this year, when presented with a microphone or an audience suddenly have this uncontrollable desire to say something so stupid and damaging to the candidate that he or she supports that it will take weeks for the candidate to stop clearing it up and move on to other issues.

Again I say…With supporters like this, who needs enemies?

Recent comments by Charles R. Black Jr., a key advisor to Senator John McCain have sparked a firestorm that is being fanned by the Senator Barack Obama’s camp.  Mr. Black merely stated that a terrorist attack during the campaign would strengthen Senator McCain’s presidential bid.  The real question in this campaign is what idiot picks these advisors?

This year seems to be plagued with crazy remarks from crazy advisors, supporters, friends, and family members that completely undermine the candidacy of the person they are trying to support.  Where are all of these people coming from and how can they be stopped. 

I do have to wonder, in light of what I have seen throughout this year if any of the serious candidates for president (Senator’s McCain, Obama, and Clinton) have shown themselves unable to fulfill the office of president simply because they have no ability to appoint the right people, discern which people are good or outright stupid advisors, and control the crazy people that are otherwise involved in their lives. 

If the campaigns of these three people are any indicator of what a presidency will look like, I certainly will pass. 

A huge part of a presidency finds it’s foundations in whom the president surrounds himself or herself with and appoints to major positions that have influence over the entire planet.  The people around the three serious candidates that we had been left with (now two) are amateurish (to put it politely). 

The mistakes and stupidity seen this year are not old Washington politics they are best classified as armature Washington stupidity.

Once again, I assert that clearly non e of the aforementioned candidates is ready to be president for the next four years and we need a better candidate from somewhere. 

Just as Senator Hillary Clinton and former president Bill Clinton pulled the sexism and conspiracy by the media cards the supporters of Barack Obama have decided to pull out the ace in the Obama camp hole this weekend:  The race card.  Or is it the “Pastor’s Lost His Mind” card. 

This is unexpected however.  It was not a certain Mr. Wright it was a Caucasian priest named Rev. Michael Pfleger.  I guess all that talk about Senator Obama not getting Catholic support is out of the window (a joke of course but wait until you hear the rest).

He made statement recently like:  There’s “a whole lot of white people crying” because the presidency is within the reach of a black man, and informing us that Hillary Clinton is crying because “there is a black man stealing my show”, or his favorite Hillary quote “I’m white and this is mine”. 

The real humor is in the fact that this is all support that Senator Obama doesn’t really want, but it keeps finding not only him, but finding it’s way into the media.  He has been trying to work feverishly to distance himself from this person and his comments, but here we go again.

You have to ask yourself if these people are actually supporters of his or some kind of political double agents sent in to sabotage his campaign.  It seems that all of the strongest supporters of all three of the candidates cannot help but doing things that hurt the one they are supporting. 

Are we all ready for a few weeks of listening to sermons from Reverend Pfleger.

The current primaries give me the sensation of being a three ring circus.  It starts with an announcer and a big build up.  Then all sorts of things start happening, too much to even follow.  But, soon one main attraction starts then another in the next ring, and then a third in the other ring.  When that happens you just have to keep switching from ring to ring watching what is going on until you get bored with that one then you move your eyes to the next ring. 

I believe that the extended nature the prolonged Democratic primary and the desperate nature of Senator Clinton’s actions have been too much for supporters of all three candidates.  Their supporters have all resorted to pulling the most divisive of cards  from their bags of tricks. 

The Reverend (I use the term against my better judgment) Jeremiah Right cannot really expect anyone of any sense to take him seriously after this week. I have been pondering the events of the past week and cannot imagine this man to believe that he is somehow a representative of God any more than people who crash airplanes into buildings.

As this weekends events progressed, the media blitz undertaken by Mr. Jeremiah Right (I will not be using the titles Reverend or Pastor from this point on) were clearly a sign of self-serving as opposed to service to the God represented in the Bible.

His message (other than to express the fact he is bitter with Senator Barack Obama, the Caucasian race, and America as a whole) is on that only represents a certain culture. By culture, I am not speaking of African Americans, I am speaking of a subculture of this people group or a particular segment of that group. Although he may find himself surrounded by this subculture where he resides and may be able to find pockets of these individuals littered here and there throughout the country, this is definitely not a representation of the views of African Americans throughout the nation or the “African American Church”; whatever that is.

I find it quite presumptuous to assume that because you are around several churches like this and have been to some in other places that all or most of predominantly African American churches hold these beliefs or conform to his stereotypes of how a church would act.

It is coming clear over the past couple of days that there are people who have had contact with this man recently who feel that his motive for all of this was revenge on Senator Barack Obama.

I applaud Sen. Obama’s loyalty but also have to question his judgment in knowing when a person is not the type of person you need feeding into your life. I do believe that he probably did not hear the particular sermons that were repeated over and over on the television as the church is in one state and the senator works in another. That being the case, he probably was not the most regular of attendees at church on Sundays. The problem is that this person can flip out like this and in almost twenty years in a close relationship you do not notice.

Mr. Wright has publicly embarrassed a person who stood by him despite the fact that it could ruin his career, much (if not most) of the African American race and those of mixed racial makeup, and many believers in the Christ who now have to spend time again trying to explain that Christians are not all crazy simply because one who is crazy has gotten a lot of air time.

Mr. Wright had the nerve to disguise his evil intention of attacking the man that he previously felt God had called him to mentor as a call for unity and a message of God. This is one of the most egregious acts ever performed.

I am still undecided about any of the three candidates I feel we are stuck with, but I think the nation as a whole has an obligation to take action against this man. People should not give airtime to this man. He is getting a lot of press and getting ready to release a book soon which means a lot of people want to read it simply to see what this crazy man has to say. Resist the urge and don’t buy a copy! Wait until you can find it in a thrift store. Do not support this man and his message of spite by giving him your money. If a station or group gives him airtime, send a letter or email expressing your disgust.

I have personally decided to stop using the title “reverend” for this man as I consider that to be a show of respect for a person and I do not find him worthy of that sort of respect.

Finally, if you are a believer, who believes in what he has done this week, look at James 4:6 which states in part that “…God resists the proud but gives grace to the humble.” This weekend’s events were clearly about hurt pride and a selfish attempt to hurt an individual that God put under his mentoring wing. African American, Caucasian, Chinese, or otherwise, this is not acceptable to the God of the Bible. If the underlying motivation of a message is evil, the entire message is usually tainted with evil and cannot be trusted.

Mr. Wright may hit on a truth here and there, but even a broken clock is right twice a day.