Is It Over Yet?
It sure looks like Obama has managed to wriggle his way into the nomination, doesn’t it? Hillary seems to be all but out of the running all together. I have to say this really makes me doubt the intelligence of my fellow Democrats. Honestly, does it really make sense to anyone out there?
Since when does flowery speech carry more weight than experience and a record of accomplishments in the very areas we need so much help with these days? Yes, the man can give some pretty good speaches, as long as he’s reading them, but honestly, what the heck is he saying? We want change….Duh! America needs to get back where it was before Bush muddied our name all over the world….Double Duh! We need something different….Absolutely! But why doesn’t he tell us exactly how he’s going to bring all this about? When has he EVER given specifics about what he will do and how he will do it? I haven’t heard it, have you?
All I hear is why Hillary is not a good choice, and veiled innuenedo about her “racist tendencies”, her “pro war feelings”, and her “shady antics” over the years. Well, excuse me if I’m wrong, but hasn’t she been investigated ad nauseum, with not one illegal thing being found? How much has Obama’s past been investigated? What does he have way back when that people can whisper about and use to discredit him? We don’t know yet, but make no mistake, if he gets the nomination, the Republicans will find it all and blast it all over the world. There’s nothing they can smear Hillary with that she hasn’t already beaten down with the truth, but Obama? He hasn’t been scratched yet.
Hillary, on the other hand, tells us what she wants to do, how she wants to do it, and how she’s going to get it done. For someone who likes to vote on a person’s ideas and past accomplishments, she strikes me as being the most intelligent option we have, yet people are swarming to Obama because he says pretty things. Go figure.
This isn’t the first time I have tilted at windmills in the election department. I spent 2000 and 2004 trying my best to warn people not to put Bush in there, to no avail. I was right then, and I’m right now, not that it will do any good. I don’t have a large enough audience to make a difference. I just hope that if Obama gets the nomination, and if he actually wins the Presidency (which I’m not at all sure he will do once the Republicans start in on him), he won’t do even more damage than Bush has done to us. I don’t think we could survive it, quite honestly. And with Putin stirring the pot, adding warmed-over Cold War rhetoric to the mix, we need someone in there who has the backbone to stand up to bullies and back them down, not someone who, as Obama has said himself, would rather sit back and batter them with pretty words. Pretty words won’t do the job on them. Oh, well. We get what we vote for, like it or not.
