Well I know, it is a long way to go, before November 2008 and already the campaigns are beginning. Some claim that a candidate will need $100 million to run for President with no guarantees of winning. Like I can think of a lot better things to do with that kind of change, can’t you?
So far, seems that there are really four real candidates. McCain, Guilliano, Clinton, and Obama. Assuming they raise that kind of cash and spend it, that’s nearly half a billion dollars to lay claim to the title of President, and to accomplish what?
I mean sure it is early on, but be nice to get some specifics about what it is these candidates would do that the others wouldn’t. I mean don’t they all want to make government more accountable? But how is my question.
Obama is the darling it seems of them all right now. Yet in his brief stints he impresses not by what he says, but how he says it. He is good at the politician’s no speak in which he answers you but doesn’t. Unless of course it is about equality for homosexuals. There he stands tall and clearly states NO for marriage, but Eh, Okay for Civil Unions.
Obama did outline an energy plan – a reduction in emissions, cap-and-trade plans for polluting industries, and development of biofuels including ethanol. He also repeated his stance on gay marriage – that civil unions are fine, but marriage is a religious bond. (story)
If marriage is, as he says, a religious bond, then why does the state have any say in it? And what happened to separation of Church and State? What about those who aren’t religious or don’t believe in GOD? Does current laws preclude them from marriage benefits? After all it is a religious bond, according to Senator Obama.
And then too, let us not forget it was also against the various religions for interracial marriage back when his parents got married. But that is different isn’t it? I mean, after all, he is proof positive that no harm came from the mixing of races, so obvious the Church was wrong then, just as they are wrong today.
I suppose when you win your rights, its okay to relegate others to second class position or to ignore their needs as well. Civil Unions are a cop out. They are a fob to ease the conscience of those so called fair minded liberals that they are doing the right thing, when in their heart, they know they aren’t. If something is the same as another, why call it something else unless you have plans to remove and/or alter the benefits to the one, leaving the other intact.
Senator Obama should be ashamed of himself for supporting the narrow view that marriage is a religious bond. Only GOD can say whether it is sanctioned by him, not the Pope, not his buddy the Reverend Rick Warren. He should know his own Black History and the sop that white America threw at African Americans, with the old chestnut of Equal but Separate. He should look up the so called black only schools that were supposed to be on the same standard as white only schools and then he should look around to see how well that worked.
You can turn all the phrases you want. You can provide oratory that sends chills up and down spines, but it won’t do you any good if you can’t see beyond the bullshit from special interest groups, such as the Church.
There are many pressing issues facing the next President. One is naturally the war in Iraq and again I find it hard to fathom the rhetoric by Obama and the others. Both he and Senator Clinton support an end to American Involvement there by 2008, and they call that a plan. Okay, it is a goal to achieve, not a plan. The real question isn’t to just state the obvious, but on how they plan to get there, and what they plan to do afterwards.
Perhaps the one good thing here is that there is so much time before America has to choose. Only problem I see is, will they demand answers or accept the fancy rhetoric in live in the glory of what is no longer?
Equality isn’t an easy task to achieve, but when you already are determined to deny it to one small segment, what else are you prepared to give away? Senator Obama has no stated plan on how to deal with the troubling aspects of the Patriot Acts, nor does he have a stated plan on Health Care, or Education, or Immigration, or Iraq. Only on energy and on denial of equality for homosexuals.
Does that sound like shades of Abe Lincoln and John F Kennedy to you?
