Thursday, March 13, 2008

Who Am I?

This is the political season. So many dumb things are said and the press with so much time on its hands must make bigger deals about those dumb things. They must try their hardest to turn those dumb statements that you would normally just ignore into meaningful issues. The reason, you ask, because otherwise why would you listen to them rant on and on ... like a rambling old man.

Well, the hot issue today. No not the former New York Governor has too much money and too much time and normal male needs. Today it is for a short time the statement made by the former 1984 vice presidential candidate. She was only important before most the talking heads could even vote. Seems this former nobody ... yes, had you heard from her before last week? Well, she made the obvious statement that were it not for one of the candidates skin color he would not be leading in the delegate and popular vote count.

There are two simple things here.

First, she is right. Yes, hard as it may seem to be accept she was right. If the Senator was not half black, he would not be who he is today. Hell, when Halley Barry cried receiving her Oscar would not have been a big deal if she were not half black ... just look at her and you can see she is only half black. Well, his life experiences would have been different. If his parents had not divorced and his mother remarried, he might not have lived his childhood in Indonesia. If he was not black, he probably would not have married Michelle, a black women. He may or may not have worked in Chicago's inner city. As, a non black man he might have not decided to run for the presidency. If he was not black, then ten months ago, black leaders would not have said ... that he is not black enough to be a "black" president. You know his black African father did not have the good fortune to be an American slave ... so how could he a black with no history of his grandparents being black American slaves understand what it was to be black in America? And you thought Jews saying other Jews were not Jewish enough was stupid ... well the Black national leaders wanted to show you that they could be just as stupid.

Yes, even you without your life experiences you would not be who you are. Yes, that means that if you were not left handed you might be a Republican and not a liberal Democrat.

Second, if Hillary had not married the smooth Slick Willie she might not be the close second in the presidential campaign. She would have been just another aggressive, double talking woman attorney. She probably would not have been offered an opportunity to make $100,000 in 48 hours from insider trading if her husband was not the Governor of the great state of Arkansas. If she had not married Slick Willie she might not have been allowed to bungle health care reform. Why she might not have been elected to the Senate, had her name not been Clinton.

But she is who she is and she did what she has done and so she is what she is ... as the Obama camp called her "a monster". Or as was pointed out in a national poll that 11% of the population says that the one word description that matches her rhymes with "rich". Why is that no big deal? Well, the black community is more vocal lobby than the monsters lobby.

So, we are all products of our history. We are who we are because of all that went into bringing us today.

Poor former New York Congresswoman, former candidate for vice presidency because she has ovaries Geraldine Ferraro, who suggested that much of Barack Obama's success is due to his race can now go back under her rock. See, she is a two time looser in runs for the Senate, a whopping three terms as a member of the House of Representatives which gives her less experience than Senator Obama, and married to a man who was almost indicted for financial fraud while she was helping Walter Mondale loose.

Who made this woman a paid spokesman for Fox News? Who would pay her to speak let alone listen to her? Aren't there enough qualified people to listen to rather than searching out people with nothing to offer? Maybe I should call Fox News and they can pay me to speak.

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