THE WRIGHT CHOICE?
by William Fredrick Cooper
Written April 28th, 2008
CHANGE and PEACE. Two words that strike fear in the hearts of the complacent, as well as the controversial figures accustomed to the old way of politics. You know the type: ones that adapted the ‘Richard Nixon Campaigning Philosophy’: DESTROY THE OPPOSITION AND THEIR POLITICAL CAREERS WITH DAMAGING COMMENTS and LINKAGE TO "ALLEGED" UNSAVORIES. While successful at times, this form of chicanery came home to roost back in the ugly form of Watergate, where he was granted no way out for his acts of deception. The lessons should have been learned then about the right way of doing things.
Thirty Five years later... It hasn’t.
We all know there has never been a political candidate publicly scrutinized the way Barack Obama continues to be. Never has a Democratic hopeful been so blatantly attacked, and yet still he stands tall. Through all the subjective, slanted comments about ‘running out the political clock’, all the bullying tactics by fellow presidential candidates (Have you ever known there to be so many debates BEFORE a democratic nomination? NOPE.), all the rhetoric about him being a ‘smooth-talking, Community leader’, et al.
And now, for our viewing pleasure, this 'Jeremiah Wright' thing.
Ah yes, the WRIGHT thing. Already I hear the 'Guilt by Association' cries from News Correspondents and the so-called political analysts, many of whom:
1) Have never run for a political office -THERE'S A BIG DIFFERENCE BETWEEN STUDYING BOOKS AND COURSES REGARDING POLITICS AND ACTUALLY BEING IN THE FIRE, and, in the alternative;
2) are mired in the old way of doing things and fearful of change.
It's amusing to watch CNN and listen to Lou Dobbs, Anderson Cooper and all these so-called experts. Comments and opinions that, to the naked, naive eye, appear objective, are thinly veiled in sarcasm, condescension and subjectivity. It's almost that they're... check this: they’re fearful of what was once deemed improbable.
So what happens when the polls, numbers and delegates speak truth and a dead heat in another Midwestern state thought to be a given occurs? Wheel out an Obama ‘Achilles' Heel’, Pastor Jeremiah Wright, on cue. The old way, desperate in a way never imagined, called upon desperate measures. When in doubt, use whatever you can to destroy the opposition.
There goes Indiana, I thought silently as I turned on the charade. But upon listening to Pastor Wright words carefully at the NAACP function in Detroit last night, I couldn't help but take his words as him being a prophet. Obama's run at the oval office, is proof positive that DIFFERENT IS NOT DEFICIENT. Smiling as I received the message as it was delivered, his words may have been preparing media and state through church that for the first time in WHO KNOWS WHEN IN AMERICA for change.
For the first time in recent memory, we may actually have a person that can bring peace to the world.
Granted, this isn't a sure thing. Maintaining wars makes the government money. And the gas prices are going through the roof, not to mention inflation and the unemployment rate. But you can't rule out change. Maybe, just maybe there's a spiritual connection to all of this. Different won't mean deficient, but it will restore order from the mess Bush made. That's what the old way of doing of things in truly afraid of.
Jeremiah Wright was right on time yesterday. It's up to us to get the message in its clarity and continue to stand behind our future president, Barack Obama.
Written April 28th, 2008
CHANGE and PEACE. Two words that strike fear in the hearts of the complacent, as well as the controversial figures accustomed to the old way of politics. You know the type: ones that adapted the ‘Richard Nixon Campaigning Philosophy’: DESTROY THE OPPOSITION AND THEIR POLITICAL CAREERS WITH DAMAGING COMMENTS and LINKAGE TO "ALLEGED" UNSAVORIES. While successful at times, this form of chicanery came home to roost back in the ugly form of Watergate, where he was granted no way out for his acts of deception. The lessons should have been learned then about the right way of doing things.
Thirty Five years later... It hasn’t.
We all know there has never been a political candidate publicly scrutinized the way Barack Obama continues to be. Never has a Democratic hopeful been so blatantly attacked, and yet still he stands tall. Through all the subjective, slanted comments about ‘running out the political clock’, all the bullying tactics by fellow presidential candidates (Have you ever known there to be so many debates BEFORE a democratic nomination? NOPE.), all the rhetoric about him being a ‘smooth-talking, Community leader’, et al.
And now, for our viewing pleasure, this 'Jeremiah Wright' thing.
Ah yes, the WRIGHT thing. Already I hear the 'Guilt by Association' cries from News Correspondents and the so-called political analysts, many of whom:
1) Have never run for a political office -THERE'S A BIG DIFFERENCE BETWEEN STUDYING BOOKS AND COURSES REGARDING POLITICS AND ACTUALLY BEING IN THE FIRE, and, in the alternative;
2) are mired in the old way of doing things and fearful of change.
It's amusing to watch CNN and listen to Lou Dobbs, Anderson Cooper and all these so-called experts. Comments and opinions that, to the naked, naive eye, appear objective, are thinly veiled in sarcasm, condescension and subjectivity. It's almost that they're... check this: they’re fearful of what was once deemed improbable.
So what happens when the polls, numbers and delegates speak truth and a dead heat in another Midwestern state thought to be a given occurs? Wheel out an Obama ‘Achilles' Heel’, Pastor Jeremiah Wright, on cue. The old way, desperate in a way never imagined, called upon desperate measures. When in doubt, use whatever you can to destroy the opposition.
There goes Indiana, I thought silently as I turned on the charade. But upon listening to Pastor Wright words carefully at the NAACP function in Detroit last night, I couldn't help but take his words as him being a prophet. Obama's run at the oval office, is proof positive that DIFFERENT IS NOT DEFICIENT. Smiling as I received the message as it was delivered, his words may have been preparing media and state through church that for the first time in WHO KNOWS WHEN IN AMERICA for change.
For the first time in recent memory, we may actually have a person that can bring peace to the world.
Granted, this isn't a sure thing. Maintaining wars makes the government money. And the gas prices are going through the roof, not to mention inflation and the unemployment rate. But you can't rule out change. Maybe, just maybe there's a spiritual connection to all of this. Different won't mean deficient, but it will restore order from the mess Bush made. That's what the old way of doing of things in truly afraid of.
Jeremiah Wright was right on time yesterday. It's up to us to get the message in its clarity and continue to stand behind our future president, Barack Obama.
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