Submitted by Tolu olorunda on Wed, 04/16/2008 - 3:55pm.
MFP Tags: Voters, Presidential race. President Bush, Politics, Pennsylvania Primary, John McCain, Hillary Clinton, Congress, Bitter, Barack ObamaTopics: Politics
MFP Tags: Voters, Presidential race. President Bush, Politics, Pennsylvania Primary, John McCain, Hillary Clinton, Congress, Bitter, Barack ObamaTopics: Politics
Call me angry, but don’t call me BITTER!
To suggest that a constituency which has endured the cruelty of governmental neglect, and suffered immensely from presidential apathy, harbor no bitterness, or contemplate with expressions of acrimony, is to be conscionably tone deaf. Such a person has no business running for public office, as their humanitarian hearing-aid is in dire-need of a battery-change (I strongly suggest Duracell). Listening to Senator Hillary Clinton and Senator John McCain, play snakes and ladders with the words of Senator Barack Obama, is a deep-reminder of the disconnection that is often displayed by politicians who see communities as little more than an electorate. Senators’ Clinton and McCain are behaving like medical-doctors with a desire for financial empowerment only. Mrs. Hillary Clinton hopes to deny the lividity of an ignored citizenry, by romanticizing their frustrations as little other than traditional rituals. While Mr. McCain struggles to appease a demographic, whose concerns, he has historically and legislatively voted against. To infer that bitterness is an inappropriate noun when describing the sentiment of a betrayed society, is to lack concrete-understanding of the plights terrorizing the everyday human being.
What emotional-expression, do they suggest, lay on the minds and hearts of the millions of displaced Katrina victims, who we’re stranded and ignored for 5+ days, before any governmental intervention was rendered? Contentment? Or the 2+ million home-owners, mustering up the courage to move out of an over-priced house, which was acquired through the diabolical method of capitalistic trickery. How else do you explain the sheer-sorrow and melancholy that brown-skinned citizens have to preserve, anytime they’re profiled or unfairly treated as illegal immigrants? Indeed the bitterness is not only prevalent, but justified!
This infantile battle over who’s right and who’s wrong, takes all moral-focus away from the subject that conceived the controversy itself: Legislative misconduct. Senator Barack Obama was attempting to address the disenchantment and discontentment that the majority of voters have articulated with the low approval ratings of The Congress and The White House. How that issue became obscured, and a less substantial argument arose, is a trademark of the failed politics of the past. Perhaps the presidential candidates failed to read the memo that stated the need for CHANGE as a pre-requisite this election season. I’m here to tell them, that the electorate that slumbered and sold-away their democracy in 2000 and 2004 has passed away, and a new generation has been reborn, with an intellectual vigor that withstands political con-games and back-door tactics! Peace!
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