socio-politics

Before anything else, I’ll say that it is completely absurd to feel like you trust any politician, especially one that has achieved enough to be considered presidential material. Yet there is still so much talk about whether or not America can trust Obama, and absurd questions like if he’s a Muslim, and does him not owning any animals make him irresponsible (see the details about the animals comment here….anybody else find this frightening?).

Of course we can’t trust him. Just think about the kind of power he has right now - he’s worshiped by people, in the United States and abroad, he has million upon millions of dollars at his expense, and he has a team of individuals devoted to making him look as good as possible. I believe that power does not always corrupt, but it usually does, and there’s no way of telling what the situation is with Obama.

However, his record is very consistent…..for a politician, anyway. He has maintained his values from when he worked as a community organizer, and he does not shy away from taking more moderate or conservative approaches on some issues. You compare this to McCain and his sudden boost in conservatism, or Clinton and her complete lack of standards, and Obama does come out looking pretty good.

But still, there is the whole Wright ordeal. Yes, Wright is a bit extreme, though he is also very calculating in how he handled the situation with Obama, and he put Obama in an impossible situation. There was no possible way that Obama could justify the “GodDAMN America!” clip that everybody in the country has seen at least ten times. Sure, he started to change his view after that, but the alternative was trying to explain the reasoning behind Wright saying all that he did,but this would never work - an American seeing a black man saying things that can be conveniently edited down to be even more scary than it originally was is so terrifying for America that it makes people unable to think. Therefore, for the sake of his political aspirations, he had to denounce him. I’m not saying that he agreed or disagreed with what Wright said ( not that some degree of agreement would be bad) because it is impossible to know.

Obama makes sense when he speaks, and it is extremely believable that what he says is what he believes - either that or he has found a brilliant political scheme. It’s just completely ludicrous that people are lamenting on how Obama can not be treated…..honestly, get into reality.

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