socio-politics

I really do not support Obama to any great extent. He is a drastically better candidate than we have seen for the past eight years, and to say that he is a stronger candidate than McCain is an understatement, though the fact that I have yet to see a politician with the publics interest at heart prevents me from getting excited about any candidate.

That being said, the anti-Obama press is out of hand. People comfortably claim that the media is in love with him, yet that is just one of the many baseless fabrications that the anti-Obama sheeple spread amongst each other. The fact of the matter is that people will believe what they are told, regardless of the outcome of any studies done on the topics or of how obvious it is that ludicrously short clips are being unfairly recognized as epitomizing his stances.

When I first went online today, I noticed the expected attacks on Obama that people so excitedly write, but today, the topics seemed centralized on his economic “retarded”-ness. I looked at a few of these pieces and noticed that apparently there is a 22-second clip of Obama that is quickly spreading around of him giving a speech where he mentions properly-inflated tires and tune-ups as having the potential to save a great deal of oil.

I then did a google search of “obama, enery, tires,” which showed page after page of articles, blogs, forums, etc that are citing the clip as an example of Obama’s ineptitude. Even worse is that almost all of the pages from individuals with personal sites simply copied and pasted some or all of their argument from other sites.

I am not saying that Obama’s arguement was especially intelligent are well thought out, though at the same time, I could only find the single 22-second clip, which begins and ends at the same exact point everywhere that I have seen it. I’ve tried searching for a longer clip, or a written summary of what else he said, but I have not been able to find anything. Everybody that is criticizing Obama for his statement has no concern for what the full context of the statement is and is so ready to base their viewpoint off of a carefully edited clip. There is no concern for what his full energy plan is, or for the reasoning behind what he said.

This blind hatred and conscious ignorance towards a candidate and what their plan is accentuates a disturbing problem in society: people have no inclination towards thinking, understanding and ultimately, doing what it takes to actually change the things they dislike about the country.  People are not considering why so many are excited about Obama -  they are using this as a way of criticizing him/making crappy jokes that make the way that he is treated being akin to the coming of the messiah.  He should be attacked on his policy, and not his celebrity because attacking his appeal takes no knowledge whatsoever.  There is no reason to sum Obama’s energy policy up by this short clip, just as there is no reason to explain McCain as simply being Bush’s third term. Genuine interest in politics and in bettering one’s situation is not simply listening to what your are told by heavily biased sources; it is thinking for oneself.

What I really do not understand is that there are so many clips of what John McCain says on a regular basis that make him out to be a fool and insinuate that his policy on many issues is irrational, though when Obama, says one odd thing, he is torn apart for it. Yet everybody says that the media loves Obama…..

One of the biggest arguments that I hear from the right when criticizing leftist thought is that democrats are for social programs that give people something for nothing, and that democrats do not expect these people to work for what they want. By so readily criticizing Obama for this one clip, people are exposing that their own thought is parallel to those that expect something for nothing. Rather than consider anything that they can personally do to help the gas situation, they expect the government to provide for them by drilling.

Again, inflated tires and tuneups obviously will not give us as much oil as drilling in ANWR would. But the refusal to entertain thoughts that could both save money and help the fuel situation shows that there is absolutely not consideration for actions’ consequences or personal responsibility.

I do not know if the 22 seconds can be taken for what it is or not, though I can say for certain that his energy plan involves much more than what the clip says, and that he is a firm believer in people working for what they want, opposed to just childishly demanding their wants without considering how it will happen, or any repercussions. I also believe that the 1002 area of ANWR should be drilled, though only if people are willing to do what it takes to make the oil drawn from it last as long as possible.

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