socio-politics

This clip is being widely used as an excuse to attack Obama for his hatred of America, though more than anything else, it is just exposing many voter’s refusal to question their own views and apparent affinity for political pundits. Obama’s response presents several essential questions for Americans to be asking right now: Why does one believe that America is unquestionably as great as it can be right now? How does our economy, international relations situations, war involvement, pollution output, etc not signify that there are drastic improvements that must be made? What can Americans do to help the situation?

But these are not the questions that are being popularly discussed; the only thing being questioned is Obama’s allegiance to America. People are refusing to consider the United State’s present shortcomings, and for the favor of blindly believing that everything is fine and things could not be any better.  A clear sign of a nation is trouble is when the nation’s citizens stop caring about what they can do to help their nation.

In all fairness, the media is helping to facilitate the problem. Once again, Obama is receiving forced negative press for the sake of inciting controversy. I definitely can’t say that the media dislikes Obama, but it is much easier to fabricate interesting controversy about what he says than it is for McCain because McCain does not generate too much excitement. At no point did Obama say that America is not a great country.

It is much too similar to how the media handled his “bitter” comment several months ago. What he said was very much supportive of those that lived in economically-hurting rural communities, and it is very true that in places like central Pennsylvania, there is nothing being done to help the communities to attract businesses or to create jobs. Instead of there being any kind of discussion of the legitimacy of what he said, he was attacked for it.

This situation is more troubling because, unlike the “bitter” comment, this comment is something that the nation as a whole can relate to. Most of the country is very willing to criticize how much the United States pollutes, or how poor the economy is , or how much gas costs and so forth, yet the same people can be unwilling to consider the fact that the country is not living up to its potential.

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