I guess this was bound to happen eventually. You know, where a political race becomes so heated that we tend to forget the politics and focus on the candidates skin color and/or personal gender. It's difficult for me to talk about this, seeing that I'm a white 23 year old male in America. Somehow I embody the perfect image of a male from America. Something I didn't really ask for and it's something I definitely don't agree with (that discussion is for another time).
I voted back in 2004. I won't deny it, I voted for Bush. Trust me, I'm not happy with how my vote came out. But at least I have the guts to sit here and tell you that I voted for him and not Kerry. After the old '04 election I decided that this time around it was time for me to pay more attention and make a more informed decision on this race. I don't think it's the race to end all races, but this is a pretty important time for about 300 million people living in one given area on the planet. It's having one man (or woman!) become a representative to our country. And so it begins...
I've grown up, I've been taught in public schools and there's this thing I notice. All presidents past and present have been old (except Kennedy I.M.O.) white males. So when the race started to boil up probably over a year ago I took notice that there was a somewhat young African American man and a woman running for president. I'll admit that this isn't the right way to think politically, but I thought this was great. I didn't even know their ideals and I was just about set on voting for one of them. I figured it was time for a change. I was sick and tired of seeing the same person of color and the same person of gender in the oval office. As time went on, I noticed that both people were making great representation of themselves and most of the time I was agreeing with that they were saying.
So, we all know the events that have unfolded over the past year. Obama essentially won out for the Democratic nomination and Clinton was left to flounder in the dust of the epic presidential race. Everyone loved them both so much that they wanted Obama to make her the Vice President for his nomination ticket. This didn't happen which to be honest was a good thing and a bad thing. Sadly, it infuriated Clinton followers so much that they decided they didn't even want to vote Obama. They would rather vote for someone else on the other party. Somone who embodies the things that Bush is and has done in the past 8 years to an extent. So here I am, on the outside looking in at all these people. All these able-bodied followers and I'm left wondering what are we voting for here?
Of all things that probably set this post off was when a fellow friend who attends the same college I do managed to post a status update on his facebook with this:
http://www.hillaryclintonforum.net/discussion/showthread.php?t=26179
As you may well know this is obviously a Hillary Clinton forum. (der..) What follows are some of this outmost, outright, dumest things I think anyone has ever said. Even worse, it's from the smarter sex - women (sorry dudes, it is true I believe). These so called devoute followers have obviously been so upset with the D.N.C. and Obama that they're willing to vote McCain just because he decided to go with Governor Palin for his V.P. candidate. So Hillary doesn't make the Democratic nomination so all the followers are going to go vote for another woman (who isn't running for the Presidential spot) on another party. A party and a person that Hillary would be running against. Oooooh, okay.
I don't get it. Woman are trying everything to get one woman into one of the two big chairs in D.C. To a certain degree I'm okay with that and I think it's great, BUT it just makes all these people look shallow and pardon me, dumb. Obviously these women (and probably some men) want nothing more than to get any woman into the office. So much so that they don't even care who she is. They would rather vote for someone who is pro-life than pro-choice? They're willing to switch and possibly risk the lives of others in this country just so we can get her in there.
Well, if that's what you want to do? Go ahead. Let's run down that road for another 4 more years. Oh! After all McCain is one who doesn't tend to run with the pack in the republican party. Bullshit! Obviously the republicans want it so bad that they're trying to trick the people of this country into another 4 more years. I smell bullshit.
Here's a stab at more people. This is to all those who don't want someone of inexperience in the white house. Those who won't vote for Obama because of this topic. News flash - what happened back in 2004. Our country was in post-terrorism attack and were in 2 wars. It was Bush v. Kerry. Now, if you're still pondering why this jackass (me) would vote for Bush it was because I felt that our country was in a fragile state. We needed someone who was going to finish what was started during their term. I believed he could fix it and I didn't want Kerry taking care of things he was never apart of. Okay, he was technically a part of it in some way, but still you know what I'm talking about. Well, 4 years later and look where we are. The country to me is almost in complete ruins and some of us are struggling to make it. Many men have died courageously in a war that should of never been fought, but was. Iraq was going to be dealt with eventually in my opinion. No one knew it was going to take this long.
So when you talk about not wanting someone inexperienced in the ring, look back to the past 4 years. How far have we gotten from 2004?
And then you have people like my Mother who insists on voting McCain. Which is by all means completely fine, but doesn't understand why Obama is so completely un-American. And then I think to myself. Wow, wait a minute, if he was so against us, wouldn't he not be here? It's outlandish to think. She claims he refuses to wear an American flag pinon his lapel and put his hand over his heart at the pledge of alligence and that he sides with the Muslims. I'm not going to really comment specifically on most of these situations because I would have to break all that into 5 different posts. Needless to say, he had an American flag pin on his jacket Thursday night. How would my mother explain that one?...
It's the underlying motives. Were voting for the political beliefs, but when we step into that booth and vote for Obama, secretly it will be because we don't want another white president. Or when we step in vote for McCain it will be because we don't want to see another woman get snubbed off the ballot like Elizabeth Dole and Hillary Clinton. We won't admit it, but that's what this has all become.
So maybe this is [in some non-literal way] the race to end all races. On November 4th, not only will the United States of America be watching it's biggest presidential race in history, but the rest of planet Earth will be as well. Lord knows the rest of the world ran around screaming their heads off when we voted Bush into a 2nd term.
As for me, I haven't delved deeper into the political nature of this race. I still think I need to be educated on what each person wants to do. For that matter, I think McCain looks like a great nomination for the republican party, but I think Obama does a great job as well. I think Palin is a great V.P. nomination for the republican party ticket. As for Biden, still trying to figure that guy out...
I feel like I just made a semi-racist/sexist post. Even though I didn't.
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