Thursday, March 13, 2008

Can We Get Back To The Real Issues?

I'm tired of all the talk about race and the fact that Barack Obama is demanding that Hillary should be forthcoming about her tax records and the daily logs when she was First Lady. However, he's still refusing to answer questions about Rezko and his associations back in Chicago, releasing his tax records that preceded 2006, the documents pertaining to the purchase of his house, or revealing a list of his donors.

I'm tired of the divisiveness within the party with Blacks voting 91% for Obama, yet, no one can point out the obvious: That he's winning states and delegates because he's getting a large percentage of the black vote because he's a black man. I'm tired of people being censored for telling the truth. Geraldine Ferraro is exactly right about what is going on. I thought everyone in America had a right to "free speech?" Should that go out the window because Obama happens to be black?

I'm tired of hearing the same thing state after state: He's projected to win because he will get the black vote in large numbers, young voters, upscale voters, maybe white men. Hillary will get older voters, Hispanic voters, "lunch Bucket/downscale voters and women voters. Will she keep her coalition together or will he siphon votes from her? How can a Party that is fractured along racial, generational, economic, and gender lines, win in November if this division continues?

I'm almost at the point where I DON'T CARE ANYMORE because I am visualizing a scenario whereby blacks will say white people "took away" the nomination from Obama if Hillary is the choice of the Superdelegates, as if the process was engineered to favor Hillary Clinton. The claim will be the process is unfair and there will be claims of "breaking young voters hearts." I can also see a scenario whereby whites, especially white women, will stay home if Obama gets the nomination because they will perceive that strong arm tactics were used by Obama surrogates to deprive Hillary of the nomination or that Obama's race helped him to get the nomination.

My question is: When will the questions be answered on both sides and when will we get back to the REAL issues that matter: Foreclosures, high gas prices, high food prices, the Economy?

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