Kevdawg (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} kev_dawg) wrote,@ 2008-12-31 15:36:00 |
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Final postelection random thoughts
Edwards and Huckabee: Pseudo Populists
The proof is in the pudding:
-Both are globalists
-The only real good thing about Huck was the FairTax. Everything else was standard social conservative fluff
-Edwards had already lost points with me when he pretty much blew off NC State. Without NCSU, Johnny Boy would have never gone to law school at UNC. Also, the $400 haircut exposed him as as phony before the NAtional Enquirer toppled him with the Reille Hunter scandal
Unhappy in Victory, Unhappy in Defeat
When they were winning earlier this decade, I never got the sense that conservatives were really all that happy--rather than celebrating, they used the victories to demonize their opponents and anyone who slightly disagreed with them. When the public got tired of the right's bullying act, the elephants were tossed out. If the GOP et al weren't happy in vicotry, I could only imagine how angry they'd be in defeat.
WHAT Bradley Effect?
The era where white voters lied to pollsters' faces ended on November 4. Now, Obama must right the ship. During the campaign, it was one thing after another--Obama's not black enough, he's too black, he's a Muslim, he's a (pseudo) Christian, he's in league with Farrakhan--but none of those associations stuck. Now, whether the 44th president gets a short or a long honeymoon period will be left up to the press. However, I do know this, if Obama fails to turn this country around, every negative stereotype about black people (like being incompetent leaders) will (unfairly) stick to us as a race--and push racial relations back a quarter century.
Black Prez No Longer an Imagination
The really good thing about Obama achieving the impossible is that we no longer have to hear about how Bill Clinton was out "first black president." Instead of hope, we will finally have the real thing. Also, we should no longer have to ask about "the black leader." Ever since the CIA and the FBI took out MLK in '68, "the next black leader" has been an irritant. Jesse Jackson (Senior), Al Sharpton, and Louis Farrakhan have all been given that title. No longer! All of these demagogues have finally been pushed into irrelevance as an old mindset that no longer works has been replaced with a new one that will work. The Black Leader will reside on 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in 20 days.
Edwards and Huckabee: Pseudo Populists
The proof is in the pudding:
-Both are globalists
-The only real good thing about Huck was the FairTax. Everything else was standard social conservative fluff
-Edwards had already lost points with me when he pretty much blew off NC State. Without NCSU, Johnny Boy would have never gone to law school at UNC. Also, the $400 haircut exposed him as as phony before the NAtional Enquirer toppled him with the Reille Hunter scandal
Unhappy in Victory, Unhappy in Defeat
When they were winning earlier this decade, I never got the sense that conservatives were really all that happy--rather than celebrating, they used the victories to demonize their opponents and anyone who slightly disagreed with them. When the public got tired of the right's bullying act, the elephants were tossed out. If the GOP et al weren't happy in vicotry, I could only imagine how angry they'd be in defeat.
WHAT Bradley Effect?
The era where white voters lied to pollsters' faces ended on November 4. Now, Obama must right the ship. During the campaign, it was one thing after another--Obama's not black enough, he's too black, he's a Muslim, he's a (pseudo) Christian, he's in league with Farrakhan--but none of those associations stuck. Now, whether the 44th president gets a short or a long honeymoon period will be left up to the press. However, I do know this, if Obama fails to turn this country around, every negative stereotype about black people (like being incompetent leaders) will (unfairly) stick to us as a race--and push racial relations back a quarter century.
Black Prez No Longer an Imagination
The really good thing about Obama achieving the impossible is that we no longer have to hear about how Bill Clinton was out "first black president." Instead of hope, we will finally have the real thing. Also, we should no longer have to ask about "the black leader." Ever since the CIA and the FBI took out MLK in '68, "the next black leader" has been an irritant. Jesse Jackson (Senior), Al Sharpton, and Louis Farrakhan have all been given that title. No longer! All of these demagogues have finally been pushed into irrelevance as an old mindset that no longer works has been replaced with a new one that will work. The Black Leader will reside on 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in 20 days.
