Hoes Need Not Apply

As I was walking across campus today and thinking about Senator Hillary Clintons big win the night before, I happened to notice someone wearing an Senator Obama t-shirt. On this shirt was a picture of Senator Obama and Senator Clinton. Obama's head was placed higher than Hillary's head with the caption reading, "Bros before Hoes." I had heard about this shirt on the radio some weeks before. I believe that this is a saying by the hip hop community which means that a guy should care about another guy before they care about a woman. To be honest, when I looked up the meaning they refered to the woman as a bitch, as if all woman were bitches. It would seem that this is also a title to a song by the group Pitboss 2000. I guess that this is more of Senator Obama and his supporters way of unifying the country that I keep hearing about. This reminded me of the time when some news reporter talked about Chelsea Clinton showing up at her mother's rallies as, "the Clintons pimping out there daughter." It seems a little more than strange to me that a woman who stood by her man, kept her family together and was very faithful to her husband, should be labeled as a hoe. In case you don't know, hoe is a hip hop way of saying whore. I guess that I should remember that when the hip hop community say hoe, that they refer to all woman as hoes. I guess that they would say that hoe is spelled different than whore, so people shouldn't get upset about it. Or they may say that you can either be a hoe or a bitch, as if that helps. I think that this misogynistic t-shirt helps to illustrate why this country needs to have a woman president more than anything that I could tell you. How in the world could we have come to this point in our culture where all women could be seen as prostitutes or bitches and proudly displayed as such on something like a t-shirt that's worn by so many? What worries me even more is how could the women of today stand by and allow this to happen without protesting strongly. You could say that it shouldn't be taken literally, but the way I see it, a hoe is a hoe. Sure you can say that it's just some cute way of saying female, but come on. As is often the case with the hip hop community, it's the woman that raises the children while the man goes off to be a player. In case you don't know, a player is a man who has several girlfriends. It's not uncommon that the player will impregnate these different women while leaving the tax payer to pay the bills. If that Bro is not a whore, than I don't know who is. This kind of low life is seen as being the kind of man that all men should aspire to be. How screwed up is that? How many times have you heard people refer to Hillary as a bitch because she's a strong woman? It would seem that a woman just can't get a break, no matter how much good they do. When someone says, "Bros before Hoes," it's just another way of saying, woman need not apply. When I heard this morning that Senator Obama refused to have another debate with Hillary, it seemed clear to me who the weaker sex was in this case. If he's so scared to face Hillary in another debate then how could anyone believe he'd be strong enough to face the Republicans? Americans want a leader that can fight, not someone that has there head in the sand. If these people have such a low opinion of women then perhaps there candidate should have the guts to act like a man. Maybe he should have his wife debate Hillary instead. She seems plenty strong enough to me. Maybe his wife should be the one running for president. Oh, that's right, it's Bros before Hoes. Where are you Bro, we're waiting?

Too Much Obama Baggage

As I was listening to talk radio the other day, I heard someone make a good point about Senator Obama. I’m sorry but I can’t remember what show I was listening to. The radio host asked this person why the Senator was doing so well even though he is to the left of everyone in the senate. His answer was that the Senator was a liberal, but not a scary liberal. Perhaps you need to be more to the center or to the right to understand this answer. I believe that the reason this may be true is because many people still don’t know very much about this new face to the scene. The right hasn’t yet had time to make him a person that causes fear among so many, like they have with someone like Ted Kennedy or Hillary Clinton, for example. I believe that if you watched the debate in Philadelphia, then it doesn’t take a genius to figure out that the Republicans will have more than enough ammunitions to make him one of the scariest politicians to ever make a serious run for the highest office in the land. Like it or not, the beating Senator Obama took in Philadelphia will be nothing compared to what he’ll be facing when he goes up against the whole Republican attack machine. To put it as clearly as I can, if the Senator becomes the Democrats choice, then he’s headed straight for an ambush. As a Democrat, perhaps I should say, we are headed straight for an ambush. This has always been my main point that I have been trying to make to anyone who will listen. As I was reading the morning news accounts the day after the debate, I believe people are beginning to wakeup to this hard fact. Some of the Obama supporters tried to blame ABC for giving him such tough question. It’s not hard to see that these kinds of people have no ideal of the minefield that the Senator is in the middle of. They still believe that there guy can walk on water or in this case, walk over landmines. I’m sorry to have to be the one to tell them the truth, but your guy is mortal, just like the rest of us. Just because he hasn’t been under attack for so many years like Hillary has, doesn’t mean that he’s untouchable. Can you imagine if Hillary had even half the baggage that Obama had, how unelectable she would be today? The only reason so many may not like her is because of the success the Republicans have transformed this great lady into someone scary. That’s what they do, and do so well. You have to give them credit for that. Just as they are successful with there right wing hate radio, so are they with all forms of negative propaganda. The fact that Hillary is still standing is proof of her ability to withstand the full force of the greatest political attack machine in American history. Believe me; if Mother Teresa herself went up against this political machine, people would believe that she was the second coming of Hitler instead of the Saint that most of us believe today. While Democrats struggle to pay there bills and put food on the table, the Republicans have money to burn. That gives them a huge advantage. That’s why it’s important that our person have the ability to withstand such a force, like Hillary has. She is perhaps one of the strongest battle harden Democrats we have ever seen in modern history. No, she’s not perfect, but who is? She stood by her man and kept her family together, and for this she ridiculed endlessly. She’s been called every name under the sun. They’ve attacked her from every angle possibly. They even attacked her daughter, as if it’s a crime to be a woman. This kind of shameful behavior should not be rewarded. We need to show all the haters that there sick behavior can and will backfire. We need to prove to them that a woman can do an even better job than all the men that came before them. Perhaps I don’t believe she can walk on water like many of the Obama supporters, but I do have great faith in her to do what has to be done, no matter how unpopular that may be. As I’ve asked before, does anybody believe that Obama would be doing as well as has if we had known about all of this incredibly heavy baggage that were just finding out about? Who knows what other baggage may yet be undiscovered if we are just learning about so much in such a short time. I have great respect for people that are loyal to Obama, even after all of these recent discoveries. I understand that it’s hard to give up on someone that you have such high hopes for. It’s very hard to have someone tell you that the hope you hold so dear may instead be hopelessness. I would understand if you didn’t want to believe in what I’m telling you. Sometimes it better to damn the torpedoes and go down fighting. I respect that. It’s also smart to retreat and live to fight another day. Whether Hillary wins or Obama wins, one thing is for sure, we will need you to fight another day. As you may have noticed, Senator McCain isn’t like your typical Republican. To be honest, it’s not him that I’m so worried about. It’s all of those Republicans who will say and do anything to get there guy elected. There the ones to worry about, and while they attack us without mercy, McCain will stand back and let them do all the dirty work, making him seem above it all. Even though he’s known as being a bit of a hot head, he already has many people that may not know him so well, believing he’s as tame as a kitten. What may seem like a kitten is really a Trojan horse. If we allow this Trojan horse into the White House, then we could very well be looking at another eight years of Republican rule. I don’t know about you, but I’m not sure if our country could stand another eight years or even four years of rule from this party. If you’re old enough to remember the Clinton years then you know that it’s possible for Democrats to fix even the mess that Republicans can make. It won’t be easy because this time we have even a bigger mess to clean up. Sure it’s more fun to spend money like a drunken sailor, as McCain himself had said about his own party, but somebody has to be the responsible party. If not us, then who?

Obama In The Mob

Like the old story of the boy who cried wolf, I’ve heard again the criticism that the attention given to the Jeremiah Wright and Senator Obama story is somehow equated with a lynching of some sort. Like myself, I’m sure that nobody reading this has ever seen a real lynching, but like me, you may have seen a photo of one. Two things that shocked me about seeing one of these photos is, of course, the person who has been hung, but also the sight of the crowd who seem to be enjoying the spectacle. I think that most people would agree that anyone in such a group that didn’t try and stop the lynching or who didn’t leave the mob was guilty of murder of some sort. As a Democrat, I see this as a real problem if Senator Obama is picked as our person to go up against Senator McCain. If Senator Obama is picked, then we can be sure that the Republicans are going to try and attack his weakness by pointing out his relationship to not only Jeremiah Wright, but also the former Weatherman Bill Ayers. I’m sure they will use the clips of his old pastor yelling, “God damn America,” while the crowd comes to there feet and applauds as a way of painting a picture of the Senator as being unpatriotic. Like the lynch mob photo, they will say, how could you listen to this kind of rhetoric for twenty years and not try and stop it or just leave. Even if the Senator wasn’t there while this kind of rhetoric was being said, as he claimed, it won’t make any difference. Just look what they did to John Kerry, if you don’t believe me. Even while Senator McCain was battling his fellow Republicans, I heard his own party try and paint him as someone who gave up secrets to the Viet Cong while being held as a prisoner there. When it comes to hardball politics, anything done in the past will be twisted and shaped to whatever reality they wish it to be. Just listen to the endless attacks on Hillary, even though they tell us that she has almost no chance of winning. This can only be because they would love to have Obama as there person to go up against McCain. Who could blame them? Not too long ago, it seemed as if they had no chance of winning. And if all of that wasn’t bad enough, we have the problem of Obama’s camp playing the race card too many times on the Hillary supporters. Like when Bill Clinton talked about the fact that Obama voted almost exactly the same as Hillary, when it came to the war, by saying that his rewrite of history was a fairy tail. As soon as Bill said this, the Obama people when out and told everyone that Bill had said that he was telling people that having a black man as president was a fairy tail. Can you imagine how upset this out and out lie enraged many Hillary supporters, like myself? Or when the Obama spokesperson was quoted as saying that Hillary was a monster? Or when they turned on Geraldine Ferraro, and tried to paint her as a racist, just for saying what Obama himself had said? I can’t remember how many times I’ve heard an Obama supporter state that they would never vote for Hillary and could even riot if she was picked. And after all of this, and much more, they expect us to just forget about all of there back stabbing and go vote for him? With all of this hate directed toward members of his own party, I have to wonder how sincere Obama is when he says that he will bring the country together. Perhaps when he says, “Bring the country together,” he talking about hand to hand combat in another civil war. The way I see it, the only chance the Democrats have for winning the White House is if we elect Hillary to run against McCain. Does anybody really think that Obama would be doing as well as he had if we had known about his long history with his anti American and racist church? Of course not. Does anybody really think that someone who attended a church like this could defeat a true patriot and war hero like McCain in an election for the presidency? Even with all of the anger after eight years of Bush and all of the Republicans who dislike McCain, this is going to be a very hard sale to make to the American people.