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Samoon · March 27th, 2008, 02:59 PM

PART II (Con't)

The next President of the United States?

While there are individuals that do not embrace Barack Obama, there are others that do support him. "Do you." Think for yourself, as opposed to someone else's perspective. End of story inasmuch as whomever you support goes.

Obama is now running for President. He decided to run at a time that the "old guard" was looking to once again squat upon the throne that they have seen as their "divine right since birth". After enduring 8 years of the second generation of the Bush family soil this country, we now have that "other" would-be dynasty, the Clintons, demanding that they should be allowed to rule over the "serfs" again. And they are using some of the most diabolical tricks in order to do so.

This is "big time politics". There is no office higher than that of President and people have lied, bribed, begged and even murdered over it. The Clintons have thrown every dirty trick and the kitchen sink at Obama; many of their tactics resembling the bigotry typical of Republicans. This was not unexpected, but that does not mean that we as black people should accept it. There is, of course, a place in America for "respect for the Clintons" as some blacks choose to support. Bill Clinton was unabashedly "a friend of Black America" following 12 years of the soft-bigotry of the Reagan-Bush decade of the 1980's. This was sorely needed......at the time. But what the Clintons must understand is that Black Americans are not children. When a child is young he plays with toy hammers. All he does with a toy hammer is smash things. But at some point, that child must become an adult and when you have become an adult, you realize that a hammer is not a toy----it is a tool and that you can no longer simply smash things. You now have a duty to build things. Black America has been trying to contribute at the front of the line for centuries. Segregation denied our fathers and mothers of this right, but we, the children, will not be denied. The Clintons were our "friends" in the 1990's. They did some good (and bad) thiings for us. And we rewarded them by giving them the presidency twice!

The Clintons have b een "repaid" or their duties to us. We owe them NOTHING! And now it is our time to decide for ourselves which directions we will take. And we must not do it, relying on what was done for us decades ago. We must do it looking forward, not backward. I do not know who you will vote for in choosing a President, but I do know that you should do it carefully, weighing the candidates in front of you.

Do not look at what they did, "way back when". Look at what is in YOUR best interests..........today!

Good post, Jaboom.

March 27th, 2008, 02:59 PM	#14 (permalink)
Samoon Afro Resident Samoon is offline Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Omni-present Posts: 2,834 Thanks: 496 Thanked 590 Times in 383 Posts Rep Power: 97 Credits: 32,957	PART II (Con't) The next President of the United States? While there are individuals that do not embrace Barack Obama, there are others that do support him. "Do you." Think for yourself, as opposed to someone else's perspective. End of story inasmuch as whomever you support goes. Obama is now running for President. He decided to run at a time that the "old guard" was looking to once again squat upon the throne that they have seen as their "divine right since birth". After enduring 8 years of the second generation of the Bush family soil this country, we now have that "other" would-be dynasty, the Clintons, demanding that they should be allowed to rule over the "serfs" again. And they are using some of the most diabolical tricks in order to do so. This is "big time politics". There is no office higher than that of President and people have lied, bribed, begged and even murdered over it. The Clintons have thrown every dirty trick and the kitchen sink at Obama; many of their tactics resembling the bigotry typical of Republicans. This was not unexpected, but that does not mean that we as black people should accept it. There is, of course, a place in America for "respect for the Clintons" as some blacks choose to support. Bill Clinton was unabashedly "a friend of Black America" following 12 years of the soft-bigotry of the Reagan-Bush decade of the 1980's. This was sorely needed......at the time. But what the Clintons must understand is that Black Americans are not children. When a child is young he plays with toy hammers. All he does with a toy hammer is smash things. But at some point, that child must become an adult and when you have become an adult, you realize that a hammer is not a toy----it is a tool and that you can no longer simply smash things. You now have a duty to build things. Black America has been trying to contribute at the front of the line for centuries. Segregation denied our fathers and mothers of this right, but we, the children, will not be denied. The Clintons were our "friends" in the 1990's. They did some good (and bad) thiings for us. And we rewarded them by giving them the presidency twice! The Clintons have b een "repaid" or their duties to us. We owe them NOTHING! And now it is our time to decide for ourselves which directions we will take. And we must not do it, relying on what was done for us decades ago. We must do it looking forward, not backward. I do not know who you will vote for in choosing a President, but I do know that you should do it carefully, weighing the candidates in front of you. Do not look at what they did, "way back when". Look at what is in YOUR best interests..........today! Good post, Jaboom.