{"id":1800,"date":"2008-06-04T07:06:18","date_gmt":"2008-06-04T11:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=1800"},"modified":"2008-06-04T14:01:47","modified_gmt":"2008-06-04T18:01:47","slug":"historic-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=1800","title":{"rendered":"Historic? Why? (Updated)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Martin Luther King, Jr., in his “I Have a Dream” speech said he looked forward to the day when his children would be judged by the content of their character and not by the color of their skin. As I troll the regular newspapers and wire services, I see that we’ve failed in that regard. Nearly every headline screams that we’ve got the first Black candidate running for the office of President. That appears to be his only qualification for the office, and hardly reason enough to vote for him.<\/p>\n

The content of his character hardly makes him a viable candidate. He associates with racists, he’s wrapped up in crooked real estate deals, he flaunts his friendship with unrepentant domestic terrorist bombers. His proposed policies are regurgitated failed populist policies long since discredited. His negligible foreign policy experience has made him dependent on pseudo-intellectuals and a failed president of a failed presidency.<\/p>\n

Even members of his own party have called him an empty suit – hardly supportive of the content of his character. The only reason the Democrats even vote for him is because they think that no one would dare criticize him for fear of offending 12% of the US population. If a white man of Obama’s qualifications and experience were running for president, he’d have been left in the dust long ago during the primary race. It’s almost as if we’ve instituted an affirmative action program in our political process.<\/p>\n

I keep hearing about how Democrats are going to reunite America, but their candidate promises only divisiveness, not because of the color of his skin, but because he’s shown that he’s more than willing to hide behind the color of his skin for the entire campaign and probably into his presidency.<\/p>\n

So how is Obama’s candidacy historic, other than the fact that his melanin levels are higher than the other Presidents who all looked alike according to my local news program last night. I doubt Abraham Lincoln would concede that he looks like William Howard Taft. I can imagine the email I’d get if I said all of the Japanese emperors looked alike.<\/p>\n

It’s historic if you only see race – but being President means being everyone’s President. I don’t think Obama has given us reasons to think he can be everybody’s president.<\/p>\n

When he said last night “This is our time” he was only talking to half of the Democrat party, and none of the Republican Party. So whose time is it? Did anyone think he was talking to them?<\/p>\n

UPDATED:<\/strong> D. of The Dillard Doctrine<\/a> answers my “Why?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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