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This is just a quick one.
This morning on NPR, during a very difficult interview with Obama’s campaign adviser (difficult because the adviser was barely able to speak in coherent sentences, and apparently couldn’t even hear the interviewer most of the time), Robert Siegel (NPR) played an audio clip of a woman in West Virginia who was trying to figure out who she should vote for.
She considered herself a democrat, and was not at all interested in McCain, however, she was also unsure about Obama. Why? Because she thought that if he was elected president he would only care about “his people” and not about anyone else. That’s right…”his people”.
She made a point to mention that she doesn’t consider herself racist, yet she basically insinuated that a black president would only care about black people, without actually bringing herself to say the word black. And all the while delighting us with her WV accent.
I don’t have anything against people with accents.
I do, however, have a problem with ignorance.
The end.
October 10th, 2008 at 9:15 am
Has any one read any of Obama’s books? Gosh, before campaining for pres. was a twinkle in his eye he had different views! Someone tell me that it isn’t so. But the books are a glimpse of his character untouched by thoughts of being president.
October 10th, 2008 at 11:25 am
Theresa - there was a similar discussion going on about McCain on NPR. They were talking about how a person’s personal views change when they are put into the position of leading a party. Their views change to the party views because that’s what will get them supported and elected.
I’d imagine that each president has had to shove some of their own views aside once they reach office. I guess we have to hope that some of those that do get the shove don’t comprise the candidate’s basic morals.
October 12th, 2008 at 2:19 am
The authors of Strengths Finder 2.0 put it this way: “We cannot be anything we want, but we can be more of who we are.” I tend to agree. That is to say, all of us are blessed with talents that contribute to our identity. We can develop those talents, but it is difficult to create strength in areas where we are naturally weak. Peter Drucker seems to share this sentiment, I think. I don’t believe the same is true about character. Consider Paul, the most prolific New Testiment writer and former mass murderer of Christians.