Maybe It's Not All Too Ordinary

One of my blogger friends said that "Some people think that the running black senator is too charismatic, and they fault him for many other things." I want to add my thoughts on this line. I added my comments to this blogger that these people who are saying all this negativity already mentioned are also saying that he is too black. Some say that he is not black enough, therefore, it's okay to let the media tear him and shred him to pieces. It saddened me, but it is the truth that we have to face that if a black man gets this far in the race, he will be slaughtered. When she stated “I think he is a presidential candidate, who if he wins, will change this country in a great way," I strongly agree and am afraid that I am putting myself on the limb by exposing my political thoughts. But come to think of it, this is a rare undeserved chance that we've been given, because who among the candidates in the past and present election have attacked transnational corporations and the rich? In fact, when he was in the process of lifting and directing the grassroots movement, a lot of people were angered by it and called it empty rhetoric and charisma. I remember this one book I was browsing at Borders Bookstore during our spring break relating to this year's election. An author was trying to convey a message to the American people to think this through. This author has been a conservative all his life, never voted Democrat in any way and went on to write something like “Obama is the chef who opens a new restaurant and serves honest good and beautifully prepared food made of the most wholesome ingredients only to have the food critic pan his offerings as "all too ordinary." "Where," asks the seen-it-all jaded bored critic, "are the calf's brains marinated in truffle-soaked baby duck's testicles?" This candidate offers civility in the midst of a drunken national bar fight. Obama speaks in complete sentences, well-turned paragraphs, offers thoughts with intellectual depth, nuance, humility and compassion. Obama is a reasoned essay cast before sound-bite swine who seem ready to tear anything that falls into their sty to shreds.” This is a well-thought out message, which is really worth pondering. I hope the American people will not squander the opportunity that we have now to get out of the morass that we put ourselves under by voting undeserving officials who are sitting now in Congress! If we choose business-as-usual, we will step into a future of steady decline and war without end.