Some Obama-ites have not only drunk the Kool-Aid,
they ate the Cracker Jacks and got the secret decoder ring.
Obamans? Obamians? Obamites?
"We, perhaps white people especially, look to him for atonement and redemption."
from a Huffington Post entry entitled Unstoppable Obama written by Barbara Ehrenreich
Some of Senator Obama's supporters are getting that Reverend Sun Myung Moon glaze to their eyes. At almost any rally I expect to see a mass wedding of the faithful. Which for me raises the question: When will President Obama have time to get us out of Iraq and unite the nation behind his plans for health care and infrastructure improvements? I mean it seems like he is going to have his hands full healing the lepers and raising the dead.
As a supporter of Senator Clinton, I briefly flirted with voting for Senator McCain should Mrs. Clinton not receive the nomination. That flirtation has stopped dead in its tracks now that the Straight Talk Express seems to be taking the exit to the right rather than the one to the left. I haven't sat out an election since I first voted as an 18 year old for Senator George McGovern and I don't want this year to be the first time I don't cast a ballot; especially considering that Senator Obama has some very forward thinking proposals. Still, his more ardent followers scare me; we don't need another four, perhaps eight, years of being governed by a bunch of people who think they have been chosen by God.
Plus, as a middle aged white woman who has - in very minor ways - worked for equality my whole life, I find the notion that I might need Barack Obama to provide me with atonement or redemption to be condescending and insulting. I am ashamed of my country's racist history and I do want its citizens to find a way to move together toward greater racial harmony, however, I - as much as a person of any race can - have tried in my heart and my life to erase racial prejudice. I, unlike some people, do not know what I would have done at specific times in the past when I wasn't actually there; but, I certainly believe that had I been alive during the days of slavery, I would have been on the side of God and the angels: the abolitionists.
Enthusiasm for your candidate is a good thing. I have that enthusiasm for Senator Clinton. Enthusiasm of the type expressed by many of Senator Obama's supporters can do his campaign and, should he be elected, his presidency more harm than good. As President, Barack Obama will have to lead all of the people and he will have to compromise some of his views; true believers can sometimes be distressed and disillusioned by the reality of governing. Also, and I say this as an HRC supporter who has been subjected to ageist and sexist comments by more than one Obama supporter as well as accusations of racism because I support Hillary, it is hard to imagine a post partisan world created by Mr. Obama when many Obama-ites can't be civil to those who disagree with them inside their own party.
So, just a thought, before writing the Gospel of Obama as Revealed to His Supporters remember that some of us are looking for an end to the war in Iraq, universal health care, educational and infrastructure improvements and the list goes on and on ...not the Second Coming.
Obamans? Obamians? Obamites?
"We, perhaps white people especially, look to him for atonement and redemption."
from a Huffington Post entry entitled Unstoppable Obama written by Barbara Ehrenreich
Some of Senator Obama's supporters are getting that Reverend Sun Myung Moon glaze to their eyes. At almost any rally I expect to see a mass wedding of the faithful. Which for me raises the question: When will President Obama have time to get us out of Iraq and unite the nation behind his plans for health care and infrastructure improvements? I mean it seems like he is going to have his hands full healing the lepers and raising the dead.
As a supporter of Senator Clinton, I briefly flirted with voting for Senator McCain should Mrs. Clinton not receive the nomination. That flirtation has stopped dead in its tracks now that the Straight Talk Express seems to be taking the exit to the right rather than the one to the left. I haven't sat out an election since I first voted as an 18 year old for Senator George McGovern and I don't want this year to be the first time I don't cast a ballot; especially considering that Senator Obama has some very forward thinking proposals. Still, his more ardent followers scare me; we don't need another four, perhaps eight, years of being governed by a bunch of people who think they have been chosen by God.
Plus, as a middle aged white woman who has - in very minor ways - worked for equality my whole life, I find the notion that I might need Barack Obama to provide me with atonement or redemption to be condescending and insulting. I am ashamed of my country's racist history and I do want its citizens to find a way to move together toward greater racial harmony, however, I - as much as a person of any race can - have tried in my heart and my life to erase racial prejudice. I, unlike some people, do not know what I would have done at specific times in the past when I wasn't actually there; but, I certainly believe that had I been alive during the days of slavery, I would have been on the side of God and the angels: the abolitionists.
Enthusiasm for your candidate is a good thing. I have that enthusiasm for Senator Clinton. Enthusiasm of the type expressed by many of Senator Obama's supporters can do his campaign and, should he be elected, his presidency more harm than good. As President, Barack Obama will have to lead all of the people and he will have to compromise some of his views; true believers can sometimes be distressed and disillusioned by the reality of governing. Also, and I say this as an HRC supporter who has been subjected to ageist and sexist comments by more than one Obama supporter as well as accusations of racism because I support Hillary, it is hard to imagine a post partisan world created by Mr. Obama when many Obama-ites can't be civil to those who disagree with them inside their own party.
So, just a thought, before writing the Gospel of Obama as Revealed to His Supporters remember that some of us are looking for an end to the war in Iraq, universal health care, educational and infrastructure improvements and the list goes on and on ...not the Second Coming.
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