If I could deliver a message on all tv channels at once to all of the Obama voters of 2008, I would simply say, “You made history. You were part of it. You helped elect the first African American president. You were there when it happened and you made it happen. You proved our country is not as racist as we once were. But now, prove you aren’t a racist again. Dare to judge someone based not on their color but on their results. For if you vote for Obama just because he is Black and not based upon his achievements, you are a racist.”
I realize this would go nowhere. In fact, Obama supporters would only drag me through the online briar patch of having to explain why my ideas have merit and are not just influenced by race.
Then I realized something else. I am sure there are many psychological aspects in play here. People may be suffering from cognitive dissonance where their preconceived notions are not bearing up to reality. It could be people refusing to admit they were wrong. But one thing I have seen is what I call the OJ Syndrome.
Obama is the OJ of American politics.
Monkey Puppets my age grew up lionizing OJ Simpson. He was one of the best running backs and believe it or not, best role models we had.
In 1994, there was a lot of evidence suggesting he killed his wife. I had to reappraise OJ. Maybe he wasn’t the great running back, nice guy, star of those funny Naked Gun movies I believed he was. It was agonizing, but I had to admit one of my heroes had a horribly dark side. What can you do? Not everyone is perfect.
But the African American men my age had it harder. They didn’t just love OJ they were VESTED in him. He as an icon. But as the trial went on I think most logical people, man or woman, black or white, came to realize that OJ wasn’t who we thought. But try to get an African American to admit that. Especially when they were in the company of other African Americans. Unless one stuck with OJ, unless you publicly declared your belief in his innocence, you were an Uncle Tom. There was a lot of pressure to have all African Americans circle the wagons around their guy in public. Any Black not on OJ’s side was a traitor to be vilified.
And that brings us to Obama. I think most logical people look at his abysmal record and realize that he should be voted out. But, if they say it in public they are an Uncle Tom, a sellout, a traitor. They will be ravaged by their online brethren. They will be subject to the same slings and arrows the Conservatives have had to withstand. Liberals are like Amish, they will shun your ass in a second over trivialities.
One of the main reasons Obama has not lost all of his support from 2008, in spite of his Carter-like performance, is that people don’t want to be wrong. They’d rather give Obama another 4 years to try to get things right. They would rather the country suffer, then admit they were wrong about Obama. I had to come to terms with my 2 votes for GW Bush. He did not deliver as I thought he would. But people aren’t as willing to reevaluate Obama.
Obama isn’t a person to these people, he is a symbol. If he truly fails, they will have to reexamine a lot of their preconceived notions about the world, and few people want to do that. Obama isn’t a person as much as a personality. He is the political Michael Jordan. People love him and want him to do well, no matter what the damage to our country. The people who idolize Obama and refuse to see his faults are not stupid, uninformed or malicious, they are just sycophants of a political celebrity.
Monday, October 29, 2012
Friday, July 06, 2012
Top 10 Reasons to Vote for Obama
10) He's trendy. He's the Pesto of Politicians.
9) It shows you aren't a racist.
8) He has a lovely singing voice. Did you hear him do Al Green?
7) Next term, he'll probably really do what he promised.
6) Because he loves Europe and those Europeans know a lot more than we do.
5) He's so cool, it's like he won American Idol 50 million times in a row.
4) Two Words; Negro Wisdom.
3) Because Leadership is overrated.
2) The country is screwed no matter what we do, so why not?
1) He's like a younger version of the cool black guy in 'Shawshank Redemption'.
Tuesday, July 03, 2012
Young People Be the Key to 2012 Victory
by Rhymin Man Jesse Jackson
The great thing about young people is that they are always young. The 19 year old know it all we fooled last 2008 are now at least 22 years old, in the workforce and boy are they angry. They're working for corporate charlatans, paying all sorts of new taxes and they aren’t going to be our friends this time. In fact, if we still have their names on a mailing list we should just burn that sucker. Forget about those guys cause man, they gone.
Here in 2012, we have new bumper crop of 19 year old know it alls, praise Allah. We need to target them with the same Hoo-Hah we used last time out. You know, the classics, America is bad but we can make it good, Whitey, I mean, the establishment is corrupt, and that Black people are the only ones full of enough good old Negro wisdom to guide us out of the mess we are in.
Young people got spry legs. They can walk around and work for hours for no pay and they don’t enough know better. You never hear of adults working in sweatshops cause they're too smart. We need to tap into this vein of energetic young people who will work for free and display the kind of revolutionary zeal usually only reserved for committed Communists or Islamic terrorists. Now, even though it goes against every grain in my body, we should target White kids cause them Black kids are just too damn smart. Plus, they will all vote for Obama anyway, every time, every day, unless some other Black guy enters the race.
These white college kids should come from money because the extra guilt will only work in our favor. I remember last election, there was this one kid who drove bums to the election booth in his daddy’s jaguar. THAT'S what we are looking for. Giving bums cigarettes and Mad Dog 20-20 will only take you so far. But how many homeless people every get to ride in a Jag? I have 2 of em but Damn if I let one of those pants pissing winos in my ride.
So yes, the youth are the key. They work cheap, have extra guilt and don’t have any background in real world concepts like fiscal responsibility or fairness.
I’d figure we would be in a different position by now. Hell, I figured Obama COULDN’T do worse than Bush, but this Internet thing with all of it’s easy facts and thousands of sources of information is just too hard to plug up. We can no longer count on our friends at CBS, MSNBC, NBC, ABC, the Huffpo or even NPR anymore.
That damn Internet prevents us from shaping all of the news anymore. Any damn fool who has been looking for a job, trying to get a car loan or even trying to feed a family knows damn well we screwed up. We screwed up real bad. We're just gonna have to gives the people a little Shamalam. A little Skiddley Do. Hey, Look over there!!! Oh, nevermind. Forget about the damn deficit. Check out this cool picture of Michele Obama riding a horse. Hey Obama is at the White House meeting with LeBron, ain’t that cool? Screw the unemployment figures, man. It’s LeBron!
The great thing about young people is that they are always young. The 19 year old know it all we fooled last 2008 are now at least 22 years old, in the workforce and boy are they angry. They're working for corporate charlatans, paying all sorts of new taxes and they aren’t going to be our friends this time. In fact, if we still have their names on a mailing list we should just burn that sucker. Forget about those guys cause man, they gone.
Here in 2012, we have new bumper crop of 19 year old know it alls, praise Allah. We need to target them with the same Hoo-Hah we used last time out. You know, the classics, America is bad but we can make it good, Whitey, I mean, the establishment is corrupt, and that Black people are the only ones full of enough good old Negro wisdom to guide us out of the mess we are in.
Young people got spry legs. They can walk around and work for hours for no pay and they don’t enough know better. You never hear of adults working in sweatshops cause they're too smart. We need to tap into this vein of energetic young people who will work for free and display the kind of revolutionary zeal usually only reserved for committed Communists or Islamic terrorists. Now, even though it goes against every grain in my body, we should target White kids cause them Black kids are just too damn smart. Plus, they will all vote for Obama anyway, every time, every day, unless some other Black guy enters the race.
These white college kids should come from money because the extra guilt will only work in our favor. I remember last election, there was this one kid who drove bums to the election booth in his daddy’s jaguar. THAT'S what we are looking for. Giving bums cigarettes and Mad Dog 20-20 will only take you so far. But how many homeless people every get to ride in a Jag? I have 2 of em but Damn if I let one of those pants pissing winos in my ride.
So yes, the youth are the key. They work cheap, have extra guilt and don’t have any background in real world concepts like fiscal responsibility or fairness.
I’d figure we would be in a different position by now. Hell, I figured Obama COULDN’T do worse than Bush, but this Internet thing with all of it’s easy facts and thousands of sources of information is just too hard to plug up. We can no longer count on our friends at CBS, MSNBC, NBC, ABC, the Huffpo or even NPR anymore.
That damn Internet prevents us from shaping all of the news anymore. Any damn fool who has been looking for a job, trying to get a car loan or even trying to feed a family knows damn well we screwed up. We screwed up real bad. We're just gonna have to gives the people a little Shamalam. A little Skiddley Do. Hey, Look over there!!! Oh, nevermind. Forget about the damn deficit. Check out this cool picture of Michele Obama riding a horse. Hey Obama is at the White House meeting with LeBron, ain’t that cool? Screw the unemployment figures, man. It’s LeBron!
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