As a Canadian, I find it troubling that the greatest nation in history, is entertaining Barack
Obama to pilot them into the future. A man who's message is change! Change what? You have the greatest nation in all respects, economically, militarily, with regards to human rights, liberty and standard of life. You are the furnace that heats the world. Without you, this planet would be a much colder place. There is no perfection to be found anywhere on this marble, but America, it could be argued, is the closest thing to it. Change can always be had but it must be for the better and exercised with great caution. If I may use golf as a metaphor, anyone who has swung a club knows that any drastic adjustment can send your swing into irretrievable chaos. Tiger's swing may not be perfect but like the United States, it is the best. How much change, could the best need? Tiger knows better then anyone, that adjustments made must be in small increments with each increment followed up with a study of results. From what I've seen, read and heard, this man of change,
Obama, is a man who is in a struggle to identify himself. A political figure who is half white and half black which for America, should be a perfect combination with a superior perspective and insight into the American experience. Someone who all could relate to. Like Tiger,
Obama, could have refused to carry the banner of either side. He could have rejected all attempts at being labeled and defined and instead, insisted on having no lines drawn and becoming a flag barer for all. That is what
Obama had initially portrayed himself to be. What we have learned about
Obama however, is that he is anything but a dream candidate. Raised by the white side of his family; a loving supportive home of his mother and grandparents,
Obama in his own words, speaks of going to good schools and receiving a great education. He speaks of a loving, supportive upbringing, one that all, no matter the race, would hope to have. Yet as
Obama has written in his books, he appears to have in large part rejected the half that feed him, cared for him, raised him, instead embracing the half that abandoned him at an early age. Does this not strike anyone as being odd? It is not unusual for a young man to seek out his history, to embrace part, if not all, once found. What is odd, is for him to seemingly reject the half, be-it white or black, that nurtured him, as being no longer worthy of equal import. Instead of the realization of his unique perspective, and the embracing of such, as he so desperately wants us to believe, he takes, what appears to a blind man, to go towards a radical side of the black equation. He seeks out black role models, some of a radical nature. His intentions are to gather predominately black friends and relationships in hopes of some how becoming more connected with the outdated black experience of the past, a past he was not part of. He marries a black woman who appears to hold radical concepts of her own with regards to race and her country. He attends a church for two decades that employs preacher Reverend Wright, who's rhetoric is filled with racist words of hate, towards not only whites, but America. The very America
Obama wants to lead! Wright's words, are words Barrack's mother's side of the family might find hard to hear and find comfort in, as most of white America does. Yet, it is these words from Wright, these racist words of hate, which
Obama feels appropriate for his children to hear. As if these teaching of Wright's will somehow better the lives of Obama's children and bring a tastier fruit to their future. Sorry America, but you need to re-think this
Obama character and the change he represents.
The change that's needed, is the change of your mind.