{"id":43,"date":"2008-04-21T21:33:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-21T21:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/miloais.com\/miblog\/2008\/04\/in-honor-of-tomorrows-pennsylv.html"},"modified":"2008-04-21T21:33:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-21T21:33:00","slug":"in-honor-of-tomorrows-pennsylvania-primary-5-reasons-i-support-barry-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miloais.com\/miblog\/?p=43","title":{"rendered":"In honor of tomorrow's Pennsylvania Primary, 5 reasons I support "Barry Obama.""},"content":{"rendered":"

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After my all night renal GI adventure, I don’t have much energy to introduce this thing, but I felt it necessary to throw out my support for this uhhh…how do you say…ahh…yes…”once in a generation leader.”\u00a0 Though I’m not exactly sure what that means, of the three remaining candidates, I am in Obama’s camp…since Kucinich is as my dear Spokompton pal Nate says…a pinko bleeding heart communist.\u00a0 Now…onto five reasons I support Barack. \u00a0\n\n1. He’s young(er).\u00a0 As stupid as it sounds, it’s the first time I actually feel somewhat of a peer connection to a politician.\u00a0 And not just because he lists the fugees in his favorite music in his facebook profile<\/a>. He looks younger and more connected to things I care about, like playing hoop (see his senior yearbook page above).\n\n2. He’s an elitist.\u00a0 Or I guess I should say he is elite.\u00a0 He’s smart as all hell.\u00a0 You don’t become editor of the Harvard Law Review chasin’ down armadillas.\u00a0 He sounds presidential, drips with “informedness” when he speaks, and he has managed to run a campaign against the Clinton Party Train that 6 months ago was considered a LOCK for the whitehouse.\u00a0 And he’s showed her up consistently.\u00a0 I used to be a Hillary fan.\u00a0 But Obama has proved a better candidate in most facets of this game, (save his nonsense healthcare plan, which I truly believe he has the humility to modify once he realizes it’s not working) so much so that Hillary’s low balling tactics to stay competitive in this race have me NEARLY despising her.\u00a0 I am ready for a president that can answer questions spontaneously and intellegently. \u00a0To me, when Hillary speaks, despite the fact that she claims to be a gun toting, down on the farm American, she drips with\u00a0condescension. \u00a0You can see that she’s not genuine by looking at her plastic smile as she speaks. \u00a0It looks like she’s wet herself, and she is trying to keep you from noticing that something is just not right. \u00a0Something about Obama seems more real to me. \u00a0I actually believe what he is saying. \u00a0No doubt, the guy is a politician, and clearly a good one. \u00a0But listening to him speak, I believe he can use those skills to move the country towards his values and beliefs (which I believe parallel my own). \u00a0 I think Obama has a chance to be an ELITE president, one the whole world might be able to respect.\u00a0 NOT an elitist…at least in the sense relevant to the job he’s running for…for more on that, see 3.\n\n3. You know what?\u00a0 Obama is better than the “gun clinging,” progress hating, reality tv watching, foreign people hating, (relative to much of the world) uneducated, flag lapel wearing, overly god fearing, inappropriately patriotic, ignorant ass, bitter Pennsylvanians that I do agree he inappropriately stereotyped publicly.\u00a0 But…imagine for a moment that its PE class.\u00a0 And you are a team captain.\u00a0 And you are picking teams.\u00a0 Only the game is deciding the direction the United States should move towards over the next 4 years.\u00a0 Are you picking Obama, or the stereotypical American described above?\u00a0 And at the certainty of being called a “typical liberal elitist” I would offer that the stereotype is not that far off for lots of Americans today, and I fear that many in our country are getting even closer to that sterotype (at least in the xenophobic, unjustifiably patriotic, and ingnorant ass sense). \u00a0The gap between the have’s and the have nots in this country is growing exponentially, unbeknownst to the many who would have a much easier time telling you about the real housewives of New York City, than the growing economic prowess in China. (I would be surprised if 50% of Americans could point out Shanghai on a map…seriously). \u00a0If you don’t believe me, read this article<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0from yesterday’s Pittsburgh Post Gazette, the town containing the very people that Obama put on blasts. ELITIST? \u00a0With regards to the presidency, I think an elitist is someone who puts America on a higher pedestal than everyone else in the world, not someone who\u00a0criticizes\u00a0the state of the current American populace. \u00a0Barack Obama has said he wants dialogue with Cuba and Iran. \u00a0The other two candidates say that’s ridiculous; they say that those countries need to become, and I am\u00a0simplifying\u00a0here, more like us before they would dare opening up dialogue. \u00a0Is that not elitist? \u00a0How much shit did Obama take for dressing in traditional Kenyan attire <\/a>when meeting with\u00a0politicians\u00a0there? \u00a0 Isn’t that type of culutural respect a good thing? \u00a0Would Hillary have done the same? \u00a0This nation needs to start demonstrating some humility. \u00a0We are flawed, and if we don’t recognize that soon, our growing population of “have nots” is going to become a\u00a0permanent lower class staring at a tiny minority of wealthy, educated,\u00a0privileged\u00a0Americans reaping the benefits of emerging middle class economies in India and China. \u00a0And before you call me a leftist bigoted snob, consider this. \u00a0I’m a medical student planning on going into a lucrative specialty. \u00a0I am going to be in the “have’s” catergory. \u00a0For me, finances will hopefully never be an issue. \u00a0My frustration is rooted in the fallacy that is spoonfed to Americans on Fox News on a daily basis. \u00a0The American dream is alive and well in this country. \u00a0We are the world power, a shining example of how things should be done on this chaotic, unjust planet. \u00a0If that is the case, how come so many Americans are struggling? \u00a0It’s only going to get worse. We need to start acknowledging that our standard of living is too high to compete with giant nations in the rest of the world wanting a taste of what we’ve been stealing. \u00a0Elitist=thinking we are better than everyone else. \u00a0Let’s face it, national attitude is plagued with\u00a0patriotic\u00a0elitism. \u00a0And if we don’t decide to move in a new direction, we’ll sink that way.\n\n
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4. Obama’s “momemtum” has grown to the point where I sometimes forget something pretty incredible.\u00a0 This guy is black.\u00a0 I’ve wanted a black president for a longtime, long before David Palmer <\/a>made it seem like a fucking awesome prospect.\u00a0 Black presidents have had a prolific run in Hollywood.\u00a0 The first great one I remember was in The Fifth Element, where Zeus from No Holds Barred<\/a> played a badass president<\/a>.\u00a0 That said, it will be tough to top the black president in the movie Idiocracy<\/a> .\u00a0 In fact, there are some similarities to that movie and our current state of affairs (that comment was for you parker), a black president ruling over an increasingly fucking stupid american population.\u00a0 Unfortunately Obama will never be as kick ass as President Camacho<\/a>.\u00a0 In all seriousness, this would be a big step forward towards improving the always shady race relations in this country, and would improve our world image practically overnight.\u00a0 I just fear that someone from the group aforementioned in “3” doesn’t get any ideas from David Palmer’s 24 fate.<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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5.Fuck flag lapel pins.\u00a0 Look at this guy’s style.\u00a0 I’ve been looking for that shirt on ebay for weeks.\u00a0 How can you not vote for someone’s whose high school style was so prolific, that you can get the “barack obama high school” costume<\/a> on the internets?\u00a0 So my vote goes to Obama.\u00a0 Okay, now I go play hoop.
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