Barack Obama, D-Ill., waves with his family and his running mate's family after his acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention at Invesco Field at Mile High in Denver Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008.
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Candidate Obama is being lauded as the first African-American man to be nominated for the presidency.
And all the hoopla, is almost convincing. If you ask me? That's as far as he will get.
And all the hoopla, is almost convincing. If you ask me? That's as far as he will get.
As far as being African-American; This is a deviation from the definition of this term, when you refer to Mr. Obama, whose father was a native Kenyan, and whose mother was from Kansas (Caucasian). His African ancestry is from a father who never emigrated to the United States, or had any kinship to the Africans of the diaspora (from Western Africa) that spread them throughout the western hemisphere beginning in the 16th Century. So, to categorize Barak Hussein Obama, as an African American, is a stretch of the imagination at best, and a misappropriation of the term if you strive to be true to its meaning.
Still the question remains: Will the majority of Americans vote for Obama? I honestly doubt it. I think this is all a charade to show how far the country has 'advanced' since the Civil War, and Jim Crow days. Still, my common sense tells me that Captain McCain will be Commander in Chief come January 20, 2009, to continue the "War on Terror".
As McCain once humorously stated:
"Bomb, Bomb, Bomb,....Bomb, Bomb, Iran"
P.S. They'll be no confetti there; just tiny pieces.
Arsenio.