October 27, 2008

1.) I have to admit with one week left if would be easy for me to bring an end to my budding career as a journalist. I have had little news to report over the past weekend that would add any confirmation to my blog. Although I have noticed something that keeps me going on the blog as well as a journalists. All of the points that I have made have been picked up by one of the major media sources after I have posted it. I wish I could add credibility to this statement by siting the times in which I read my ideas in Time, or on CNN, or an many of the other periodicals that I have skimmed through. Please understand I am not stating these things to brag I am just stating these things to reaffirm you that they are all very legitimate. Write or wrong, the pundits and the public are discussing these issues. And as any week in this election season has shown us, the impossible is possible.
2.) I guess you need evidence so here we go. Missouri's lead is down to less than one percentage point. I cautioned all of you last week as I told you the negative press on Palin with the family and clothing issues is going to actually work to gain those suburban women voters in Mizzou. Low and behold, Sarah and Johnny Mac are no longer biting at his heels but are now biting at his throat. They are primed for a kill. And this with a week left.
3.) More evidence. Okay. My colleague noted that McCain was losing ground in his home state of AZ. I even got a chuckle out of that one. What Mr. Wortman, neglected to note was how Pennsylvania is now slipping away, leaving from its prominent dominant blue to now its a faded jaded blue. Pennsylvania has no early voting, more older voters than younger and comparatively less African-Americans likely to turn out than the other toss up states. Doesn't look good for BO. I guess words can come back to haunt you:

"they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."

4.) I know this is going to be hard for some people to hear but it is real. Barack Obama is an African-American living in America in 2008. I wish all of you could understand what this means, but unfortunately next Tuesday might be the only way that the message gets through. Also, let me be the first to say that I hope I am wrong. Maybe I should say, I wish I was wrong.
5.) I would like to take this time to preview my next blog. "How the Race was won" will begin shortly after the 2008 election and focus on the 2012 election. Primarily the verbiage will follow the same course as the current except we will be spotlighting a different candidate. Yes, she has already been plotting her move to the white house from the white igloo. I will step by step explain to all of you how Sarah Palin was able to trump Barack Obama or Joe Biden in the 2012 election. I can't wait to get started and it looks like neither can she.
6.) Finally, I would like to announce the conclusion of this blog. This next week is going to be an ultra sensitive one for me. Although I have written all of this material to state the evidence against Mr. Obama, I must also make it clear that I do hope that he wins. I have more vested in his victory than all of you can understand. This blog has been therapeutic for me. It has given me a release of the tension of possibility. It has given me an outreach in a time when the world I believe exists and the world I thought would never exists are potentially converging. His victory would completely change my family, my manhood, my beliefs, my teaching, my self-esteem, my trust in my nation, my trust in right-minded people, my past, my present, my future, and my life. I am not speaking for anyone I am only speaking as someone. I am speaking as a black man not for black men. I am speaking as an independent not for independents. I am speaking as a natural born American not for natural born Americans. I am speaking not as a representative of many demographics but I am a speaker who is demographically diverse. I support a candidate who I believe shares some of the same characteristics as me but he is different from me because I believe he speaks for us all.