I am not picking on Obama. The use of Air Force One for political purposes, the Karl Rove, a political operative, having an office in the white house and being paid (handsomely!) by taxpayers’ money, all these trips (hunting trips, no less!!!!) on govt jets, etc., etc., Republican or Democrat, doesn’t matter, the govt is rotten to the core, and the American people don’t seem to mind. They want to elect these frauds, who’ll just continue the party. And the less they mind, the more the cockroaches take over, and the American people are satisfied with less and less; and they get less and less as a result, it’s a vicious circle. Something that would be unthinkable a generation ago is normal business now.

The readers above are right — MLK worked in the trenches, and it showed in what he said, Obama did not, he’s just a flash in the pan. But unfortunately, he (or others like him), may just get elected president, unimaginable as it may be. Because, we the people have no standards anymore.

But maybe in my own small way, I’m doing a service to my race. Afterall, I’m trying my best to raise kids that are not a part of the problem. I live my life in a way that I hope my kids will see me as a good example. I believe that if we all did that, that would be half the battle.

You should be attacking the rappers who sell wholesale, a lifestyle that’s so obviously distructive. You should blame the pro athletes in general (and basketball and football players) in particular, so not being better role models.

If I had to choose, I would rather my son be like Obama than like Terrell Owens. So yes, I’m far removed from a certain aspect of black culture because it’s ultimately destructive. If I emerse myself in that aspect, I don’t doubt that it would destroy me, just like it did thousands of black men in prison.

I’ve been reading the speech of Obama’s that’s been going around the internet. And if anything, what it tells me is that is image shapers and speechwriters seem to have mastered what both Bush and Kerry mastered. That is speaking a lot of words that sound good on the surface to the intended audience, but which don’t really say anything. Read that speech that’s on many websites, then ask yourself what he really proposes to DO. It sounds good till you realize there’s little substance there except maybe expanding the EITC. Just like Kerry. Kerry could sound good, but afterwards I’d ask what did he really just propose and it was always little or nothing.

But if you read that speech, you’ll quickly no Obama is no Martin Luther King with his telling denouncement of not only the Vietnam War at the Riverside Church in NYC, but his clearly spelling out of exactly what it is in American society that leads us continually to wars in Vietnam and now Iraq. Obama mouths nice words against the war in Iraq. Undoubtably his state senate district in 2002 was so antiwar that it was a political no-brainer to oppose it then. And today he mouths criticism of the war in Iraq while saying absolutely nothing about what it says about the America that so gladly went to war. And he seems to vigorously support a war against Iran, apparently showing that he’s learned absolutely nothing from the mistakes we made in going to war in Iraq.

The Democratic Party seems to be pulling a twin pair of cons on the American electorate in desperation of otherwise being revealed they stand for nothing. They have the candidate that all the women are supposed to vote for just because a woman should be elected. And they have the candidate that everyone who isn’t white is supposed to vote for if they aren’t white. But if anyone is so stupid as to vote for a candidate on either basis, then they deserve the same disasterous result that they got when they voted for the candidate they’d most like to go drink a beer with.

Hey Obama, how about actually doing something as a Senator? Take a stand and wage a fight on something that will improve this country, or maybe change the disastrous direction we are going in. Do anything, but do something. Right now he’s just a bland media creation running around saying what his pollsters tell him to say. Which to me means he shouldn’t be let anywhere near the White House.

Look deeper than the messages his pollsters give him to recite. Look for soul. Look for character. You should be able to see that. A US Senator is a powerful person. You should be able to see amazingly good things being done by him. But to me he does nothing but mouth lots of vague generalities.

Listen to Obama talk about today’s wars, and then listen to Martin Luther King’s speech at Riverside Church. I believe it would be obvious who is the person with soul who really gets it and understands what’s going on, and who is the shallow, media-created phony.

So tell me, “Nathaniel X Turner II”, what have you done for black people lately, besides concocting little pieces of internet hate speech like this one?