Black President: Blessing or Curse (Part II)

I’ve done something I hadn’t done with my blog before: respond to another’s blog posting … and up to this point I haven’t written a two part blog … so here is Part II.

Having a Black President in the United States is neither a blessing or a curse … it is simply the result of a regular occurrence that happens here every 4 to 8 years (we get to pick a new one). A President, no matter who they are, cannot be a blessing or a curse simply by their being … not even Barrack Obama. It is clear to me that any President may become one or the other (a blessing or a curse). Primarily, the times mold the President … Presidents seldom mold the times. There are exceptions like George Washington and Ronald Reagan … but not many.

Mr. Obama is not a messiah (even though Louis Farrakhan said he is) and he is not the smartest man to have ever run for and held the office. If he does not wake up and right the course he’s heading down, then he will become a curse. The national debt is already a curse we’ve been handed. Nationalizing private companies is a curse and radically changing health care will be a curse. I won’t blame him alone for those things…he’s had the support of Congressional Democrats along the way (the majority of which are not Black).

In her blog, Black President: Blessing or Curse?, she accuses Caucasians of fighting the President on “every turn” and “as a matter of fact, it is every Republican in addition to Caucasians that have a problem with the way this country is currently being run”. She could not be more wrong … painting Whites with such a broad brush discounts all of them that do support the President and the Democrats wrong-headed plans. If she were to study election polls, she would even find out that “rednecks”, “uneducated”, and “ignorant” Caucasians voted for Mr. Obama in high numbers. How arrogant!

The writer and President Obama himself have complained that he inherited an economy in crisis, with overwhelming debt, and huge deficits. Last I heard, Mr. Obama was a sitting Senator and a member of the majority party controlling Congress when the budgets, the bailouts, and the failed stimulus packages were passed … he voted in favor of them all. That (to my mind) means that he not only did not inherit those problems he helped create them and the circumstances that lead to them.

It is disheartening when we hear of this kind of dribble coming from an educated American of any race or ethnicity. She helps reinforce the position Rush Limbaugh has taken on his radio program: that President Obama’s supporters will use race as a battering ram on anyone that opposes his and the Democrats’ policies or that points out their shortcomings and failures. Rush is right … and her blog proves it. That in itself should cause her to do some rethinking. Hopefully, she will discover that she lives in the greatest country on earth for anyone Red, Black, Brown, Yellow, or White to live in and pursue happiness.

There you have it.
Pass it on if you like or let me know if I don’t have a clue

Eddie

Here is a link to her blog: http://www.blackplanet.com/your_page/blog/view_posting.html?pid=455910