Posted by
Jay R on Thursday, September 17, 2009 12:00:00 AM
As many of you know, I covered Election 2008 from the first day of the primaries. I still do not understand that if any one of us were to sit down at a computer and hit Excel and chart the gaffes, the associations, the insults, the impossible to understand speak from the podium, we would be out of graph lines. Do you realize that this continued on almost a daily basis until today? How could all these implications and events add up like this? It is global and domestic in scope. I am from a mixed neighborhood, all races and ethnic groups slammed together on Manhattan's Upper West Side in the 1950's. I did not have a TV so we would spend our summer nights standing with a bag of cold cherries in front of the Radio Clinic on 98th street and Broadway so we could watch Lucy and Ernie Kovacs through the huge picture window showing 50 TVs on the same channel. Black, White and Puerto Rican in front of that store, never a problem. To this day I have never had a problem that can be threaded to race. So I have to listen to these ultra rich politicians and entertainers decide what is good for the Black community has they play the R word all day. I think Black people can speak for themselves, many of them as professionals have succeeded in this economy much better than I have. The conundrum for me, a Republican who absolutely disagrees with the administration's domestic and foreign policies, is that as opinion polls confirm, I like Mr. Obama as a human being and I think he is a brilliant Harvard lawyer and as shown recently in the Congressman Wilson matter a class act in settling disputes amicably and without repercussions. After that point of view I dispute everything else his administration has put on the table. So in summary, Mr. Obama and his family and friends are welcome at my house or a neutral location anytime and I will welcome them. My feelings about him personally have nothing whatsoever to do with my belief that this country is headed in the wrong direction and now there is a real big controversy ready to blow, I think there is gonna be trouble in them thar hills. Maybe he is being advised by too many individuals in view of the fact that he came in with no CEO experience, something everybody was well aware of.
Jay R