The Race Race Stinks

In 2008, the campaign for the Democratic party nomination for president has been charged with energy, public interest, scandal and sensationalism. As a moderate conservative I never really cared much for the discussions for the Democratic Party and never paid much heed. With the writer's strike and apparently a surplus of time on my hands, I've found myself drawn to the discussion.

The thing is what I've found in this debate between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama is that I've been misled. I thought that the Democratic Party was supposed to be more socially conscious, liberal, and racially sensitive. However, I've found the discussions on this topic to be anything but true.

Hillary Clinton is quietly playing the race card, never condemning Obama for being black, but taking advantage of every situation where her whiteness benefits her. Insidious in the way she condemns states for opposing Obama because of his ethnicity, such as the states of Ohio and Indiana, all the while campaigning heavily there because she needs those white-prejudiced votes.

Also the issue of Obama and his reverse-racist pastor blaming white Americans for 911 etc. Obama's response was that the man was his pastor and not his political advisor. This means one of two things about Obama has to be true. 1. That he himself is a reverse-racist or 2. His religious affiliation is facetious and not really that important to him. The thing is when you attend a church for any period of time, you are endorsing the man who leads them, at least in the world I live in. He did not condemn the speeches at the time they were given.

So what you have here in this progressive and socially conscious party is what is so degenerate and blatantly backward is the white candidate taking advantage of the issue of race in order to win a campaign and a black candidate who is associated with a reverse-racist pastor but denies any influence that his pastor may have on him, indicating that his Christian faith really has no influence on him either.

So which deceit is worse? The white person's false piety in regards to racial equality speech or the black person's false religious convictions or reverse-racism?

I used to like Pizza Hut Pizza. Before I went to college, it was my favorite choice. then I worked there for two years during college. I cooked and prepared the pizzas for one year then I delivered them from my car for one year. Eventually, my car smelled like Pizza Hut Pizza. My clothes (even non-uniform ones) would smell of pizza hut. To this day it is repulsive to me. I can smell the difference between a Pizza Hut Pizza and any other and the smell turns my stomach. Since Pizza Hut, I've moved on to sales. The thing is that when you are in sales long enough, you get used to giving pitches. You are constantly presenting something that your boss wants you to say. You get to slinging so much bullshit that you can smell bullshit before most other people do. And the democratic race reeks of it.

I was just starting to think that race was a thing of the past, that the whole black-white issue was an old paradigm that most people have worked through.
But here it is, the heart of this campaign. Coming from the wrong side of the fence that separates Democrats from Republicans. And that just stinks.