Obama One Year Later: The Audacity of Winning vs. The Timidity of Governing
Barack Obama is first and foremost and diffidently groomed as a South Side of Chicago politician. The problem with the psyche of his campaign followers who were corralled by a massive Internet sweep, a beautiful man in expensive suits and a mesmerizing speaker who could talk salmon into not spawning is that they went for the pitch and bought it hook line and sinker. This country is in a mess and the CIT bankruptcy is going to send us closer to the cliff. Race relations were supposed to improve as we joyfully received our first Black President. Instead, arguments across America have increased as our Black citizens rightfully refrain from criticism of Obama because of his symbolic nature and what he represents to their community but are angered when others cry out at our economic meltdown. Inner city unemployment is more than twice the suburbs. I do not necessarily blame Obama, I will leave that to the Veep but something is wrong here and we as a country had better start finding out what that is.We cannot keep blaming others for our own frailties.
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