On politics and The Church...

It is becoming more and more increasingly aware that the "right" is having a more and more difficult time trying to influence the presidential race and sway people to vote republican. Even within the confines of it's own camps people are publicly finding it difficult to side with Rip van Winkle and an undisclosed running partner.

Let me give you my tell-of-the-tape.

Obama is about riding the waves of the popular vote and the classic appeal of something new vs' something old (no pun intended John) and seemingly tried and undelivered. In my honest opinion, McCaiN, much like my awesome, stoic and very dead grandfather, is trying to fashion his platform on laurels- Hey, JM, let me grab your ear for a moment... We don't care about laurels, this is America. The land of the promise to prosper at any costs. That's why a former civic community leader can run for office in Chi-town and get elected, give a dynamic speech on turning our two favorite kool-aid colors purple and in 4 years become the band-aid for Washington and you can't. Also, it's hard listening to you claim to have been in an enemy prison camp, when the only thought this current voting generation has on camps is boyscouts and church retreats, not to mention that most of our parents are in the prison system and lots of us are headed that way... Roughly 1 in ever 4 will visit the penial system before capitalism will have its chance to screw them first.

So, I digress and just thank both men for giving a good, healthy dose of realism to us as to why our country is in the turmoil it is in. When black and white are a major issue, rather than qualified and not stands to demonstrate our current progress in America. When we praise a man and woman for breaking molds and casts systems, rather than being men and women of character, we place a time stamp on our current era.

Let this question soak in. How can we think that change is around the corner when it has taken 45 years for a nation to become comfortable with African Americans to legitimately contend for the presidential office? Even better, white women, who were given the rights to vote constitutionally in 1920 have yet to be deemed a viable contender. I am more and more convinced that women and even more so, African American women are more suppressed than men. This is the America that I am ashamed of.

Mrs. Obama, I respect your comments on being proud of our country for once, when suppression of gender and race are fading and people are given their due for what they have done and the character and integrity they behold. The days of elitism are waning, and rightfully so - they should.

This message is approved of by Erick Bauman. Please be on the lookout for Bauman 2016. I am placing my self in the mix for presidential elect in 2016, today. The campaign begins.... Now!

Comments

[dukes]

well said. I'll vote for you in 2016, especially if part of your story includes time in the penal system, and you choose a non-status-quo running mate. I can see it now...Bauman - the chains are gone and change is coming. I love it.

I told my wife two days ago that I'm gonna try to start a new party - the non-party party or the let's-all-have-a-party party. Mosaic party maybe or the together party. But something besides the dualism and useless slander that now exists.

Love you man.
-jason

[Wife]

I will not have my life scrutinized so you can run...I hearby take your name out of consideration for 2016!

Also, my question/comment is...We spend so much time talking about 'how far we've come', yet a day hardly goes by without someone commenting on what an amazing black man Obama is. Why can't he just be an amazing man (if that's the view)? We are STILL so concerned about race...how far have we REALLY come?

wife
(Do you like all my ellipses? They are my fav)