Who I respect

This is who I respect in politics, and in the world.

People willing, honestly, to take on their own, for their and our own good. People like John Ridley.

Obama's Struggle with Typical Liberal Hypocrisy

"From the beginning it's been fairly clear a big chunk of supposedly liberal America hasn't been ready for Barack Obama. Their unease obvious in the shock and awe of Joe Biden, and in Newsweek's inane, aloud wonderings of whether or not Obama was 'black enough.' 'Black enough' for the liberals being people of color in the Sharpton/Jackson mold; Old Schoolers devoutly wed to the regressive ideology of loud haranguing and low expectations. Obama -- early on in a Pound Cake-esque fashion urging people of color to do better and questioning race-based affirmative action -- was clearly not 'black enough' for the Liberal Plantation.

Any doubt that Obama was from the jump fighting not only for the presidency, but also against Lefty hypocrisy was shattered into a million pieces by Geraldine Ferraro's 'lucky' black man remark. Those pieces then again refined by Clinton's talk of 'hard-working Americans, white Americans.'

Clearly much of the liberal Left has long seen...oh, your average non-hard-working black, as nothing more than a piece of a loyal voting bloc. Keep us anesthetized, they feel, with promises of hand outs and government mollycoddling and we will mindlessly check the 'D' box on Election Day.

Conservatives are, of course, not a hair less bigoted in their hearts (nor are Independents or anyone else for that matter). But unlike Democrats, Republicans have found a way to play nicely with the ideologically aligned, regardless of the color of their skin.

That, perhaps, is part of the problem; Obama is more his own man than merely a Democratic tool. That he refused to put up a show, and then capitulate, makes him all the more frustrating to those on the Left used to their people of color playing by pre-prescribed rules.

In that regard it's too bad Obama's not an anti-war Republican. His 'Yes We Can' message of hope, his Morning in America redux, would have worked much better had it not be drowned out by the typical gloom and doom drum beat of the liberal machine."

This is how the bullies in both parties are going to be confronted. By thinking people in each party who say to the faithless and meanspirited in each party, "You are a fraud. You do not offer leadership. You offer cynicism. Which leads nowhere. And we will not be following."

We need more people thinking, writing, and leading like this.

Thanks, John, for joining the fold.