Hillary Clinton Will Win and She has Shown True Leadership and Grace Under Fire

Hillary Clinton Will Win and She has Shown True Leadership and Grace Under Fire Despite the following:

Obama and the 1992 LA Riots

I am not a Racist, and am in fact a Peace activist, and have always been outspoken against racism. I’m also a Hillary Clinton supporter, though I wasn’t always. At one time I thought she was rather cold, and I didn’t like her. I wanted Gore to run for President, and was part of a group of people trying to “Draft Gore” to run, be he chose not to. After that, I heard Obama speak and was amazed and impressed, by how eloquent he is a how he spoke of Hope and Change, and creating a New Environment in Washington.

What changed my mind was the more I listened to Obama the more I started to feel uncomfortable about his motivation, and intentions versus the messages I was hearing. As an environmental advocate I have heard many motivational speeches, and I started to sense that Obama lacked true sincerity. I like to listen closely to what people say and learn from their words, and hear a call to action that will motivate my own efforts to make the world a better place, and I wasn’t hearing that from Obama, more than anything his words of encouragement centered around supporting him and not what he would do for our country.

The more I listened to Obama’s speeches, again and again; I wasn’t hearing a real call to action from Obama. Instead I was hearing reasons why, with no real experience in leadership, we should trust him to lead the USA. It then occurred to me that Obama was not ready to lead because I had no confidence in his words that seemed all Trusting Him, and Having Faith in Him, and Throw Out The Old and Bring in the New, because change is better. At that point, I stopped trusting Obama, because I felt, Obama is not ready to lead the USA, he is ready to evangelized about why he should lead US, because he really wants to be the President of the USA. Then when Edward Kennedy, a man who has been a Senator forever, became Obama’s most prominent endorsement, following Oprah, who is really, “The Oldest Old Boy in the Senate”. I thought, Obama says one thing and does another, I feel like people are being conned.

I feel sorry for Hillary, and mostly I feel sorry for the American people and the Democratic Party. Even if Obama loses the nomination he will try again now that he is well known. In the process of his rise from Junior Senator to Front Runner, he has torn apart the Democratic Party. There has not been so much racism in the Democratic Party since Wallace. At One time I thought, OK, Obama is bringing out new voters and drawing a crowd with his excellent Orator skills, why not Clinton/Obama. As Time went on Obama became more a more aggressive, and underhanded, and I started to be scared for our country. No one in modern times has ever run for President with so little experience and more and more I was seeing headlines that said things like “Obama want to run a friendly election and change the way we do things”, yet he was doing just the opposite. Believe were starting to believe his messages more and more. He was playing very card in the deck – Racism – Black people who had formerly supported Hillary, were now becoming an impenetrable block for Obama. Sexism – White men that in the past had opposed affirmative action (I supported it) were turning to Obama because they did not want to see a woman, break the glass ceiling of the Presidency which had always been a men only spot. The Press was afraid to criticize him, because there had been so many cases of reporters being fired for racism, and with race being such a huge factor in Obama’s campaign, and his tactics so intimidating, while he claimed to be a peacemaker, to oppose him was to take a chance that most people are not willing to take – To Stand Up and Oppose a Crowd and Tell Them What They Are Doing is Wrong and Will Not Get Them Where They Want To Be In Life.

Obama is a contender, that’s for sure, but he is not running a fair campaign, as he claims, and he is not a straight shooter. All I hear is double-talk. He’s good at it. So is President Bush, but that’s not the change I want to see in this country. For that kind of change we can elect McCain, who I trust much more than Obama. If Obama is the democratic nominee McCain will be the change that Obama delivered. The worst part is that I don’t think Obama will care, because he cares more about his personal ambitions than he cares about being a Democrat or showing true leadership.

When the press made it known Obama was running a campaign based on “His [Obama’s] Inspiring Words” and borrowing all his greatest words from Martin Luther King, John F. Kennedy, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and entire passages from Deval Patrick, Patrick the only one who is living defended Obama, and the Press let it go. When Obama’s claim that he does not take money from Special Interests and in fact he certainly does, and there is a long list, he said Hillary’s list is longer, and I thought, Hillary is honest about what she is doing, and Obama not only refuses to accept criticism or take responsibility for being wrong, but twists the truth, into half-truths, and then uses it as a way to point the finger at Hillary, and it works! -- Again and Again. There is a double standard in this race, as clear as the glass ceiling that will not accept that Hillary, a woman who spent 8 years as a Senator, and has done much more for Obama to bring change, and is well respected in DC and all around the world, can not break the glass ceiling that is the unspoken law that a woman must not be elected to the Presidency, and that real men and Black people must vote for Obama.

This situation reminds me of the 1992 Rodney King riots.

“The Los Angeles riots of 1992, also known as the Rodney King uprising, were sparked on April 29, 1992 when a jury acquitted four police officers accused in the videotaped beating of black motorist Rodney King when he resisted arrest following a high-speed car chase. Thousands of African-Americans in the Los Angeles area commenced to a riot over the six days following the verdict. Widespread looting, assault, arson and the occasional murder occurred, many gang-motivated or perpetrated. In all, 53 people died during the riots”

“We had begun to get reports of scattered violence shortly after we had watched on television the barbaric video tape of motorists being ripped out of their cars, hammered, pounded and chased by rock-throwing men on the ground. The image of a man, later identified as Reginald Denny, being pulled from his truck by thugs, still burned in my mind. My memory was seared by the vivid imprint of the motionless, beaten man lying on the ground, being kicked and brutalized. I was still filled with rage at the sight of one of the assailants picking up a large piece of cinder-block and throwing it at his apparently lifeless body, smashing him in the head. Then, after the savage beating, the attacker appeared to do a dance, raise his hands towards the helicopter overhead and flashed a gang sign. Then, to my utter disbelief, another person on the street reached into the pocket of the fallen driver and stole his wallet.”

This seems to be a crowd mentality about Obama and his message that reminds me of a Christian Fundamentalist Preacher’s ability to woo a crowd, often encouraging violence, and actions that are against their usual sense of right and wrong, but they do it anyway, because they are told this is what “God” wants. Obama actually promised a crowd he would bring the Kingdom down to earth. This from a man who has not track record to speak of and offers only a promise, that if we have faith, he will Unite us all and make the USA and the world a better place.

Every day, I am more impressed with Hillary’s leadership ability and grace under fire. She did not throw in the towel even though we all read headlines everyday that say, “Obama says Hillary should Drop out of the Race”, because he said, “Hillary is hurting the Democratic party.” Obama in my opinion has truly torn apart the Democratic Party, like no one could have imagined.

In November, I’m certain, people will see the wisdom in choosing experience over words. They say in advertising if you tell people something 8 times they will believe it. Obama said he would bring change we can believe in 27 times in one speech.

Hillary doesn’t get much opportunity in the press because they want to tell us what Obama did today, and what he eats for breakfast. He’s new, and that’s interesting to reporters, and I can understand their reluctance to step on his toes, with all the liability that could be involved. Hillary cares about the future of Democrats and does not want to criticize another Democrat too harshly, and that works in Obama’s favor. If Obama faces McCain, McCain will surely win. If Hillary faces McCain, I believe she will win.

If Obama had patience, and had spent some time earning a track record as a Senator before teaming up with Oprah, and taking his show on the road, he may well have developed into someone who I would trust at 3AM in the morning. At this point, I don’t trust Obama’s judgment at all. Hillary has proven to me, through words and deed, she is a brilliant and loyal leader who Americans can depend on.