VOTE: COUNTDOWN 100 DAYS
It's time to mark November 4th on your calendar , plan your trip, touch your friends, family, old folks, the young and those without transportation in your community. Make sure they register to vote, click here to register, and watch your deadlines, click here to find state by state registration deadlines. Election day, plan to fill your vehicle to capacity. Gas costs could be an issue for some. This is going to be a close election and polls indicate turnout is going to be key.
As of July 28, 2008, the Gallup Poll, the most respected, has Barack Obama leading 48% to John McCain's 40%. But those polls change daily. And the republican right wing machine has friends in the powerful media who can't fathom a black man becoming the most powerful in the world, as President of the United States of America. And they are not fighting fair.
For example, battered and beaten up, daily, by McCain for having a, so called, 'lack of foreign policy understanding', Obama took that overseas tour to the Middle East and Europe a few days ago. The challenge was acute. He had to, no doubt, digest exhaustive foreign policy briefing in advance. His mastery of that study was evident in his application in meetings with our military leaders in Iraq, with the Israeli and Palestinian leaders and in his assessment of a world view that he explained, standing before 200-thousand people in Berlin. He received rock star status there! 60% of people in U.K, France and Germany want him to win. (View the video of the speech below. It's about 20 minute long. If you haven't seen it, it's history making!)
But, as expected, McCain and his followers criticized Obama for looking 'too presidential' and crossing the 'presidential presumptuous line." And they criticized him for playing basketball with US troops in Afghanistan and not going to Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Berlin, to visit injured US soldiers. Obama can't win for losing.
So let us not get comfortable. Obama, or for that matter, any black man running for President of the United States, has a difficult curve. White America has been filled with so much negative stereotypical garbage by their parents and the media, they just can't overcome this psychosis. They put us all in one box.
Despite the fact that there are bad, bad white men--whether they steal, kill or molest children-, we have for decades voted white men into offices from local to national. White folks still have problems, even with a black "SUPERMAN", like Barack Obama.
That is not to say that some whites are not polling as potential voters for Obama. But don't become complacent and don't rely on the polls, because voters tend to vote how they really feel once they are alone in that booth. Do your part. Get the vote out!!
G.Smallwood is the author of the upcoming book, "Black Men Stop!" An excerpt can be read at www.blackmenstop.com
Good point. We need to follow this with action. And it shouldn't stop after election day... we need to press our leaders (political and social) to address the issues that are really important to us. We can't continue to allow our leadership to ignore the serious issues.