Media Bias &National / World Politics 18 Jan 2009 06:58 pm
A Heavy Heart with Mixed Feelings about the Inauguration
Well, certainly one can not miss all the coverage and hoopla about the upcoming Presidential Inauguration on Tuesday, Jan. 20th, 2009.
I’ve barely responded to PF’s topics nor have I written a new one myself since the election because I been so upset about how wrong I figured people’s thinking and how wrong I was about people’s perceptions and thought processes.
I haven’t been a slave to the news coverage in the past few weeks but I can not get away from it either although I have tried to fast forward or change the channel during more egregious Bush bashing and Obama worship.
I attended Church this morning; I grew up in the Methodist faith and believe in worshiping the one true God – although in 3 forms – The Father, Son and Holy Ghost. I state here that I adamantly do not believe that Barack Obama is the Son. While I adore my minister and usually agree with her sermons I was saddened to know that on this Human Relations Sunday I did not 100% agree with her assessment that she believed that BO’s election was the dream coming true of Martin Luther King, Jr. MLK, Jr. (who was a registered Republican) believed that people should be judged by the content of their character and not by their skin. While I agree with that hope … I disagree that BO was not judged by his skin…he was voted by many because he calls himself an African American == the first Black President.
Personally I would have been ready for our first Black president to have been Colin Powell way back when.
I have always been suspect of BO’s experience not his skin color.
AND I have said from the get – go about BO — that I was torn — that I was indeed happy that people were excited about the election and could rally around an exciting candidate. BUT — I was horribly disappointed by the lack of credible and unbiased journalism that ushered Obama into the Presidency at such a critical time. It could be Obama is the right man to be President — only time will tell. And though it may be tough …I will certainly admit “I was wrong” if/when the time comes.
So on Tuesday — when normally I am the Yankee Doodle Dork and love all American Pageantry … I am feeling a little lost, a little detached and little like I am holding myself back from letting myself from getting all misty eyed and euphoric. Again, I repeat that this feelign does not stem from perhaps my guy not winning…but because I feel like this election was pre-determined.
Chuck Todd of NBC News just released a book about how BO won. How possibly could he have written this book in less than 2 months unless he had written it all along? So obviously he wanted BO to win so his book would be publishable!
So yes, I want our Country to do better and I want Americans to be proud of our country and not be ashamed and our want our Media to do its part to be fair and unbiased…I want our country to do better economically, socially and personally…
If BO can inspire people then so be it…I want to be inspired and normally I am easily so…yet I still have a heavy heart…
Libra Girl
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on 18 Jan 2009 at 8:31 pm 1.Political Football said …
excellent post Libra. I was raised Presbyterian but my parents and then I found the PCUSA just too political for a church – and recently I’ve found a home in a small Methodist Church, but have not joined… The Pastor today (also a woman) – asked for prayers for both 43 and 44.
No surprise that your sentiments reflect mine; we are all a product of our environment, and that said I believe our President Elect is a good man.
I do worry about the entitlement generation we have become; and now it’s clear our social security “pension” will likely not be available when I retire in 10 years or so. California is already talking about writing IOUs for Income Tax refunds – that won’t buy anything.
From what I’ve read – and I’m no economist; these are our problems…
1) we’ve learned that companies can be too big to fail – therefore they should be deemed too big to exist.
No company should be too big to fail if it has failed practices.
2) we’ve created a culture of entitlement and this administration in front of us will be a facilitator of that entitlement. They will “couch” it in terms of larger government but re-read item #1.
I am working with some families with acreage to put in a vegetable garden, and saving as much money as I can, and thinking about what I can do on my own more rather than rely on others… I can only pray the worse will be inflation where I can get a good return on CDs like we did with the Peanut man in the 70′s.
Just don’t know. I seriously think this will get much worse before it gets better.
Thanks for the post – I need to start blogging again, but like you – I’ve been in a funk, and trying to catch up on my real job.
on 20 Jan 2009 at 5:57 pm 2.Libra Girl said …
Interesting that the stock market dipped so much today…
on 20 Jan 2009 at 8:19 pm 3.Political Football said …
yes, I think that will be a part of my first post-Bush post.