deedee
2008-06-07 18:57:16

There are a few more issues that needed to be included in your article. First of all, the MEDIA played a big part in Obama’s victory. From the moment I began to watch his primary, it seemed that most of the pundits and reporters had “drunk the kool-aide”, if you know what I mean. The Obama worship was grand, and the media had a field day spinning everything in his favor. Many people wonder how it is that Hillary Clinton has such loyal followers. The answer is simple. We were watching the same biased reporters and reading the same biased articles against her. I know I expected more objective reporting and it angered me to see that I had to turn to Fox news or Lou Dobbs (who is now my favorite) to get any fair Hillary reports.
Secondly, the elelphant in the room is the reverse racism that the Clinton campaign had to endure. No one wanted to acknowledge that it exists. But when you get block voting of any racial group, when non supporters are threatened and called “Uncle Toms”, or when you hear the rhetoric from some of Obama’s major supporters, it becomes apparent that the racial divide in this country exists, is large, and will be difficult to bridge. So I, like many others, aren’t ready to sing Kum-ba-yah. I’ll wait to see how the Obama campaign tries to bridge the gap with people who feel as I do, because believe me, they have a lot of work ahead of them.