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I personally think it’s fake. It’s not the best one I’ve seen, either. Worth sharing, though.

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Ralph Nader, the independent candidate for president, has decided to take a shot at Obama in a statement that was published yesterday. Two quotes from that article stand out to me as worth raising an eyebrow over. The first:

I mean, first of all, the number one thing that a black American politician aspiring to the presidency should be [doing] is to candidly describe the plight of the poor, especially in the inner cities and the rural areas. . . . Haven’t heard a thing.

What? Are we applying racial obligations now? Just because Obama is an African American, he has to emphasize the fight against poverty? Obama must cater to everyone and appeal to everyone; he cannot just jump to serve the African American citizens of the country. Nader also says:

He wants to show that he is not . . . another politically threatening African-American politician. He wants to appeal to white guilt. You appeal to white guilt not by coming on as, ‘black is beautiful, black is powerful.’ Basically he’s coming on as someone who is not going to threaten the white power structure, whether it’s corporate or whether it’s simply oligarchic. And they love it. Whites just eat it up.

Where is this man from, the sixties? Who said that African Americans necessarily come to threaten the white power structure? Who said this election had anything to do with “white guilt”? Why would African Americans be “politically threatening”? Obama has said that Nader is just “trying to get attention,” and the Obama campaign’s communication director Robert Gibbs called Nader’s comments “delusional.” Nader refuses to take his statement back, even after the eyebrows were raised.

At first, I had nothing against Nader, but now I completely dislike him.

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Yesterday, the officials at Wimbledon used marksmen to shoot down pigeons to prevent them from dive-bombing on courts during the games. They state that this is their plan B method after using hawks to drive the pigeons away; according to Wimbledon spokesman Johnny Perkins, “The hawks are our first line of deterrent, and by and large they do the job”.

PETA, the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, expressed their grievances to the police and people in charge of the tournament and stated that Wimbledon’s behavior was “cruel and illegal” and that the killing of the pigeons by marksman was more of a first choice than a last resort. I can see where PETA’s coming from on this as they’re literally shooting birds out of the air that don’t deserve to die, but Wimbledon’s not going to take a lot of flak for this. This is just a short passing complaint.

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A good read giving eighteen ways for a household to save money, including gas tips, healthcare, food, and home energy.

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In this “Special Comment,” Keith Olbermann criticizes McCain’s statement that “it’s ‘not too important’ when American forces come home from Iraq.” He uses amazing rhetoric, shooting down the McCain campaign’s claim that the comments are being placed out of context by presenting in a number of quotes that McCain has said through the years. Throughout the video, Olbermann reminds us again and again that McCain has told the American people that it’s “not too important” when American troops return to the United States. He states twice that McCain is following something in his own imagination and that he is not seeing reality. Olbermann shows how McCain’s views clash and are unrealistic. And lastly, he tells McCain that he, a soldier himself in his earlier days, should be ashamed of himself. All in all, this video in itself is enough of a reason for why I would never vote for McCain, and why I can’t understand why anyone else would.

I must admit that I raise an eyebrow when people wish to vote for McCain, but of all the reasons, the most disheartening one is because of a possible dislike of Obama. Some people aren’t sold enough on Obama’s experience, but let’s get something straight here. Who running for president this year has ever been a president? Has ever actually sat in the Oval Office and led the country? Isn’t that the meaning of experience? McCain went to war, and he should be no doubt respected for that. But military experience does not equate to executive experience; Ulysses S. Grant is an example of such. Obama may not be as experienced at Washington, but he has one thing McCain does not have: a clean slate. I feel like it’s time to give the new guy a chance, to really work for change. McCain’s just more of the same; he’s sometimes called “McBush” for a reason.

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