The Africana Media Blog

As I sat down to think about his questions and the fact that the African community is quite lacking in all these areas, I began to understand how our culture of entitlement because we are educated, our ego to be recognized for our accomplishments, our laziness and anathema to being acclimatized to realities of our surroundings and situations, our glorification of what we would have been if we were back in our respective countries, our faked elitism in looking down and thinking we are better and brighter than our brothers and sisters in this country, and finally our egregious sin and stupidity in believing that we should be given something for nothing rather than work for that something, have all combined to this prostrate state.  Unfortunately for us, that’s not how the system works in this country.

Now, we know that in war or in a shoot-out in an “OK Coral” movie, the person who blinks first loses, because your opponent pulls out his gun and shoots you squarely on your temple.  And that’s exactly what happened in that high-stakes brinksmanship that Senator McCain orchestrated.  McCain, a war hero, who should have known better to issue a challenge to a much more accurate and younger quick draw, lost badly and got it on his temple.

Just on a personal and professional level, it would be stupid not to sympathize with Clinton. Just yesterday, September 17, Mrs. Clinton was forced to pull out of a protest rally to be held against Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at the United Nations, when she learnt that the organizers had also invited Governor Palin without informing her.

Since the end of both the Democratic and Republican conventions, McCain, who has been excoriated by the press for lying about Barack, took the lead in polls, fanning seeds of discontent among Democrats.  Well, the tide seems to have turned again, and Obama leads in the polls, though it is not really significant.  As has been suggested by two people, the polls shows nothing but racism as a factor in the race.

The “Palin” phenomenon would not have arisen if the Obama campaign had been pragmatic in selecting Clinton as his running-mate rather than emotional with assumed unforgivable and destructive attacks by Senator Clinton.  That’s is ‘Politics 101’; if you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.  I say bring back those who devised the “kitchen-sink strategy,” the Mark Penns, the James Carvilles and the Paul Begala’s.  McCain understands what he needs to do to win, and by his pick of Governor Palin, a strategic decision made by Karl Roves students, it is beginning to appear that Obama should have done the right thing.

As Obama said, this is the greatest moment in history, and that history should be completed with the election of Barack Obama as President of the United States of America.  And when November 5, 2008, arrives and the results of the election would have been counted, Barack Obama would have won in a landslide.  He has prepared for this a long time, and has earned the right to be POTUS.