YOU CAN’T HANDLE THE TRUTH: CAMPAIGN TV ANALYSIS
We’re all watching the Democratic Convention. We’re all listening to the same audio. We’re seeing the same pictures. When will someone comment on what they saw and heard instead of what they want you to believe?
Here are the facts. Barack Obama has been leading in the polls in a general election versus John McCain for almost a year. Seven out of ten Democrats who voted for Hillary Clinton were supporting Obama prior to the convention. Obama leads by 20% with all women nationally. You don’t win the nomination for president, of either party, without white men and white women voting for you in large numbers. The polls have not shown in any tangible way that they are accounting for the masses of young and newly registered voters who have and will vote for Obama. (has any pollster called you?) Yet, any time you turn on the television you keep hearing about “the problems” Barack Obama has. The problems he has with Clinton supporters, the problems with white man and women, the problems with people getting to know him, the problems, problems, problems. Huh? I hate to keep going to the same well, but it’s the dreaded Jedi mind trick. Tell everyone how the man in front, the person winning, has a problem.
Republicans are outstanding at campaigning. They’re lousy at governing. Look at our economy, our image abroad, the housing mess, the war in Iraq, our lack of ANY credible energy plan, the poor and homeless without any health insurance and let’s not forget the 9.5 trillion dollar national debt. That’s what the Republican’s have done to us and themselves. Why isn’t someone saying that every time an anti-change voice steps up to the microphone?
The Republicans are faced with losing the majority in the House and the Senate and next, The White House, all to a man who will be wildly popular with Democrats and with our allies abroad. That would render them virtually inconsequential in our power structure. To make matters worse, they have to go into battle with a candidate most of them don’t like or want. Listen to conservative talk radio and all you’ll hear is how John McCain is worse than Obama, on immigration, he better not pick a pro choice VP, how they can’t stand how chummy he is with Joe Lieberman and even THEY can’t believe he doesn’t know how many homes he owns.
As a result, they can’t win this election promoting their guy, they can only invent deficiencies in Obama.
Now that Joe Biden is the VP pick, Hillary has endorsed Obama…again. President Clinton has endorsed Obama…again. You keep hearing that they haven’t reversed themselves on Obama’s capacity to be Commander and Chief.
Isn’t that exactly what an endorsement is?
But let’s play along. The Republicans want to stick to the narrative that Obama isn’t ready. Fine. The facts are, Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton did say that…and they both LOST! When will someone speak the truth? When is someone going to say that’s precisely why the current crop of Republicans can’t govern effectively? They take a losing strategy and refuse to change, even when it’s proven to be a bad decision.
I’m tired of watching television and having someone tell me my eyes don’t see and my ears don’t hear.
I’m tired of the cherry picking to find the one sad sister, who’s the exception not the rule, crying about Hillary to advance your “storyline,” when my eyes and ears just saw and heard thousands of women and men shouting their approval and support.
On that note, if you didn’t see Ann Price-Mills on CNN, it was a sight to behold. She did ask a question I’d like to answer. She asked would we let someone straight out of Harvard be a CEO. The answer is yes. There was a guy who not only became CEO straight out of Harvard, he even dropped out to do so. His name is Bill Gates.
One final note. Don’t miss the HBO documentary “The Black List.” It’s terrific!
Let me get my remote!
Darryl Bell is an actor and Chicago native, best known for his role in classic TV series “A Different World” and Spike Lee’s “School Daze.” His unique television commentary is exclusive to Urban Thought Collective.
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