Do you want Unity or Divisiveness
Monday, 3. November 2008, 03:00:53
One of the things this election comes down to... Unity or Divisiveness.
If you listen to the candidates speeches; and I've become something of an election news addict, so I've heard more than a few, there is a big difference.
For months, way before Sarah Palin gave her infamous first "real America" speech, Barack Obama has been talking about unity. About bringing this country together, solving our problems together. And since Sarah's speech, Barack has been reminding us that there is not a real and fake America, not a white and black America, not a rich and poor America, and not a Republican and Democrat America, but a United States of America.
John McCain and Sarah Palin are for Divisiveness. Republican versus Democrats. Rich versus Poor. Real Americans versus (un-patriotic?) Americans. Real Americans are supposedly found primarily in rural areas: “We believe that the best of America is in these small towns that we get to visit and these wonderful little pockets of what I call the real America, being here with all of you hard-working, very patriotic, very pro-America areas of this great nation,” Palin told a campaign rally in North Carolina in mid-October. And in “Western Pennsylvania … is the most patriotic, most God-loving part of America,” he said at a rally there. I assume that includes Pittsburg, argueably our only "real American city", if you believe the McCain campaign. I won't even discuss what John's brother Joe said.
So when you're trying to weigh the pros and cons, consider whether this country is better with it's people divided, or united.
If you listen to the candidates speeches; and I've become something of an election news addict, so I've heard more than a few, there is a big difference.
For months, way before Sarah Palin gave her infamous first "real America" speech, Barack Obama has been talking about unity. About bringing this country together, solving our problems together. And since Sarah's speech, Barack has been reminding us that there is not a real and fake America, not a white and black America, not a rich and poor America, and not a Republican and Democrat America, but a United States of America.
John McCain and Sarah Palin are for Divisiveness. Republican versus Democrats. Rich versus Poor. Real Americans versus (un-patriotic?) Americans. Real Americans are supposedly found primarily in rural areas: “We believe that the best of America is in these small towns that we get to visit and these wonderful little pockets of what I call the real America, being here with all of you hard-working, very patriotic, very pro-America areas of this great nation,” Palin told a campaign rally in North Carolina in mid-October. And in “Western Pennsylvania … is the most patriotic, most God-loving part of America,” he said at a rally there. I assume that includes Pittsburg, argueably our only "real American city", if you believe the McCain campaign. I won't even discuss what John's brother Joe said.
So when you're trying to weigh the pros and cons, consider whether this country is better with it's people divided, or united.
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