Eat My Shorts

All I hear from Barack Obama is rhetoric and the candidate's theme word, "change". But I never heard exactly how this supposed "change" is going to occur. I have yet to hear even an utterance that would commence an answer or solution to any one of the United States' teeming problems. Mr. Obama stirs up his crowd into euphoria of high hopes by getting the sideline chant going, "change,change." However, Mr. Obama has failed to even provide us, the people, with the simple first stage(s) of a solution to any one of America's bristling issues.

I believe I know the reason Obama does not want to over reach beyond his catchphrase; that reason being he will end up having to cough up some of his political career's flaws and frailties'. For instance, if Obama actually ever participated in an open public forum, in which the questions won't be rehearsed or censored, he might trip up when asked, why he is leading presidential candidates in the amount of pharmaceutical corporations' campaign contributions; totaling an astounding $639,124.

One such Obama campaign contributor is Pfizer Inc., who is party in numerous lawsuits, including an asbestos litigation. In addition, according to the EPA, Pfizer is a main threat to the health of residents and the environment of the New London area, and has been cited multiple times for toxic dumping into the Thames River.

Obama is also revered by the hopeless American public for being a healer to race relations and disparities in America; however, he seems to forget that he too is a minority, when the issue of immigration is on the table. Viewing the immigration status of Latinos in America as a, "crisis" that "demands we take action." Obama, calls for a "mandatory electronic system that enables employers to verify the legal status of the people they hire." The "race conscious" Obama also feels that the undocumented Latino workers, the exploited and severely underpaid immigrants, should "pay a fine, to have provisional status in this country, and to get into the back of the line for citizenship."

Furthermore, Obama has declined to vote on 65 of the last 100 social/economic issues that have reached the Senate floor, showing his true interest- the big money corporate interests that fund his campaign. When he denied any harsh experiences as a black American in America, he denounced Rev. Wright and the race conflict issues the reverend was stating. Obama again, is appeasing the powers that be and folding under the pressure of corporate money. Thus, is the reason you will not hear a straight forward answer or solution out of Obama; all you will simply hear is his catchphrase, "change."

All Obama has is a campaign catchphrase. But instead of solid answers, the logical truths for this nation's solution, America's skeletons are forced deeper into the closet, to make room for a catchy campaign slogan. A slogan the public is falling for in hopes of covering up this country's historical crimes against humanity; and possibly to cover our own deeply rooted hatreds and preconceived notions, or whatever inner-flaws we shoulder and carry as each individual.

No, "change" is not a promise. It is not even a "maybe." All it is, is a catchphrase, a bumper sticker, so that the public can associate the word, change, and its core-meaning with Obama's face or name, without any proof of or solid answers of striving for change. The catch-phrase like its candidate is empty and without any substance or essence; just a simple ploy.

Well, I know a catch-phrase too Obama..."Eat my Shorts."