Okay, I finally have a problem with Barack Obama.
This week it came to light, via the Hillary Clinton brigade, that Obama had used another politians speech while conveying it as his own. Seeing this on tv it was easy to tell the speech was word for word taken from Deval Patrick, who uttered the exact words back in 2006 while running for Governor of Massachusetts.
I’ve heard on Fox, which is usually highly suspect in their reporting, that Patrick gave the okay to Obama to use the speech. If so, that’s all grand and dandy, but it doesn’t detract this bigger issue with me.
Had Obama simply said, ‘In the words of Deval Patrick’ or ‘I’m reminded of words spoken by my friend Deval Patrick, that resonate to greater than ever….’ or something along those lines. It would have been, to me, an honorable and right thing to do. Instead, he used Deval’s speech like it was his own, using another man’s words to convey himself to the voting public, and doing so in a way that was not forthright.
This would be a big issue with me if it were McCain or Clinton or Huckabee, not that I don’t have my issues with each, tho less with Hillary. It is of greater concern because Obama showcases himself as the man of change, yet in the heat of politicking, looks eerily similar to every other politician out there.
Maybe I’m concerned over nothing. Perhaps it stems from placing my faith in a man who claimed to be a man of faith, only to learn he was false in mostly every regard. And now I feel confronted with a ‘like’ scenario.
I wish it hadn’t happened. Tho suspect of all of them, I was starting to think he was, possibly, close to the real deal in giving the country back to the people, which is what Ron Paul would do. Hopefully Barack Obama is true to his proclamations, because it’s looking like he may well be the nominee in pretty short order. And I just can’t deal with another Republican in the White House, not at least until they wake up and return to the founding principles of the party that the Bush administration abandoned.
RONDO HATTON AWARDS
As I’ve been mentioning the past couple weeks, we are in the midst of the SIXTH Annual Rondo Hatton Classic Horror awards, which honors the best in monster research, creativity and genre appreciation.
There are 27 Categories in which to select your favorites. Each category is allowed to have numerous nominees, allowing for the tastes of all to be taken into consideration, in respect to the genre.
As an example, this years nominees for Best Movie of 2007 are as follows:
-- BEOWULF
-- 1408
-- GHOST RIDER
-- GRINDHOUSE
-- HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX
-- THE HITCHER
-- THE HOST
-- I AM LEGEND
-- THE INVASION
-- THE LAST MIMZY
-- THE MESSENGERS
-- THE MIST
-- THE ORPHANAGE
-- PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: WORLD'S END
-- ROB ZOMBIE'S HALLOWEEN
-- 30 DAYS OF NIGHT
-- 300
-- 28 WEEKS LATER
-- SPIDER-MAN III
-- STARDUST
-- SWEENEY TODD
You can also write in your own choice if the Best Movie, by your standards, is not there.
From the "fans" to the "fanned", the way it should be.
Vote today!
WWW.RONDOAWARD.COM
God bless,
Matthew
