| | I am
supposed to writing a paper on Marxism, Leninism, Max Weber and the
Modernization theorists. Instead I am reading presidential candidates’
websites.
Years ago, I heard Obama’s wife introduce him
as her “baby daddy.” I find it sad that our society needs a specific phrase to
describe a relationship between two people wherein nothing ties them together
other than their joint procreation. It almost offends me that an individual who
aspires to leadership would use this phrase with no thought to the fundamental
societal problem it reflects. Perhaps Mrs. Obama simply misspoke. Perhaps she
just did not think about the cultural, even moral, connotations of the phrase. But
I would hope for more class from a prospective first lady.
His wife’s ill-chosen words aside,
Obama has always seemed to me to be vapid, a mirage of a man. I’ll be the first
to confess that I’ve not based that assessment on anything more than my gut and
random news clips. But this evening as I perused his website I found nothing to
contradict my initial impression. There is nothing real, nothing hard, in his
opinions. Everything is carefully hedged and rhetorically pleasing, but somehow
empty.
Maccain on
the other hand seems to be nothing but hard. Clear cut lines and archaic
conservative cliché’s. He leaves me wishing for a candidate, a leader, with grace
as well as backbone.
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