A Few Questions I Have

Access:
The world of lobbyists and special interest revolve around access. Hollywood types feather their caps with it, business movers and shakers posture for it, those with political aspirations require it. Remember the Clinton years when access was for sale. Now I ask, Who will have access in the Obama White house? The McCain White house? The Clinton II White house?

McCain has been in Washington so long that his access list is well known. Hillary will most likely run the White house the way she did the last time she lived there. I think Obama is the scariest candidate in this respect. The people who held his hand and helped him break into politics will expect access. Maybe it’s promised, at the very least it’s owed.

Many pundits are posing the question, who would McCain most like to run against? Current polls show Hillary ahead. I don’t care who McCain hopes will win the Democrats nomination. I want Hillary to win. I’m starting to realize that Obama is dangerous after all, but mostly I want the new voters that registered for Obama to learn to stay home. They stayed home before, It shouldn’t be hard for them to feel like their vote doesn’t count anyway so why bother.
Better that Democrats don’t vote than any scenario I can think of.


Being entirely scatter brained I’ll jump without hesitation to a different subject. I listened to Pastor Wright’s Press Club Speech, He talked about the unique African American Culture. I wondered, what is White American Culture? Ben Franklin, Abraham Lincoln, John Wayne, or what? I thought about public education and its inequity, than I thought about the old adage, "you can lead a horse to water....." But what if you tried the opposite? Say you decided that you weren’t going to let a horse have any water. You better build some strong fences. Pastor Wright accuses White culture of trying to keep inter city kids from an education. I think the adage and its reverse apply. A kid that wants to learn will, a kid whose culture tells him it’s not cool to learn won’t. Black culture is not just different, it’s self destructive.