Whenever John Kerry speaks, I remember to thank God that we as a nation were protected from at the very least a four-year Kerry presidency. Kerry’s voice is irritating enough, a mixture of snobbery, stupidity and self-rightness. Than of course there are the actual words that flow out of his mouth, which make’s matters worse as just recently seen on ABC’s This Week where George Stephanopoulos showed Kerry lying and called him on it over the Edwards section in Bob Schrum’s book. But of course it had to get worse. Kerry was there to discuss his endorsement of Barack Obama.
Now there are a few good reasons to endorse Obama, recently even my cold heart has warmed up to him slightly, very slightly. He seems nice, eloquent and a person who could bring racial unity to America. Maybe. But why was Kerry endorsing him? Because and I quote “He can talk to black people in a way a white person cannot”. The senator may be confusing himself with your average white person after all who can forget his 2004 address to the NAACP.“What up my *itches and ho*s. I be here, asking for your support. We need a Democrat is the White House, that’s our crib, baby. And if a Republican ends up on our turf, we just cap them. For sizzle, my nizzle. Oh, complimentary malt-liquor and cornbread on the way out.”
The thing that most annoyed me about Kerry and it was a tough contest was when he was discussing black people, he sounded remarkably like Jane Goodall discussing chimpanzees. It was so incredibly offensive. Regardless of who gets the Democratic nod, African Americans will support them and when we have our first black President or in the case of Obama our first half black President it will be a nice moment in history and an important act of symbolism but it doesn’t change the fact that they will be our leader for the next four years. The person who will be entrusted with every life in this land we hold dear and that a simple good PR moment cannot sustain a country.
