Here's my critique:
1. First and foremost, where were the other two Democratic candidates who are still running for President? Only Clinton, Obama, and Edwards were in this debate. Missing were Kucinich and Gravel. What the hell kind of debate is that?
It's this kind of "steering of opinion" from the major media that I dislike. The media shapes voters' opinions in this manner, by only showing certain candidates, and that is just plain wrong.
This issue alone discredits the entire debate, right from the start.
2. All three candidates stated their disapproval with our justice system in that more black people are incarcerated than any other color.
Well, my question is what are all those black people doing to become incarcerated in the first place? That's the justice system's fault? I don't think so.
I think black people are capable of understanding that they are responsible for what they do. Assuming that they don't understand such a concept and trying to shift the blame to the justice system is nothing more than pure racism.
3. Clinton declared herself the best choice to "take on" the Republicans. Edwards took it a step further and declared himself the best choice to "take on" specific Republicans, like McCain.
What I want to know is why we need a candidate who is going to work "against" others in our government instead of working "with" them? Why would we want a candidate who's ready to fight other officials instead of trying to make something work? Are these adults or 5 year old kids we are electing? Did they not learn the lesson of playing nice with others?
Obama isn't any better. He talks a big game about bridging the divide, but his response to "taking on Republicans" was that he saw an opportunity to "bring more people in to the Democratic Party", whether independents or republicans.
So, bridging the divide means getting people to convert to your way of thinking? What happened to working with others while respecting their point of view? What happened to creating solutions based on everything that is brought to the table?
My vote is still with Ron Paul.
Ron Paul believes people should be responsible for the choices they make, no matter what color they are. He believes in hearing all opinions (a.k.a. - all candidates should be a part of the debates), which could be why he is one of the ones the mainstream media excludes from debates, like Fox did recently. And, Ron Paul never attempts to "fight" others in our government. He simply uses the Constitution as a sounding board.
If anything good was said in the debate, I missed it. The 20 minutes I saw was enough.
2 comments:
So I was reading the rest of your blog, and I came across this article.
"I think black people are capable of understanding that they are responsible for what they do. Assuming that they don't understand such a concept and trying to shift the blame to the justice system is nothing more than pure racism."
I think that you should look into this a little more. Anything I say on it is going to get me accused of being a flaming liberal, which I am, but I will say this: studies (non-partisan, non-political) have shown that black men are more likely to be convicted of certain crimes than white men. For example, if you looked at 200 instances of murder, 100 committed by white men and 100 by black men, it's likely that 80 of the black men will be convicted and only 50 of the white men. (I'm making those particular numbers up because I don't know the actual numbers.)
Black men are more likely to be unable to afford counsel, and will therefore be assigned a public defender, probably one that's overworked and underpaid. There are tons of other reasons. I can't state them all here (partly because I can't remember them all), but the studies have shown some evidence of an "unconscious" racism in sentencing of black men.
Look it up. Here's a good start: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=racism+in+sentencing&spell=1
Did it ever occur to you that if more blacks than whites are jailed, then perhaps more blacks than whites are committing crimes?
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