"Messiah" Like Expectations For Obama

The Inauguration went off almost without a hitch today. All the expected pomp and circumstance came off pretty much as planned and the nation celebrated the dawn of a new presidency. As i was watching the coverage on television the reporters on tv kept pulling people from the public aside and asking them the same question over and over. "How do you feel today about the country's first black president?" It was a cliche question and it usually garnered the same cliche answer. First of all 9 times out of 10 they were pulling over a black person and when they answered the question 10 times out of 10 it was something like "Oh I never thought i would live long enough to see this day." Once in a while though you got a different answer. There was this one reporter who went to a black middle school on Long Island that had recently changed its name to the Barak Obama Middle School and she asks one of the students there the same question. She was a teenager and she said that O.K. now that we got Barak Elected he owes us. Us meaning the black community, that's how she put it. You don't usually expect teenagers to say anything intelligent and they don't usually do and it didn't happen in this case either. As soon as she said that it got me thinking. She seemed to have no understanding of the millions of white votes it took to get Obama elected. More white votes than black votes in fact. Despite this She was like Oh No, black America got this done. As soon as she said it i got slightly pissed. I was thinking well o.k. lets see if i got this straight. Barak Obama's black father abandoned his family when Obama was 2 years old and went back to Kenya where he ends up over the years fathering 7 more children from a bunch of other women and ends up visiting his son Barak only one time the rest of his life. Obama ends up being raised by his white mother (who used to push him to study his school lessons for three hours every morning before he even went to school) whom he has said was "the kindest person i have ever had in my life" and his white grandparents in Hawaii and they not only love him and care for him they also raise him and educate him and he ends up going to Harvard and becoming the intelligent, thoughtful, charismatic person we all see before us today. So i was thinking what does a guy like that owe the African American Community in particular. The answer is he owes them nothing more or less than he owes any other community or race or anybody. Maybe that teenager and the rest of black America will get its head around this fact someday but Obama has been elected President of all the people of the United States and not president of Black America. Does he owe black America? Yes, but he owes all of America too. As president he owes everybody the best he can do to those who supported his campaign and even those who didn't. If your an American the President of the United States owes you. He does not owe the blacks first or the whites first or the women first or the Hispanics first. He owes everybody first if you know what i mean.

Obama Overdoing The Lincoln Thing

Let me ask you how have you been spending your weekend before the inauguration? The way Barak Obama has been spending it is tracing the footsteps of Abraham Lincoln, which is one of his favorite things to do i am beginning to understand. He took a train from Philadelphia to Washington D. C. where he copied the same route that Lincoln took to his Inaugural. Along the way he stopped by Delaware to pick up his vice - president Joe Biden who resides in that state. This is the latest Lincoln connection that Obama has made. Did I also mention that he is going to take the oath of office on tuesday swearing on the the same Bible that Lincoln used in 1861? Did i also mention that he is studying Lincoln's speeches in order to come up with his own inaugural address for the big day too? How about the concert that he will be attending two days before the inaugural at the Lincoln Memorial with people like Springsteen and Macy Gray set to perform? Look we all Love Lincoln O.K. he was great but its getting to the point where im thinking about refering to Obama as Barak Lincoln. O.K. already you like Lincoln we get it but he is on the verge of overdoing it i think now. He is starting to look and feel like a Lincoln groupie now. President Lincoln was not the only great president we ever had o.k. It's o.k. Mr. Obama Sir if you refer from time to time to some of the other great presidents that we have had in this Union of ours over the centuries. You know George Washington was pretty good. Jefferson too was known to string a few sentences together with a great degree of skill. F.D.R. did that as well. Truman, Kennedy as well as some others. You dont even have to limit yourself to presidents either. You would do fine to refer to people like Ben Franklin or Alexander Hamilton or Winston Churchill or Martin Luthur King once in a while as well. They were pretty smart and accomplished individuals would you not agree? Its just that everytime i see Obama mentioned its also some kind of reference to Lincoln all the time too. What is Obama gonna do when he gets into the White House? Is he gonna sleep in the Lincoln Bedroom only? Is he going to sleep on the same side of the bed that Lincoln slept on too. Is he going to wear elevator shoes to achieve the same height of 6 foot 4 inches that Lincoln was believed to be? I understand about the fascination with Lincoln, I totally understand it but my point is that there are more than a few other presidents and framers in this nation's history that can also be admired as well so why not spread the admiration around a little bit and include some of these other great men once in a while. It's o.k. to broaden your scope a little bit.

Why Lottery Tickets Are A Waste Of Money

I was standing on line in front of the counter of my favorite deli/grocery store last night at about 6 p.m. I just had a small one pound box of pasta that i was waiting to pay for so that i could go home and cook it and then add some sauce to it from my fridge and have a little meal for dinner. In front of me at the register was this woman who was busy taking up all the time of the clerk keeping him busy at the lottery machine picking out numbers for her to play. She kept picking more numbers and more numbers and more numbers. She finally stopped but not after she had bought 20 one dollar mega millions tickets and picked different numbers for every one of them. Watching this nonsense going on in front of me made me realize why i stopped buying lottery tickets in the first place years ago. I used to go into the store and in addition to the food that i used to buy i always used to ask for a lotto quick pick almost as an after thought because i figured all right whats the harm in trying right? I took the ticket home that day and i finally looked at the back of it to read it because i had never done that before. It said on the back that the odds of winning the lottery were, and I'm not kidding about this, 1 in 180,000,000. I thought to myself - OH, SO THAT'S WHY I NEVER WIN ON ANY OF THESE TICKETS. If you think odds of 1 in a million suck how bad does 1 in 180 million grab you? I don't buy anymore lottery tickets ever. Those odds are just impossible. it is not even anything that begins to approach anything fair. So now every time i find myself on line in back of some idiot who is buying 20 lottery tickets, and it happens a lot, i keep thinking about two things. The money she is wasting trying to beat those impossible odds and my time she is wasting making me wait for her to finish up with her nonsense. Reality is important. Do you know what 1 in 180 million means? It means your a sucker.

Alli Diet Pill Gets New Celebrity Endorsement

The new ads have already begun running all over the place on tv. It's the diet drug "Alli "and its new celebrity face Wynonna Judd who as we all know has been waging a titanic battle all of her life with weight. After years of losing the fight She is ready to try again and this time with the help of the famous diet drug she is hoping that her results will be different this time around. Alli is powerful as a diet drug and some people say its effective too. It can come at a price though and that price may be too high for some to pay in terms of just the sheer embarrassment that some of the drugs side effects may bring. If you log on to the website for the drug and you click on the tab that says "treatment effects" you will get a list of some of the side effects. The first one is "gas with oily spotting" that's an exact quote from the site. What does it mean? Well it means that you are going to fart all day and some of your farts may have an oily discharge as well that will likely leave spots on your underwear and pants. I gotta tell you i am loving this Alli stuff already. The second side effect, "loose stools." Also known as diarrhea. In other words you are going to be dealing with that all day too in addition to the "gas with oily spotting" fun you will be already having at work and in social situations. Third side effect and i quote "More frequent stools that may be hard to control." in other words you are going to be having a lot of diarrhea in addition to the loose stools and oily spotting and you may or may not be able to control it. Now how does that sound for fun boys and girls?
If you keep reading down the site you will get to a section called "How to manage treatment effects." There is tons of helpful stuff here. For example, The website recommends that when you get those urgent and uncontrollable "gas with oily spotting" discharges and "loose stools" like when your at work, that the best thing for you to do is go to the bathroom. OH WOW, REALLY? OH SO THAT'S WHERE YOU GOTTA GO? OH O.K. NO BECAUSE I THOUGHT YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO TAKE CARE OF THAT RIGHT AT YOUR DESK OR YOUR CUBICLE.The website actually goes so far as to advise you that you bring a change of clothes with you to work in order to better cope with these uncontrollable side effects that using this stuff may bring on you. God, All i keep thinking about is poor Wynonna.
So the Wynonna Judd ads are going to keep coming on t.v. over and over and over they way they usually do when they get a new celebrity to start hocking something. They always want to scream it from the tip of the mountain top. If you are struggling with weight issues i am going to give you the most obvious piece of advice anyone can. The ONLY way to lose weight is to limit the amount of food you eat. You have to eat less food than your body needs. If you do that you will lose weight if you don't you will not its just that simple. Now diet pills may or may not help you with that but they are not going to be able to do it for you. Only you can stop putting the food in your mouth. If you are thinking about using Alli in your battle of the bulge i wish you only good luck. In light of the side effects that i have mentioned in this article you are certainly going to need it.