Posted by
Bob Parks on Monday, April 14, 2008 10:19:05 AM
As we are still more than a week from the next presidential primary, the candidates have way too much time to fill with anecdotes, and some are tripping over little things like facts and statements deemed insensitive, dishonest, and/or elitist.
While Barack Obama is “clarifying” his remarks issued to the San Francisco elite that hicks in Pennsylvania are drawn to guns and religion because they’re broke, ignorant bigots, Hillary Clinton now describes herself as a woman of the people because she says she shot guns as a child after going to church.
Of course, a truth meter has to be applied to any of their comments nowadays as their words sometime require a “suspension of disbelief”. It’s amazing that Hillary and Obama feel they need to embellish their pasts in order to impress us. It’s sad that they feel they can embellish, as we’re all too stupid to catch them in their false braggadocio.
As many of you know, I’m in the preliminary stages of a political campaign myself. I can only imagine what you’d think of me should I make up stories about my relatively uneventful past.
Before I start, many of you have asked if I’m related to Rosa Parks. It turns out my great-grandfather changed our last name in her honor. While some have brought up the fact that he did so long before Mrs. Parks refused to go to the back of the bus, I think it important we honor the spirit in which this story is given. Continued...