Current mood:	embarrassed
Entry tags:	apology, obama, opinion

Truth And Consequences
Alright, I know that politics is usually a bad subject to talk about because it starts arguments, fistfights, and hurts feelings the world over. To my admission I agree with my mother on one thing: "Three things you never talk about are politics, religion, and stem-cell research." But tonight, I would like to bend the first part of the code, if only a little bit.

Now, I am an Obama supporter; however, I found Mr. Obama's comments this afternoon highly distasteful and quite out-of-character when compared to all of his previous speeches. I think it's fair enough to say he exhibited no enthusiasm for this speech, which makes me think two things:

1. He did not write this speech to begin with and felt in his heart that this speech was not the way to go, but did so because he was advised to take such an action.
2. Whomever wrote this speech was so desperate to cater to the population Obama had the least influence over they were willing to offend just to win a few additional votes.

Now I'm going to stop here and leave additional comments aside because I neither want to unjustly influence anyone else's point of view, nor do I want to undermine what was said. I do, however, wish to say that formal apologies -- while hard to issue -- are due from Mr. Obama.

This close to deciding a nominee, it is imperative to watch what you say -- now more than ever before in this arena. And to be honest, it would be best to minimize any potential damage by not only apologizing as quickly as possible, but by saying "I apologize for anything I have said which may have been taken out of context, or any summation that may have unnecessarily altered the meaning of the excerpts I have taken."

Hell, he can use what I have written here verbatim...and I have all of you as witnesses. As for the person who took those 'quotes' and convinced Mr. Obama is was okay to read them, well, they need to be given a pink slip and one of those "what were you thinking", V-8 slaps upside the forehead.

Now that all of this has been said, I'm going to sign out now...before I say anything else to stir the proverbial pot. *scampers out*