Five years ago today, in Springfield, the state capital of Illinois, Senator Barack Obama announced his candidacy for the Presidency of the United States.
No one could possibly have known on that day that Obama would succeed in his quest for the Presidency, with the odds so long, and competing with better known, more experienced political leaders, including the wife of former President Bill Clinton (Hillary Clinton).
No one could also have known how much Barack Obama has had an impact on our history in the first three years of his term as President.
No one could also have known that he would be the subject of such vilification, greater than his predecessor George W. Bush, greater than the controversial Richard Nixon, and matching that suffered by Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln.
The debate over the record of Barack Obama, and whether he should be, and will be re-elected President in November 2012, rages on, but there is no way to deny that Barack Obama has had an historic impact on our nation’s history!
I was flipping the channels and I thought I’d stumbled on a new comedy channel. I then discovered that I was watching the C-PAC convention and it wasn’t supposed to be funny.
My bad.
Ok. Proving that life imitates art and that I’m not just being a smart a**, the story below from HuffPost on C-PAC, just posted where Michelle Bachmann was absolutely giddy meeting Chuck Woolery at C-PAC. Yes, Chuck Woolery, the creator of the Gong Show! How appropriate. You can’t make this stuff up!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/10/michele-bachmann-cpac-prop-8_n_1268627.html
BTW, the Gong Show host has a distorted view of blacks having “inalienable rights granted by God under the Constitution”.
Memory serves that the Consitution became law in 1787 and the 13th, 14th and 15th amendment became effective in 1865-1870.
I don’t think God had a say in their inalienable rights.