Comments on: Political Psychology in 2008 http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2008/08/05/political-psychology-in-2008/ Fri, 17 May 2013 07:41:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Maya, CVT http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2008/08/05/political-psychology-in-2008/#comment-13175 Tue, 05 Aug 2008 16:10:01 +0000 http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/?p=2477#comment-13175 I also heard that the situation was even worse in Louisiana, one white man said that he had an “Obama for President” sign on his lawn and he received death threats. I disagree a bit about the implication that women have it easy, let’s not forget this bit of information:

http://maya857.vox.com/library/post/women-own-just-1-of-worlds-titled-land.html

Maybe I’m a purist, but why should Obama try to change his language in order to get elected? Is that really ethical? I voted for Al Gore in the primaries because he shared my concern for the Earth. Candidates should care about being a good leader. They should talk about how we can fix our country, including problems that do not directly affect them. Yes, he should discuss race, but he’s not running to be president of the NAACP. He’s running for President of the United States, where we have just a few other problems as well, in case anyone did not notice.

He will be a good leader if he speaks about how he intends to fix all the problems of our country. Maybe he won’t get elected, but in my eyes what Gore did was heroic. He took the risk of speaking out to what is important to him. I think Obama should do the same. If we can get social justice in this country, health care, a living wage, housing for victims of Katrina, then issues of race will be easier to solve.

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