The % Speaks

I'm surprised that with all the problems that our country is currently facing, the care as to how the President is viewed still in some way has to do with the color of his skin. From my point of view: Black, White, Asian, Hispanic(Legal or not), Jewish, or whatever other color/mix you care to put together doesn't really matter...people are bound to dislike & disagree for one reason or another. I find it all to funny that with the lack of proper care for Veterans such as myself, the ever rising amount of crime that every city faces, low education standards across the board, two wars(no matter your stance), automakers faltering, and sh**ty attempts at a "Greener America", we can still find the time to poll just to see how people feel about the "First Black President".
The President, the office of the president, and that it is meant to stand for means absolutely nothing to families who are too busy trying to find a way to keep their heads above water. I suppose the question would be different if Palin or H. Clinton were the Prez..."How do you feel about your woman President?" or McCain.."How do you about your Senior Citizen President?" Seriously enough already.
Hey Mr.. President how you pass along to Congress an "American Family Bailout Plan"? You know for those of us who made bad credit choices in our youth who now have families that we're trying to buy homes and new cars for? Instead of an $8,000 kick back...kinda hard to get a kick back when no one will consider you for loan because you made a few purchase mistakes at 19. So many are so busy crying about the rise in taxes for those whose income is above the standard, well I'm not rich but you can raise my taxes if you stop taxing those who serve, you can raise my taxes if it means that my mom will receive adequate health care should she need it in a few years, you can raise my taxes if common sense ever prevails and banks see that while mistakes have been made on my part and on the part of anyone else who has learned life on the life while keeping their hands clean. Raise my taxes if it means that my children and my neighbors children can feel safe going to school...
All this talk about terrorists and the safety of air travel, that's funny 'cause a quick search of history tells me that terror and acts of terrorism are often the result of plans and planning. Maybe it's just me but I think that if the CIA, FBI, NSA, and other departments within our government were actually focused on the true objectives(Safety, Protection, and Prevention), then perhaps their wouldn't have to be a constant need for "changes in policy". New regulations in Air Travel huh? That's funny because those same reports show that those who take part in terrorist activities always seen to communicate via the internet. A Twitter of Face Book of sorts for terror plotting, why is then that there is no reaction until after there is action? And before anyone comments back with the "that's what the government is for argument". Think to back to Christmas & New Years. How many of you were looking around the parking lot to ensure that there was no one there to rob you of your purchases? How many of you thought better of going out on New Years Eve due to the amount of DUI related accidents that occur on that night? You see, it's so easy to place to responsibility of safety & security on others when we know that those "others" are who we can blame should something ever happen. Kinda like the person who buys the gun for protection, except it's been well documented that those who protection are often the ones that others seek protection from.
Want to poll about how you feel about your black President, let's also then poll about your black neighbor, friend, boss, coworker, employee. Just so that we can "validate" his or her worthiness. While you're at it, throw in this random poll:
Of the millions of people who bank with Bank of America know that there is a flaw in their security & fraud prevention tactics that allows for multiple transactions to occur simultaneously in which a person or groups of persons can easily rip off scores of cash in less than 5 minutes in branches & via the internet anywhere there is a branch, and how many of those same millions have tried to bring that to the banks attention only to go unnoticed or recognized, oh when you consider that..also consider that when informed our FBI, CIA, and departments that received notification of such also fail to pay any attention. Perhaps spreading the attention around has triggered the inability recognize the problems that stare us in the face at times.
I find it funny how polls now dictate today's America, while action seems to always fall second. It's 2010 and yet there those whose minds are still stuck on the past. It is my sincere hope that at some point in the near future, there will be those who will recognize that the world and our United States is more important than any poll, and that we face more issues than those deemed worth of scrolling across the bottom of the screen(which ever network you watch), and far far more important than which political view each has.
We the people & United we stand once stood for something greater than how the majority viewed, then again...I'm just a black guy with GED, PTSD, and bad credit...so I suppose if polled there will be a certain % of those who will say that I don't know what I'm babbling about and I lack the proper credentials to hold such a stance or argument.
My response to that: As it currently stands and until I die I'm 100% okay with that.