Obama '08 - Vote For Hope from MC Yogi on Vimeo.
I must say, first of all, the design and animation in this is superb. It is visually stunning. The music is decent as well. I enjoyed the whole from a design perspective.
But, to say that Barack Obama is hope, is absurd. To put so much emphasis on a human being is ridiculous. He's not going to change everything. He's not going to make everything "right." Don't get me wrong, I am not a fan of either the candidates. I'm not saying this to promote McCain. I wish we had a real leader to vote for next week, but unfortunately we have to play with the cards we dealt ourselves. And, if I here Obama quote the Declaration of Independence again, I think I might throw up. I'm not sure how he can read it with confidence and actually trick himself that he believes it. Maybe if he did believe it, he would take seriously the part about "all men" being created with "unalienable rights" and on of those rights is Life. If he believed that, he wouldn't be pro-abortion.
Now I'm worked up.
Pray for me.
8 comments:
Jeremy,
Stay worked up!!! You are right.
i'm not excited about either obama or mccain, they can both suck eggs for all i care.
i liked your post though. keep 'em coming. :)
I get so worked up that I can't sleep at night!
i'll pray for you to run for president...no, really.
I am not sure how I feel about the claim that Obama is the candidate who will be most faithful to the constitution.
Sometimes I get really scared about the world, and this is one of those times.
they do not call him "hope" directly.
the point is that he gives people hope...there's a difference. i see no problem with people bringing/encouraging hope. otherwise we wouldn't have cared about JFK, Robert Kennedy or MLK, etc.
and as far as your comment in reference to all men being created "equal" then one could just as easily say that mccain doesn't support that idea either and is discriminatory towards the poor and towards homosexuals, just to name a few.
both men are imperfect - duh. you vote for who you believe will do the best job overall...not just on one issue. if people find a candidate to be hopeful - sweet. if not - sweet. but vote for who you believe will do the best overall job. and look at BOTH candidates and ALL of the issues a bit more objectively.
This is a good post.
Wilfred McClay wrote on this a few weeks ago. Words such as "hope" and "promise" have been used in such abstract terms this campaign that they almost fail to have any relation to "any determinate source or destination, but retain only a faint moral glow of [their] lofty origins." He means to say that the words are almost meaningless, in the sense that they manufacture feelings, emotions, senses of pride, etc, but are not grounded. This is why you can have a t-shirt with Obama's face on it and all it says is "Hope" with no reference to anything or any idea - the observer is left only with a face.
Jenny: I am not happy with either candidate, which is why I wrote one in this year.
Cinders: I am scared to see what a Phillips presidency might look like. Nikon cameras would probably be outlawed, and Apples would be subsidized by the U.S. Government.
escamilla: Jeremy didn't say a lick about John McCain, except that he isn't voting for him. In relation to Obama and the use of the word "hope" by his campaign, what McCain supposedly might do or who he apparently does not like is irrelevant. McCain could give $1 trillion to the American poor or he could give $0; it does not change how "hope" is used by Obama and Co. Also, while all issues must be looked at in one way or another, it is possible to reject any individual on the basis of their views/actions/promises regarding a sole issue.
In regard to the above post, I can confidently say that Jeremy's objective examination of the candidates is the very thing that led him to his conclusions. Just because you aren't hip to hip with the hipsters doesn't mean you haven't considered things objectively. Also, to suggest that the refusal to support an abominable sin (sexually deviant behavior) is akin to supporting mass murder is illogical.
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