And they are practically giddy that they actually got the majority of Americans to ignore the best candidate in the race.  When I phonebanked I had a woman tell me that the government doesn't listen to the people anyway so she was not going to vote.  Well is it any wonder that they do not listen to us?  We are a consumerist society obssessed with getting the newest gadget on the market.  This time they sold us the first african american or the first woman president.  The media is great at convincing poor people that they need to buy things they cannot afford.  So now they have convinced people that the only candidate not beholden to corporations and who will listen to what the public wants is not the best candidate for them.

I believe that we are atoms held together by energy.  I believe that what one gives energy to with one's thoughts and actions is what manifests.  I also believe that we should do unto others as we would have them do unto us.  I also fundamentally, to my core, do not like unfairness.  It is one of those things that sets me off.  

This primary season we have seen a lot of unfairness.  We have seen behaviors from our candidates that made us wince.  Now, as soon as John Edwards announced his candidacy the media, which is really owned by GE (NBC, MSNBC), Westinghouse (CBS?) Disney (ABC) and Murdoch set upon him with a vengeance to destroy his campaign.  When they realized that talking to him and putting him on air to ridicule him actually made voters like him, they embarked on a different strategy:pretend he does not exist so that voters will not view him as a viable choice.  

This is probably too short for a diary, but I did not see anyone talking about the hypocrisy.  And yes I am an Edwards supporter.

I recall in Iowa that Obama went after John Edwards with a vengeance because a 527 labor group was going to run a group of ads supporting John Edwards.  Obama went on and on about how Edwards said that Edwards wanted special interest money out of campaigns and that he was calling on Edwards to tell the group not to run the ads.  Yes, according to Obama, labor is a special interest group.  So now

In 2000 when the Supreme Court selected Bush, I was an associate at a big Silicon Valley law firm.  I went to the guy in the office next to mine and said I can't believe that happened, this is going to be bad for America.  I had read Bush Dyslexicon and so I knew it was going to be bad for the country. Of course I didn't dream it was going to be this bad, but I knew in my bones that it was going to be bad.  And my reaction was one of grief. Yes I actually cried. Even when an idiot woman associate, who failed the bar, came to show me that she was wearing a red dress in honor of the sea of red states Bush won immediately after the election, my response was one of shock because they had stolen Florida.  She found out later that month that she failed the bar, I passed.  Fitting that a Bush supporter couldn't pass the bar.  Anyway,

I have been waiting to write my first diary and am disappointed that it has to be on the issue of race.  I am black.  I went to college and law school in the south.  I lived in Columbus Ohio and now live in California.  I have experienced racism in all areas of this country. I have been called a nigger in Florida.  When I interviewed for a job as an attorney at a big firm in Silicon Valley, without asking any questions after I introduced myself and said I was there to meet with so and so, the receptionist presumed that I was interviewing for a support staff position and gave me an application.  She turned red when I said I was interviewing for an attorney position.  I've been followed around in stores.  So yes, I am well aware that racism exists.
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