http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marylee-smithwick/far-more-than-bitter-mess_b_97494.html
I am one of the "bitter" people living in a small steel town in
Pennsylvania. My father passed away from the silt that he swallowed for
forty years. My husband is withering away from the same cancer-causing
dust
he swallowed for nearly forty years too. The bills are mounting and our
income decreasing. The blood, sweat and tears were not counted when they
sent our small town livelihood over seas.
No one stepped in to give affordable health care to my disappearing
husband.
No one took the time to look at the dying towns that surround us. Hillary
Clinton went to her middle class sup****ters and glanced, as all before her
did, at the For Sale signs from foreclosures, and the growing homeless
population in Pennsylvania.
I watched her do an Irish dance as she pressed the flesh of what is left
of
our so-called middle class, who may soon to become the new poor. Where is
our Governor, who I am very disappointed in? Somewhere dancing with
Hillary
and looking at the subtle segregation that has quietly existed in this
state
-- and no one tries to bring about change.
Barack Obama </tag/barack-obama> sees us, he sees the poverty dressed up
in
lambs clothing. All around, people have downsized their lives because they
don't earn a decent living wage after having made three, four or more
times
as much in the factories and mills that are nearly gone -- but not
forgotten.
Looking out from most windows in every small town, they can see the
skeletal
remains of their once flouri****ng hometown. There are many that have stood
by graves, and in unemployment lines, and watched their schools close, and
fought to keep their homes -- and lost.
"Bitter" is a good word, to describe some of what I feel -- but "mad as
hell" are a few better words.
On another note, I have a son that is on his way to Iraq for his third or
forth tour. I am not only mad but scared. Why am I frustrated with
Wa****ngton politics? That is a question that everyone that voted for Bush
twice should be ashamed to answer. They have only to look into the mirror
and see the cause of our frustration.
I am also saddened to watch the campaign tactics, the ba****ng and bruising
of one another -- and the media putting their own twist on everything.
Each
candidate has to be dead tired and frustrated with the millions of
opinions
they face -- favorable and unfavorable -- everyday on this trying trail to
the White House.
If you want to twist someone's words, try twisting Bush's and run a clean
campaign.
I'm a wife, a mother, a grandmother, and soon to be a great grandmother
who
wants a positive change for America. Within the past forty-odd years I
have
told my children and grandchildren they can be anything they want to be.
They were raised in a generation where black people were told education
would help you become anything you desire. Those words were just hope with
limits. The day I cast my vote for Barack Obama </tag/barack-obama>, that
hope will be a reality with absolutely no limits. Thank God that I am
alive
to see Dr. King's dream come to fruition, and still young enough to
appreciate and share it.
THE MORE YOU CAN GET CAUCASOIDS TO READ, THE SOONER THEY FIND OUT THAT
THEY
ARE JUST CONSPICUOUSLY EXPLOITED CAUCASOIDS WHICH ARE WHITE NIGGERS.
What Is a "White Nigger" ?
By Andrew D. Todd
http://hnn.us/articles/1220.html
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