Ok.....that's it

Ok...that's it! I'm sorry, I just can't do it anymore. I was with Barack Obama before by not asking Senator Clinton to leave the race. After all, this was a woman who received more votes, delegates, and legitimacy as any woman before her. And however contentious, and sometimes down right mean she was to Barack Obama I was willing to forgive her and provide her a proper exit from her campaign. She like anyone, needed a grieving period and who was I to stop her. But now, after watching the above video, I cannot do it. I will say it now, loud and proud....GET OUT! In fact, if I do not see Mrs. Clinton for a long time, I'd be much happier. As some readers know, Robert Kennedy is my personal hero. He inspires me to this day. The only other politician to make such an impact is one Mr. Barack Obama. I fear his assassination regularly and for Mrs. Clinton to make this reference is appalling and sick. I have heard her explanation and I do not like it. It's over Hillary, it's done. Now go away.

"Welcome To The Real World" She Said To me...Condescendingly...

Call me naive, call me an eternal optimist but I still believe that this world can be better. I keep seeing a glimmer of hope, brightness in an otherwise dark world. For instance, my boss said something to me that shook me to my core this week. He pulled me into his office and after I explained how much I hated being treated the way he had been treating me, his words were a cold "welcome to the real world". Well, my answer to him was "The real world doesn't have to be this way, if you don't let it." Of course, his reply is the one I get the most, a simple scoff and explaination that inevitably pushes the blame to an unnamed foe. And here in lies the problem, the people that convey and progress this "the real world sucks" agenda are not the ones affected by the "real world". They usually sit in an ivory tower, laughing at us lesser mortals. It is us that get the ass end of this, not them. While they complain about the trip to Vegas they have to pull money out of savings to go on, you sit there wondering where the rent check is going to come from, or how you can make it to work on a sliver of gas. I agree that yes, life is hard and yes, you have to struggle and work to get by but what I do not understand is why these people insist on ignoring the things they can change. They sit idly by and watch as the people that work hard and attempt to garner just a little respect get fucked over. President Bush will sit there and have no idea that gas prices were going up to four dollars a gallon. ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EWwrK0VQkY click link to watch video). The problem I'm seeing in this is that he should probably know that, but he didn't and he doesn't actually care. To him, sending soldiers to war or an economy that is faltering is not an issue to him. Those are not his children and his millions will be protected by investments and tax loopholes. I'm not trying to say he doesn't feel some compassion for the soldiers' families but it's the idea that he doesn't truly care. In the meantime, the rest of us are trying to climb the ivory tower, get to the the promise land. But every time we seem to get close, an ocean of shit splashes up and sends us right back down, each time more dejected. Eventually some people just stop trying, they sign up for welfare or any other government aid and hope they'll get by. Because eventually this constant uphill battle gets exhausting. You can only handle so much and it's just easier to quit than continue to work hard with zero results. This is where hope comes in. The reason to keep on going is hope. Hope that someday by hardwork and a lot of luck that we too, the lowly ones, can get to the mountain top. An idea that we too can achieve. And when we do, we will not be like them. We will be different and will help lift up others, so that if they work hard enough they too can achieve. And we will never make excuses, never explain that they don't deserve to be treated poorly because it's the "real world". And if that happens, maybe the real world will be a better place for us all.