let's have a National Holiday for Pres Elect Obama ! Oh, Momma.

It was only a matter of time. People are caught up in the excitement of the first black president, and the unrealistic expectations have begun before he even has a chance to spend a single night in the White House. I actually wasn't even going to write on this one until I saw the literary disasterpiece composed by probably the biggest racist, misogynistic, homophobic moron in this city, self proclaimed Crime Fighter , and race baiter extraordinaire Alonzo Washington. I've been going back and forth over doing a nice write up on Alonzo for a couple of months. On the one hand the guy did a good thing by turning over a tip which cracked the Precious Doe case. Local news people either fawn over him like he is the second coming of Christ, or they treat him like the chatty fat kid during recess, and avoid him like the plague. My problem with Alonzo doesn't come from the fact that the guy is an egomaniac, constantly thrusting himself in front of the cameras. I don't even have an issue with the guy's incessant whining about everyone from the media to the police, and how he single handily cleans up the streets of Kansas city. What I do take exception to are his constant racist remarks, his thinnly veiled shake down tactics, and some of the plain shitty comments he has made regarding crime victims and their families. So heads up, I'll be doing a nice long piece on Alonzo Washington tomorrow. But I digress.


People have every right to be excited about our new President, that said, those same people need to get a grip. While I wholeheartedly support our new leader, he hasn't even take over yet, so it's a little premature to put the guy in the same class as Washington or Lincoln. The one thing Uber Goober Alonzo got right in his "Post", is it will piss people off. But that doesn't exactly make them racist, it makes the realists. It all goes back to an earlier post where I explain that we shouldn't set Obama up for failure by over-hyping and adulation. Another really big problem, and a sensitive issue is the assumption that Obama is already a great leader by proxy, simply by virtue of pigmentation. It's also an unintentional insult to Obama by his overzealous fan club. It says his color mattered more than his policies. It says he isn't just the President, that he has somehow transcended the office and sits in some lofty throne rather than the oval office.


Let's get it straight, once and for all, because I hate repeating myself or explaining what I meant. Obama holds a historic place in the annals of American History, he is the first non white president. This speaks volumes about the great strides we have made as a nation. What his ethnicity does not do, is automatically make him a great president, or even a mediocre one. Time will tell, and I believe it will reveal him to be competent at least, hopefully great, but I'll hold off making any baseless predictions or premature judgements one way or the other. We should judge our leaders, just as we judge any other person. We base it on character, actions and motives, not on the color of their skin. So let's not roll out the red carpet and sound the trumpets just yet. Let's give him a few weeks before we pronounce our new president Jesus Christ, Dali lama and Gandhi all rolled in to one.

Oh, and just in case nobody told ya, I'm back bitches!