tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8197781562278798072.post2057286560741893006..comments2023-03-01T05:10:25.987-05:00Comments on Race and Class Discourse from an Ivory Tower in Connecticut: A Presidential Debate on Domestic Policy That Does Not Mention Issues Related to Race Or Class.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8197781562278798072.post-31593520899101117672008-11-06T15:12:00.000-05:002008-11-06T15:12:00.000-05:00I'm reading your post - having come to your blog f...I'm reading your post - having come to your blog for the first time on 11/6, weeks after you wrote the post and days after the election - and hoping that you did not become SO depressed over the debates that you've given up. This was a great analysis of the questions that were neither asked nor answered in this election.<BR/><BR/>I voted for Obama not because he has the answers but because the energy that his campaign created opened the door for new discussions of racism and oppression in America. I worry that by electing him we may have closed some of those doors due to a false complacency by white America that the problem of race and racism has been "solved."<BR/><BR/>Moreover, the question of the bailout for the working class, including both the urban and the rural poor, is becoming more urgent by the day. Here in the Hartford area we are already feeling the first tremors of this global earthquake that the media euphemistically refers to as an "economic downturn" or even as a "recession." On the front page they talk about it like it's going to be a minor inconvenience . . . but on the business pages, where the capitalists tell each other the truth about what's going on, they admit that this is a major disaster.<BR/><BR/>I also worry that many of the good folks out there, the activists and campaigners and community organizers, are going to wait for Obama to come up with the answer or are not going to be willing to pressurize him, when the answer has to come from below. Working people know what we need: stop the foreclosures and evictions, no utility shut-offs, no cuts in human services, health care, schools and infra-structure even if we have to tax the s--t out of the rich to do it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8197781562278798072.post-30996269668740888982008-10-16T14:29:00.000-04:002008-10-16T14:29:00.000-04:00Once again I fail to see how either candidate is g...Once again I fail to see how either candidate is going to manifest the change they both claim to be representing. The middle class seem to dominate the discussion and even that discussion is shallow at best. If the U.S. is ready for change it has not been reflected in the debates or in any of the commercials shown in the media. I want to be optimistic but with so many pressing issues either not being discussed or discussed on a superficial level it is becoming difficult.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8197781562278798072.post-80531805145324063272008-10-10T11:59:00.000-04:002008-10-10T11:59:00.000-04:00The candidates have a major difference in their le...The candidates have a major difference in their leadership styles: McCain tends to say, "Follow me because the other guy can't get it done" while Obama says, "Follow me because I can get it done." Ideally, the candidates should say, "Follow me because i will help you get it done" ... in any case, of the two of them Obama demonstrates a better leadership mentalityAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com