Finally I feel proud of my country.

I’ve figured it out.  It came to me in a moment of brilliance, like a blinding light in the sky.  I know why some Americans hate Obama.  It’s not because he’s a terrorist.  It’s not because he’s a socialist, or because he’s black.  It has nothing to do with race, color, creed or anything else.

The reason some people hate Obama is because he’s a nice, honest man with nothing to hide.

I know, it sounds ludicrous.  How can you hate a nice, honest man with nothing to hide?  But if you think about it, Americans have been indoctrinated to politicians that are greedy, corrupt, morally misguided and full of so much bullshit it almost forces you to not listen.  We’ve heard Bush stumble about like a moron.  We’ve seen Dick Cheney pull the puppet strings from behind the curtain.  We’ve watched countless morally corrupt men take power, and good, honest people like Colin Powell try their best to make the situation better.  We’ve been watching it for eight years.  And let’s not forget all the past corrupt presidents.  Nixon gets more airtime than Carter these days.  Bad presidencies or bumbles in the White House are better known than triumphs.  Clinton caught Slobodan Milosevic, but all we hear about is how he had an affair.  Kennedy stopped the Cuban missile crisis but did he fuck Marilyn Monroe?  Scandal trumps praise.  Bad news is more entertaining than good news.

And so now we have two presidential candidates, one that is widely known as trying to get to the White House just to one up his father and grandfather (both four-star generals), who visibly gets angry and frustrated during debates, who goes on Saturday Night Live and is made fun of to his own face … and one who is calm, eloquent, and passionate without being fanatical.  One who answers questions with a smile and a firm answer.  One who looks good in a suit, not stiff and awkward.  Who stands gracefully.  Who looks good on TV.

And Americans are petrified of this.  It’s ingrained in our heads, that this kind of natural behavior is not becoming of a president.  Clinton was calm and eloquent, but he had an affair, so he was hiding something that whole time, right?  Obama must be hiding something too.  Terrorist connections, inexperience, etc etc etc.

This blog post came to me when I read on a friend’s Facebook wall a post from a young woman, a McCain supporter, was wary of Obama because “he is hiding a lot of stuff.”  This, I think, is exactly the type of misguidedness the McCain campaign is using to brainwash Americans.  They are sneaky, too.  Obama isn’t hiding anything because any question that he has been asked, he has responded to, calmly, clearly, and with the same answers, again and again.  He isn’t creating a story to feed to the media.  He is responding to the media.  Rev. Wright?  He has responded about him.  Bill Ayers?  Obama’s response has been the same.  So, knowing that Obama has nothing to hide, McCain’s campaign spins this as a lack of knowledge about Obama.  As though we don’t know enough about him, when, really, he has been more than thorough in his background.  Again, it’s very sneaky, and it speaks a lot to the attention span of the average American.  McCain supporters do nothing but repeat mindless and untrue talking points because they have nothing else to go on.

The truth is out there, folks.  Obama is just a nice guy.  He’s a family man, he grew up poor, so he is humble and kind.  He’s not a socialist, he’s not a Stalinist, he’s not a terrorist.  He’s no -ist.  He’s just a man.  And god I hope he’s elected tomorrow.