BlackMan Time

It takes a ’special’ breed of animal to be a politician. You have to be ruthless one moment, two-faced the next, a liar and deceiver mostly but a hypocrite probably all of the time. Having acting skills is also handy, of course!

In the world of a politician all that matters is public opinion and being seen to do the right thing. It doesn’t matter if you’re only pretending because you hope to conjure deception, to conceal the unpleasant truth from anyone intelligent enough to notice your politricks. What you choose to call ’spin’ is what I prefer to call a lie’.

Seeing US Presidential candidate Barack Obama and Hilary Clinton parade around America, in a place called Unity would you believe, is weird. Only a few short weeks ago they were bitter rivals vying to become The Chosen One to represent the Democrats in the race for the White House top job.

In fact Hilary Clinton even expressed a distant hope Obama could be assassinated just like John F. Kennedy 40 years previously. Now, here they are being all chums with Obama paying homage saying “Hilary Clinton Rocks” and she fawning over him like a smitten interracial lover.

This is all to affect an effrontery of unity to give Obama a fighting chance to become the first Black US President. This is a great dream and I really hope it comes through. But affecting unity with Hilary Clinton in a place called Unity? Come on, who are you kidding?