They've Certainly Come Along Way!

I'm finding this year's DNC to be interesting. I'm sure the GOP convention will also reflect the state of America. I will give it adequate coverage when the time comes, but now is the time for the Democratic National Convention and it's easy to see "things are changing!" Hard to believe just four short years ago, State Senator Barack Obama stood behind the podium as the Key Note Speaker for the convention, and now voila! he's just a few votes away from the Oval Office. Only in America! Is Obama proof that we still need to be telling our children, "This is a great country. Why anyone can grow up to be the President!" Well, anyone that can raise millions and millions of dollars from people that are much poorer, less educated, and struggling to make ends meet in their two income household. Most of the people that have contributed to this man's campaign millions certainly don't live like he does.
"So children, if you can charm a dollar out of someone working for minimum wage and convince him that you relate to his challenges, then you too, can grow up to be President of this great land."
And as for Obama's statement awhile back "leave his wife out of this . . ." Then this woman who is going to be the main speaker this evening needs to keep her mouth shut, smile and wave. If she's going make political comments, then the media and the opposition are entitled to repeat it, chew on it, take it in or out of context, and basically run with it, just like they do any other person that is using a political platform to be heard.
Clearly the Obamas are comfortable with preferential treatment and don't mind demanding it when they think it's absent, for them. I noted Michelle Obama's comment early on about "first time she was proud of her country . . ." I'm not very proud of a number of the things my country is doing and standing for right now, but then I'm just preaching and blogging, I'm not asking anyone to make a way for me to live at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
I've heard Obama compared to Messiah, a rock star, and President Kennedy. Frankly, I can't see any of those comparisons, but I do see those responses in his followers. If only the Obamas really stood for change, or even Camelot, but Camelot was merely a mythical "might have been" and every American politician expects special treatment and truly believe they are deserving of it.
The only change I perceive is the slight of hand in the political puppet theater, behind the scenes.
Whether it's the mega-church promising faith based prosperity or the rock star politicians promising hope and change, the rich and comfortable seem to always be supported and attain their stature by the hard earned money of the poor.
For if there come unto your assembly a man with a gold ring, in goodly apparel, and there come in also a poor man in vile raiment . . . New Testament