When did Audacity steal Hope?
Perhaps it started, when Michelle OBAMA had the audacity to say, "Work for the community. Be social workers. Be a nurse. Those are the careers that we need, and we're encouraging our young people to do that. But if you make that choice, as we did, to move out of the moneymaking industry into the helping industry, then your salaries respond." If that were true then why did she not refuse The University of Chicago Medical Center center’s salary of more than $300,000 a year for her services as "vice president of community and external affairs" while no longer possessing a valid license to practice law. How audacious is it to have a position because your husband is a US Senator and to not practice what you preach.
Then again, it could have robbed it when Michelle OBAMA had the audacity to say, "For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country," and then have Barack OBAMA clean up her “Freudian slip” claiming it was simply pride in the success of his political campaign. A careful read of the title of her senior thesis would argue differently.
Maybe hope waivered a little when we learned that Barack’s “spiritual advisor”, the Reverend WRIGHT, has the audacity to say from the pulpit, among other things, “God damn America!” How audacious is it for Barack OBAMA to then claim, "I did not hear such incendiary language myself, personally either in conversations with him or when I was in the pew,” and “If I had been in church those days, I would have objected fiercely to them and I would have told him personally." Could it also be when his pleas of ignorance contributed to hope sliding away a little bit more? Were he truly outraged; he would have distanced himself from these haters a long time ago.
Ultimately, it happened when Obama had the audacity to rationalize "the history of racial injustice in this country" fuels Rev. Jeremiah WRIGHT's racist rants. By that statement alone we understand where Barack OBAMA’s hope rests, with the camp followers of Jessie JACKSON, Al SHARPTON, Louis FARRAKHAN, and Jeremiah WRIGHT, reverends all.
Realistically, he has lacked the audacity to be candid enough with the voters that he would have us believe that he wants change but has never told us his brand of change is steeped in racism. The stealth candidate was “outed” by his closest allies and himself and “hope will not ride again.”
