Thursday, August 21, 2008

Am I my brother's keeper?

So, the Chicago Sun-Times's FRONT PAGE ARTICLE is an introduction to Obama's half brother who lives in Nairobi and is very poor. The half brother that he has met twice in his life. It is without a doubt that the story implies that Obama should have a sense of responsibility to assist his brother. And so do many of the commenters on suntimes.com. They too feel his brother should reap the benefits of Obama's success.

So I decided to start a list of thoughts regarding this waste of front page space (. . . I mean, 153 people died in a plane crash, Bolt broke the 200 meter record . . . and we still got Micheal Phelps . . . you think they'd have something better to put on the front page).

Here we go:

1. If we're responsible for the indiscretions and mistakes of our fathers, are there any descendents of slave owners who would like to pass me a buck or too. I mean, your daddy's did it . . .you should help us out from the years of oppression and discrimination that was the result of their actions and decisions . . . but maybe you think that's going to far.

2. When referring to Obama's use of scripture, please be sure to interpret it correctly.

3. Dear Chicago Sun-Times, please stop showing your prejudices, racism and ineffective reporting on the front page. Hide it next to the comics. . . where the jokes belong.

4. Dear Chicago Sun-Times, please make tomorrow's article about McCain's first marriage and his breaking the whole "till death do us part" thing.

5. Dear Chicago Sun-Times, nevermind the above two requests . . . just shut down the presses alltogether. Do us all a huge favor.