A DIVIDED NATION WE REALLY ARE!

My last two blogs praised the “Awakening” of the Christian Right Evangelicals to the reality of life on this earth which showed promise of compromise with even certain liberals and moderates but after viewing “Super Tuesday” primary election results; I am not so optimistic about a united nation or even a semi-united one.

Huckabee, who is a joke as a serious presidential candidate, running as a socialist Republican Baptist minister with “values”, did win the so called hard evangelical vote in places like Alabama and similar bastions of the dark forces of the Religious Right. These people did not vote for a “viable” candidate that could run this country; they voted blindly for one of their own and if he is not a candidate in November; they will just sit home and bitch.

The black vote representing a minority of 12 % of the total population went overwhelmingly to Barack Obama. The fact that it was an overwhelming vote (no dissention), means that they voted for skin color and nothing else, at least it seems that way to me. Again, it is not what is good for the country; it is a perceived good for me and my people.

The Latino vote went overwhelmingly to Clinton. The minority group that is 13-14 % of the American population wants their own champion and since Barack is already committed to the blacks, he will just ignore the Latinos, so Hillary is the new Latino champion.

McCain is getting the moderates in the Republican Party and Romney is getting the conservatives although it appears Romney is on his last legs having to compete even with goofy Huckabee.

Because McCain needs the conservatives to win, the scuttlebutt is that he may get Huckabee as his VP getting both the moderate and conservative Republicans, after all at 71 he can die in office and then ole’ Huckabee gets to play president – can’t wait!

Obama at least is calling himself a unifier; a candidate for all Americans, but Bush said the same thing and you see how much he unified the nation.

Maybe the candidates first have to win the nomination so they go after specific sectors of our population and then, maybe after they win the nomination, they will turn to unifying the country behind them – we will see.