Obama, You’ve Lost Me.

Dear Senator Barack Obama,

You picked Joe Biden?

Sorry, not feeling it. I was willing to give you the benefit of the doubt, but this is the proverbial straw breaking the camel’s back. I can’t complain about racism on the part of Sen. Clinton and ignore the racism of Sen. Biden. And for anyone that wants to tell me that I’m basically electing Sen. McCain? Fuck you. I will vote by my conscience and if you don’t like it, well you should go talk to your favorite candidate. I will not support a ticket with Joe Biden. This is not change. I don’t believe in any of it. This is just the same ol’ bullshit and I’m not down.

Which doesn’t mean that I won’t continue to speak out against racist attacks against you, Sen. Obama, or sexist and racist attacks against your wife, Michelle Obama. It doesn’t mean that I won’t call out any and all unnecessary demands on your blackness, either.

I will.

But I cannot in good conscious support this political ticket. And in case you’re wondering, I didn’t vote for Bill Clinton for his second term either. I’m not feeling you for many of the same reasons that I wasn’t feeling Bill Clinton. back in 1997. Just so you know.

And you know what? I’m kinda pissed that I got suckered into that whole “be the first to know” bullshit that your campaign pulled. I should have known better. I knew that Biden was your pick a good seven hours before I got your worthless text message. And now you can send me endless texts that I don’t want to read. And for what? To find out what I’d been seeing on the news all night?

So yeah, you’ve officially lost me. Change? My ass.

Kevin