I wrestled with the decision to post this story on my blog because of the “pigeon hole” I know some people will be putting me into after they read this. But then I decided I didn’t care. This is a long way from the most provocative or controversial thing on my blog. I couldn’t agree more with almost everything in this article.
In election 2008, don’t forget Angry White Man
By Gary Hubbell
February 9, 2008
There is a great amount of interest in this year’s presidential elections, as everybody seems to recognize that our next president has to be a lot better than George Bush. The Democrats are riding high with two groundbreaking candidates — a woman and an African-American — while the conservative Republicans are in a quandary about their party’s nod to a quasi-liberal maverick, John McCain.
Each candidate is carefully pandering to a smorgasbord of special-interest groups, ranging from gay, lesbian and transgender people to children of illegal immigrants to working mothers to evangelical Christians.
There is one group no one has recognized, and it is the group that will decide the election: the Angry White Man. Read the rest of this entry »
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