Z Politics

Once again Barack Obama has spoken the truth. And once again Hillary Clinton and John McCain are trying to make a big deal about it.

I honestly don’t see what the big deal is about Obama’s bitter comment. Are middle class blue collar workers bitter? Maybe, maybe not but I’ll tell you something. They should be…we all should be.

I am certainly bitter. I am bitter that I couldn’t openly serve in the military if I wanted to, that my boyfriend and I won’t’ have our relationship recognized by our own government. That as a public school teacher I see the conditions my students have to grow up in simply because they weren’t lucky enough to be born rich. I am bitter that we are now in the sixth year of a war that I knew was wrong before it even started. I am bitter that the last time I got gas I paid $3.85 a gallon. I’m bitter that so many people in this country want to put me in a box. I’m too white to be Mexican and since I’m not 100% white I’m not really white either.

I come from a blue collar family. My mom worked at a grocery store and my dad drove a truck for UPS. I lived in several trailers growing up.

And yes when I am bitter I turn to my own belief system and I don’t see anything wrong with that.

Look around you there is a whole lot to be bitter about and that is not elitist.