Friday, September 26, 2008

Your Role Model Isn't Voting For Obama!

Seriously, if you think NBA, NFL, MLB players, Artists or anyone else with MONEY, is voting for Obama - you are mistaken! I always refer to the words of Ninja Gilbert Arenas of the Wizards, he hit it right on the spot! They will lose money by voting for Obama, I'm just saying! Heck, I honestly doubt Oprah will vote for Obama, lol. I'm sure Diddy isn't - he is always about his money!

Gil's Blog:
The Election
I’m not into politics, but I see what’s going on in the presidential race and I’m seeing rappers make songs for Obama and Mr. McCain doing all his stuff and I’m thinking, this is getting out of control, people. Whatever happened to Democrats and Republicans? You vote for who’s who.

It’s hard for me to vote, because since I’ve been in the NBA I’ve been in the upper class so I’ve been a Republican. If you have any type of money, you’re a Republican, period. So, it’s hard because you see a better looking president in Obama – I don’t even want to say because he’s black, but he just looks the part – and then you have McCain who is Republican and I’m like, man. I know Obama is going to raise taxes on the upper class from 20-60 percent, that’s what I’m looking at. To be honest, I stopped paying attention a long time ago when it was Bush and Gore when Gore won the popular vote, but Bush was the president.

Basically, what that told me was that everybody in America voted for Gore, but somehow, Bush became president. I am confused. Obviously, our vote doesn’t really mean anything. Then you have this thing called the delegate, then you got the super delegate and then you got the hidden delegate that nobody knows about. If you’ve never heard of the hidden delegate, that’s like when you’re buying a car and they say the taxes on the car are 20 percent, and then when you look at your statement, they charge you an extra three, that’s the same thing. It’s the hidden fee delegate that nobody knows about who has all this power. They actually get to pick who they want for president. So when I start looking at it like that, that’s when I stop paying attention because at the end of the day, our votes really don’t matter. I don’t mean to be rude about it, but it seems like it doesn’t matter. If Gore wins by thousands of votes and Bush is president eight years later … come on.

There’s another reason I don’t vote – I don’t want jury duty. If you’re not registered to vote, you can’t get jury duty. I know that campaign Diddy had a couple years ago, “Vote or Die,” yeah if the alternative is jury duty, I’m going to die. I’m not going to get in one of these cases where they blow the jury members’ houses up to get out of the trial, I’m cool. I’ve seen too many movies.

For whatever president that wins, what can I tell you? Do a good job. Change the world. I remember when we were voting for class president in high school, the guy who won was the guy who said he’s going to put the vending machines in the school cafeteria. That’s who I voted for. So until I hear vending machines or lower gas prices, I’m not voting. As soon as I hear, “Yeah, I’m going to lower gas prices,” then you got me, I’ll sit in jury duty.

4 comments:

Sweet said...

Economics:
Expenditures = Consumptions
Less money released from firms, less money spent by consumers

Less money for masses, less people buying Wizards tickets and merchandise (do they actually have fans?)

Less money = more time working, less time to watch Oprah

Less money = less people buying Danity Kane (does people buy Danity Kane?)

Obama votes = you get paid

McCain votes = you get laid off

Choose

Unknown said...

I'm not happy about what Gilbert Arenas has to say, however he has the right to journalism, just as I do...however with his celebrity, he should do more to promote people to vote, instead of swaying them because of his millions of dollars.

Come on Gil...what's really good? I'm disappointed.

Crissi Bubbz said...

Gilbert is a perfect example of what the government would like Black folks in this country to be-scared & stupid. Please inform Mr. Arenas that you get jury duty based on your DRIVER'S LICENSE not voter registration. Mr. Arenas just proved himself to be a dumb jock!

Amani Roberts said...

Gilbert is quite an eccentric dude and I am surprised but not by 100% here. He just isn't right in the head and is thinking of himself and it is just sad. Sometimes people should just be quiet. He is just not being smart and setting a horrible example. I recall Brian McKnight saying something similar like 4 or 8 years ago.