Warning (for Gisele) Contains anti-liberal material

Reply from: Sue

Date: 30 Mar 2008, 20:32

Re: Warning (for Gisele) Contains anti-liberal material

Anne, you are so correct!

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Sue -- Firefighter mom -- still rabid UW DAWG fan!
"Anne V." <ahvasquez@NOSPAMsbcglobal,net > wrote in message
news:KCOHj.634$Nc5.171@newssvr27.news.prodigy,net ...
> But he's got people talking about it, doesn't he? Pretending racial anger
> doesn't exist won't make it go away. Addressing it head on is going to
> make a lot of people uncomfortable for a while, but we may get some true
> understanding out of it, which may help us lay the groundwork to begin to
> put the issue to rest. People fear what they don't understand, that's
> plain, simple fact, and there's no way to get past fear and ignorance
> except through education and understanding. It's my hope that we've seen
> the beginning of that.
>
> Anne
>
> "Marsha" <mas@xeb,net > wrote in message
> news:fsms6t$5s2$1@news.datemas.de...
>> The Audacity of Rhetoric
>>
>> By Thomas Sowell
>>
>> It is painful to watch defenders of Barack Obama tying themselves into
>> knots trying to evade the obvious.
>>
>> Some are saying that Senator Obama cannot be held responsible for what
>> his pastor, Jeremiah Wright, said. In their version of events, Barack
>> Obama just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time - and a
>> bunch of mean-spirited people are trying to make something out of it.
>>
>> It makes a good story, but it won't stand up under scrutiny.
>>
>> Barack Obama's own account of his life shows that he consciously sought
>> out people on the far left fringe. In college, "I chose my friends
>> carefully," he said in his first book, "Dreams From My Father."
>>
>> These friends included "Marxist professors and structural feminists and
>> punk rock performance poets" - in Obama's own words - as well as the
>> "more politically active black students." He later visited a former
>> member of the terrorist Weatherman underground, who endorsed him when he
>> ran for state senator.
>>
>> Obama didn't just happen to encounter Jeremiah Wright, who just happened
>> to say some way out things. Jeremiah Wright is in the same mold as the
>> kinds of people Barack Obama began seeking out in college - members of
>> the left, anti-American counter-culture.
>>
>> In Shelby Steele's brilliantly insightful book about Barack Obama - "A
>> Bound Man" - it is painfully clear that Obama was one of those people
>> seeking a racial identity that he had never really experienced in growing
>> up in a white world. He was trying to become a convert to blackness, as
>> it were - and, like many converts, he went overboard.
>>
>> Nor has Obama changed in recent years. His voting record in the U.S.
>> Senate is the furthest left of any Senator. There is a remarkable
>> consistency in what Barack Obama has done over the years, despite
>> inconsistencies in what he says.
>>
>> The irony is that Obama's sudden rise politically to the level of being
>> the leading contender for his party's presidential nomination has
>> required him to project an entirely different persona, that of a
>> post-racial leader who can heal divisiveness and bring us all together.
>>
>> The ease with which he has accomplished this chameleon-like change, and
>> entranced both white and black Democrats, is a tribute to the man's
>> talent and a warning about his reliability.
>>
>> There is no evidence that Obama ever sought to educate himself on the
>> views of people on the other end of the political spectrum, much less
>> reach out to them. He reached out from the left to the far left. That's
>> bringing us all together?
>>
>> Is "divisiveness" defined as disagreeing with the agenda of the left? Who
>> on the left was ever called divisive by Obama before that became
>> politically necessary in order to respond to revelations about Jeremiah
>> Wright?
>>
>> One sign of Obama's verbal virtuosity was his equating a passing comment
>> by his grandmother - "a typical white person," he says - with an
>> organized campaign of public vilification of America in general and white
>> America in particular, by Jeremiah Wright.
>>
>> Since all things are the same, except for the differences, and different
>> except for the similarities, it is always possible to make things look
>> similar verbally, however different they are in the real world.
>>
>> Among the many desperate gambits by defenders of Senator Obama and
>> Jeremiah Wright is to say that Wright's words have a "resonance" in the
>> black community.
>>
>> There was a time when the Ku Klux Klan's words had a resonance among
>> whites, not only in the South but in other states. Some people joined the
>> KKK in order to advance their political careers. Did that make it OK? Is
>> it all just a matter of whose ox is gored?
>>
>> While many whites may be annoyed by Jeremiah Wright's words, a year from
>> now most of them will probably have forgotten about him. But many blacks
>> who absorb his toxic message can still be paying for it, big-time, for
>> decades to come.
>>
>> Why should young blacks be expected to work to meet educational
>> standards, or even behavioral standards, if they believe the message that
>> all their problems are caused by whites, that the deck is stacked against
>> them? That is ultimately a message of hopelessness, however much audacity
>> it may have.
>>
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