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Title: Obama's Speech Wasn't About Race. It Was About Leadership (PHILIP WEISS)
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Mondoweiss
URL Source: http://www.philipweiss.org/mondoweiss/2008/03/obamas-speech-1.html
Published: Mar 19, 2008
Author: Philip Weiss
Post Date: 2008-03-19 15:52:03 by aristeides
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Views: 1074
Comments: 76
Obama's Speech Wasn't About Race. It Was About Leadership Admit it: This has been the most magnificent campaign of our lives. Entertaining, uplifting, full of surprise and great characters. Who will ever forget Mike Huckabee or Ron Paul. And today it outdid itself. Obama's speech on race was stunning. I can't be the only sophisticated person who was blown away. I thought I was used to his style, to the quality of his thought. I thought he was going to be careful. I was amazed. What he did was call us to the better angels of our nature. He told us that blacks are angry for a reason. He said that racism has been persistent and disabling. He said that blacks have been viciously discriminated against. And he said this in a way that was not divisive. This is true leadership. Rather than pandering to the racists out there, as Hillary has been doing, he spoke openly of a deep divide in American society and then called on American idealism to deal with it. He embarrassed the racists for the backwardness of their vision. This guy is truly historic. I want him to be my president. And I can't wait for his speech--one day, not so long from now--on Israel/Palestine. The day that he honestly addresses Palestinian suffering and doesn't scare Jews, but brings us together. And forward.
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#2. To: aristeides (#0)
I think Weiss is in a good position to know what the feelings of Jews, at least in this country, are. Maybe he's concealing what he really believes, but he strikes me as an honest -- and brave -- man.
I gotta see to taking care of my people now, I think. I'm fairly close to giving up on this shit. You're counting on Obama, Farrakhan, Jesse J, Sharpton, and the Black Panthers to save America?
Exactly! Pat Buchanan and Ron Paul were forced to disown "racist" groups on national television. The tenuous connection ruined both of their campaigns. Will Obama receive the same treatment in the media? If not, I would question the integrity and agenda of the media.
I am bitter that my candidates have been ruined by guilt by association. Can you tell? LOL. I'll be damned if guilt by association doesn't ruin everyone's favorite globalist Marxist!
I can respect that position.
You dont know that. You are just hoping and guessing.
#46. To: Cynicom (#44)
And you were guessing when Ron Paul was labeled a racist?
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#4. To: ghostdogtxn (#2)
#15. To: aristeides (#4)
#18. To: ghostdogtxn (#15)
I'm not too sanguine about any of this crap today. I liked Obama's speech. I thought it struck the perfect note, but if today's threads here and elsewhere are any indication, it appears that the injection of race and the black boogieman into this election has had a toxic effect on the national conversation. Apparently the thought of nigras taking over the management of the plantation is just too much for a lot of folks.
#20. To: Vitamin Z (#18)
#27. To: ghostdogtxn (#20)
No, I was counting on Ron Paul, David Duke, the Ku Klux Klan and Stormfront. Obama, Farrakhan, Jackson, Sharpton and the Black Panthers were my second choice.
#32. To: Vitamin Z (#27)
#34. To: ghostdogtxn (#32)
Not only is guilt by association bullshit that you shouldn't buy into, but at the least check facts before a charge is made...
#37. To: Vitamin Z (#34)
#40. To: ghostdogtxn (#37)
So am I. I have no interest in seeing it done to anyone else.
#43. To: Vitamin Z (#40)
#44. To: ghostdogtxn (#43)
Especially since I suspect that "Black Panther endorsement" was put on Obama's website by someone who meant him no good.
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#51. To: Cynicom (#44)
You dont know that. You are just hoping and guessing.
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