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"trijcomm" <trijcomm@yahoo.com> wrote in message 
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On Mar 18, 5:44 pm, Kathy Bush <Barack...@gmail.com> wrote:
> He did it.
>
> No other presidential candidate in the past 40 years has managed to
> speak so much truth so eloquently at such a crucial juncture in his
> campaign as Barack Obama did today. And he did it by speaking about
> race, the most persistent source of hatred among us since America
> began.
>
> It turns out that a candidate for president with a white mother and a
> black father has a capacity that no one else has ever had before: He
> can articulate an equal understanding of black racism and white racism--
> and that makes it possible for him to condemn both of them with equal
> passion.
>
> Ever since Rev. Jeremiah Wright's hateful sermons began to dominate
> the cable-news airwaves a few days ago, Washington reporters and the
> right-wing attack machine have been salivating at the chance to use
> those words to destroy another promising candidate. But today, Obama
> did what he does better than anyone else: He reminded America that we
> can be, and we must be, better than that.
> The truth is, for 40 years, it has been the Republicans who have used
> prejudice of every kind against black people and gay people and
> immigrant people to divide and conquer in November. And Obama did not
> flinch from pointing that out. Instead, he looked the nation squarely
> in the eye and declared, "Not this time!"
>
> "Like the anger within the black community," he said, white
> resentments "aren't always expressed in polite company. But they have
> helped shape the political landscape for at least a generation. Anger
> over welfare and affirmative action helped forge the Reagan Coalition.
> Politicians routinely exploited fears of crime for their own electoral
> ends. Talk show hosts and conservative commentators built entire
> careers unmasking bogus claims of racism while dismissing legitimate
> discussions of racial injustice and inequality as mere political
> correctness or reverse racism."
>
> And right there, on MSNBC, was Pat Buchanan, the most prominent
> example of this sorry class of citizen, who strained to put the worst
> face on Obama's transcendent speech even as he acknowledged its
> effectiveness. Only on cable television in America could a man who has
> written that Adolf Hitler was "an individual of great courage," and
> dismissed the idea that "white rule of a black majority is inherently
> wrong" in South Africa--only on a cable news network could such a
> person be allowed to attack someone else for failing to disassociate
> himself sufficiently from another man's racist remarks.
> But Obama was too courageous to bow to the chattering classes by
> repudiating his former pastor altogether. Instead, he did something
> much more difficult, and much more important: He offered a nuanced
> view of his mentor's failings. "The profound mistake of Reverend
> Wright's sermons is not that he spoke about racism in our society,"
> said Obama. "It's that he spoke as if our society was static; as if no
> progress has been made; as if this country--a country that has made it
> possible for one of his own members to run for the highest office in
> the land and build a coalition of white and black, Latino and Asian,
> rich and poor, young and old--is still irrevocably bound to a tragic
> past. But what we know--what we have seen--is that America can change.
> That is the true genius of this nation. What we have already achieved
> gives us hope--the audacity to hope--for what we can and must achieve
> tomorrow."
>
> Sally Quinn was also on MSNBC today, and just as she was after Mitt
> Romney's pathetic speech about religion a few months back, she was the
> most intelligent commentator on TV. When Obama finished speaking, she
> declared, "This may be hyperbole, but this may be the most important
> speech about race since Martin Luther King's 'I have a dream' speech."
> It was not hyperbole.
>
> If Obama is elected president, it will be because he has been the
> first candidate in many years to try to appeal to what is best in
> America: "What is called for is nothing more, and nothing less, than
> what all the world's great religions demand--that we do unto others as
> we would have them do unto us. Let us be our brother's keeper,
> scripture tells us. Let us be our sister's keeper. Let us find that
> common stake we all have in one another, and let our politics reflect
> that spirit as well." Unlike the approach of every Republican
> candidate for president, that is a perfect example of the way religion
> should be used in American politics.
>
> In Obama's words today, you could hear the mystic chords of memory--an
> echo of the words of another man from Illinois with humble origins who
> understood the proper role of religion in politics. The spirit Obama
> embodied today was the same one Abraham Lincoln evoked in the
> peroration of his greatest speech in 1865:
>
> "With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the
> right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the
> work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who
> shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do
> all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among
> ourselves and with all nations."
>
> http://www.radaronline.com/features/2008/03/obama_jeremiah_wright_ful...

| He can spout all the platitudes he wants, but for all of the talk
| about healing race issues he still didn't say why he stuck around in a
| church that preached the very hate he decries for 20 years. This isn't
| going away anytime soon. At best, it shows his lack of good judgment.
| And at worst, it shows he feels at home with the hatred of Jeremiah
| Wright -- the same Wright who gave an award to an anti-semite. If John
| McCain attended a church for 20 years that gave an award to David
| Duke, I wonder what Obama would say.

He'd probably say take your yankee political shit the fuck out of 
sci.physics,
you cross-posting cretin.