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"Androcles" <Headmaster@Hogwarts.physics> wrote in message 
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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...
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> | 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.

If you really meant it you would have removed sci.physics from the newsgroup 
list...

LG ("dumb" ol' RSPWer)
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