Re: [Dems2008] Re: What Ferraro said

Wow... I guess they shouldn't have passed that pesky little 26th Amendment...

I can just hear it now... "I would have won the nomination if it wasn't for those meddling kids!"

 

Slainte,

Rob Harrington

----- Original Message ----
From: suzi meyers <libertylsmom@yahoo.com>
To: Dems2008@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, April 4, 2008 2:24:35 PM
Subject: Re: [Dems2008] Re: What Ferraro said

Obama is such a joke.  One that is not too dang funny.  So why the big hoopla over Geraldines comments when Obama seemed to make the same statement?  Oh, is it because she is WHITE and he is BLACK??  Again, political correctness is choking off any real conversation about the whys and what fors.   I just don't understand how completly intelligent people can drool over Obama.   He is a cutie, but come on, he is no presidential candidate material.  He will LOSE!  Which means the entire Democratic party loses.  For Gods sake don't send him to the general election in November.  I just don't see what is the matter with you people.  I know, you think the same of us Hillary supporters.  We had better get Fl and MICH votes to count.  That would sure even things up.  If you counted those votes there would be less than 150,000 votes seperating them.  It is sooooo close.  These young, nieve college kids are skewing the view here.  They don't know shit.  I didn't either at their age.   You really want the american idol generation picking the next President? 

catpurdy@aol.com wrote:

I read the whole article - but you missed my point, or don't want to consider it.

citation502@ yahoo.com writes:

Cat, as you are wont to do, you missed the entire point. Here is an
excerpt from the very article that you cite (perhaps too subtle for
you to comprehend, but also perhaps valuable to those with eyes to
see):

Indeed, Obama's most valued currency might be that he is different.
He is not a progeny of the civil rights movement or the black church.
Rather, his life has been a study in racial fusion.

The complexity of his biography--a black father from Africa, a white
mother from Kansas, adolescence in the white world, adulthood in the
black--has added to his allure as a public figure.

To a generation of Americans, he is the first of his kind in an era
when the most dramatic struggles for racial equality are now grainy
images from a distant past. Color alone does not define him, yet race
is never far from the conversation when Obama is the subject.

It is still, after all, considered remarkable when a black man wins a
seat in the U.S. Senate.

So when Obama was elected last fall, becoming the third African-
American senator since Reconstruction, he inspired a bountiful hope
that has long been percolating, a promise that includes the prospect
of even higher public office.

For blacks it is a hope born of violence and discrimination, struggle
and triumph. For many whites as well, Obama embodies a sense of hope
that transcends traditional tensions and ambiguities of race.









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