Re: ...current thoughts

On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 10:02:45 -0700, "Barbara Lake"
<bglake@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

...Jimmy Carter was reviled because he told the truth and George Bush
is adulated because he constantly lies. To paraphrase Jack Nicholson's
line, "This country can't handle the truth". It's like a majority of
the people exist in a terminally frightened state of being. They want
a chief executive that is as ignorant as they are. They want a fatuous
cheerleading leader who will tell them that the boogieman is not at
the door, that their money is still just as good as it always was and
that they don't really need all the rights they were guaranteed by the
Constitution. The opportunistic Rev. Wright was wrong when he said
"God Damn America"...it should have been "God Damn the current
American leaders", on that we could agree.

The problem is that this fiery minister could wind up keeping a good man out
of the white house, a man who just happens to be black. That man could,
simply by being there, do more to restore pride in and ensure equality to
black people all over the country in a way that 100 years of Wright's
inflammatory rhetoric could not do.

....Jimmy Carter was on Hard Ball yesterday and related that he had
been in about 9 different countries in the past month and the one
thing that everyone in those countries wanted to discuss was Obama
running for the presidency. What his chances were, how Carter felt
about it...etc. So I have to assume an Obama presidency, along with
restoring pride and engendering more hope for blacks in this country,
would have a much deeper impact on things outside of us. We have had
an unbroken string of white men, for good or ill, in the White House.
The last two terms have been somewhat disastorous for this country...a
change is long overdo. Personally I think Obama would have a greater
impact on things than Clinton, but either would be better by far than
the alternative.
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