Our State of the Union is not good, per Barack Obama.
By Sandra Lea Wise Posted in 2008 — Comments (20) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »
I listened carefully to Obama’s speech this morning. This is what I heard. America has failed. We have failed to make up for slavery. We have failed to unite our citizens. We have failed to take care of our poor. We have failed in the War in Iraq. We have failed in our schools. We have failed to provide health care for everyone.
What is the hope for our failed 221 year experiment at the perfect Union? It lies in electing Obama to the Presidency. He is the one person with the unique background to solve all of our problems. His ideas can change America. As he says, “We will change America and then we will change the World.”
America is not the shining city on the hill. We are not the hope of the world. We must change! The time is now or never.
In this speech, I heard no pride in America. I heard no patriotism.
Sandra Lea Wise
shares his pastor's views of America...his wife certainly expressed that in her comments about being proud of her country "for the first time in her adult life"...due to her husband's candidacy for president...
Why would they allow their kids to be indoctrinated in the church's racist theology if he didn't agree with it?
this is the one thing that bothers me every election. We, the American voter are constantly told that we are "broken". Our shining city on a hill gone forever. It is just crap, or wishful thinking on the part of the loony left, perhaps?
America is the greatest nation in all of the world. And I say that not as a prideful American, but as an observation. People from all over the world come here every year in search of the dream that is only possible here.
Even Barack Obama admitted that he would never have been able to have his "story" anywhere else in the world.
So, enough with the downtrodden crap.
We are not perfect and we have our fair share of problems, but we most definitely are not "broken".
Anyone play football?
We would practice every day to get better. Even when we won games, the coach would implore us to work harder, execute better, perfect our game.
It never occurred to me that he wasn't part of my team, didn't want me to succeed, or felt that success was unattainable b/c he focused more on improving than resting on our laurels.
Dismissing legitimate criticism as America hating is a "our shit don't stink" mind set with no basis in reality, a cynical play to the lowest common denominator.
If we want to win this election, we'll have to do better than that.
And after that little detail, what "legitimate criticism" are you referring to? The part where we created AIDS to kill the black race? The bit about Katrina? The priceless nugget that we DESERVED 9/11 for past deeds? Or do you just think that we of the paler persuasion should continue to shoulder the guilt of slavery even though it's been over with in America since the 1860's? I'm breathless with anticipation to receive your wisdom and trembling in my eagerness to abase myself as a white, middle-class American. Do tell, sir.
Anyone play football?
We would practice every day to get better. Even when we won games, the coach would implore us to work harder, execute better, perfect our game.
It never occurred to me that he wasn't part of my team, didn't want me to succeed, or felt that success was unattainable b/c he focused more on improving than resting on our laurels.
Dismissing legitimate criticism as America hating is a "our shit don't stink" mind set with no basis in reality, a cynical play to the lowest common denominator.
If we want to win this election, we'll have to do better than that.
didn't suggest improvement, it suggested that we have failed miserably at everything that we have tried to accomplish, and that America must be changed. What exactly is the change that he is proposing?
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"The perfect is the enemy of the good."
anger and saying that whites can quell it thru big government.
Ain't that what we have done since 1965?
Mike DeVine’s Charlotte Observer columns
http://thehinzsightreport.com
www.theminorityreportblog.com
www.race42008.com
"One man with courage makes a majority." - Andrew Jackson
and some suggestions for change:
"For the African-American community, that path means embracing the burdens of our past without becoming victims of our past. It means continuing to insist on a full measure of justice in every aspect of American life. But it also means binding our particular grievances – for better health care, and better schools, and better jobs - to the larger aspirations of all Americans -- the white woman struggling to break the glass ceiling, the white man whose been laid off, the immigrant trying to feed his family. And it means taking full responsibility for own lives – by demanding more from our fathers, and spending more time with our children, and reading to them, and teaching them that while they may face challenges and discrimination in their own lives, they must never succumb to despair or cynicism; they must always believe that they can write their own destiny."
http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/samgrahamfelsen/gGBbrc
Which part of this do you disagree with.
unless you believe that the answer is government. If you are foolish enough to believe that bigger and bigger government will bring all those things, then, sadly you will fall for the guy's patter.
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The pretty words sound to me like a call for the end of racial politics and a reminder of the importance of self determination. Good things, yes?
A man who LIVES by identity, racial politics, is calling for an end to racial (identity) politics. Rich!
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"...In the white community, the path to a more perfect union means acknowledging that what ails the African-American community does not just exist in the minds of black people; that the legacy of discrimination - and current incidents of discrimination, while less overt than in the past - are real and must be addressed..."
Its still all about whites bending over backward for blacks, 43 years after the civil rights act, as if they are disabled children.
Obama needs to talk to liberal blacks and maybe joining us in the real world.
Mike DeVine’s Charlotte Observer columns
http://thehinzsightreport.com
www.theminorityreportblog.com
www.race42008.com
"One man with courage makes a majority." - Andrew Jackson
We all become Americans and put America first. We join hands and thank God for America and the opportunities that we all have in this great nation.
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"The perfect is the enemy of the good."
After listening to this speech, I could see that Pastor Wright has had the Wrong influence on the Obamas.
___________
"The perfect is the enemy of the good."
Mike DeVine’s Charlotte Observer columns
http://thehinzsightreport.com
www.theminorityreportblog.com
www.race42008.com
"One man with courage makes a majority." - Andrew Jackson
I also heard on HANNITY and COLMNES that COLIN POWELL had walked out of a confernce or meeting that Rev. Wright had sponsered after he heard the ANTI SEMITIC nature of the gathering
Mike DeVine’s Charlotte Observer columns
http://thehinzsightreport.com
www.theminorityreportblog.com
www.race42008.com
"One man with courage makes a majority." - Andrew Jackson
Mike DeVine’s Charlotte Observer columns
http://thehinzsightreport.com
www.theminorityreportblog.com
www.race42008.com
"One man with courage makes a majority." - Andrew Jackson
can't play with the big kids he should get off the playground. It is impossible to imagine anyone listening to rev wright's gospel of hate for twenty years and not be affected by it. A real Christian would have left that church upon hearing the first words of hate from that "preacher". Change will never come unless we are all willing to be its agents. Otherwise, we are just wordsmiths who give good speeches. Obama's speech was nothing more than damage control at its finest. People with a victim mentality do not really want change, because then they would no longer be victims and have nothing more to whine about.
is that the racial comments of someone three generations ago said to her family in confidence are as bad as non-rebuked remarks (well not rebuked until embarassing remarks) said from the pulpit over and over and over again.