Good post.
Good article. I suspect if someone dissects everything else Obama says, it will all wash out as B.S. as well.
Another question for BO: if he isn’t a Muslim any longer, let him explain to the American people when and why he left the faith.
BUMP, good article
Excellent piece.
When I see pictures on Yahoo of Obama fans crying, I cringe. A president doesn't "bring us together," we ARE as "together" as we're ever going to get.
People who crave "unity" seem to find disagreement horrifying. I don't. Independence is what I love about being an American, and I don't feel the need for some childish It Takes a Village fantasy of national unity.
Thanks to Dennis for another C word- clarity.
Good article. The Sheep will never read it, but a good article.
I do not wish to be united with people who want to take my money and make our nation weak. I want to oppose such people at every opportunity.
The unity position on same-sex marriage is to convince supporters of traditional marriage that government has no business defining marriage and can only be destructive to the institution, and thus should get out of the marriage business. People were getting married long before the United States came along. We do not need the state's heavy hand in such things.
Any truly dedicated President of good character is simply not going to waffle his/her core beliefs as the wind blows. Either you're for abortion or not, etc.
Therefore, around half of Americans are never going to agree with the President on divisive issues. A real leader will always be called a divider.
To me its very telling that they have been saying that his surge is due to his ability to bring out the “youth vote”.
That makes me shake my head. Not knocking the youth of this country but when a persons support comes decisively from youth...I look back to when I was one of the Youth.
My views and opinions have changed, now coming from a more realistic and less idealized view of the world. Simple facts that one would rather not embrace have had to be confronted with the wisdom of time and age and experience.
So when people accuse Obama of no experience...its true on more than one level. What he is preaching to our youth...is an idealized version of the truth. And that is dangerous in the real world we live in.
Does his church practice unity?
Good article.
At Last! Somebody tells the Truth.
Thanks for posting.
The 1968 presidential contest was unbelievably tumultuous and chaotic. RFK and MLK assassinated, race riots and anti-war riots. College campi turned upside down, black students at Cornell wearing bandoliers and carrying shotguns, professors turned out of their offices.
When Nixon won, there was a famous picture of him addressing a crowd (it may have been at his first speech after the election results were in) at which a young girl, maybe 19 or 20, was holding up a sign that said simply “BRING US TOGETHER.” The picture was widely reproduced; it was shown on one of the nightly news shows, and my eighth-grade social studies teacher commented on it to the class the next day.
The young lady who held the sign up was, as I recall, invited to the Nixon inaugural, and she appeared with the new President in photographs.
That’s my recollection of the first time the “call for unity” was a memorable feature of a presidential race.
Sometimes a writer hits the nail so squarely on the head that you gasp, he did it. Excellent post.