Posted on 05/14/2008 8:38:54 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
I'll never forget a frigid morning in Springfield: Sen. Barack Obama, elegantly Lincolnesque in a long wool coat, launching his presidential candidacy in the shadow of the old Illinois State Capitol. The echoes of history were almost deafening—not just of Abraham Lincoln, who, like Obama, had been a legislator there, but of the argument over slavery and race that Lincoln had joined there.
On that sunny February day in 2007, Obama seemed to radiate uplift and glorious possibility. He was making a statement: that his candidacy would be the exclamation point at the end of our four-century-long argument over the role of African-Americans in our society. By electing a mixed-race man of evident brilliance, moderate mien and welcoming smile, we would finally cease seeing each other through color-coded eyes.
Well, that argument did not end. He and we were naive to think it would. In our country, uniquely based on and blessed by the idea of individual freedom, the most profound argument always this: who is fully a person in the eyes of our society and law? The Constitution enshrines and protects "persons." But who is one and, just as important, who isn't?
In some ways, as the 2008 presidential campaign shows—and the racially lopsided West Virginia results from Tuesday night remind us—we have yet to fully answer the questions.
A century and a half ago, the American Argument over personhood sparked one of the bloodiest disputes any nation has ever had with itself: our Civil War. But the enduring debate also spawned tremendous social progress and constitutional changes, not just for blacks but for women, gays, lesbians and others. The phrase "We the People" has a far broader meaning than our white male Christian Founders imagined.
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Boy, what a suck up.
I have come to the conclusion that the Democrat Illuminati have settled on Obama because he kills two birds with one stone. On the one hand, his nomination will enable the white males who run the Democrat Party to say that they have shown their dedication to the struggle for equality, which will then enable them to promote white male Presidential candidates from 2012 ‘til Kingdom Come. On the other hand, I believe that it is essential to their future success that a Republican (especially a pliable Republican like McCain) remain nominally “in charge” so that Democrats can avoid taking responsibility for not having solutions to any of the actual or perceived problems that confront us, especially the price of a gallon of gas.
Obama wouldn’t deserve to hold a door open for Lincoln.
It’s ironic that now, 16 years too late, the left is finally seeing the Clintons for who they really are; I wonder how long it will be till they realize the same of Obama?
“elegantly Lincolnesque in a long wool coat, launching his presidential candidacy in the shadow of the old Illinois State Capitol.”
Did Obama wear a stovepipe hat? Under the definition of Lincolnesque, he must wear a stovepipe hat at all times. Sheesh! What idolatrous drivel.
Too long......Too Late.......The damage will have been done.
The Lyin’ King-—heheh-—good one.
LOL, you ‘win’ for ugliest graphic!!
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