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Politics : View from the Center and Left

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To: quehubo who wrote (54858)3/21/2008 1:56:45 PM
From: Cogito  Read Replies (3) of 542125
 
>>Lane brought up gullibility, but I think what we see in the black community is really the opposite- faulty conclusions which are the result of a virulent sense of cynicism, and a feeling (among some) that white America is completely against black America.<<

Quehebo -

What Obama has done, in the past, is to write books giving his vision of what we can do, as a nation, to overcome the prejudices and problems of the past. I'd call that taking a stand.

I would say that it's a more positive way of taking a stand than leaving his church would be. And perhaps one of the reasons he didn't leave the church is because he liked sermons like this one:

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Interestingly, Mike Huckabee had some insightful comments about the whole controversy:

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- Allen
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