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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Road Walker who wrote (5877)	1/11/2008 9:53:47 AM
From: michael97123	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

I lived in a south side apt. and waa maybe a mile from the fires when MLK was killed. Driving to school, we drove by soldier in tanks from US air cav ?? that had been in vietnam a few weeks earlier and were sent by LBJ to chicago. What a year. As i remember chicago, it was a racist southern town back then. Cops were clearly racists. We had a party at my apt and there were a few blacks there and my landlady said she didnt want anymore of those "zebra parties". Smoking grass one night and playing the stereo a bit too loud and she called the cops on us. We were lucky being able to flush the pot away so we didnt go to jail.

To: Road Walker who wrote (5877)	1/11/2008 11:37:58 AM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

Why I Am Voting For Barack Obama bestoftheblogs.com by Josh Hammond Posted: January 11th, 2008 I have been thinking about this for some time, tiptoeing in the Obama waters since he first announced last year. I am now ready to plunge in. In the process, I have managed to get my reasons for voting for him down to two words: symbolism and symbiosis. On symbolism: Western countries have done the Iron-Lady thing, albiet the US has not. But no Western country has done the Black-Man thing, let alone the Black-Man of Muslim origin thing. He still has family and roots in Africa. He has lived around the world. Now in a world in urgent need of emotional repair and the healing of real wounds, there is no greater symbolism we can offer than electing Barack Obama. Like most presidents who have totally lacked foreign policy experience–Bush 43, Clinton, Reagan, Carter, LBJ, Kennedy–Obama can pick people to advise him on the nuances of foreign policy, but no one can provide or substitute for the symbolism he alone presents. On symbiosis: Although this is primarily a biological term, it fits, because as a nation, we are a living and growing organism. E pluribus unum, the original secular motto of the United States, captures this notion of symbosis. (As you know, this is from the Latin for “One from many.”) Symbosis is all about interdependence or mutually beneficial relationships between individuals and groups. No one wins unless everyone wins. It is not about divisiveness or obstruction. There is no greater pressing need in this country than a restoration of genuine bi-partisanship, a return to comity, the need for a national quilting party, if you will, rather than the forging of another melting pot by the party in power or the one that can filibuster. On Obama: Obama is the best hope for restoring our national equilibrium. He is a trained and skilled community organizer, a teacher, a poet, a man of unencumbered vision and genuine hope. Not much separates him in experience from another first-time candidate for president, Abraham Lincoln, except a beard, a successful law practice, a different party affiliation, and only one term in the House of Representatives. Lincoln railed against the Mexican-American war, just as Obama has railed against the war in Iraq. Lincoln had the edge as a debater and he beat the biggest senator of his day, Stephen Douglas, for the presidency. On paper, as first-time presidential candidates, Lincoln and Obama are indistinguishable. Lincoln won, not because of his resume or experience, but because of his vision. He got the chance to be president at a precipitous time in the country’s history, and for that a united nation is eternally grateful. Now the country, and indeed the world, in another precipitous day, needs another Man from Illinois. Barak Obama has my money, my voice, my vote, and my prayers.