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

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (11315)	2/27/2008 6:55:41 PM
From: zeta1961	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

Not guilt for me either..as a matter of fact, I've given much thought to this and realize that I really don't own(for lack of a better term) the civil rights issues of America's past to the extent that my American born peers do..I was born in 1961 in Europe to parents of an isolated country(Albania)..JFK let us come here..shortly thereafter all that happened but we were too busy struggling to survive, go to school, etc and I was dealing with my own issues of being an immigrant's daughter that was part of a culture so unknown here in the US.. From the Bronx I wound up in Cambridge, MA during my early 20s where, as a nurse, I was exposed to liberal intellectual political thought and discourse..an amazing experience..hung out there 20 years..long enough to to also go from wide-eyed, 'you people speak for me' to a realistic, 'you don't have a lock on the best ideas'... Barack Obama's speech at the 04 DNC convention occurred during the height of my disillusionment/dissatisfaction with the Democrat party..I didn't even bother watching any of it live..when I heard about it on the news I figured he was just another poster child sanctioned to succeed by the machinery..I'd seen this at Harvard time and time again..but I started listening to his other speeches and positions and the more I read the more intriguing he became..it's his reasonableness, pragmatism rather than his rhetoric that is most attractive..imo.. Edit: I figured he was just another poster child sanctioned to succeed by the machinery..I'd seen this at Harvard time and time again To clarify, I'd seen this in various departments at Harvard from Women's Studies to Education because I developed friendships with folk there..certain people..male, female, black, white, whatever were 'chosen ones'... Besides, the POTUS position is too damn important to be a guilt-driven handout that even the so called wide eyed liberals realize..