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To: SilentZ who wrote (411287)8/29/2008 6:11:20 AM
From: Brumar89  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1575348
 
Obama is a member of the group considered most disadvantaged. How come he got through Harvard Law and got into the Senate?



To: SilentZ who wrote (411287)8/29/2008 11:06:23 AM
From: Tenchusatsu  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1575348
 
Z, > You know how I feel about faith. Hard work and individual responsibility are good values, but for some groups of people, the odds of hard work and responsibility paying off for them significantly are much, much lower than for others.

a) Even the Democrats opened up their convention with a word of prayer:

Democrats open faith-filled convention with prayer

news.yahoo.com

b) Equal opportunity does not mean equal outcomes. Either that, or I should be able to do a high-tech startup and be guaranteed the same outcome as Google.

Tenchusatsu