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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Justin C who wrote (69101)	7/22/2009 5:01:17 PM
From: MJ	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224686

That was the lack of experience we were all referring to about Obama during the campaign A sketch of Mr. Obama: Obama went to Harvard, was editor of the Harvard Law Review, and was a community organizer in Chicago, he undercut a female candidate for Illinois State Senate---to be elected, gave a speech at the Democrat National Convention and won the US Senate Race-----against the authentic African- American Alan Keyes. Then Obama spent his two years in the US Senate campaigning for office and exploring America and the world. Claims to have gotten his law degree in Constitutional Law. No business experience and no military experiencce. His claim about knowing the Constitution simply astounds me when he didn't even geographically know the USA and its history, nor the number of states in America. The Peter Principle applies to Obama----he has now reached his level of incompetence. jmho mj

To: Justin C who wrote (69101)	7/22/2009 5:18:17 PM
From: MJ	2 Recommendations Respond to of 224686

Justin In contrast to Obama read about Alan Keyes, an authentic African-American------ wrightrepublican.blogspot.com I am taking the liberty of posting part of Alan Keyes remarks: "Dave, Barak Obama is black like me only in the sense that we both have dark skin- I.e., a purely physical characteristic. To expect me to identify with him on that basis would require that I validate the concept of race ( i.e., grouping people based on physical characteristics). I have written and said over the years that I reject this concept, and that the only way to overcome racism is to reject the concept of race. Because human beings are not stones, but persons, our communities are not the result of merely physical characteristics. The very idea of race in this sense is a modern lie tied to the dogma of evolution. I believe that human communities reflect the moral nature of our humanity. They are formed therefore by adherence to common moral principles, as that adherence is developed and reflected in the course of shared historical experience. Understood in this proper sense, Obama and I are not part of the same ethnic group. My heritage includes the experience of slavery, the moral sensibility to injustice and to the importance of respecting the premises of human dignity and freedom. Obama looks back to a heritage that probably includes forbears who were part of the Afro-Islamic groups of Africans who were active in the slave trade. By itself that might be of only superficial importance, but his views on the fundamental moral issues of the day (like the taking of innocent human life) mean that he rejects the premise of God-given moral equality for all men that I hold to be the true soul of the black American identity. The notion that I should take special pride in the election of such a man simply because of his skin color implies that I put the false and humanly contrived category of race above the category of common moral principle that is the true basis for human community. I do not and never will. The tragic irony is that people whose feelings and reactions are shaped by racial solidarity implicitly validate the concepts that were the basis for racist views and discrimination. They implicitly reject the hope that Martin Luther King expressed that someday people would be judged for the content of their character not the color of their skins. As they do so, they destroy the moral substance that is the true and righteous legacy of the black American heritage in order to revel in the triumph of the very racism that was used to justify the enslavement of my ancestors. This is a desperately sad self-contradiction. I will be no part of it." mj