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The really right answer…
(3)From Colin Powell’s endorsement of Barack Obama (my emphasis):
I’m also troubled by, not what Senator McCain says, but what members of the party say. And it is permitted to be said such things as, “Well, you know that Mr. Obama is a Muslim.” Well, the correct answer is, he is not a Muslim, he’s a Christian. He’s always been a Christian. But the really right answer is, what if he is? Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country? The answer’s no, that’s not America. Is there something wrong with some seven-year-old Muslim-American kid believing that he or she could be president? Yet, I have heard senior members of my own party drop the suggestion, “He’s a Muslim and he might be associated terrorists.” This is not the way we should be doing it in America.
See Echidne for a not-quite-so-right answer from Fareed Zakaria
Barack Obama, Colin Powell
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Leadership on display.
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PATRITOISM QUESTIONED.
I actually wonder how far this is going to go. Seems the Right accuses the left of not being patriotic, or at least not enough. On Hardball I saw Rep Michele Bauchmann(R) Minnesota question weather Bama was Anti-American, and that all members of congress should be investigated to see who is American or Anti-American. I can’t understand it, Palin able to somehow get a crowd of people into such a frenzy, seems they are ready to attack a person if he says he is a Democrat.
Perhaps reality is hitting them in the face ….. As Gov. Richardson said of the Clintons, they are just trying to cling to the throne, and it is looking smaller and smaller as it gets further away. -
Anybody who reads this blog remember HUAC? McCarthy?
The problem for me is that Bush/Cheney have gone a long way toward establishing a throne in the Oval Office and we as a people need to work hard toward getting our leaders to put some restraints on the president, whoever he is.
Also, one of the things I’ve always disliked intensely, if not despised, about the Bushes is that they are such mean campaigners, not hesitating to use race baiting and character assassination. For some reason, though, that doesn’t seem to be working out so well for McCain. Much of what is going on in the McCain campaign seems to be born of desperation. I wish I could say this is the end of “politics of personal destruction” but somehow I doubt it.
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