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-----Original Message-----
From: Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>
To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
Sent: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 9:21 am
Subject: Re: [Homestead] More on Barak Obama






On Mar 21, 2008, at 5:05 AM, Clansgian AT wmconnect.com wrote:
>
>> I challenge everyone who thinks Mr. Pretty Speech is the answer to
>> America's
>> problems to do their homework!
>
> And when you do the homework, you find a lot of his own writings
> (before and
> beyond his Audacity of Hope book [which he named after one of Wright's
> speeches]) and you look at the writings and teachings he admires,
> you find a lot of
> 'kill the white man' rhetoric.

I'm about halfway through The Audacity of Hope. I have not found any
"kill the white man" talk at all. Tell us whose writings and teachings
you admire and I bet we can find some bad stuff they have done.
>
> But beyond that, there isn't much.  After being hypnotized by the
> 'he' not
> Bush' mantra, people had a void of his real teachings.

I do not hypnotize easily. I am looking at him hard. So far I like him.

By the way, I did not see or hear the speech. I did read the full
text. I am very impressed. It said things that needed to be said and
that perhaps could only have been said by a black person. I think it
will be quoted for a long time.

>  When the Wright thing
> surfaced, it rushed in to fill the void.  Wright's teachings then
> BECOME his
> teachings for want of any other.

That is what his opponents want us to believe and focus on.

That attack may backfire. With only a modicum of information so far,
it appears to me that Wright has done many good things over many
years. His congregation includes a cross-section of Chicago, from poor
to rich, from ignorant to highly educated, from guppies to the
sophisticated.

Seems to me there is a lot of knee-jerking going on. A lot of people
are using the Wright imbroglio just as it was designed by campaign
experts and used by bloggers and reporters. We must stop allowing
ourselves to be manipulated by those whose paycheck requires that they
fill space with information, the more sensational the information the
bigger the paycheck.

I'm worried for my country. Seems to me we will stay divided and weak
until we learn enough patience, tolerance, and respect to make
decisions based on maximal knowledge. With the Internet now providing
almost instant information on almost every subject we are easily
convinced that we are sophisticated about economics and politics. That
is a personal failing multiplied large.

A final thought, folks. I, Gene GeRue, a long-time member of this
list, have posted some pretty hateful stuff about the current occupant
of the Oval Office. You have all read it. You continue to associate
with me. How would you like to be judged as hateful for continuing to
associate with me?


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