Posted on 01/05/2008 2:34:38 PM PST by Shermy
""...Obama's finest speeches do not excite. They do not inform. They don't even really inspire. They elevate. They enmesh you in a grander moment, as if history has stopped flowing passively by, and, just for an instant, contracted around you, made you aware of its presence, and your role in it. He is not the Word made flesh, but the triumph of word over flesh, over color, over despair. The other great leaders I've heard guide us towards a better politics, but Obama is, at his best, able to call us back to our highest selves, to the place where America exists as a glittering ideal, and where we, its honored inhabitants, seem capable of achieving it, and thus of sharing in its meaning and transcendence...""
(Excerpt) Read more at prospect.org ...
I like you name. It’s so true.
Thanks! Though it looks like she may be the False Prophet though.
Well, one thing is for sure. Obama is not admitting to anything but being a black man. Makes no difference that he is half white or Muslum because those not so hidden truths should not matter to the voting public.
Like it shouldn’t matter that he has hidden or covered up his heritage and that his being a Muslum is the religion of America’s enemy.
It’s his hope that should matter. What hope? This guy is still wet behind the ears. No thanks.
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