Posted on 08/28/2008 3:32:59 PM PDT by Starman417
I love Ward Connerly. Simple as that. Were he running for office on any party ticket, it would take some strong competition to tear my vote away. I'd even smile at a Ward Connerly/Bill "Fat Albert" Cosby ticket.
Connerly is a powerhouse dedicated to tearing down the mentality of inequality in America that masquerades as "equality" under affirmative action. After successfully passing California's Prop 209, Connerly founded The American Civil Rights Institute together with President of National Review, Dusty Rhodes, back in 1996. The Institude was designed to educate the public on the harms of racial and gender preferences... calling for equality for *all*.
Connerly and Obama go head to head on affirmative action... with Connerly stating the policies impede the progress the US has achieved in the post Martin Luther King era. Indeed, Obama himself is an example of how far the US has come. This would be the same American that Obama says is "not what it once was", and the America he does not want for his girls.
It does make you wonder... if Obama got this far in the America it "once was", just what does he envision for his daughters? Opportunity certainly has not been outside his grasp.
Today's NRO has Connerly's article, "Senator Obama, You're no King", accusing him of not following the path of Martin Luther King's "dream".
At the time of Dr. King’s “dream” that his four little children would “one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character,” Sen. Barack Obama — a man whose mother was white and whose father was black — was just two years old.Although he often said that he might not be with us when we got to the “Promised Land” of full freedom, Dr. King gave the country that he loved so much an assignment. Telling us that his dream was “deeply rooted in the American dream,” Dr. King urged America to “rise up and live out the true meaning of your creed: We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal.”
In the fullness of time, the American people have done precisely what Dr. King urged us to do: We have worked diligently to create a nation in which skin color is not a barrier to opportunity.
All Americans owe a debt to Martin Luther King Jr. It was his “dream” that altered America’s approach to race and profoundly changed our nation from one with different levels of citizenship for blacks and for whites to one in which equality is the law and “colorblindness” remains the national objective, despite the intrusion of “diversity” pursuits at all levels of our lives.
And, yet, despite our progress, there is one issue that stands in the way of our completely fulfilling King’s dream; and that is race-based affirmative-action preferences. On this issue, Sen. Obama has cast his lot with those who seek to ignore America’s racial progress and who, instead, prefer to sustain race and ethnic preferences that impede our progress.
~~~The question that screams out at us is why, in the face of all of America’s progress with regard to race, Sen. Obama does not fully embrace the complete fulfillment of King’s dream by supporting efforts to ensure that all Americans are “judged not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” Anyone who truly wants to pay homage to Dr. King should complete the journey that he charted.
Connerly had held out high hopes for Obama in the earlier stages of his campaign. But in June of this year, his desperate hopes that Sen. Barack Obama was not one of the same tired voices who peddle arguments about "institutional racism." were dashed completely after reading an interview of Obama by USA Today's DeWayne Wickham. In a WSJ opinion piece, Obama is No 'Post-Racial' Candidate, he laid out his problem with the man he had hoped would be a "transformative leader".
(Excerpt) Read more at Flopping Aces ...
He’s not John Fitzgerald Kennedy and he’s not Abraham Lincoln either.
No one will ever imitate the genius of Abraham Lincoln.
Obambi is more like Ethelred the Unready.
I was thinking of that fool fake Indian. Ward Churchill.
Ward Cleaver??????
Ward Bump
Unfortunately the MSM will ignore this in favor of their kissing Obamessiah’s pope ring.
He isn’t even Jimmy Carter. Pretty sad that the worst President in history had more experience as this guy.
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