Posted on 01/08/2008 3:25:11 PM PST by forkinsocket
Barack Obama, still fresh from his victory in Iowa last week and confident of another in New Hampshire tonight, has as his signature campaign theme the promise to "end the division" in America. Notice the irony: The scale of his Iowa victory, in a state that's 94% white, is perhaps the clearest indication so far that the division Mr. Obama promises to end has largely been put to rest.
Meanwhile, in Kenya last week a mob surrounded a church in which, according to an Associated Press report, "hundreds of terrified people had taken refuge." The church was put to flame, while the mob used machetes, Hutu-style, to hack to death whoever tried to escape. The killers in this case were of the Luo tribe, their victims were of the Kikuyu, and the issue over which they are bleeding is their own presidential election.
When foreigners assail Americans for being naive, it is often on account of contrasts like these. A nation in which the poor are defined by an income level that in most countries would make them prosperous is a nation that has all but forgotten the true meaning of poverty. A nation in which obesity is largely a problem of the poor (and anorexia of the upper-middle class) does not understand the word "hunger." A nation in which the most celebrated recent cases of racism, at Duke University or in Jena, La., are wholly or mostly contrived is not a racist nation. A nation in which our "division" is defined by the vitriol of Ann Coulter or James Carville is not a truly divided one--at least while Mr. Carville is married to Republican operative Mary Matalin and Ms. Coulter is romantically linked with New York City Democrat Andrew Stein.
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I definitely agree with this.
Interesting read.
Thanks!
I've been through more than 50 countries and don't find people in other countries to be the Illuminati they like to portray themselves as. They claim that we're naive because many Americans aren't intimately familiar with other countries...fine, but does it make more sense that someone from America would be familiar with, say, Namibia, or is it easier for someone in Namibia to be familiar with the world's most powerful nation, America, the nation with the most pervasive culture, America? So much of this is jealousy and resentment of American power, not true naivete on the part of Americans.
Bingo! Exactly.
1) Ann is not vitriolic. She may be brutally honest and with zero PC, - and thats why I like her!
2) Ann is no longer “romantically linked with New York City Democrat Andrew Stein.”
Hah!
Somebody please speak up at a press conference and confront him with this fact!
Why is Ann Coulter romantically linked to Andrew Stein. Inquiring minds want to know.
thanks, bfl
Because I'm spoken for.
btt
MEGA BUMP
One of the best editorials ever.
bookmarked!
They also forget that we are a melting pot... and that Americans can encounter many cultures right here.
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