The following is your comment on my Obama scat on FreeDarko.
You are right, R. Lobstah. We have lost all trace of consistency in American politics. Screw Obama; what we need is more Bush. THE MAN BELIEVES THE SAME THING TODAY AS HE DID EIGHT YEARS AGO, NO MATTER WHAT THE F#CK HAPPENS IN-BETWEEN. Consistency now, consistency always, consistency forever!
--- Obama isn't running against Bush, no matter how hard he tries to portray his current opponent as the incumbent.
--- You are not going to get a defense of everything Bush has done from me and you would certainly not get that defense from McCain. McCain was very much against the Bush-Rumsfeld stadegy for how to handle Iraq, from the beginning.
--- Unlike Obama (whose record is the most partisan of any Senator currenntly in office) McCain has shown the dexterity of reaching accross the aisle, making enemies in his own party. Heard of McCain-Feingold or McCain-Kennedy?
--- Consistency and stubbornness are two different things. One is a sign of character the other is a character flaw. Seeing the errors in a strategy and adjusting (ie The Surge) are the results of learning from mistakes. Obama's shifts, those I listed, were not that he learned he was wrong about his positions but rather that he decided his previous positions were unpopular. Suppose the President has to chose between an unpopular but correct position or a popular and hugely incorrect position, which decision do you think he aught to make?
So, Lobstah... you care that Obama distanced himself from Wright? You actually care? Or is it just something for you to bitch about? And now Obama wears a flag pin... please, let's go on caring about stuff like this. A pin. A three-inch piece of metal. This is what we're basing our decisions on. That's just fucking great.
--- I don't believe his distancing from Wright was genuine. If the Wrights, Ayers, Michelles and Rezkos of his life had never been so close to him as they were then I might have taken Obama's positions to be positive and genuine. The fact that Obama's intellectual upbringing is so tied to Socialist principles and that he advocates those aspects of Leftist policies so popular and yet failing in Europe, that he wants to set up those policies in the US, that he appeals to European views of America rather then the view and wishes of most Americans (including the Constitutional forefathers of our nation) is why I don't support him. His flip-flops only make an already bad candidate, obnoxious.
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P. Ami,
This is unrelated to this conversation, but I'm responding to a discussion we had a month ago on Forumblueandgold. I am reading a book by Genna Rae McNeil on Charles Hamilton Houston called Groundwork: Charles Hamilton Houston and the Struggle for Civil Rights. It's a good book, but perhaps more important, per our discussion of Woodrow Wilson, is the foreword by Judge A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr.
In the foreword, Higginbotham describes the "jungle of racism" that existed during Houston's lifetime and career. In particular, he has a segment referring to Woodrow Wilson:
'Apparently, Woodrow Wilson had no qualms about the plight of blacks. A black newspaper, The New York Age warned that Wilson, "both by inheritance and absorption... has most of the prejudices of the narrowest type of southern white people against the Negro." Princeton University, of which Woodrow Wilson was president from 1900 to 1910, was the only major northern school that excluded Negro students. Moreover, as governor of New Jersey from 1911 to 1912, his "progressivism" did not embrace the Negro. Wilson's "New Freedom" had been " all for the white man and little for the Negro." Wilson had not visited "any colored school, church, or gathering of colored people of any nature whatever." During his administration there was a steady "expansion of segregation in the federal department buildings in Washington, a policy which Taft had begun."'
A. Leon Higginbotham was a public servant for several administrations, District Court Judge for 13 years, Court of Appeals Judge, Third Circuit for another seventeen. He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1995, our nation's highest award given to civilians. He has written histories of institutionalized racism: legislative and court-case histories from Colonial America to the present day.
I realize that this blurb hardly constitutes a thorough treatment of Wilson, but I ran across this while reading and thought of our conversation. If you really want to get in it with me, I'm happy to; but I'm also very confident that you're not going to prove Wilson the Samaritan you thought he was.
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