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Barack Obama is a brave guy
Posted By katie allison granju
I’ve said it before and I will say it again: whether you support Obama or McCain or a third party candidate, you have to give Obama credit for the guts it takes to put himself and his family out there on the campaign trail, when activist racists like David Duke are saying scary things like this:
“Obama will be a signal, a clear signal for millions of our people,” Duke wrote in an essay entitled “A Black Flag for White America” last week. “Obama is like that new big dark spot on your arm that finally sends you to the doctor for some real medicine. … Obama is the pain that let’s [sic] your body know that something is dreadfully wrong. Obama will let the American people know that there is a real cancer eating away at the heart of our country and Republican aspirin will not only not cure it, but only masks the pain and makes you think you don’t need radical surgery. … My bet is that whether Obama wins or loses in November, millions of European Americans will inevitably react with new awareness of their heritage and the need for them to defend and advance it.”
Let’s hope that very few people care any more what David Duke has to say on this - or any other subject.
Jun 12th, 2008
I think, as I am sure many other white people think, that David Duke is an ignorant ass.
On the other hand I do think that Obama will be a disaster for the US and comparisons to another ‘Carter’ Presidency are accurate and fair comment. If Obama wins his policies won’t cause people to rise up, it will casue people to wise up and kick him out of office four years later.
Obama is a very ignorant and naive man. As President he would be a remarkably dangerous one.
I do not agree with you. One person can bring about change, and as anthropologist Margaret Mead said, “…it is really the only way significant change in this world has ever occurred.” We shall cite Jesus here, lest you doubt it. Barack Obama is not Jesus, but there is a very good chance that he is our next Theodore Roosevelt. In a very similar time in American history, Teddy was also naive enough to think that he could break the iron grip on government and private lives by the industrial monopolies owned by Carnegie, Frick, Rockefeller, Vanderbilt, etc. I suspect that his interests in natural resource conservation and other issues were thought to be similarly naive. However, as history shows, he did break the monopolies and natural resource conservation became an important part of the American conversation. We also got a really good Navy out of the deal.