Missing the Story

Amy, that dude didn’t intentionally kill Roberta softly with his song, he just did. That’s how powerful emotions work.

Well said, Amy. The right-leaning TV networks want to politely ignore the unmitigated joy that abounds in the land with the departure of George W. Bush and his minions. Good riddance. You bet everyone is sick of it.

As usual the on air pundits and anchors had no clue about the feelings of the public. Much comment was made about the speech not being one of his best. When reporters asked random members of the public what they thought, most of the public thought the speech set the right tone. Most replied that there was a lot of work to do to set the country on the right course. The pundits were oblivious.

When GW ‘s Executive One took off, I felt such a sense of relief. Seeing Cheney in a wheelchair (temporariliy) Spoke volumes about hoW the Bush administration was perceived.

I do think that the Obamas give the country a different perspective of African-Americans than can be transmitted by the mostly Whitebread MSM news anchors and pundits. That is important for the country and minority youth.

Excellent observation, Amy. The “conventional wisdom” purveyors are trying too hard to shape the perception of this President, and I expect him to confound them.

He didn’t “dwell” on it, but he did acknowledge the historical element of the election as the first black president.

This is the meaning of our liberty and our creed — why men and women and children of every race and every faith can join in celebration across this magnificent Mall, and why a man whose father less than sixty years ago might not have been served at a local restaurant can now stand before you to take a most sacred oath.

I think the real point is that pundits were searching for punchlines which would make their life much easier. Instead Obama gave us a speech that was thought provoking as well as unifying throughout. To disect his speech you have to be able to peel back the layers and actually engage in deep thinking, something the MSM folks haven’t had to do for at least the last 8 years if not more. And thats why you see all the grumbling today.

The reason regular folks were felt good about the speech is because it was real to us. It didn’t feel like a stump speech filled with “youtube” moments because it wasn’t. Instead it was an open and honest monologue about where we have been, where we are, where we are yet to go and what it will take to get there.

bad formating. The last two paragraphs shouldn’t be double blockquoted.

Do any of the highlight reels include this paragraph?
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As for our common defense, we reject as false the choice between our safety and our ideals. Our founding fathers, faced with perils we can scarcely imagine, drafted a charter to assure the rule of law and the rights of man, a charter expanded by the blood of generations. Those ideals still light the world, and we will not give them up for expedience’s sake
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They are, after all, among the most important words in the entire speesh.

I’ll repeat what I said in a comment yesterday to AS’s Obama Zen pt 2 post, which went on a bit about Obama and MLK:

I am white, so there is no way I would even try to work out or imagine how the election and thankfully soon to come inauguration of Barack Obama appears and feels to African Americans, especially those around my age (mid 50s) and older. I revere Martin Luther King, Jr.’s life and legacy, and Obama may be a realization of parts of King’s dreams (and of the dreams of the brave and bloodied civil rights movement he and others led), but I think the greatest success of that work comes from the fact that Obama can step from that historical platform to a much larger stage. Irrespective of race and background, Barack Obama is the President of the United States, he is my President, if you like (and I am enormously happy that he is). I think to see Obama and his role in the world today through a lens based in part on the role of Martin Luther King in US history is fundamentally mistaken. That may be the way to tell the historical story, the “narrative arc” as they say, but Obama as a political leader and as a political agent stepped away from that arc a long time ago. This is not to say that the joy with which people of all races view Obama’s success is unrelated to the admiration they feel for the cruel struggles that Dr King and the civil rights movement fought. But I frankly think that incessant discussion of Obama as the “heir of King” etc does more to shackle Obama’s possibilities and opportunities than to enlarge and clarify them.

Also, while Obama may be “young,” Dr. King was younger at the time of his death.

Thoughtful and thought provoking. Lawrence O’Donnell and his tribe have great faith in their ability to tell me what I think. I see President Obama as my President who happens to be Black. He is the first African-American President and I know that. But he is more than that to me. After wandering in the desert for the past 8 years I am relieved to hear my President tell me that WE have to pull together to make things work. I was not told to go shopping.

The “doesn’t he know he’s the first black president?” schtick reminded me of a funny story about Paul McCartney. A few years after his marriage to Linda Eastman (who at the time of their marriage had a daughter, Heather), McCartney was taking grade school age (or whatever the English education system wording of that phrase should be) Heather to school. During the journey, Heather turned to step dad and said, “Are you Paul McCartney?”

So much for speed reading, Amy. because when I saw the “Missing the story”, I thought this was a mea culpa on your career as a journalist. So much for wishful thinking.
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The missed story was contained in his speech about the past 8 years of government being wasted.
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I think many voters judged the President on “the content of his character” when they voted for him rather than the color of his skin, nor whether he was a good Christian.
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Yesterday was historic because:

a) An african american became President
b) A man who believes that government can work for the people became President.
c) Someone competent became President.
d) Someone who believes in the rule of law became President.
e) All of the above.

“E” is the correct description of yesterday. why should anyone be influence by the elctronic media Amy? They only provide infotainment.

Amy Sullivan: “[Obama] talked about…moving away from the politics and policies of the Bush era, the goal of making Americans proud of their country again, ….” “[M]aking Americans proud of their country again”? Evidently, Sullivan and Obama haven’t heard that the members of the pro-America community (i.e., Republicans) do not hate America and don’t need Obama and Sullivan in order to become “proud of their country again”. Maybe Sullivan and Obama should stick to attempting to make themselves, their supporters and Michelle “For the first time in my adult life, I am proud of my country” Obama “proud of their country again.”

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BTW, what did that race baiting buffoon Joseph “Jeremiah Wright” Lowery mean when he pleaded for a time “when white will embrace what is right”?

[...] out how odd it is that the American media are going heavy on Obama’s race, and thusly are missing the story «: “Of course, the unrelenting focus on historic firsts is easier than pointing out that a [...]

dumdedumdum,I do believe that in the African-American community there will be an impact. Obama is “smooth and cool”, but his is intelligent. A new role model exists for youth. The real race discussion will be going on in the African-American community out of earshot of w=the MSM punditry. Michael Baisden, Tom Joyner, etc will be bringing up the issue on Black radio.

Gw had limited verbal skills and intellect, yet he was elected President. Blacks understood that Colin Powell, Condoleeza Rice, Vernon Jordan ,etc. would never have risen to their level if they were limited by the mental “gifts” of GW Bush.

Part of the reason for the boos that GW got from Blacks in the audience was a realization that he had benefited from being White and born into wealth. Thankfully, GW is no longer President. Obama will give rise to a discussion on race. The discussion will just happen in the African-American community and be carried on Black radio and by Bill Cosby James McWhorter and others. “MSM” will not keep the rest of the country in the loop.

Exactly, Amy. Thanks for putting it so well. Also, bitterpill8 (above): “Lawrence O’Donnell and his tribe have great faith in their ability to tell me what I think.” Very quickly I had to turn off the TV yesterday, after Obama’s speech. Just could not listen to another talking head tell me what this moment meant to … ME! They just have no idea why their influence is shrinking, but I think part of the reason is that more people are realizing they kinda like to just have the facts laid out in full — and then come to their own conclusions. At least, I do. We don’t need to be told how to feel … not that we ever really did.

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Hey! An Amy Sullivan post I can agree with! For me, anyway, this election was less about getting a black person or a Democrat into the White House and more about cutting the bullsh!t and getting this country back on track.
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Funny how the media’s opinions always seem to lag about six months behind popular sentiment.
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(laughing, pointing at textee)

textee, the reason that most Americans needed to shower emotionally is that GW Bush, Cheney, and you make us feel dirty as Americans. You don’t uphold the Constitution and play to the racists in the country.

Good riddance.

The reason that the historic crowd stood in the cold to see the change in administration was to document that your type of political thinking was being rejected.

Limbaugh has said that he hopes that Obama fails. The true Anti-Americans align with your political thought process.

Well, it’s part of the story. It’s tough for too many lazy/superficial media folk to see past a Sesame Street approach – “One of these things is not like the others.”
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That said, the racial perspective is the easiest illustration of the change from exclusion to inclusion in the overall approach to governance embodied in the new president. African Americans’ justified expressions of enthusiasm may also be the easiest illustrations of a broader resurgence of optimism.
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The story wasn’t entirely missed – it was just presented superficially, largely due to the dumbing-down demands of commercial visual media.

rmrd, I’m sure Obama’s candidacy, election and term(s I hope) as President will have an impact on the African American community that has to do with Obama’s racial background. They will also have an impact on the white communities, one that is related to racial issues. But that is not the point of Obama’s Presidency, and not part of the role of the President of the USA in the current situation. The more those issues are conflated, the less informative analysis will be.

Three cheers for free speech, which gives us the opportunity to judge our Limbaughs and textees by the content of their character.

But if the coverage was absurd leading up to Obama’s speech yesterday [...]

Indeed, it was.

Completely agree Amy. In fact, it’s not only insulting to Obama, it’s insulting to the American electorate, as if we can’t be intelligent enough to make the decision to vote for him simply because he was the most qualified candidate. As a minority, yes there are symbolic and very powerful overtures because he is the first ‘MINORITY’ president – that’s right I made it for all of us not just African-Americans – but the fact of the matter is, I’m sure that for many, their vote for Obama was a clear repudiation of the ideologies and political policies of the GOP. Conservatives, or really the MSM in general can paint it however the want. The voters know the truth, this is just one more example of how the MSM fails us.

Good call Amy.

Okay, guys, this is a really good post. Everyone who gives Sullivan grief should man up and give her props. You’d do it for Joe, she deserves the same.

Well, I think you do “get to see the soul of the country” in the fact that America elected an African-American president – not because of his race but precisly because we think he’ll do a better job.
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Otherwise this post is spot-on. As for “the choice between our safety and our ideals”, the DC pundits are complicit with the outgoing gang on this one, so it’s no wonder they don’t care to dwell on it.
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rmrd: As usual the on air pundits and anchors had no clue about the feelings of the public. Yep. These are the same people who called every debate for McCain.

Good post, Amy. Although I haven’t been spared the first black president hype entirely, thanks to C-span, I didn’t have to listen to that or any other talking suit gibberish.

dumdedumdum I think that the race issue and the rise to the Presidency are intertwined. It speaks volumes about where the country and African-Americans have come. Don’t worry, MSM is going to revert to covering issues rather than race in short order. The major reason for the change will be in inherent inability of MSM to discuss issues at an adult level.

Remember the national discussion on race that the MSM was gearing up for after the Philadelphia race speech? Never happened.

Great post Amy. While I certainly understand why so many people are mostly excited by the racial aspect of all of this, it has NOTHING to do with why I was/am such a supporter. If he was a white, 60 year old guy with the same personality and mind, it would be the same. Ok, well, obviously, if he was white and 60 there’s no way he could be the same guy, but I think you get it…

Like a lot of pundits, what they write and what they say, while ostensibly about someone else, is really all about themselves. Their importance, their deep insight and especially their historical perspective. You just thought they were celebrating Obama, they were celebrating themselves…as usual.

Sorry Amy but I’m with Andy #11. I was hoping for an acknowledgement of your short comings — I guess hope springs eternal.
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Of course, the msm took the easy route and spoke solely of the historic first. But I’m offended that you think your route is any more substantive. This election was about many things to many people, yet you are just as certain that it is what it appears to be through the lens from which you view the world.
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To many voters the idea of electing an African American president drove them with a passion born of 400 years of deferred citizenship that has never been seen before and may never again be duplicated.
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There were those whose responded to a sense of idealism not witnessed since the sixties, when we through off the yoke of an authoritative establishment yearning for a more just union.
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And there were those whose passion was driven by the election of a black man, not because of its historic nature but because a black man is the perennial outsider and only someone outside of the club would dare speak the truth needed to throw out the money changers.
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SG– is also correct. President Obama spoke directly of the historic nature of his presidency. And while he did not dwell on it overtly, he did dwell on it covertly weaving it throughout the fabric of his speech. Amy is your brain so tuned to the singular narrative that you could only see race in terms of what this would mean to blacks in this country and around the world. As he called us all to serve a nation in crisis, he also spoke to how this historic election stood as proof that anything is possible. His image alone shouted that no matter how daunting the road ahead if we can do this we can meet any challenge.
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President Obama has been from the outset an instruction in nuance. His demand that we put away childish things is in essence a demand to stop thinking like a child, egocentric and without the tools of empathy and projection To think as an adult is to have nuanced positions, to understand that no situation is black and white, either or.
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While you may think your rebuke is high minded, it is no different in structure from those who focused solely on the racial component. Until the press can recognize that every problem we face has multiple layers and that they must report the goings on from multiple perspectives at best, they may hope to be useless. And at the very worst they may continue to be what they have been for the last eight years — hurtful and counterproductive.
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Amy these are serious times and your and your brethren need to step up to the plate. I know this does not fit in well with your tendencies to rely on false equivalencies and adversarial formats. But frankly, than ks to Obama it is now the world we live in.

The first black president issue is relevant but just overdone. He is the first black person of such impressive skill and connection with the society at large that he won the election. To imply that a large measure of his election was race is to deminish the real reason he was elected, his vast intelligence and skill.
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Also, a problem with MSM that I have is that such a point isn’t just made and then we move on, we are beat over the head with it again and again. Watching C-span, I wondered about why Cheney was in a wheel chair and later what had happened to Kennedy during the lunch. I could have gone to the major networks to find out, but it was much more interesting to find out as things progressed. I just wanted to hear about those things once, not 5 times every 5 minutes.

rmrd, a discussion of race would be interesting and useful. It would be most useful I think if it took place below the radar of the MSM, closer to where people actually interact with one another. But I suggest all that, however important to American civil society, has little to do with what an Obama administration has to do if it is to successfully clear its very full plate.

Great post Amy. I have to concur with the zeitgeist here as well, I couldn’t believe when everywhere I looked pundits were proclaiming this as one of Obama’s “bad” speeches. Personally, I loved the part that Dirks mentioned, as well as the final paragraph,
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“America, in the face of our common dangers, in this winter of our hardship, let us remember these timeless words; with hope and virtue… let it be said by our children’s children that when we were tested we refused to let this journey end, that we did not turn back nor did we falter; and with eyes fixed on the horizon and God’s grace upon us, we carried forth that great gift of freedom and delivered it safely to future generations.”

I was wondering who would be the first useful idiot from the Washington press corps to call the pro-America community “Obama haters”. Then I found Amy Sullivan’s dutifully written press release for the Obama campaign and its conspiracy theorists posted by Time magazine on August 8, 2008 (August 8, 2008!!!!) where Sullivan dutifully finds what Sullivan calls the “Obama haters”. I guess I shouldn’t have expected Obama’s press release writers at Time magazine and elsewhwere to wait to warn the world of those “Obama haters”. How long will it take Time magazine to have its first cover story on the “OBAMA HATERS”? Does anyone know if any of the Bush haters from Time, ABC, NBC, CBS, ABC, PBS, NPR, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Associated (with terrorists) Press, al McClatchy, al Reuters, al Jazeera, the New York Times, the Washington Post, USA Today, Newsweek or Sports Illustrated ever uttered the words “Bush haters” in print or on television? Don’t bet on it.

Dee in Columbia MD, well said

textee rants ……I was wondering who would be the first useful idiot from the Washington press corps to call the pro-America community “Obama haters”.

First some scripture
When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.”  ‑ 1 Corinthians 13:11

We have come to expect childish posts from you and your fellow travelers on Swampland. Rush Limbaugh wants Obama to fail. He wants the GOP to participate in a program to make sure Obama fails. How is that not Anti-American? How is Limbaugh not an “Obama Hater” to use your term. How are you not an “Obama Hater”?

The flag waving, Constitution loving patriots who stood in the cold in DC to participate in the inauguration and reject your style of politics know that they are the true Americans.

They know who the real Anti-Americans are, Hint: take your hood off and look in the mirror.

@rmrd — don’t feed the troll. You can poke him from time to time for you own amusement, but don’t attempt to engage them in rational thought, they tend to multiply

Question for fellow commentors…and its not to stir the pot in terms of her ability, but in regards to the MSM…do you think they would have been so heavy-handed with the First Woman President comments if Hillary had won? Just wanted to see if other folks believe the MSM incapable of actually understanding why the electorate actually picked someone.

ymmartin — I think they would’ve treated Hillary exactly the same, because they always go for the photo-op. When the story is the image they don’t have to work very hard at explaining. You’d think they would have nothing better to do but apparently they don’t like having to explain things in depth. Of course they would have enjoyed adding one little thing to the narrative — they would have constantly referred to the 2-for-1 Clinton deal and proclaim this Bill’s unconstitutional third term.

agree with Dee. “She’s a girl, the first one” would be widespread, but perhaps overshadowed by “what to do with/about Bill?” yammering.

“When they dig up the time capsule, the folks from the future are going to wonder why we kept talking about the color of his skin…”
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Good lord. Do you have any idea how much time “the folks from the future” (assuming that there are any) are going to spend trying to figure why the press of the late 20th and early 21st centuries kept talking about irrelevant crap while the planet was burned to the ground? Better be a big capsule, buried deep.

It agravates me when commentators ramble on to the point of absudity just to fill time, even when watching something like golf on TV, i.e. “Tiger knows this shot is crucial and he’s feeling immense pressure.” How the hell do they know what he’s thinking and feeling?
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Obama is a “total package” – meaning you can’t separate his race from his values from his ideas from his energy from his charisma from any other qualities in this complex man. Yesterday was a sea of different emotions for all people the world over, and it’s rediculous to try and coin a phrase that can describe that.

it would be weird though if newspaper put it as a backdrop to bush leaving. most people had to personally confront and overcome their feelings to vote for him, and its an appropriate celebration. i don’t think anyone is unaware that bush’s gone though. But u need to ask urself why bush-hating books aren’t selling anymore, and why u think bush-hating on cable would have any positive impact on viewership ratings while the whole nation is anxious and depressed.

@Dee, I was merely amusing myself on a slow day.

I’m not sure how to feel about this. It’s Amy Sullivan, but it’s a well-written, insightful post.
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I’ll have to mull this over.

Why is Barack Obama always listed as an “African-American”? Wasn’t he born in the US? He is an American that happens to be of African descent. I don’t think of myself as a Bohemian-American, but as an American. If we drop the name tags, we can move forward in this great nation and get something positive done without regard to race, creed, or anything else that detracts from the real issue at hand.

You lost me at “Morning Joe”.

We’re seeing a pattern of Obama working outside the narrative frame. As when he decided to remove the business tax cuts, and the media tried to define who had won, and how Obama lost.
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This win/loss frame is essential to the media’s coverage of policy matters. It means they don’t have to learn about the policies themselves, but just define who the players are, and what constitutes “winning.” This is also “balanced” coverage. They don’t have to actually analyze the policy and figure out how it will work, and which side has the strongest argument, or who the beneficiaries are on each side of the legislation. Doing so might lead to a conclusion that “favors” one policy over another. So the politicization of the DoJ was about how Rove lost, not how the DoJ’s mission was compromised by horrendous policy-making. Also, looking at the construction of legislation as an athletic contest allows them to look like savvy insiders, which, more than anything else, they want to be.
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But when Obama says, “I heard persuasive arguments that the policy was a mistake. I decided we were wrong, and changed our mind,” he’s operating outside this frame. When he insists on talking about governance rather than his historic position, he’s also operating outside their frame.
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it’s not that Obama is working outside the narrative frame, it’s that those who make up the narrative frames (is that the set of folks called “the village?”) don’t have a good sense of what’s going on. It’s the narrative framers who are “working outside,” misconstruing, and misrepresenting. Obama’s just working.

“[I]t’s not that Obama is working outside the narrative frame, it’s that those who make up the narrative frames (is that the set of folks called “the village?”) don’t have a good sense of what’s going on.”
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I think what Jay is saying is that Obama’s commitment to substance and policy falls outside the narratives with which the corporate press will, or perhaps can, engage. I think he’s right.
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What I’ve seen is a political press that operates on a purely political level. It’s as if they can’t see substance and policy at all. My sense is that by both disposition and career training, most people who make it to any heights in journalism really do think only in those terms – perhaps that’s part of the reason they seem so empathetic to Republicans. If you think about it, a high-level career in journalism (most fields really) is all about how well you master the politics of media corporations so politics really consumes their lives.
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It would be only natural, if you happened to be a pure political animal, to project that viewpoint on everyone and everything you saw. In any event, the product is proof that major journalists and their editors and owners are so focused on the political, rather than the substantial, they’ve lost touch with the substantial requirements of their own industry – telling the public the truth about what’s actually important.

OK,number our news media is trashing viewers process on thinking..
Remember everything in news isn’t true.

We must focus on the budget. If we fail to correct our budget within
years the need for money may end…because we are a starting point.

If needed I’ll fix our budget. It’s not that hard….

CONSPIRACY THEROY! WHAT DO OBAMA-BIDEN , BUSH-CHENEY , REAGAN-BUSH HAVE IN COMMON BESIDES PRESIDENTS AND VICE PRESIDENTS! HOW ABOUT EACH HAS 10 LETTERS COMBINED IN THERE LAST NAMES- JUST LIKE OTHER COMMANDERS IN CHEIFS IN THE PAST! IS THIS BY CHANCE OR A DIVINE CODE!

I stumbled into this story. See for yourself:

“No He Can’t” by Prof. Anne Wortham carried by Michael Eden in his Blog http://startthinkingright.wordpress.com/2009/01/31/no-he-cant-by-prof-anne-wortham/

I became an immediate Impressed Admirer of Anne Wortham, yes. That’s what I am, and I mean I am highly impressed and an immediate devoted admirer of Anne Wortham.

But you will understand if I keep the higher accolades for Anne Wortham’s own letter. I get into the habit of repeating that I have never seen because I used it just a few days ago in another article but this is even a better place to say I have never seen any better expose on Election 2008 than from Anne Wortham.

She exposes the half-truths [read that as blatant lies and distortions] of Obama’s ascendancy to the Presidency and does so irrefutably from the depth of her own achievements, moral beliefs and the high standards she set for herself, plus her success in reaching and maintaining them, all with the gentle sureness of someone who knows who she is.

I shall be watching her career and hope others are influenced to reach her levels of achievement and the richness of self-fulfillment that always come with that.

I notice she herself doesn’t dwell on Ayn Rand that is also mentioned in the article and I agree with the statement about that personage. Dr. Anne Wortham has a clear mind without all the woolen ideology put forward by Rand. The latter doesn’t in my humble view reach the realities that Anne Wortham lives by.

And she exposes the myths of Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle.

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I think the American people should be given more credit than what your observation reflects. Especially, the African American, and/or any other race considered the minority to include women. The joy of Barrack Obama being elected (and in him just happening to be dark complected) is his color not being a barrier to being elected President of United States. That is what we have been saying all along and most eliquently spoken by Martin Luther King, who said, and I am not quoting, but paraphrasing, “Judge me not by the color of my skin, but by the content of my character.” African Americans have been slighted for so many opportunities to truly achieve the so call American dream simply because they were not olive complected. Barrack Obama being elected into the presidency has rekindled the hope that we can be anything we want to be. If we can see it in our minds eye, we can achieve it-period. No color barriers. The importance of Barrack Obama being elected is keeping hope alive as it should be for all americans.

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This is what I was thinking we might use for your mail-order products.

Amendments 4 and 5 of The United States Bill Of Rights protect the right to be free of unwarranted and unwanted government intrusion into one’s personal and private affairs, papers, and possessions. Article 12 of The United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights states, “No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.”

BO Jr is NOT a natural born citizen per Article II Sec 2 of the U.S. Constitution. He is , therefore, ineligible to serve as the President of this Nation. According to the family narrative– he is the biological son of Barack Obama Sr. ,British Subject/Kenyan citizen; a foreigner; NOT an immigrant to the United States. If born of an American citizen parent(1) he is an American citizen, if born on the soil(Hawaii) then he is , additionally; a native born american citizen. However, since he was born of a foreigner(his biological father never became, in fact , never even sought American citizenship)then he is, alas, NOT a NATURAL BORN AMERICAN CITIZEN. Natural born is not the same as native born it is far more expansive and includes the child’s hereditary right.
BO II was born with split allegiances and did not fall under the full jurisdiction of the United States government at the time of his birth

I KNOW THAT THIS MIGHT NOT BE THE BEST FORUM FOR AN OBSERVATION OR ARTICLE OF THIS SORT BUT HOPE THAT IT WOULD BE APPRECIATED IN THE CONTEXT OF THE CONCERNS DEVELOPED AND THE NEED WHICH IT SEEKS TO ADDRESS, WITH AN APPRECIATION FOR THE INTENT WITH WHICH IT WAS WRITTEN.

I have noted with horror the overt frequency of air crafts breaking into pieces and with this development,there seems to be a minimal prospect of finding survivors or chance of reducing injuries to an acceptable level to those on board and concerned families. This has prompted me to ponder on the matter for a while and thereby, make the subsequent suggest that there should be some new considerations, as it relates necessarily to the construction of today’s air craft (primarily commercial) which should be revisited. It is my my view that rather than assemble the air craft in or with its whole parts, that it should be constructed on a chasis or frame on which the body parts would be subsequently attached. Although, this process may be far more expensive (to the manufacturer budget)than the preassembled installations presently used, it is indeed my view that this new approach would help to reduce the frequency in which the air craft breaks into minute pieces, thus making it impossible to reconstruct the air craft in an endeavour to determine the cause of the crash. The assumption being once the chasis/frame is firmly constructed it would be somewhat more difficult for the plane to disintegrate in mid air in the manner that it does, making flight and black box data almost impossible to retrieve. Evidence of this is the transatlantic flights (inclusive the Airbus crash from Brazil in June) and I strongly recommended that this idea should not be dismissed as frivolous, ignorant of air craft engineering or layman perspective – I beleive that it is worth a thought, because it is likely to prevent the structure from being totally disintegrated and in the process, protect human life and even the investment in the industry.

Yes, the election of the very first African-American President was historic.

Do you remember the days when we were taught that this country is the melting pot of world cultures? What is it, to be an American then?
Can Identity be defined without considering Culture?
Of all the people that have come to this country, they tend to be culturally polarized. They then visit the American culture but return ho their native culture before midnight Two exceptions exist: The Native American. They were told that they were defeated but could continue to be the Indian nations on their RESERVATIONS only or adopt the American culture. Then there was the African Slave and those that resemble them. They were systematically striped of their native cultures and languages but were not immediately accepted as human let alone an American. The News made it clear that Our President had a White Parent. Did that sanitize the African portion or per our constitution, 50% is better than .25%. Tiger Woods made it clear that he is not African American but African Philippine. Does this make him less an American?

So, what’s the problem? Is it Cultural, Racial or is it a matter of Anthropological Maturation?

President Obama may just well be the first black or to be politically correct, African American president, however, that is not an issue to dwell on. In his speech, he did make a comment or two addressing the “PAST”, but eloquently moved on to address the real issues needing to be addressed here in the U.S.
While the politicians want to sweep the real issues of the Bush administration under the rug, Obama tries to ‘keep it real’. That is why Americans chose him as president, not because of the color of his skin. To be honest, the reality of it all, is that had it been solely for the color of his skin, he wouldn’t be in office today. So yes, an African American has made his mark in American history. He is not the first, and I am sure will not be the last. Get over it and help make the necessary changes this country needs. Just keeping it real!

everyone is for free speech,but God wonts us to be kind,careing for others,if we all look hard enough as we should be doing we can find something good to tell about everyone on earth.try to look for the good also.

The fact that while in Cairo , Obama could talk about the prospect of a nuclear Iran and at the same time completely ignore the fact that Israel has a few hundred nuclear weapons simply shows how powerful the cabal running America is.Make no mistakes, Obama can only go so far.

And while we are at this thing, it is amazing ASEAN ignores the fact that Mossad and the illegal Mynmmar government have been cooperating behind the scenes leaves me mystified completely.

I voted for George W Bush and I would do it again.Obama is doing the best that he can do.everyone keeps forgetting this fact- that No one is perfect not one on this earth,only God is perfect in everyway ,america is free because we believe in God/Jesus and go out of our way to help each other and other countrys who need and deserve our help/pertection-so that other countrys can have freedom like we are blessed to have and we thank GOD/JESUS everyday.

Wall sculpturing art is a subject to fixed standards and measurements but here our artist has another imagination where he used thickness not exceed than one centimeter with different width and heights.
Here creativity appears because it transmits the viewer to a live wall sculpturing through the reflected light on work, so it gives unreal deepness (sight Illusion).
The artist used this new technique that was originated by nature since 1982 in his earliest shape until it reached spontaneously to what it is now.

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Politics changes like the wind. It blows in every possible direction. If you ask me about a new law that will be implemented, I couldn’t tell you. I will continue commenting in your TIME comments, and maybe learn something.
Thanks, Earl

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http://shady80baby-shady80baby.blogspot.com I want your opinions on our new president?

Sadly, months or years from now, Americans will rue the day O’Bama was elected President