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Edited on Sun Apr-13-08 04:34 PM by YvonneCa
...NOW.
This is JUST how they took Kerry out of 2008 with the 'botched joke.' MSNBC is reporting that Hillary is campaigning today with a "spring in her step", because she knows this is an opening for her to take Obama down. Democrats need to take this VERY seriously.
I am bitter. I am also frustrated and more than a little bit cynical that our politics will improve enough to make the changes that our country needs. But I DO have hope...abd that's because of Obama and Kerry and the Kennedys and the movement that is being built. I am VERY hopeful that we can overcome the politics of 'fear and smear.'
I just heard Hillary on MSNBC saying that Obama needed to 'explain' his remarks. Listening to her reminded me of the day I listened after the joke while she stabbed John Kerry in the back. I wasn't sure it it was on purpose, for political reasons. I now think it definitely was.
So...here's what I would like to hear Barack Obama say:
I DO NOT want him to backtrack or apologize (any more than he already has). I want him to say that people ARE bitter, frustrated and at their wits' end about politics designed to tear the country apart and prevent average (middle-class, working Americans) from having their needs met and their voices heard. I want him to say that he was NOT denigrating their deeply held values of the Second Amendment, religion, etc....or any 'liberal' values (list them) either.
What he WAS saying (as we here know) is that this 'bitterness' and frustration makes us SUSCEPTIBLE to having our values USED against our interests by POLITICIANS. George Bush (with Karl Rove's help) did that to us in 2000 and 2004. They used 'guns, god and gays" to manipulate the system. They used the traditional family values of the religious right for their own selfish political plans. The badly needed and enlightened leadership we needed from Al Gore and John Kerry was denied the country...and look at where we are now! John McCain and Hillary Clinton are using that same brand of politics in 2008. They denied us John Kerry (again) and are aiming at denying us Barack Obama...for their own self interest...over the interests of average, middle-class, working Americans.
To me, that is the very definition of elitist. What Gore and Kerry and Obama stand for is anything BUT. So, American people...a question. What do YOU stand for?
That's what I want to hear Obama say...with all the super delegates (Gore, Kerry, Kennedy, Dodd, Richardson, Carter, etc.) at his side.:patriot:
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