Hi Ray, Interesting point of view. Obama was not as elected as much as a Republican was not elected. Quiet similar to when Reagan defeated Carter. Reagan was not as much elected as Carter was not elected. That year a pumpkin could have defeated a democrat. This year a pumpkin could have defeated a Republican and he just might have. Only time will tell. Reagan was a good speaker so is Obama. Reagan was a nice looking man, so is Obama. Reagan kept smiling, so does Obama. Reagan blamed the Democrats for the problems the country was experiencing, Obama blames Republicans. Reagan attacked Granada. Time will tell what Obama attacks. Reagan sold guns and drugs to finance operations that violated our Constitution. Reagan did not "recall." We can be assured Obama will "not recall." Both the National Budget and the National Deficit were larger when Reagan left office than when he entered. As they will be with Obama after one or two terms. The country survived Reagan and it will survive Obama. We either believe God raises up nations and takes nations down and that he raises up leaders and takes leaders down or we don't. Job 12:23 He makes nations great, and he destroys them; he enlarges nations, and leads them away. Daniel 2:21 He changes times and seasons; he removes kings and sets up kings; he gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to those who have understanding; There were good people in Israel when they went into captivity. Our job is to be Daniels and Mishaels and Hananiahs and Azariahs. The church has fallen on its face. It just might be time for us to standup, shake off the dust and get busy. We are told to pray for our leaders that we might live peaceful lives BECAUSE God wants everyone to be saved. We have prayed for our leaders so that we can live peaceful lives so that we can collect money, go on vacations and store up treasures on earth. It just might be a good time to rethink what we really believe.
Regards,
John Jenkins 865-803-8179 cell A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money. ---Everett Dirksen
--- On Mon, 3/2/09, Ray & Martha <arandm@charter.net> wrote:
From: Ray & Martha <arandm@charter.net>
Subject: Fw: A black woman's view on the election
To: "Alta & George Rowell" <garowell@frontiernet.net>
Date: Monday, March 2, 2009, 8:07 PM
The truth is the truth, no matter what you believe....
this is excellent....
Finally----an incredibly intelligent black woman speaks out about our new President.
REFRESHING READ!
A Black Woman's View on the Election
ANNE WORTHAM
Anne Wortham is Associate Professor of Sociology at Illinois State University and continuing Visiting Scholar at Stanford University 's Hoover Institution. She is a member of the American Sociological Association and the American Philosophical Association.
She has been a John M. Olin Foundation Faculty Fellow, and honored as a Distinguished Alumni of the Year by the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education.
In fall 1988 she was one of a select group of intellectuals who were featured in Bill Moyer's television series, "A World of Ideas." The transcript of her conversation with Moyers has been published in his book, A World of Ideas.
Dr. Wortham is author of "The Other Side of Racism: A Philosophical Study of Black Race Consciousness" which analyzes how race consciousness is transformed into political strategies and policy issues.
She has published numerous articles on the implications of individual rights for civil rights policy, and is currently writing a book on theories of social and cultural marginality.
Recently, she has published articles on the significance of multiculturalism and Afrocentricism in education, the politics of victimization and the social and political impact of political correctness. Shortly after an interview in 2004, she was awarded tenure.
This article by her is something.
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Fellow Americans,
Please know: I am Black; I grew up in the segregated South. I did not vote for Barack Obama; I wrote in Ron Paul's name as my choice for president. Most importantly, I am not race conscious. I do not require a Black president to know that I am a person of worth, and that life is worth living. I do not require a Black president to love the ideal of America .
I cannot join you in your celebration. I feel no elation. There is no smile on my face. I am not jumping with joy. There are no tears of triumph in my eyes. For such emotions and behavior to come from me, I would have to deny all that I know about the requirements of human flourishing and survival - all that I know about the history of the United States of America , all that I know about American race relations, and all that I know about Barack Obama as a politician. I would have to deny the nature of the "change" that Obama asserts has come to America ..
Most importantly, I would have to abnegate my certain understanding that you have chosen to sprint down the road to serfdom that we have been on for over a century. I would have to pretend that individual liberty has no value for the success of a human life. I would have to evade your rejection of the slender reed of capitalism on which your success and mine depend. I would have to think it somehow rational that 94 percent of the 12 million Blacks in this country voted for a man because he looks like them (that Blacks are permitted to play the race card), and that they were joined by self-declared "progressive" whites who voted for him because he doesn't look like them.
I would have to wipe my mind clean of all that I know about the kind of people who have advised and taught Barack Obama and will fill posts in his administration - political intellectuals like my former colleagues at the Harvard University 's Kennedy School of Government.
I would have to believe that "fairness" is equivalent of justice. I would have to believe that man who asks me to "go forward in a new spirit of service, in a new service of sacrifice" is speaking in my interest. I would have to accept the premise of a man that economic prosperity comes from the "bottom up," and who arrogantly believes that he can will it into existence by the use of government force. I would have to admire a man who thinks the standard of living of the masses can be improved by destroying the most productive and the generators of wealth.
Finally, Americans, I would have to erase from my consciousness the scene of 125,000 screaming, crying, cheering people in Grant Park, Chicago irrationally chanting "Yes We Can!" Finally, I would have to wipe all memory of all the times I have heard politicians, pundits, journalists, editorialists, bloggers and intellectuals declare that capitalism is dead - and no one, including especially Alan Greenspan, objected to their assumption that the particular version of the anti-capitalistic mentality that they want to replace with their own version of anti-capitalism is anything remotely equivalent to capitalism.
So you have made history, Americans. You and your children have elected a Black man to the office of the president of the United States , the wounded giant of the world. The battle between John Wayne and Jane Fonda is over - and that Fonda won. Eugene McCarthy and George McGovern must be very happy men. Jimmie Carter, too. And the Kennedys have at last gotten their Kennedy look-a-like. The self-righteous welfare statists in the suburbs can feel warm moments of satisfaction for having elected a Black person.
So, toast yourselves: 60s countercultural radicals, 80s yuppies and 90s bourgeois bohemians. Toast yourselves, Black America. Shout your glee Harvard, Princeton , Yale, Duke, Stanford, and Berkeley. You have elected not an individual who is qualified to be president, but a Black man who, like the pragmatist Franklin Roosevelt, promises to - Do Something! You now have someone who has picked up the baton of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society. But you have also foolishly traded your freedom and mine - what little there is left - for the chance to feel good.
There is nothing in me that can share your happy obliviousness.
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