Barack Hussein Obama’s “For a more perfect union” speech brings the class-race-ethnicity-culture clash-inclusion debate into another entire different level.
But is the world ready for it?
For a country like
In the country that was supposed to be a "Racial Democracy" for many years the future pointed out in order to deal with – obvious and not so obvious – problems with diversity might be anywhere in the future.
Take your own conclusions by watching the speech and reading the tape script in the New York Times.
Obama and his mother's parents on his graduation.- Read the New York Times' Bob Herbert column and Washington Post's Eugene Robinson's column about Obama's speech.
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After watching various Sunday talk shows today, it's more evident than ever why Barack Obama will be our next president and deserves to be.
The surge has failed. The Iraq war is surging. There is block by block, building by building, fighting in Bagdad. Is this our highly touted fight against al Qaeda? No way. We're helping Shiite fight against Shiite (both groups supported by Iran). Our $3 trillion, borrowed from our children to fight this war, is only benefiting the military industrial complex Ike warned us about. (This is why the USSR went down the tubes, bankrupted by military overspending. The USSR had to have a fire sale and was bought out by the Mafia. They've been trying to undo the damage ever since.) Meanwhile here at home, companies like Haliburton, Blackwater (Clinton' s chief campaign strategist Mark Penn is CEO of a company which provides PR for Blackwater) , and the defense industry in general are raking in big bucks.
And what's happening at home? Over 200,000 jobs lost in 2008 so far, over 80,000 in March. Our economy is in recession with a depression threatening. People are losing not only jobs but also pensions and health insurance. Previously, Hillary helped her husband and the Republicans push through NAFTA which resulted in an enormous loss of good manufacturing jobs. Now, because of massive war borrowing, the dollar is falling, and therefore the price of oil/barrel rising. We have inflation with rising gas and food prices. And house prices are tanking.
Due to Republican deregulation policies, there is a crisis in the mortgage industry requiring taxpayer bailouts, just as the S&L crisis required a massive taxpayer bailout. (McCain was one of the Keating 5 senators who helped S&L bankers rip off the US taxpayers.) The difference now is that we don't have the money for bailouts.
We also don't have the money to put people to work rebuilding infrastructure, to stabilize social security and medicare, to provide health insurance for all, or to stimulate the economy and create jobs in innovative ways. Why not? Just look at our national debt , skyrocketing thanks to this unnecessary war.
And who voted to authorize this war which is the root cause of our problems? Hillary and McCain. They rashly gambled with our future. Of the three candidates, only Barack had the patriotic good sense and judgment tp oppose the invasion. As he said in his famous 2002 speech, Saddam was no imminent threat to us, and an invasion would only increase terrorism. True.
And on the Sunday shows again this week there is more talk of going after Iran, no doubt to divert us from the disaster in Iraq. McCain ("bomb, bom, bomb Iran") and Hillary both voted for the Lieberman-Kyl Resolution which gives the government a green light to invade Iran. Both oppose talks.
As stated by the Iraq Study Group Report whose co-author Lee Hamilton supports Obama, the only solution is regional, ie talking to Iraq's neighbors including Iran and Syria. Only Barack has said unequivocally that he will do this. Only then can we bring peace to the region, bring our troops home, and start putting our money to work to bring this country back. Very soon the American people will see the truth.
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