Here's just part of his comments:
"Teaching our daughters to never allow images on television to tell them what they are worth; teaching our sons to treat women with respect, and to realize responsibility does not end at conception; that what makes them a man is not the ability to have a child but to raise one," he said. "That's a message we need to send."
Amen, Barack! This is what has to be said. This is what has to be done. As I also heard Barack say, "This is not what our leaders fought so hard for in the civil rights movement." To read the entire article, click here!
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In my opinion, our government should not be the one that tells adults how to be adults. Our government has enough to worry about. My parents were not told by their government how to be responsible adults, and how to raise their children. I think they learned more from their parents, and from God how to be good parents, good people, and how to raise good kids. I don't want to learn right form wrong from politicians who don't know right from wrong.
I agree about government not telling us how to live our lives. In this case, I meant a strong, educated, black man standing up and saying what needs to be said. In my opinion,if the black community is going to have better opportunities for their children and better communities, they have to stand up and take it back themselves. Black men have to decide to go to school instead of jail. They have to decide to rise above circumstance which is a very hard thing to do and rarely happens to anyone in dire circumstances. It's really what everyone regardless of race has to do but I'm glad to see to Barack taking a stand and leading the way for the black community. People need more role models like this instead of rappers, athletes and thugs (and stupid politicians like Jesse Jackson)...
you give a lot of credit to obama. have him say in his next speech what you said in your response to t.r. and he would no longer be the golden boy. the problem with his platform is that he says he wants to raise everyone up but he wants them to depend on the government to get it done.
kw
Is there a reason I shouldn't give Obama "a lot of credit?"
what has he done to deserve credit? he is doing a lot of talking, but we have nothing to look at. in his past, to give us confidence he can get it done. also, all his answers to the problems of today is to expand government, and throw money at it. we have seen that doesn't work. that is scary
kw
I think what is scary is that you were up at 6:51am on a Sunday blogging already!! :)
You know, Barack is not as old as many politicians as well. He hasn't had 50 years to show people what he can or cannot do in government. I think the fact that he had a single mom household where they struggled financially and he stayed focused, got through school, went to Harvard Law, was the Editor of Harvard Law Review, turned down big wall street money to go back home and work for his community, is a husband and father, part of the senate and doing things to make a difference counts for a lot. Maybe we haven't seen much yet but I would rather see what someone who is not a silver spoon, Yale flunky, I lied about my military service, let's just blow everyone up, keep people living in fear and stomp on the constitution and bill of rights person can do for a change!
Obama is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where he served as editor-in-chief of the Harvard Law Reveiw. After graduation, Obama worked as a community organizer and practiced as a civil rights attorney before serving in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004. From 1992 to 2004, he also taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School. As a member of the Democratic minority in the 109th Congress, he cosponsored legislation to control conventional weapons and to promote greater public accountability in the use of federal funds. He also made official trips to Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. In the current 110th Congress, he has sponsored legislation regarding lobbying and electoral fraud, climate change, nuclear terrorism, and care for returned U.S. military personnel. Since announcing his presidential campaign in February 2007, Obama has emphasized withdrawing American troops from Iraq, increasing energy independence, decreasing the influence of lobbyists, and promoting universal health care as top national priorities.
The mere fact that he gave up a prestigous and highly lucrative career as an big-firm attorney (where he would easily make more money than than the president) to work for civil rights and community organization is quite impressive - that's "putting his money where his mouth is." In fact, Obama was still paying off student loans when he wrote his first book.
I may not agree with all of Obama's policies, but it certainly isn't fair to characterize him as "all talk and no action."
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