Hello, I heard Dr. Isseldin Abuelaish, MD, MPH, speak here in the East Bay last Friday. He is the man whose daughters and niece were killed by Israeli bombs. He is the first doctor to practice in Israeli hospitals, a peace maker. He has asked for support for the establishment of a fund for women and female children in his family's name. He would like to get a meeting with Michelle Obama and talk with her about supporting his effort.
Does anyone have any ideas?
Thanks,
Tom
Barack Obama should not have had to resign and take his family from Trinity United Church of Christ. The propagandists who are stirring up whatever they can to undermine his bid for the U.S. Presidency have simply spread lies about the preaching and teaching of Rev. Wright.
Barack Obama should not have had to condemn Rev. Wright for political cover. The realities of the Afro-American experience in the U.S. are truths that have to be told and incorporated into basic U.S. History. Without people like Wright, the white majority would deny this history or relegate it to closets of history that would be locked from public view. I have listened to the so called hate speeches and find no hate in them, only exhortations to face the truth and, more importantly, to reconcile, to heal, to be one.
Now leaving his church he is doing so again forced by the reality of politics and distorting the truth about his own experience at the church and in his spiritual journey. It shouldn't be this way.
I am saddened by Sen. Obama's rejection of Rev. Wright.
I want to believe that the Senator didn't have time to really study the substance and context of the snippets that have purposely been whipped around the universe to defeat the Senator's bid for the presidency. I have watched Bill Moyer's interview with Rev. Wright and I do not see or hear a racist, or a basher of the United States. I can only imagine that the Senator hasn't had time to look at that full exposure of Rev. Wright's substance.
The Senator must be reacting to the demagogues who have assassinated Rev. Wright's character, trumping up stories/inuendoes that they use to expose his "evil" "racist" "US-hating" character. Otherwise I'm even more dismayed with the Senator's judgment of what Rev. Wright has actually said even this week.
His sermon with the "chickens coming home to roost" was an excellent exhortation to deal with aggression such as 9-11 with more aggression and instead to use compassion and to stop the vicious cycle. His use of the chicken analogy was a quote from Amb Ed Peck. But even if it were invented by Rev. Wright the analogy and the context of the sermon could not be taken as a racist, slanderous remark. The Bush "doctrine" that the attack was because they despise our freedom is what the anti-Wright/Obama crusaders are paying allegiance to. The concept of "blowback" is a reality, even in the kindergarten playground.
Not being able to accept the our sins against humanity is what is wrong, not Rev. Wright's prophetic preaching.
I'm sorry Sen. Obama has rejected Rev. Wright. I disagree with his rejection and I hope, lose or win the White House, that he will get it straight.
Tom Luce
Jan. 18, 2008
Dear Michelle and the team, (in response to today's e-mail from the campaign) I am shocked beyond words listening to Barack's praise of Ronald Reagan. Repeating the propaganda script that we all understood at that time, a likeable guy who wanted to bring about change through positive vision.... is absolutely unacceptable for a candidate who wants real change to undo the immense damage of the Reagan trickle down economic policies. No amount of advice from political backers that you must woo people from the Reagan camp is worth selling yourself out and the masses of poor, middle-class folks we want to serve. Please change this, repudiate this mistake or this abysmal ignorance of the Reagan era! Sincerely, Tom Luce
