This is a comment that I've been posting on the occasional right-wing blog when someone bloviates and nitpicks Sen. Obama's magnificent speech yesterday. ----------------------------------------It seems to me that your quibbling and nitpicking at Sen. Obama's address is motivated by his color; not black or white, but blue, instead of red. Some Republican partisans can't bring themselves to admit that the best candidate to be our next president could be riding a donkey.
You are in a dwindling minority, friends. There are thousands of us now that are sick of the Republican Party's corruption and philosphical backsliding (hello trillion-dollar deficits, endemic corruption and the largest new entitlement since Medicare -- under a Republican watch?!?). We're backing Sen. Obama's campaign now, because he's a leader that we might not always agree with, but we trust he'll hear our side in good faith.
This is a man with two children, who flies back and forth from Washington to Chicago every week; who didn't uproot his young family to Washington. Yet he has never missed a dance recital or PTA meeting. Now you say he is supposed to take a meeting with his pastor every time he disagrees with the sermon? Please. Sen. Obama's political priorities might not match mine, but his personal ones are the same, and I applaud that. His time in Chicago is precious, and his family deserves all of it.
Sen. Obama didn't say that his grandmother and his pastor are equivalent. He pointed out that all of us at sometime have reacted to or even participated in the poisonous racial undercurrent in our society. To disown Rev. Wright would be falling back on the safe, gutless politics of the last generation. I applaud the fact that Sen. Obama didn't throw his pastor under the bus. It shows loyalty to and respect for the man who brought him to salvation in Jesus Christ. He owes the man his everlasting soul; unless your Christianity is just a posture, you must respect that. It is further proof that he's doing things differently; even under extreme duress, he's not just another politician.
But all is not lost. When you're tired of your partisan tantrums, you're welcome to join us at the table. We're going to be talking about how to control the cost of healthcare. As any entrepeneur can tell you, it's crushing the American economy. If you can refrain from the name-calling, you'll have a place. Otherwise, you're just relegating yourself to the childrens' table, where you can play with your red and blue fingerpaints. When it comes to picking leaders, some of us are colorblind.
Sincerely,Michael Blackburn
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