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Lieberman & Palin On Unity and...Divisiveness
Already, it seems like a couple of years ago that Lieberman stood up to regale the citizenry with his vision of unity through his candidate McCain. Lieberman, you see, who the record will show spoke for some time last night, on September 3, 2008, of his belief that now is the time for unity, got to observe the fruits of his choice a day later when McCain's VP selection, Mrs. Palin, opted for the culture war message. It appears that Lieberman agreed to speak on behalf of McCain so that the McCain campaign, a day later, could pit "cosmopolitan elitists" against "small town folks," or something along those lines. How exactly we will all be unified in the end is not exactly clear to the admittedly reluctant observer of goings-on at the GOP convention, but one thing seems clear: Lieberman will no doubt turn up again in the coming days to participate in McCain's openly divisive message so as to strive for a "united" America at some magical point in the future. Who knows? Maybe all those elitist, cosmopolitan types will take the animosity in stride.
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Seems to me that unity thing is Obama's special talent. He's told us over and over, "that we
are not as divided as our politics suggests." There was even a video of that speech by william. You remember, the one where he told us, "that we are one people; we are one nation." Most everyone here told me how beautiful and wonderful and oh so true. How great Obama is and how all those republicans are going to be voting for him.
I remember him telling us about how, "You can be the new majority who can lead this nation out of a long political darkness." I'm guessing you, like most of the people here, are part of that "new majority." You know, the ones "who know that we can disagree without being disagreeable."
Oh it was a beautiful thing how you and the other Obama supporters were able disagree without being disagreeable during the democratic primary.
I'm sure it will be the same during the GE. I mean look at how Obama supporters disagreed with Palin, all the time not being disagreeable.
I'm enthralled and I'm intrigued. I can't wait to see the One bring us all to unity and heal the divisions and yes, even heal this nation. I'm sure it will start here and all I have to do is look at how Obama's supporters act, those who are, "the new majority who can lead this nation out of a long political darkness" to see and understand who Obama is and what this nation will be like if he's elected.
September 4, 2008 5:53 AM | Reply | Permalink
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