But last time I checked none of the posters here are running for President.
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In a very real way, the worldview of the future President of our country was shaped by the love and tolerance of this woman. Madelyn Dunham could have chosen to look at this boy and see his father -- a foreign man with a strange name who abandoned her daughter and his child. Instead, she chose to see this boy as family, showered him with unconditional love, and told him he could be anything he wanted to be.
And she was right.
I hope we can leave aside what this or that GOP operative might have said. That is not the future of this country. That is not productive. I'd rather Madelyn Dunham by attempting to see past differences and find a place of compassion.
]]>George W. Bush, your God fearing, flag-wavin', salt-o-the-earth Red State Real American President, has had 8 years to transform the country to his vision.
And here we are.
Run on your Party's record.
Everything else is hot air.
Obama has an aunt who is
1) Living in the country illegally
2) Living in public housing
and
3) Illegally donated money to his campaign?
Leaving aside whether it is relevant, Is it true? And if it is true, how is it a smear?
]]>It's a bold vision.
]]>Over the next generation, the Baby Boomers are going to have one last chance at revising their place in history. A chance to outgrow the endless adolescence you write about. After Clinton & Bush, the two Boomer presidents, have both gone down in flames in different ways (Clinton with the personal problems, and Bush the ideological), Boomers have to ask themselves what they want their legacy to be.
Do they want to leave a country saddled with debt, with huge economic disparities, a weak currency, and a world that is cynical about the American idea?
Or will Boomers be willing to give back -- to support the tax increases that MUST come -- and the reform of Medicare and the Health Insurance system.
God willing, the adults will be in charge for the next little while, and sacrifices will need to be made at every level of society. I can only hope that the "Me" generation, those who have sacrificed so little, will grab their chance at redemption.