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Hunky Dory.
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He could have even stuck an abbreviation in his name and become Irish, like O’Bama instead of sounding like Bin, whats-his-face.
All this fuss over Obama resigning from his church Trinity, and it would appear, brought on by adding yet more fuel on the embers of the Wright controversy by none other than a Catholic priest, Father Pfleger.
Unless philosophers become kings of our cities or unless those who now are kings and rulers become true philosophers, so that political power and philosophic intelligence converge . . . there can be no end to troubles, my dear Glaucon, in our cities or for all mankind.
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The Democrats and their nomination struggle highlights the deep intellectual ravine of middle America.
Knowledge, as a character and quality for the President, is not a prerequisite for this great nation. How daft can one be if they make statements like
“If Clinton is not the presidential niminee, then I will vote for McCain”.
The fact that these two individuals are from the opposite ends of the political spectrum, seemingly ,has no bearing, relevance or consequence, to one’s action.
Is prejudice sufficient to sway the masses? Apparently so!
It is a sad day for the world at large if the masses of USA are solely driven by age old racism. And, it makes a mockery of so called democracy.
Plato the Philosopher and trainer of statesmen had this to say
Unless philosophers become kings of our cities or unless those who now are kings and rulers become true philosophers, so that political power and philosophic intelligence converge . . . there can be no end to troubles, my dear Glaucon, in our cities or for all mankind.
The word appeasement has taken on that negative pong, unlike the positive phrase it should be and all because of the policy then to be labelled forever as the policy of Appeasement towards Hitler, by the UK, Chamberlains governement.
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I very much doubt that Obama has the same set of cicumstances to deal with. It would more appropriate if we have an image of Obama with a microphone in one hand and a club (metphorically speaking) in the other.
The context of the appeasement policy is important or we will believe that appeasement is the cowardly act, of giving in to a bully.
Europe feared the growing powers of Soviet russia and communism, hence Hitler seemed to be the simple, easy solution. After all, he only seeemed to be interested in Eastern Europe.
President Bush while speaking to the Knesset, the Israeli Parliament for their 60th anniversary, conveniently forgot that Henry Ford and Irenee du Pont financed Hitler during this time and even when war did break out, the Americans were not too keen to get invoved in European affairs.
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“Some people suggest that if the United States would just break ties with Israel, all our problems in the Middle East would go away.” He (Bush) did not say who those people were. Source
Barack Obama today accused President Bush of launching a “false political attack” after he appeared to compare the Democratic presidential hopeful’s foreign policy to appeasement of the Nazis.
Mr Bush triggered a row when he implied during a speech in the Israeli Parliament that Mr Obama’s willingness to talk to radical regimes was a dangerous “delusion”.
Although he did not refer to Mr Obama by name, the Illinois senator condemned the President for using Israel’s 60th birthday to attack Democratic contenders for the White House.
“Some seem to believe that we should negotiate with the terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along,” Mr Bush said.
A succinct explanantion of appeasement can be found here
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Some British people approved of Hitler’s policies.
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The British people hoped that a strong Germany would stop the growth of Communist Russia.
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Obama spoke , on health care, taxes, education and the war in Iraq. “It is more of the same versus change.”
Choose Barack Obama or John McCain. “It is the past versus the future. It has been asked and answered by generations before us, and now it is our turn to choose.”
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Watch Obama in Iowa and praising Senator Clinton.
Now it seems it’s all upto the maths or depends on who does the maths. Or how you slice the equation.
Fascinating!
Image courtesy of Viralpolitics
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What a blow to the Clinton cause; careering at the cusp of collapse.
Well! Can you imagine the backroom politicking that might have gone on to get John Edwards to join. Pause for a moment and consider the efforts of the Clinton camp to clinch Edwards endorsement! Surely, we should not be too surprised that now they can dismiss the effect of John Edwards endorsement.
Let’s not forget that this is an ex-rival.
His words strike a chord
“There’s one who understands the need to create one America, not two Americas, and that man is Barack Obama.”
…“You should never be hungry. You should never be homeless. You should never face the threat of poverty,” he said.
Photo copied from BBC News read the rest of it here.
Some speculate on the timing of this endorsement, but many will be pleased that the Obama ‘08 train is chugging along in the right direction.
Exciting! Isn’t it?
