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<DIV>On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 23:31:47 -0700 "Discussion of the Good, Clean Funnies
List" <<A href="mailto:gcfl-discuss@gcfl.net">gcfl-discuss@gcfl.net</A>>
writes:</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000080 face=Candara size=4>Gosh, I love it when some of the
people in my group are identified as OLD and it's NOT ME!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000080 face=Candara size=4>Lance, hush, child.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000080 face=Candara size=4>Jeanene</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000080 face=Candara size=4></FONT> </DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message -----</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">Where have Frank and that other older guy
gotten to anyway?</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<DIV>Remember Jeanene, I'M older than you are too. Once you got over the idea
that I was a 28 year old woman, you should have that firmly fixed in your
mind.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Well, since you opened up the topic, here's my next commentary, which
will probably not convince you at all, but may be something Lance would
ponder. Lance isn't going to make up his mind for months, and if you don't
have a firm commitment to one candidate or the other, that is a very wise
approach.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>There is a fascinating Op=Ed on Obama at</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><A
href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/11/opinion/11friedman.html?em&ex=1213329600&en=73f9e543d23fb884&ei=5087%0A">http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/11/opinion/11friedman.html?em&ex=1213329600&en=73f9e543d23fb884&ei=5087%0A</A></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>The columnist says Obama will probably get into trouble for what the
columnist wrote, but I look at it a little differently. Yes, there are some
American voters who will hear one word about one Muslim anywhere in the world
who likes Obama, and decide not to vote for him. But most of the folks in
places like West Virginia and Ohio and South Carolina (all states I have
become familiar with over the years, where I have many friends) would be glad
to consider this:</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Obama appeals to ordinary people on the street, not to kings and
presidents and imams. That is a plus, because the ORGANIZED forces who are
hostile to America are, in the end, politicians, violent or not, who have to
secure their own base. The way to undermine them is, in part, to deny them the
popular support necessary to survive and to act.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>The most significant part of the conversation is when two Arab guys ask
each other, wow, a dark-skinned man whose middle name is Hussein, whose father
is Kenyan, and he could be president of the United States? Could anything like
that happen here? (No way. A Coptic Christian be elected president of Egypt? A
Shia Muslim be prime minister of Saudi Arabia? Forget it.) Don't forget,
American is already a place where an openly practicing Muslim can be elected
to congress by a district with an overwhelmingly Christian majority.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>So this is the best side of America. This is showing how we really are a
unique country that really does have something to teach and offer to the world
after all.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Some of that will rub off of course. Obama is already having to firmly
deny false rumors that he himself is Muslim, and the fact that he has to deny
it to vociferously will take some of the shine off of his image around the
world. Plus, he has had to unequivocally state that support for Israel and an
undivided Jerusalem is non-negotiable to get through the election, when
sensible policy would dictate a bit more flexibility in arriving at a solution
everyone could (begrudgingly) live with.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>But the bottom line for me is this:</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Barack Obama, more than any candidate who ran this year, certainly more
than John McCain, will inspire the rest of the world to love and respect the
USA again. It would be awfully good to get some of that attitude back
again.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Siarlys</DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>
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