[GCFL-discuss] Goodbye Hillary

[Discussion of the Good, Clean Funnies List]

On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 23:31:47 -0700 "Discussion of the Good, Clean Funnies
List" <gcfl-discuss at gcfl.net> writes:
Gosh, I love it when some of the people in my group are identified as OLD
and it's NOT ME!
Lance, hush, child.
Jeanene
 
----- Original Message -----
Where have Frank and that other older guy gotten to anyway?
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.

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.

There is a fascinating Op=Ed on Obama at

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/11/opinion/11friedman.html?em&ex=121332960
0&en=73f9e543d23fb884&ei=5087%0A

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:

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.

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.

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.

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.

But the bottom line for me is this:

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.

Siarlys
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