traveler <Vallecito@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in news:362a385b-b1d8-48cb-8969-
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> The Clinton team fails to grasp it, as will the McCain team and
> conservatives in general. The appeal of Barack Obama is not because
> he is black. His appeal is because he appears to be the most
> presidential individual among the current crop of candidates,
> including the ones who have already dropped out. I'd been willing to
> give him the benefit of the doubt until I actually saw a clip of him
> speaking. It's not a matter of his rhetorical style or flourish.
> That sort of thing doesn't impress me much. It's his entire
> demeanor. The guy's personality just says leader. I won't say he
> reminds me of John F. Kennedy because no politician since then has
> come close to the sort of assurred, intelligent, and balanced grip on
> power that he displayed, neither among the conservatives nor the
> liberals. But Obama has the capacity to stand above the pack and he
> certainly stands heads above his current political opponents.
> Back in the sixties, when Civil Rights was one of the biggest
> issues facing the nation, white liberals were among its most ardent
> sup****ters. They went down South and marched with the NAACP and
> SNCC. But when young black militants like Malcom X, Eldgridge
> Cleaver, Stokely Carmichael, and others took the ideological lead away
> from nonviolent leaders like Martin Luther King, one of the first
> things they got around to pointing out was that white liberals were
> nothing but closet racists. Geraldine Ferraro's remarks, as sincere
> as she wanted them understood, might fall into this category. I
> submit that among Hillary Clinton's sup****ters are a good percentage
> of closet racists, which is why they keep falling back on the idea
> that somehow Obama is too inexperienced, too young, or too black to be
> president.
> The fact is, Obama appears to be the more qualified candidate and
> certainly displays a more presidential demeanor, apart from his desire
> to remain above the gutter politics the Clintons live to indulge.
> When he faces McCain in the general election, the choice will be
> obvious. We will pick the old man who pur****ts to stand for security
> and wisdom but who hasn't changed his mind about the way to approach
> such concerns for the last 40 years, or we will pick the young,
> energetic idealist who may stumble a time or two but who ultimately
> will be better able to deal with new threats and new challenges.
>
I think you are right.
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