Clinton to Suspend Campaign, Endorse Obama on Friday.

Ahem (4.00 / 3)

I'm so not into identity politics, but on Friday it'll be, as it has been for a couple centuries and change, two dudes wrangling for

This election, despite two men being involved is vastly different than anything that's ever gone before it.

When Barack Obama was born, African Americans in large numbers didn't even have the right to vote. Human beings were tortured and gunned down like dogs by cowards in sheets for simply organizing voter registration.  Talk about terrorism.

Lynching wasn't about protecting "Lilly Belle's"honor. The victims were chosen for political reasons.

I think Messrs. Goodman, Schwerner and Chaney wouldn't think this election is the same as all the others. Or Emmet Till. Or Medger Evers. Or Malcolm X. Or Martin Luther King Jr. Or those girls in the Birmingham church. Or Fannie Lou Hamer. Or Mary McLeod Bethune. Or Sojourner Truth...And all the others, whose names we know and names we don't know, who suffered incredible injustice and still managed to maintain their dignity and contribute their blood, sweat and tears to this country.

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by: Jennifer Daler @ Thu Jun 05, 2008 at 07:03:31 AM CDT

A tribute to "Lilly Belle" (4.00 / 1)

CSNY w/Nils Lofgren (acoustic)

Skynyrd's take

Hope!

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by: Jack Mitchell @ Thu Jun 05, 2008 at 07:18:02 AM CDT

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When you going to stop grappling, Jack? n/t (4.00 / 1)

Feeling hopeful since 2004...

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by: Kelly Nordstrom @ Thu Jun 05, 2008 at 12:53:14 PM CDT

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Thanks for reminding me (4.00 / 1)

Let's see how the giant looks on Sunday. BTW,

After the pre-emptive strike against the American Navy stationed in Pearl Harbor, The Japanese High Command was confident that the United States would never rally its culturally fragmented society to the degree necessary to intervene with the imperial aspirations of the Rising Sun. Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, having spent time in the US while attending Harvard University, knew otherwise. He is believed to have told the High Command, "I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve."

We the people....are the giant.

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by: Jack Mitchell @ Thu Jun 05, 2008 at 16:16:26 PM CDT

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Everything you say is true. (4.00 / 2)

And it's why I front-paged Garth's "History" post. I am an uncle to bi-racial children - this is an earth-shattering moment in their country's history, and it's happening in their lifetimes. When Obama becomes president, they can look at him and quite literally see themselves in him.

But it doesn't change the fact that on Friday Saturday, it'll be, as it has been for a couple centuries and change, two dudes wrangling for POTUS.

One can celebrate the former and still make note of the latter, especially on the heels of the departure of the first viable female candidate for president.

I'm so not into identity politics.

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by: Dean Barker @ Thu Jun 05, 2008 at 18:43:17 PM CDT

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May the best homo sapien win. (0.00 / 0)

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by: Douglas E. Lindner @ Fri Jun 06, 2008 at 11:48:53 AM CDT

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I agree with you except for one technicality. (4.00 / 1)

African Americans did have the right to vote; they were denied that right in very large numbers.

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by: Douglas E. Lindner @ Fri Jun 06, 2008 at 11:47:37 AM CDT

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