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Originally posted by Kidicious
I only saw the introduction where he talked about his origin. Is he liberal or moderate. A black democrat running for president would have to be moderate to the point of boardering on conservative to have any chance. Still, I don't think he would win.
I only saw the introduction where he talked about his origin. Is he liberal or moderate. A black democrat running for president would have to be moderate to the point of boardering on conservative to have any chance. Still, I don't think he would win.
This part of his speech sure doesn't sound like an extremist liberal!
Now, don't get me wrong, the people I meet in small towns and big cities and diners and office parks, they don't expect government to solves all of their problems. They know they have to work hard to get a head. And they want to.
Go into the collar counties around Chicago, and people will tell you: They don't want their tax money wasted by a welfare agency or by the Pentagon.
Go into any inner-city neighborhood, and folks will tell you that government alone can't teach kids to learn.
OBAMA: They know that parents have to teach, that children can't achieve unless we raise their expectations and turn off the television sets and eradicate the slander that says a black youth with a book is acting white. They know those things.
People don't expect -- people don't expect government to solve all their problems.
Go into the collar counties around Chicago, and people will tell you: They don't want their tax money wasted by a welfare agency or by the Pentagon.
Go into any inner-city neighborhood, and folks will tell you that government alone can't teach kids to learn.
OBAMA: They know that parents have to teach, that children can't achieve unless we raise their expectations and turn off the television sets and eradicate the slander that says a black youth with a book is acting white. They know those things.
People don't expect -- people don't expect government to solve all their problems.
The conservative commentators I heard actually compared him to a Ronald Regan in the way it reached out to moderates and swing voters. Bob Dole by the way gave the speech an "A".
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A speech ain't going tell you what he can or can't do. By that measure Mario Cuomo (the first 'two Americas' speech back in 1984) should be President by now (his speech has been included in numerous collections of greatest American speeches, including Torricelli's great book).
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