“The United States of America is an extraordinary country. It is a country that has overcome many, many, now years, decades, actually a couple of centuries, of trying to make good on its principles. And I think what we are seeing is an extraordinary expression of the fact that ‘We the People’ is beginning to mean to all of us,” Condoleeza Rice on Barack Obama being the nominee of the Democratic Party
It’s almost like she’s saying this is the first time she’s proud of her country.
The point ? There is an historical significance in what we are witnessing that the right would do well to acknowledge rather than dismiss.
H/T: Andrew Sullivan
June 5th, 2008 at 4:01 pm
No, it’s not anything like saying that she’s proud of her country for the first time. It’s more like saying we’ve come a long way from being a country where black people were oppressed to one where there’s a black Presidential nominee, or a black Secretary of State.
June 5th, 2008 at 4:09 pm
Which isn’t much different from what Michelle Obama said.
It’s this simple — if the right wing thinks they are going to win this election by attacking the character of Barack Obama, they are going to find themselves very lonely on November 5th.
June 6th, 2008 at 1:00 am
What Michelle Obama said essentially ignores any progress we have made in regards to race. There was nothing in the past 230 years that has happened that she could be proud of?
I do agree with what you said about the character attacks on Obama. When I listen to conservative radio that’s all they can do. They have nothing positive to offer about a candidate, or what conservatives can do. They just find anything to knock Obama with.