5 Jun 2008

Obama has a mountain to climb

The Boston tour bus 1989

By Matt Frei ...................................AFP
BBC News, Washington

The man who once walked on water has been limping of late, his feet weighed down by a whole catalogue of sinking issues - race, elitism, an excess of academic aloofness in times of gritty gravity.

For millions of Americans, who have not read his book, who do not read the New York Times and who do not follow politics obsessively on the cable TV networks, he is a blank canvas, which his opponents can paint on.
That is dangerous and that is why one recent opinion poll suggested 15% of Americans still believe - astonishingly - that he is a Muslim................
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God may bless America but only the spirit of the founding fathers will save America.......these coming months will test that spirit in a way not seen since the sixties......Martin Luther King climbed a mountain 45 years ago, looked over, saw the promised land......and paid the price...this time around let the people not the gun speak ......loud and clear........