True conservatives are not attacking Obama. True conservatives are flocking to Obama. I know a 54 year old conservative republican that thinks Obama is better than the invention of the napkin. That 54 yo is now - get ready for this - is now a democrat that will be voting for Obama in the Pa primary. I know a bunch of conservative republicans that are in fact voting for Obama after switching parties this year. The power elite in the republican party are in for a shock - the conservatives that once followed the republican party did so because they believed in them - now they have no basis for belief in them. The in your face comments about no tolerance for religious conservativism is just what conservative needed to get off their backsides and look for a party that will listen to their views- they don't have to agree with us - but if they will listen to us we will come over in droves. Laugh if you like - but let me tell you... it won't take much to get a ton of conservatives to follow leaders like Obama.
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Forty years ago, President Lyndon Johnson's Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders released an acclaimed (and reviled) report that attempted to explain the urban riots of that era. That report challenged America to acknowledge its history of discrimination and its lingering effects and to end racial inequality. This year the Eisenhower Foundation, which considers itself the commission's successor, issued a report saying that not nearly enough has changed. Its CEO, Alan Curtis, like Obama, is banking on the hope that maybe this time is different. By focusing on the educational and economic problems that affect Americans of all colors, Curtis aspires to stimulate a new movement to meet the challenge the commission issued so many years ago.
But if the past is a guide, it seems more likely that the foundation's new report, like Obama's beautifully crafted speech, will stimulate some interesting discussions but little action. Indeed, Obama may well find some of his words hurled back at him by politicians, or their surrogates, less subtle of mind. They'll be intent on making him out to be not a transcendent, unifying figure, but just another black man wallowing in a history many Americans would rather forget.
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