Imaginary Blast from the PAST!

What with the bailouts, the petty gifts to the UK, and now this, yes, we have our proof 0bama was not ready for the big leagues.

Bigots never did willingly become reasonable. I suggest the police baton applied often to the right people in combination with years in prison for the more violent of the bigots set an example that other bigots did not want to experience. That more than anything else is what achieved civil rights. We have a holiday honoring Dr. King because he was smart enough to keep one side in check as to violence so the forces of the law could do their work on the violent lawless side. If Dr. King had not kept the blacks mostly non violent, the nation would have supported keeping blacks down and denying them their rights. That's why we have a holiday honoring Dr. King. He made civil rights possible by helping to keep blacks non violent so the forces of bigotry within law enforcement itself had no excuse but to side with the blacks in their struggle for the law to be obeyed that gave blacks equal rights. Anyone who thinks non violence by itself ever achieved anything does not understand how the world works.

lilnono, If you read closely, you will see we mostly agree. The only thing I disagree with that you have said or implied is that reason won the civil rights battle. I maintain it took intelligent non violence by the right people at the right time combined with the official threat of violence and on occaision, actual violence, against law breakers. The civil rights advocates were not breaking the law. Those opposed were. Law enforcement and the threat of force came to side with civil rights, not the bigots. The bigots lost. This is reality. I was alive at the time.

I understand that you don't like Obama but that doesn't change reality. Someone needs to start paying a lot more attention to PBS during black history month. A large part of the civil rights movement consisted of black people going to lunch counters and demanding service. How is that not asking bigots to be reasonable? Can you point me to some old footage of white people being attacked by the police during the civil right movement? I'm not saying it doesn't exist I just really want to see it. Any human with a functioning brain has the capacity to be reasonable. No amount of political opinion can change that. I know a lot of real life people who were active racist in their youths who grew up to perfectly well adjusted Americans who learned how to accept everybody. No one intentionally sets out to be evil. No matter how heinous a person's actions may be. Everyone who has ever done anything though themselves to be in the right at the time that they did it. People who do bad things do so because they have been given bad information and believe in things that are not true. If you can prove the truth to people you can get them to change their minds. The civil right movement worked because the people who were involved in it proved by their nonviolent actions that the stereotypes that many bigots believed about them were not true. Why do you think they call it prejudice? With all the segregation going on most of the people who thought that they hated black people had never even met a black person. Once black people got in their faces without doing any of the things the bigots expected they had no choice but to see the truth.

Thank you for your comment in response number 2. Heartfelt, persuasive and convincing. In the response above you mention the opium growing. This has probably a major impact as to what is happening. The Taliban at one time were actually ending the opium production. Many wonder how much this affected the decision to invade Afganistan and chase the Taliban out.

I actually heard on the news today that someone said 0bama has a hard time forcing himself to even try to get interested in foreign affairs. Oh... no... here we go again.

Yet Palin was dissed when she was percieved to be weak in foreign policy experience. If Palin was not eligible to be vice president based on that criteria, then by what stretch of the imagination is this clueless moron eligible to be president... especially given the fact that Palin had more executive experience of ANY of the candidates?

Governor Palin is an amazing woman. Her treatment at the word processors of the media and liberal pundits surely must have given many women pause for concern.