Advocate wrote:What I am sick of seeing is McCain and others on the right saying we can't leave until we have victory. What is victory in those countries. Say that peace somehow breaks out in, say, Iraq, and we leave declaring victory. There is an excellent chance that a civil war will soon after break out. That is the history of the area over centuries.
Dear advocate:
No disrespect, but this will be my last post. Undergoing hand surgery and recovery is 6-8 weeks. Will be off group, until then. Mid-September sometime. You can send a private message if you like, but I have to close down several forums, to have a clear mailbox. Look, McCain is a good American. Not a great American, just a good American. To make Obama look like he is some other, means, being white matters and anything else, just doesn't measure quite up!
I have been Black all my life and make no excuse for being Black in America. It is what it is. My parents were sick of the system they had to live under and after having served this country during all of the major wars, said enough. In 1954, I was 10, in Catholic School but segregated in the South. I was born and raised Catholic and when an attempt was made in 1960, to integrate the Catholic Schools in New Orleans, it was met with violence.
I didn't want to attend an integrated school, if I had to be subjected to the rage I saw on TV. I stayed at the Prep School, my own mother attended and my sister before me. When I moved East, I found more prejudice here, than I experienced in the south. Subtle, but always there.
I have a son, close to Barack Obama's age. This is the "dream" Martin King, spoke of. My generation boycotted, marched, sat in, and protested up to today. We were the "flower children" of the 60's! I did everything but the drugs and wanted to do that, too! I didn't want my children to suffer what I did and they know all about the movement of the 60's and 70's. They too, unfortunatedly have felt the sting of prejudice.
A politician is a politician, whether they be Black or White. McCain and Obama are politicians okay? You have to discern, whose lies are the best ones! It's all political propaganda. They're going to look out for #1, FIRST! The best we can do is vote in the lesser of 2 evils! Don't be schmoozed by either of them. Obama just appeals to me more! Be sweet until I get back! :wink:
