We all need Obama
We all need Obama
By Robert Hively-Johnson / Winona
.Barack Obama has our attention. The media has accorded him star-status as this guy invigorates our presidential politics and more. Like Colin Powell, Obama oozes integrity and his astonishing openness disarms critics. Tougher times might be ahead, but his charisma will do much to overcome negative spin doctoring.
Barack is certainly head and shoulders above publicity presidential actors Sharpton, Jackson, and Braun, and more like the honorable Alan Keyes. The current office holder precludes all criticisms, including the idea Obama lacks experience. If anything, Barack’s major problem will be overcoming media’s glamour glitz blitz similar to that given to space cadets Spears and Justin somebody.
Win or lose, though, Obama is certain to touch hands with despairing, neglected black kids. Educators will find Obama helpful in battling the latest malignancy spreading through our cities: Ignorant jive-mouth street punks, who apply fear to deny others schooling, civility and manners.
Eisenhower, Superman, Robinson, Paige, Red Ryder, Red Cloud: These are some of our good-guy heroes, who faded as immoral war, politics and assassinations replaced public heroes with public villains. JFK, RFK, MLK killings, J. Edgar Hoover’s exposure, Nixon and Reagan’s criminality devolved into the costly conservative witch hunt over private personal foibles and bottomed-out (hopefully) with the current Bush disaster; while, corner dealers, crude hip-hop, violent video, self-indulgent jocks, pandering political thieves and bimbos, glamorized by mindless media grubbing, ascended to take hold of young imaginations.
Obama’s elevating persona could help cleanse America’s clichéd climate like a morning sea breeze, drawing young people into thinking about potential, integrity, justice and consequences. America needs this guy to succeed, desperately. .
http://www.winonadailynews.com/articles/2007/01/24/opinion/letters/wdnlet2.txt
By Robert Hively-Johnson / Winona
.Barack Obama has our attention. The media has accorded him star-status as this guy invigorates our presidential politics and more. Like Colin Powell, Obama oozes integrity and his astonishing openness disarms critics. Tougher times might be ahead, but his charisma will do much to overcome negative spin doctoring.
Barack is certainly head and shoulders above publicity presidential actors Sharpton, Jackson, and Braun, and more like the honorable Alan Keyes. The current office holder precludes all criticisms, including the idea Obama lacks experience. If anything, Barack’s major problem will be overcoming media’s glamour glitz blitz similar to that given to space cadets Spears and Justin somebody.
Win or lose, though, Obama is certain to touch hands with despairing, neglected black kids. Educators will find Obama helpful in battling the latest malignancy spreading through our cities: Ignorant jive-mouth street punks, who apply fear to deny others schooling, civility and manners.
Eisenhower, Superman, Robinson, Paige, Red Ryder, Red Cloud: These are some of our good-guy heroes, who faded as immoral war, politics and assassinations replaced public heroes with public villains. JFK, RFK, MLK killings, J. Edgar Hoover’s exposure, Nixon and Reagan’s criminality devolved into the costly conservative witch hunt over private personal foibles and bottomed-out (hopefully) with the current Bush disaster; while, corner dealers, crude hip-hop, violent video, self-indulgent jocks, pandering political thieves and bimbos, glamorized by mindless media grubbing, ascended to take hold of young imaginations.
Obama’s elevating persona could help cleanse America’s clichéd climate like a morning sea breeze, drawing young people into thinking about potential, integrity, justice and consequences. America needs this guy to succeed, desperately. .
http://www.winonadailynews.com/articles/2007/01/24/opinion/letters/wdnlet2.txt
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