YES We did!

[flippyshark]

You have nabbed onto an easily available interpretation (the white man sucks), but I really think Lowery was trying to emphasize unity, and may simply have been too clever by half. In any case, it is an incredibly insignificant part of the whole event, which certainly hit on the theme of unity and non-divisiveness again and again. Will you allow that this is even a teensy bit inspiring, scaeagles?

[scaeagles]

Originally Posted by flippyshark

You have nabbed onto an easily available interpretation (the white man sucks), but I really think Lowery was trying to emphasize unity, and may simply have been too clever by half. In any case, it is an incredibly insignificant part of the whole event, which certainly hit on the theme of unity and non-divisiveness again and again. Will you allow that this is even a teensy bit inspiring, scaeagles?

Teensy.

I'm not inspired, really. I do find it difficult - probably a short coming on my part - to find someone I didn't vote for to be inspiring. I didn't find Bush inspiring either, and am not sad to see him go, but I do not share the anticipation nor the optimism of a majority of the country.

[flippyshark]

Originally Posted by scaeagles

I do not share the anticipation nor the optimism of a majority of the country.

It's okay. We'll let you stick around anyway. Here's hoping you'll be pleasantly surprised. (Also, here's hoping the rest of us won't be horribly disillusioned. Who knows?)

[wendybeth]

Well, I'm disappointed. He's been on the job for over two hours now, and the economy is still in the toilet.

[Kevy Baby]

Originally Posted by scaeagles

I found that to be quite offensive.

I find your being offended to be offensive.

[scaeagles]

Originally Posted by wendybeth

Well, I'm disappointed. He's been on the job for over two hours now, and the economy is still in the toilet.

So we can blame any downward movement of the market for the last 2 hours and 25 minutes on Obama? Happening on his watch, after all.

[wendybeth]

Originally Posted by scaeagles

So we can blame any downward movement of the market for the last 2 hours and 25 minutes on Obama? Happening on his watch, after all.

I can't help but laugh- I know you're kidding, but I also know the right wingers are praying for disaster just so they can say "I told you so!". Kind of a cutting off one's nose thing.

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Originally Posted by scaeagles

I found that to be quite offensive.

Give me a f.ucking break.

And what the hell does this mean?

Originally Posted by scaeagles

Rev. Joseph Lowery? No idea who that guy is.

So because you've never heard of him, he mustn't be a deserving person to make the speech?

Didn't take me long to find out he's a respectable guy.

Originally Posted by Wikipedia

Lowery was pastor of the Warren Street United Methodist Church, in Mobile, Alabama from 1952 until 1961. His career in the civil rights movement began in the early 1950s in Mobile, Alabama. After Rosa Parks' arrest in 1955, Lowery helped lead the Montgomery bus boycott. He headed the Alabama Civic Affairs Association, an organization devoted to the desegregation of buses and public places. In 1957, with Martin Luther King, Jr. Lowery founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and subsequently led the organization as its president from 1977 to 1997.

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At the request of Martin Luther King Jr., Lowery led the Selma to Montgomery march in 1965.

Seriously, Leo, you're going to start attacking a guy who led one of the THE most important civil rights marches in American history?

[scaeagles]

Originally Posted by Cadaverous Pallor

Give me a f.ucking break.

And what the hell does this mean?
So because you've never heard of him, he mustn't be a deserving person to make the speech?

Didn't take me long to find out he's a respectable guy.



Seriously, Leo, you're going to start attacking a guy who led one of the THE most important civil rights marches in American history?

So I can't criticize a statement because he's respectable?

Please show me where I said he's a loser or a jerk or shouldn't be allowed to make a speech, or isn't deserving to do so. Where did I say that, CP? You cut ME a fuc.king break. I criticized something he said. Grow the hell up and read what's written and get down from that high and mighty holier than thou crap.