The Obamasiah's plan for salvation

Obama in for Kennedy with call to service

Posted May 25, 2008 12:44 PM
Chicago Tribune

by Mike Dorning

MIDDLETOWN. Conn--Barack Obama sounded a call to public service in the tradition of the Kennedy family as he took the place of Sen. Edward Kennedy today to deliver a commencement address at Wesleyan University.

The speech, given to an audience that included the Massachusetts senator's wife and stepdaughter, who is a graduating senior at Wesleyan, deepened the barrier-breaking presidential candidate's connection to the Kennedy mystique.

Senator Kennedy, who anointed Obama a worthy heir to his brothers John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy early in the presidential campaign, now is diagnosed with a possibly fatal brain tumor and asked Obama to substitute for him at the ceremony.

Obama paid tribute to the Kennedy family, particularly the youngest brother whose place he took on the podium, and seized the opportunity to promote the call to service that has thematically connected his presidential campaign to the spirit of Camelot.

"Our individual salvation depends on collective salvation," Obama told the graduating seniors.

"Because thinking only about yourself, fulfilling your immediate wants and needs, betrays a poverty of ambition," he continued. "Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential and discover the role you'll play in writing the next great chapter in America's story."

A candidate whose campaign has been animated by his life story as the child of a mixed-race marriage and an Ivy League graduate who chose a first job as a poorly paid community organizer, Obama also offered a biographical link to Edward Kennedy's family.

"I was born the year that his brother called a generation of Americans to ask their country what they could do, and I came of age at a time when they did it," said Obama, who was born in 1961, the year John Kennedy was inaugurated.

The speech, delivered on a picture-perfect day under a clear blue sky, came at a dramatic moment for both the Kennedy family and Obama's presidential campaign. Kennedy's cancer inevitably raises the question of political succession while Obama is on the verge of clinching the Democratic presidential nomination, a turning point in his campaign at which he is again enveloped in the Kennedy legacy.

At the same time, Obama rival Hillary Clinton is trying to move past an awkward and ill-timed remark on Friday that connected her determination to press on with her long-shot presidential campaign to the traumatic June 1968 assassination of Robert F. Kennedy.

She cited Robert Kennedy's assassination at a celebration of Kennedy's victory in the California primary as an example of the kind of unforeseen external event that can change the outcome even late in a political campaign, a reference that immediately provoked an uproar and for which she apologized within hours.

Obama's address, which was full of references to members of the Kennedy family, included mention of a Robert Kennedy quote.

"All it takes is one act of service - one blow against injustice - to send forth that tiny ripple of hope that Robert Kennedy spoke of," Obama said.

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and the lemmings shall follow.....

you mean like the Bush-backers?

"Mission Accomplished"

He needs to stick his head up his butt, where it usually is anyway, and see how high he can JUMP.

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it's funny that the only place people attack Obama is through someone else, namely Jeremiah Wright

also funny that in the infamous "GD America!" speech that has been played over and over is the fact that Rev. Wright is quoting Edward Peck, who was Chief of Mission in Iraq under Jimmy Carter, in an interview he had in 1985

also funny that if Martin Luther King Jr. were alive today and supported Barack Obama, he would be put in the same light by the wrong-wing conservatives, especially when he made comments like

"America is the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today"

or

"America was founded on genocide, and a nation that is founded on genocide is destructive."

finally, it is incredibly sad that this is still the most used argument against Obama considering he severed the ties with Rev. Wright 2 months ago

"...we've heard my former pastor...use incendiary language to express views that have the potential not only to widen the racial divide, but views that denigrate both the greatness and the goodness of our nation; that rightly offend white and black alike.

I have already condemned, in unequivocal terms, the statements of Reverend Wright that have caused such controversy. For some, nagging questions remain. Did I know him to be an occasionally fierce critic of American domestic and foreign policy? Of course. Did I ever hear him make remarks that could be considered controversial while I sat in church? Yes. Did I strongly disagree with many of his political views? Absolutely "? just as I'm sure many of you have heard remarks from your pastors, priests, or rabbis with which you strongly disagreed.

But the remarks that have caused this recent firestorm weren't simply controversial. They weren't simply a religious leader's effort to speak out against perceived injustice. Instead, they expressed a profoundly distorted view of this country "? a view that sees white racism as endemic, and that elevates what is wrong with America above all that we know is right with America..."

be original...come up with somethin new, somethin not from Fox News and Bill O'Really

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: vthokie22</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> finally, it is incredibly sad that this is still the most used argument against Obama considering he severed the ties with Rev. Wright 2 months ago </div></div>

Yep, severed ties 2 months ago, due to political expediency, after sitting beneath this idiot's teaching for 20+ years. Obama is a socialist, a racist, and has used whatever source available to get where he is today. Have you read his book?

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: vthokie22</div><div class="ubbcode-body">

be original...come up with somethin new, somethin not from Fox News and Bill O'Really </div></div>

Be original? And where did you grab this copy and post propaganda? lol .

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: boney</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: vthokie22</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> finally, it is incredibly sad that this is still the most used argument against Obama considering he severed the ties with Rev. Wright 2 months ago </div></div>

Yep, severed ties 2 months ago, due to political expediency, after sitting beneath this idiot's teaching for 20+ years. Obama is a socialist, a racist, and has used whatever source available to get where he is today. Have you read his book? </div></div>


Youre full of it

Yep, keep believing your lies. And until then, present me with any proof that debunks what I've said. You won't find it.

You haven't read his book either, have you? Don't be blinded by what you've heard...try and use a little logic and common sense and figure it out for yourself.

But wait, I realize it's difficult for you mindless liberals to cipher things on your own. Just a bunch of mindless lemmings willing to follow your ill-guided leaders over the cliff.