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Originally Posted by MMM
You guys are young, so I wouldn't expect you to understand.
If you see the speech, he says "60 years ago, my father wouldn't have been served food in a Washington DC restaurant, and now his son has been asked to serve as the country's president." The point is not the color of his skin, but the PROGRESS this country has made.
I think it's great that you don't think it's a big deal that he is black. THAT is progress, too. But for your parents and grandparents it is a HUGE deal.
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The progress hasn't been entirely good. 100 years ago normal citizens were welcome to visit the White House, and families often held picnics on the lawn. Presidents and politicians were people like everyone else in America.
Nowadays the White House is a fortress, and our "representatives" have become a class apart from normal Americans.
Obama's number 1 priority from this point onward will be geared toward his reelection campaign. Everything else, and I mean this honestly, will be secondary.
It's the same with all of them, both parties, senators and congressmen alike.