Good Tuesday Afternoon, Greasytown:

     Just finished Mr. Obama's book, the the idea of the title of which he attributes to his now embattled and embittered former pastor Rev. Jerimiah "Crazy Uncle Jerry" Wright.  It took about three weeks.  My lips can only move so fast.  It started out kinda dry with a chapter on the Constitution but I thought what can one expect from a law professor.  He moved on to discuss several topics including faith, race, immigration, family and foreign policy.  It was an ok book but it didn't knock my socks off like JFK's  "Profiles In Courage", or William Manchester's  "American Ceasar"(about Gen. Douglas MacArthur) or David McCullough's "Truman" did.  He did however, say a coupla things with which I agree.   When discussing family relationships and personal choice he states  "I concider decisions about sex, marriage, divorce and childbearing to be highly personal-at the very core of our system of individual liberty.  Where such personal decisions raise the prospect of significant harm to others-as is true with child abuse, incest, bigamy, domestic violence, or failure to pay child support- society has a right and duty to step in.   Beyond that, I have no interest in seeing the president, Congress, or a government bureaucracy regulating what goes on in America's bedrooms."   When delving into foreign policy he could have been reading my mind when he said "But there are few examples in which the freedom men and women crave is delivered through outside intervention.  In almost every succesful social movement of the last century..........democracy was the result of a local awakening".  And he went on to say "....when we seek to impose democracy with the barrel of a gun, funnel money to parties whose economic policies are deemed friendlier to Washington, or fall under the sway of exiles ....whose ambitions aren't matched by any descernible local support, were aren't  just setting ourselves up for failure.  We are helping oppressive regimes paint democratic activists as tools of foreign powers and retarding the possibility that genuine, homegrown democracy will ever emerge."

      As you can see, he gets pretty verbose and I didn't agreee with all of what he said; like his ideas on amnesty for illegal immigrants, but it was a decent read.  I'd take some No-Doze first, though.

reguards

yer now I can get back to Stephen King pal

bugg

 

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