IT may have been the peculair confluence of people of color in the audience -- it was more than 22,000 people according to the paper -- and a region full of military (current, ex, married to, related to, child of, employed in defense industry) but three things got the biggest cheers last week:
1. Obama as someone who would restore the u.s.'s reputation in the world.
2. Obama calling for *their* participation in politics.
3. Obama saying that they weren't a people who wanted the government to do things for them, but they could do for themselves.
>Nailed it. The _fear_ of socialism isn't what it used to be, but the
>smirking contempt that there is nothing to even debate is reflexive. Obama
>demonstrated this himself in the interview with Jon Stewart, ribbing Daily
>Show as socialist. The butt of that joke wasn't McCain, in my opinion.
Right. Rev Wright and socialism are the crazy uncles in the family.
correction to my earlier comment: I'd said that McCain said the right answers was "So what if he is Muslim." It was Colin Powell who said that, chastising McCain for not saying that.
shag