--- On Tue, 9/2/08, Dennis Claxton <ddclaxton at earthlink.net> wrote:
> And who are those people? Obama is not going to change
> anything in
> Nickerson Gardens or Jordan Downs. And with things like
> this (from
> Doug's earlier post) he's even helping to write
> them off. :
[WS:] Maybe he is may be he is not - neither of us has a way of predicting future. At least I give the man the benefit of the doubt.
And while we are at that, what is it extactly that may change something in these places, and why is it that Obama is in a position to do it but not going to do it? Expecting the man to do the impossible (like changing gang-and-violence infested neighborhoods) is neither a realistic nor fair way of judging him, no?
Again, realistic expectations are the key to judging Obama candidacy. If one has them, Obama is a great candidate, if not - anything can be said about him, but it is not worth the paper on which it is written. Wojtek