The Face Of America Has Changed Over The Past Four Decades

This is something a lot of Obama supporters seem to have forgotten and if they think Obama is going to make all their dreams come true they are in for a rude awakening....he is first and foremost a politician and he will not be able to keep all the promises he has made and he will not be able to accomplish everything people expect. I think it was JFK who said something to the effect that no matter how intelligent, how dedicated or how well intentioned the person elected to the presidency might be they will be brought down to the level of mediocrity of the system.

Oh yes he did
What the 44th President means to the United States, Canada and the world.

The Ottawa Citizen’s Dan Gardner traces a brief history of racist American legislation and public opinion for the purposes of highlighting just how far the nation has come, and how quickly. He recounts the story of Jacqueline Henley, a Louisiana toddler whose aunt found it impossible to raise her amidst rumours the child’s father was black, and whose adoption by a black couple was rejected by the courts on grounds she was officially white, and they wouldn’t inflict official blackness on her unless there was irrefutable evidence. That madness was in 1952; today, says Gardner, everybody knows Barack Obama’s mother was white and nobody cares. Heck, it was only 41 years ago the Supreme Court nixed anti-miscegenation laws, and in that time public approval of intermarriage has gone from 80 per cent against to 80 per cent in favour. In short, don’t you tell Dan Gardner that “moral progress” is impossible.

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