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Bicoastal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-28-08 09:24 PM
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AP: Toni Morrison endorses OBAMA!
Edited on Mon Jan-28-08 09:25 PM by Bicoastal
"Morrison, whose acclaimed novels usually concentrate on the lives of black women, said she has admired Clinton for years because of her knowledge and mastery of politics, but then dismissed that experience in favor of Obama's vision.

"In addition to keen intelligence, integrity and a rare authenticity, you exhibit something that has nothing to do with age, experience, race or gender and something I don't see in other candidates," Morrison wrote. "That something is a creative imagination which coupled with brilliance equals wisdom. It is too bad if we associate it only with gray hair and old age. Or if we call searing vision naivete. Or if we believe cunning is insight. Or if we settle for finessing cures tailored for each ravaged tree in the forest while ignoring the poisonous landscape that feeds and surrounds it."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080128/ap_on_el_pr/obama_morrison

Mrs. Morrison knows a visionary when she sees one...
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ursi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-28-08 09:34 PM
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1. way cool!
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Bicoastal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-28-08 09:34 PM
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2. (Bump for 1 more Recommend)
What? The SOTU's got everyone distracted. This is cooler.
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ursi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-28-08 09:34 PM
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3. Yeah it is! Kick and Rank!
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jasmine621 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-28-08 09:37 PM
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4. Just what has Obama accomplished that makes him such a visonary?
His presentation is inspiring but come on folks, what has he done? What is more important, who is relly backing him?

I am surprised by many of his endorsements.
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Bicoastal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-28-08 09:42 PM
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6. Well, what have any of them done that compares to John McCain's heroism in Vietnam?
But I don't want McCain for President, and neither do you.

Sometimes, it's not JUST about measuring accomplishments--it's about leadership and getting people active. You know, the "vision thing..." Bill Clinton had it in 92, and Obama has it now.
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tammywammy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-28-08 09:37 PM
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5. Very cool
recommended
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Peregrine Took Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-28-08 09:43 PM
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7. Yow!! No way!! You got to be kidding me!!!
:sarcasm:
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Bicoastal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-28-08 09:49 PM
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8. I was kind of surprised--she loved the Clintons so much she famously called Bill
"our first Black president." Remember? That was her.
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Riktor Donating Member (476 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-28-08 10:14 PM
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9. Is NOW going to call her a traitor, too? (n/t)
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Kucinich4America Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-28-08 10:42 PM
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10. Jim Morrison endorses EDWARDS!!
"....before the whole shithouse goes up in flames!!"
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