Colin Powell mentioned a picture in his endorsement

By: teacherken
Published On: 10/19/2008 3:10:43 PM

here it is, courtesy of  The New Yorker:

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and let me remind you of some words spoken a bit more than four years ago, two snips here, the context below the fold

We worship an awesome God in the blue states

and most of all:

We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America.

Now even as we speak, there are those who are preparing to divide us, the spin masters and negative ad peddlers who embrace the politics of anything goes.

Well, I say to them tonight, there's not a liberal America and a conservative America; there's the United States of America.

There's not a black America and white America and Latino America and Asian America; there's the United States of America.

The pundits, the pundits like to slice and dice our country into red states and blue States: red states for Republicans, blue States for Democrats. But I've got news for them, too. We worship an awesome God in the blue states, and we don't like federal agents poking around our libraries in the red states.

We coach little league in the blue states and, yes, we've got some gay friends in the red states.

There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq, and there are patriots who supported the war in Iraq.

We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America.

Comments



Morgan Spurlock (Dan - 10/19/2008 3:40:23 PM)
Did you ever see the Muslim episode in the first season of "30 Days"?  Morgan Spurlock, who produced and starred in the documentary about McDonalds "Super Size me" took on compelling issues in his TV show on FX.  One of the shows had a Christian Republican-leaning man from his native West Virginia live with Muslim's in Dearborn Michigan for a month.  The Christian man learned a great deal about Islam in America.  At the end of the 30 days he was determined to challenge the ignorance and fear of Muslim's that exists in his own community.  

I think Colin Powell did a great service by reminding American's of this important message.



The healing begins (Teddy - 10/19/2008 4:40:18 PM)
The first step, appropriately enough, was taken by an African American Republican. Already we see that the negative ads, which used to work so well (and, sadly, still do in some areas) are being rejected by many Americans. It is as if we are beginning to awaken from a long, dark nightmare, look around, and just say, "No. No more, wise guy consultants, we know what you are doing, and the Answer is no more." There are still a couple more weeks for the negativism to work its poison, and McCain's pathetic whine on Fox that "Americans need to know" more about Obama's "secrets" to be obssessed over by pundits... but we can dare to hope that, if we double down and work harder over the last few days, not even an engineered terror strike can change things, not even an election that turns out so close a little jiggering of the vote count and a strategic lawsuit can take away the victory Obama has earned. God Grant.


good stuff (DSD - 10/19/2008 7:45:40 PM)
Where are those quotes from?

And the New Yorker link isn't working...



words from Obama's 2004 Keynote (teacherken - 10/19/2008 8:49:15 PM)
at Democratic convention in Boston, and I just tried the New Yorker link and it worked fine for me


A message from the soldier's family. (thegools - 10/19/2008 11:12:17 PM)
  I went to the tribute site listed at the end of the dailykos article on the same soldier. http://obits.cleveland.com/WAS...  
 There are of course many postings from today.  No doubt the recent fame achieved by Powell speech has had a big effect.

 I skipped from page 1 to page 10 to see what others had said before todays postings. The first posting I came to was written by, of all people,  his family.  The posting dated back to August 6, 2008.  It gave me chills.  Like evey death, there is the human story which all too often is lost in the statistics.  This posting by his family brought the humanity and loss flooding back.

The posting read:

HI son it been a long and lonely year without you. your room is the same as you left it and dad have not change any thing to the room the teddybear boarder is still there which you hated lol.we miss you very much and we are so very proud of you there is not a day goes by that we do not talk about you and miss you kareem you will always be in our lives and we will always inculde you in what ever we are doing.Life is not the same without you and it will never be the same ever.we know that you are in a better place watching over us .you are the star that shines so bright in our lives and will always shines till we meet again. For you are our Hero that give your life for others. we love you son.
STAND DOWN SON FOR YOU JOB HAS ENDED .YOU WILL ALWAYS BE FOREVER YOUNG IN OUR HEARTS.

love you kareem from dad stepmom nisha and sister aliya,HOOLA  
 nisha khan (manahawkin)  

And another from August 17, 2008


we layed you down to rest, that is when it first hit us that you was not coming home, the thaught of you not coming home ever broke our hearts and even a year after it still feels like yesturday, that we got the news, how could that be .
The pain is still fresh like yesturday,there is no words any one can say that will make us feel any better.For son you are dearly missed and our family is just not the same without you.
For it has always been you dad ,aliya and me ,it is very hard not having you around playing on the floor with your sister. going on our long road trip to disney while you and dad sit in front and the girls in the back, we miss you son.Oh how you left us with so much great memorys.
There is not a day that we donot think about you and you will always be with us always.

cpl kareem khan
you are that star that shine so bright in our life,
stand down son for your job has ended.
may you rest in peace.
till our family become one again.
love you son
from stepmom nisha dad and sis aliya.HOOLA  
  NISHA KHAN (manahawkin, NJ)  

IF you page back through the year's entries before today, all of the postings are from friends and family.  All miss Kareem dearly.  It is deeply moving to me.

How many others like him are being missed like this throughout our country, and in Iraq, and if Afganistan, and elsewhere due to war?



If you look at the picture above, (thegools - 10/19/2008 11:15:11 PM)
you will see the importance of Aug. 6.

It was one year.



Here's a picture of Kareem (thegools - 10/19/2008 11:31:49 PM)
in Iraq
http://mi-cache.legacy.com/Use...