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Apr. 17th, 2008 11:51 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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kellicjtiger's post, of the radio news I was listening to on the way here this morning....
Is it wrong that, now that I've heard that Barack Obama served on a board with someone who was a member of The Weather Underground, I'm actually that much more in favor of him?
I know, violence is not the way to solve most social issues. Not unless it's an effort of last resort. But I'm excited that Obama is willing to put effort into something that someone like Bill Ayers thinks is important enough to put effort into. I think that's a definite point in his favor, even if they really barely know each other, which is probably the case.
There's a part of me that really relates to the sort of passion that the radical left of the '60s had. I watched a documentary about the weather undergound, and, if I'm not mistaken, the person in question was one of those interviewed. He seemed like a pretty together guy who's done a lot of serious rethinking of his ideas and who'd come to the conclusion that violence was the wrong way to approach things, but still hadn't lost his prinicples. I liked him a lot.
kellicjtiger's post, of the radio news I was listening to on the way here this morning....Is it wrong that, now that I've heard that Barack Obama served on a board with someone who was a member of The Weather Underground, I'm actually that much more in favor of him?
I know, violence is not the way to solve most social issues. Not unless it's an effort of last resort. But I'm excited that Obama is willing to put effort into something that someone like Bill Ayers thinks is important enough to put effort into. I think that's a definite point in his favor, even if they really barely know each other, which is probably the case.
There's a part of me that really relates to the sort of passion that the radical left of the '60s had. I watched a documentary about the weather undergound, and, if I'm not mistaken, the person in question was one of those interviewed. He seemed like a pretty together guy who's done a lot of serious rethinking of his ideas and who'd come to the conclusion that violence was the wrong way to approach things, but still hadn't lost his prinicples. I liked him a lot.
