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Southern Democrats and Progressives

John_UAC

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2. Success in Spite of Racism

Reply to BEAU1943 (Original post)

Sun Jan 6, 2013, 08:57 AM

Jan 2013

As a people, we succeed when we get the representation that we want and we fail when we want the wrong representation. The President, (no matter who he or she will be) only fails if they represent something that they secretly morally object to (moral failure) or when they don't get enough support from the people who elected them to push the issue across the finish line and then the real question is...who failed who?

And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.

John F. Kennedy, Inaugural address, January 20, 1961
35th president of US 1961-1963 (1917 - 1963)

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RACISM DOES NOT TRUMP THE SUCCESS OF PRESIDENT OBAMA [View all] BEAU1943 Jul 2012 OP

Most of Obama's failures are due to racism Dovid Rees Jul 2012 #1

Exactly right. And based on the failure rate, the racists must be really, really racist. Pterodactyl Feb 2013 #3

Success in Spite of Racism John_UAC Jan 2013 #2