Reply #238: Wow! comments by Cornell ... but I was also watching BELAFONTE tonight on Amy Goodman...!!

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And, rightly so, Belafonte was encouraging people to speak out if they felt

Obama deserved criticism -- that it was the patriotic thing to do -- and that

the furture of our nation depends on it --

And this by Cornell is so sadly true --

Here we were in '06 with Pelosi proclaiming the morning after the election that

"Democrats were elected to end the war!" -- and then they refunded them for another two years!

And here we are with Obama now and wars raging for 10 years!!

And now he has become head of the American killing machine and is proud of it.”

And questions of torture and wiretapping still hanging --


“When you look at a society you look at it through the lens of the least of these, the weak and the vulnerable; you are committed to loving them first, not exclusively, but first, and therefore giving them priority”

More than ever we need a humanist in the White House --


I think it is correct that both of them have spoken out suggesting they need to take

this "responsibility" -- I'd like to see Michael Moore acknowledge that, as well!!

Truth is you can only really be betrayed by those closest to you -- !!