Check this song out. It is in Spanish. You have to hand it to Mr. Obama, he has a way of insipiring people, in a way that none of the candidates have. It's like he has history behind him.
By the way, President Bush has had the most diverse cabinet in History. The first African-American Sect. of State (Powell & Rice), the first Latino Attorney General, the first Latina Treasurer of the United States (her name is on the US Currency). Is Bush out of step of the GOP? What is the impact/importance of diversity on policy?
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Hi Julio,
This is Hollie, one of Nikki's friends from WAY back. I am with you, this two party system stinks. I was brainwashed by my parents to be a republican growing up and when I finally pulled my head out and began realizing there was MUCH more to the world than Rights and Lefts I became an independent. I am really frustrated though that the republicans do not allow independents to vote for their constituants in the primaries. Oh well for them, it looks like that solidifies my vote for a Democrat and yet again makes me glad I dropped out of such a narrow minded party. I did really want to throw a vote Romney's way though, just to be loyal to fellow Mormon (I know, it's not the most educated way to vote, he is only a man and is corruptable, but the ideological side of me would hope his nomination would bring more people into the gospel instead of our people always being scrutinized and persecuted). I am still researching who I will vote for, it's between Hillary & Obama. We'll see. Thanks for creating a format for people to throw their opinions out there and have friendly political banter.
Hollie-I don't have your blog address anymore-could you give it to me so I could link it to mine? Thanks for the comment-I didn't know you were a "Liberal" :)
Nikki
"Is Bush out of step of the GOP? What is the impact/importance of diversity on policy?"
No not really. His father provided a good example for the cynical use of diversity when he nominated Judge Thomas for the high court. But that was an important moment in that it laid out a problem with identity politics: The left had put too much stock in the idea that gender or race SHOULD play a defining role in one's political ideology. What both Bush's understand is that you can find people of any ethnic or social or religious background that hold to your same values. So in that sense the idea of diversity is used as a way of appearing inclusive without having one's agenda, policy, or ideology challenged. For those of us on the left our understanding of what diversity means needs to both acknowledge / embrace its Marxist roots in the articulation of race, class and gender as significant determining factors in how social benefits are distributed. While at the same time articulating a critique of what became a prescriptive way of understanding how different groups interact and forge relations to specific ideological constructs. Clearly the prescription is wrong. It's in the pragmatic development of such a project that we might find a more authentic notion of diversity that would be capable of impacting policy.
In the current political situation in which a woman and an African American and a Mormon are all seeking the presidency the distinction in Christianity between the Prophetic and the Constantinian seems of value to the extent that all three (Obama in particular) align themselves with the Prophetic in an effort to attain Constantinian ends. Its a open paradox but one we seem willing to believe in.
Peace and hair grease.
-Douglas
Now in Sunday School we were just taught (serious!) that Diversity was a tool of Satan along with Tolerance. I was beside myself, but the teacher was not taking responses. Call me a tool of Satan as I support diversity and tolerance...Go Obama
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