ON NOTICE AND NOTICING
Dear President and Former Senator Obama:
Congrats on Oslo. Great speech. Michelle was looking really foxy, too. Lang Lang is da bomb.
But hurry home.
Your party cannot articulate and enforce a consistent public stance on civil rights in America (see here). gasp!
Look, it's one thing if this or that state Senator gets deluded or votes substantively this or that way.
But, for the leadership of the Democratic party to remain silent or absent, in articulating the finer points of how to balance liberties within the law or taking up the education burden? That's not forgivable, is it?
Congrats on Oslo. Great speech. Michelle was looking really foxy, too. Lang Lang is da bomb.
But hurry home.
Your party cannot articulate and enforce a consistent public stance on civil rights in America (see here). gasp!
Look, it's one thing if this or that state Senator gets deluded or votes substantively this or that way.
But, for the leadership of the Democratic party to remain silent or absent, in articulating the finer points of how to balance liberties within the law or taking up the education burden? That's not forgivable, is it?
Let me be clear. I don't need President Obama to come to Newark and say, "I support marriage for committed gay and lesbian couples and their families!".
I need him to say something like, "Our long history suggests that a politics of reason and coming together means that we vote for things that we may disagree with, keeping our reservations and faith from trampling the civil liberties that we hold so dear and which are a light to all the world's faithful".
Heck, he can even use Reagan "beacon" language and repeat the heresy of America being the "last best hope", not getting tarnished by petty or small minded votes. I don't care, but he has to say something.
