Clipmarks | Vietnam ClipsHalong bay Vietnamclipped by: vietravel247 This is the first time the 2008 ASEAN Environmentally Sustainable City Award to be presented to ten ASEAN representative cities which have achievements on enhancing living environment quality as well as on raising awareness of environmental protection and sustainable development among ASEAN member nations people and leaders. RFK Jr. - AIP and Sarah Palinclipped by: ancientgirlIn 2004, Americas malleable mainstream media allowed itself to be manipulated by artful Republican operatives into devoting weeks of broadcast attention and drums of ink to unfairly desecrating John Kerrys genuine Vietnam heroics while obligingly muzzling serious discussion of George W. Bushs shameful wartime record of evasion and cowardice. But if McCarthy-era guilt-by-association is once again a valid political consideration, Palin, it would seem, has more to lose than Obama. Palin, it could be argued, following her own logic, thinks so little of Americas perfection that she continues to "pal around" with a man--her husband, actually--who only recently terminated his seven-year membership in the Alaskan Independence Party. So when Palin accuses Barack of "not seeing the same America as you and me," maybe she is referring to an America without Alaska. The Reality of Ayersclipped by: oscarrobclippers remarks: There is a quote from a movie and book whose title escapes me "The past is like a foreign country. People do things differently there." To people who grew up in the 60s and 70s although people who did what Ayers did were wrong and on the fringes, we understand the anger. Think of peoples anger today at terrorism and remember that many were that angry at the US government. Think of parents who wouldnt let there children watch the news because of the death and destruction that came every day. Think of riots at political conventions and in the streets of cities across America. Think of the fear of nuclear attack from a volatile and powerful Russia. What Ayers did was wrong and should, by all rights have been punished. It was not, however, today. The Bill Ayers that Barack Obama and I worked with was no "domestic terrorist." The publication in 1997 of Ayers book A Kind and Just Parent: The Children of Juvenile Court attracted much local and national attention he powerfully contrasted and compared the lives of his children, growing up in privilege, with those he had taught in prison That year, Chicago named Ayers its "Citizen of the Year." In November, Michelle Obama, who was then director of the universitys community service center, convened a panel at the law school to discuss Ayers book and the issues it raised After 9/11, many angry Chicagoans called Ayers and Dohrn "unrepentant terrorists" I know them better as the couple that invited me into their home in 2000 to meet their extended family, make gingerbread-cookie houses, and share Christmas dinner. Our conversation that night, as it almost always did, focused on the future, not the past. the real story of obama and ayersclipped by: prin1clippers remarks: the entire article is very interesting Stormy Weather, Underground Bill Ayers notoriety dates from the radical, anti-Vietnam War group he helped to start in 1969, splintering off from the activist Students for a Democratic Society. The members of the new group, the Weather Underground, favored shows of violence to further their cause. On March 6, 1970, though, three of them blew themselves up in a Greenwich Village townhouse during a bomb-making session gone badly awry. Ayers and his fellow Weathermen, as they were called, soon dropped out of sight Barack Obama, who was born Aug. 4, 1961, was 8 years old at the time. The Weather Underground continued setting off bombs, including one in a mens lavatory in the Capitol building in 1971 and another in a womens restroom in the Pentagon in 1972 . Nobody was killed, due to evacuation warnings the Weathermen sent out in advance. Für die Inhalte dieses Feeds ist alleine der jeweilige Autor/Anbieter verantwortlich. Die Inhalte stellen nicht die Meinung von EasyRSS dar. Dies ist eine automatisch generierte E-Mail. Bitte antworten Sie nicht auf diese E-Mail. Wenn Sie Feedback an EasyRSS senden wollen, nutzen Sie bitte das Feedback Forumlar. Wenn Sie sich von EasyRSS abmelden wollen, gehen Sie bitte auf den Menüpunkt "Meine Daten". Ihr EasyRSS Team http://www.easyrss.de |
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