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19 Oct 2017 19:44 #352684
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WASHINGTON — Making his first appearance on the campaign trail since leaving the White House, former President Barack Obama on Thursday avoided directly criticizing President Donald Trump while stumping in New Jersey for the state's Democratic nominee for governor.
Obama called on voters to reject the "old politics of division ... that dates back centuries" in the Nov. 7 election.
"Some of the politics we see now, we thought we put that to bed," he told a mostly African-American audience in Newark. "It's the 21st century, not the 19th century, come on!"
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19 Oct 2017 19:45 #352685
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Obama has rarely spoken publicly about politics since Trump took office, respecting the longstanding omerta usually observed by the tiny club of former Oval Office occupants.
Obama appearance on behalf of Phil Murphy in Newark, and one scheduled later Thursday for Virginia gubernatorial candidate Ralph Northam in Richmond, was designed to energize Democrats and black voters ahead of the two biggest elections of the year.
The affection for Obama in the room was palpable as soon as he hit the stage to chants of "four more years."
"I refer you both to the Constitution as well as to Michelle Obama to explain why that won’t happen,” he joked.
Murphy, a former Goldman Sachs executive and ambassador to Germany under Obama, is heavily favored to succeed term-limited Republican Gov. Chris Christie. But Obama told the audience to ignore the polls.
"You can’t take this election or any election for granted — I don’t know if you all noticed that," he said with a smirk, referring to the 2016 presidential race and Trump's victory. "You’ve got to run through the tape."
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19 Oct 2017 19:45 #352686
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Obama's second campaign stop of the day will be more consequential.
Northam needs strong turnout from African-American voters to succeed in a tight race against Republican Ed Gillespie.
"Barack Obama coming into Virginia tonight is just very exciting, and he's gonna energize our voters and just kind of close that loop for us," Northam told MSNBC earlier in the day.
Hillary Clinton and other Democrats have struggled to keep black voters as energized as they were when Obama was on the ticket. Both Murphy and Northam are white.
Virginia has been trending Democratic since Obama won it in 2008, with the party now controlling both of its Senate seats and all of its statewide offices. But recent polls have concerned Democrats that 2017’s marquee election may be slipping away.
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22 Oct 2017 10:52 #352862
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Among many norms that have been challenged by the Trump presidency is our belief that "The pen is mightier than the sword." Every successful civil rights movement has struggled to restrain violence, inspire with words and make their cause visible via peaceful marches, strikes, boycotts and gatherings.
POTUS shrewdly spends most of his outreach energy tweeting spurious venom at our mainstream free press. Knowing that truth and reason are his most dangerous enemies, he aims to devalue the words and statements of fair-minded people.
Assuming that most colleges and universities have mission statements clearly setting forth their beliefs regarding diversity, respect, tolerance, fairness and justice, I agree with the author that faculty hours spent reinventing the wheel are probably not the best use of their time.
Instead, I feel they should plan how to support students victimized by extremists or racists, plan events and activities which demonstrate the school's core beliefs, and provide opportunities for students of all races, religions and economic levels work jointly on community projects and activities that are geared toward the common good.
THE PEN IS MIGHTIER THAN THE SWORD, and we must not take Trump's bait and devolve into infighters and thugs in order to resist him. However, judiciously apportioning our time and energy between words (of which we have plenty) and creative action plans seems wise.
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