The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #100831   Message #2028591
Posted By: Peace
18-Apr-07 - 03:11 AM
Thread Name: BS: Virginia Tech Shooting, 20 dead?
Subject: RE: BS: Virginia Tech Shooting, 20 dead?
Gun owner: You have omitted a few things what Obama said. Here's the rest.


"So much is rooted in our incapacity to recognize ourselves in each other, to not realize we are connected fundamentally as people," he said, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

Obama also cited a 1968 speech by Robert F. Kennedy after Martin Luther King Jr. was shot and killed, in which Kennedy said any violent loss of life degrades America.

And even though it's been nearly 40 years since then, Obama says it seems like little has changed regarding violence in American culture.

"The reason we don't do anything about it is not technical . . . it's because our politics is broken. We've given up believing we can change things. So we turn away . . . and start worrying about ourselves."



I realize you put a link to the article, but maybe most folks won't look for the rest. Just making sure folks get to see it.