Laura Flanders: Reconstruction Now

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from The Nation:



Reconstruction Now
posted by Laura Flanders on 02/11/2009 @ 11:26am



President Barack Obama ended his first prime time press conference on the "I" word.

"When I hear people just saying we don't need to do anything...then what I get a sense of is that there is some ideological blockage there that needs to be cleared up."

The ideological blockage the President's talking about is about as big as it gets.

Whose nation is this, what's its treasure to be used for and who gets to decide? Essentially, that's the "blockage" we're talking about and it's the baggage our nation's been carrying around since its start.

When an earlier senator from Illinois gave what came to be known as the Gettysburg Address conservatives hated it.

As Willmoore Kendall, a leading conservative from the mid 1900s, wrote of Abraham Lincoln: "he attempted a new act of founding, involving a startling new interpretation of that principle of the founders which declared that all men are created equal." ........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.thenation.com/blogs/state_of_change/407266/reconstruction_now?rel=hpbox