Fwd: An amazing speech (by Obama)

I received this letter in an e-mail:

I hope you had the chance to hear Barack Obama's entire speech - but if not - please access it now. I believe that he can do more to heal this country and bring us that step closer to healing our relationships with the "other" whether it be human or animal - we need to move beyond race and gender to the plight of other species. He can take us part way there.
P.

I wrote back this answer:

I do not feel the speech was amazing in that Obama has no civil rights record except as accepting racism from his pastor and his wife without comment to date - he said what most of us know about race relations and ignored the sexism and anti-semitism of his friend and mentor, Rev Wright. I think both those threads and how they intersect have profoundly affected Obama's foreign policies. I think that he ignored the issue in his speech means he will ignore the status of women in Muslim theocracies.

Obama has not spoke on the status of Muslim women in the middle east which is an important foreign policy issue in light of his minister's misogyny.

Most of the Afracentrict Liberation Theologies are anti-Semitic . Wright is anti-Semitic.* How has that affected Obama's Foreign Policy decisions? Women are oppressed in the Muslim cultures which are part of Obama's past and present. He has female relatives who are Muslim and presumably living in a Muslim culture. Yet we hear nothing from him on this issue.

Since he thinks the Iraq war was wrong,, how does he intend to deal with Darfur? I do not think the use of military force to end oppression is wrong. Since the left does and Obama does, I want to know how he is going to stop the rape of women in Darfur? It is so easy to say what you would have done when you were not there.

Obama did not speak about whether he supports female slave holding middle east theocracies if they are Palestinians.

**What is he going to do about the position of women in the middle east as he is "talking" to all these patriarchs?

I did not hear anything about the sexism in Wright's speech - how Hillary doesn't know lynching when women are raped and murdered everyday by the fathers of their children, when girls as young as six are sold by their own parents - when we have honor killings in this country and girls from Somalia are sent home to have their clitorises' cut off. How Hillary does not know what it is like to be defined as a non person in the constitution. ?! Did the ERA pass while I was sleeping?

***When the Muslim religion holds women in slavery, and Obama has so many ties to the Muslim Community, I want to know if he has ever attempted to speak for women rights in Muslim theocracies.

What Obama said is easy to say and has been said by all civil rights workers since the 60's although most of us do not go to church or follow ministers. Perhaps it did need to be said again but Obama did not answer the questions that concern me.

God is in the details, where Hillary likes to play.

*The anti-Israel rants of this minister have been well chronicled. Among the gems: The Israelis have illegally occupied Palestinian territories for almost 40 years now. It took a divestment campaign to wake the business community up
concerning the South Africa issue. Divestment has now hit the table again as a strategy to wake the business community up and to wake Americans up concerning the injustice and the racism under which the Palestinians have lived because of
Zionism

Pastor Wright is a supporter of Louis Farrakhan (who called Judaism a “gutter religion” and depicted Jews as “bloodsuckers”) and traveled with Farrakhan to visit Col. Muammar al-Gaddafi, archenemy of Israel’s and a terror supporter.

**... reported in the New York Sun,:
http://www.nysun.com/article/71373 , Mr. Obama has chosen Zbigniew Brzezenski to advise him on Mideast policyand it was reported Obama is sending him to Syria!? I have been unable to find the reporter;

Zbigniew Brzezenski, in the words of one of my listmembers, is "this dinosaur resuscitated from the Jimmy Carter administration, a man who spent over 30 years attacking Israel, an Arabist who recently signed a letter demanding that Israel negotiate with the terrorist group Hamas, and a defender of the notorious Walt-Mearsheimer ideology that Israel and Jews have too much influence on American foreign policy against the interests of the U.S. "

Obama denied this report and said they just met for coffees and emails. I cannot find the response of the reporter who wrote the original article.

***I would like to ask; Where is Rev Wright? Is Barack sending him to Africa to drum up global support for Obama's Campaign? The way Power was doing in the Scotsman's newspaper? Are people such as Wright and Zbigniew Brzezenski and Power going to be BO's messengers to foreign media and leaders?