The daughter of George Wallace (the Alabama gov.) comments on Barack Obama

[Peacetrain]

"Healing must come, hope will be our lodestar, humility will reshape the American conscience, and honesty in both word and deed will refresh and invigorate America, and having Barack Obama to lead will give us back our power to heal."


Even someone raised in such a family consumed by hate, shows no one has to be bound up by what went before them.


EDIT: Link to article courtesy of DemoTex

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/11/03/wallace.kennedy.obama/index.html

[TomClash]

1. George Wallace was more complex than that nt

[steveironcity]

3. Wallace

Wallace reconciled with many people in the civil rights movement later in his life, and formally appologized for his segregationist views.

[TomClash]

7. I know

His 1982 Gubernatorial election is an interesting study.

[Peacetrain]

4. I had no idea she was an Obama supporter.

[DemoTex]

2. I was just starting to post this too. Poignant article, indeed.

Here is a link.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/11/03/wallace.kennedy.obama/index.html

[Peacetrain]

5. Thank you for the link to the article.

Was very moving,

[Elwood P Dowd]

6. Thanks. Nice article. (nm)

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