Reply #182: It wouldn't be a problem, except I thought the basis of his

[JDPriestly]

campaign was that he would unite the country. I like Obama, but I think he is not ready to run for president quite yet. Unfortunately, he is making a record that may come back to haunt him at a future date when he is ready to run. He has already made some strange mistakes including this one.

As one who lived through the events of the late '50s and '60s, it is interesting to me that Obama depicts the anti-Viet Nam protesters as rather extreme, but embraces the civil rights protesters. As the original post points out, in many cases, they were the same people. In any event, the same moral values and courage that motivated and allowed the '60s generation to protest the civil rights abuses motivated and allowed them to also protest the war. I am puzzled by teh fact that Obama, in his Selma speech, embraces those who marched for the equality of African-Americans and, Obama, in speaking about members of the '60s generation distances himself from those same individuals. Does his inconsistency in this regard arise from an inconsistent moral judgment? Obama does not have to be against all wars. That goes without saying. He probably could not be elected president if he were. But, he should be careful about how he characterizes the activists in the past and their moral judgment -- especially if he was just a schoolboy at the time.