Word: transcendant
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...presidential campaign - the story of Jeremiah Wright's words - is not a story that is clear-cut between right and wrong, or between black and white for that matter. Having waged a campaign, with great success, on the notion that race as a political and electoral issue could be transcended, with a strategy that assiduously downplayed race, Obama declared today that the only way to transcend race is to focus on it rather than downplay it - to acknowledge its sometimes oppressive presence in American life, in the form of both black anger and white alienation...
...attempt to transcend race either by ignoring it or simply declaring it transcended would be folly - even now, in the year 2008. That was the reality Obama both confronted and embraced today. "Race is an issue that I believe this nation cannot afford to ignore right now," he said. "We would be making the same mistake that Reverend Wright made in his offending sermons about America - to simplify and stereotype and amplify the negative to the point that it distorts reality...
...fall backward, either we let the economy falter or we help it grow, either we succumb to our enemies or we defeat them - the choice is up to you, America! Obama's either/or formulation is not nearly so banal. Explicitly asking Americans to grapple with racial divisions, and then transcend them - that's a bold request. Will they comply? Obama's presidential hopes depend...
...small population of left-leaning voters elevating Obama as the ultimate American ideal, who conquered racial prejudiceand relative poverty by his own merits, and resisted the appeal of high-paying positions in law. The reality, though, is that Obama’s message appears to have the capacity to transcend racial bias where Alan Keyes or Al Sharpton’s have failed; he may just have a bit more of that Weberian charisma than Hillary Clinton. He certainly has more than Walter Mondale, next to whom John Kerry gains a sudden, electric appeal...
...life and presents them in an estranged fashion, reintroducing us to its intricacies as if we were once again seeing them for the first time.Her overarcing statements read as if they weren’t meant for an audience, but rather as proverbial, unconditional truths of life that ultimately transcend the subject matter of any piece. But she remains entirely accessible, largely due to the number of rhetorical questions present, which actively involve the reader in her philosophical musings. Paradoxically, by presenting an alienated picture of the familiar, Hartwig intrigues and thus draws us into her most existential ideas...