Moran, you’re not listening. At least once Obama blames government policy, directly:
“A lack of economic opportunity among black men, and the shame and frustration that came from not being able to provide for one’s family, contributed to the erosion of black families – a problem that welfare policies for many years may have worsened.”
And Wright’s is not the only call to personal responsibility that Obama references. (Btw, how the hell did you read Obama blaming whites for everything in that bit?) He begins the speech by pointing out that even the words in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution–government policy par excellence!–don’t do a damn thing without Americans making the policies/ideas real…fighting Civil Wars, fighting for Civil Rights, etc.
He is not, in this speech or this campaign, saying that government is the solution to all our problems. Obama has more than a million individual donors and hundreds of thousands of volunteers because he’s been calling on individual Americans to take matters in to their own hands all along.
