OK, I may have to move to Kansas City, just so I can be in Emanuel Cleaver’s district. I’d have more chances to get to hear him speak. He knows how express the dissatisfaction and anger all of us feel, but with such sadness and such passion in his voice that we realize it anew.
Don’t get me wrong: I’m happy to be in Lacy Clay’s district. I appreciate his progressive voting record, and besides, he’s no slouch as a speaker himself. But Cleaver’s in a class of his own as a speaker.
The first time I heard him speak was in a video that Blue Girl posted here. I laughed then I cried. Here’s a man who honed his rhetorical skills for a few decades in Baptist churches, and they’re sharp as a razor.
(Unfortunately, my photographic skills are not sharp as a razor. Please excuse them.)
Correction: Cleaver is a Methodist.
when push came to shove, he voted against “We the People” on FISA, and sends me mealy mouthed responses on issues where he will not commit to any side of the issue.
I like the way he talks, but wish he would “walk the talk”
I was thinking we should primary him with a better candidate that cares about our constitution. Just sayin!
I did mean to say that he did speak well on these issues. His content was very good, and it is needed.
I am just still freaked out about FISA, and that the current democratic leadership talks a good game, but screw the people when they vote in congress, especially on constitutional issues.
Just to see what that means, note the raids in the twin cities on potential “dissenters”, and their very STASI like feature set being implemented right here in America’s heartland.