By Monica_A:
First and foremost, thank you for your comments. It's terrific to have a dialog and an exchange of ideas. Now on to the good stuff. I don't know if a truth and reconciliation court is enough. That is my doubt and something I'm grappling with. Many of you posted that the United States and South Africa cannot be compared. In some respects I agree. The United States and President Obama have it much easier. I don't think we can use sports as Mandela did to rally his country men and women. It doesn't make sense for us and I should have made that point clear. So what does Obama use? If he calls for special prosecutors to find out just how corrupt the Bush administration was, does that alienate some citizens? If he says move on, does he alienate the people who elected him? It's a lose/lose proposition.
Let's face facts: Obama is being held to a higher standard and it's not because he graduated from Columbia University and Harvard Law. Any misstep is going to cause an uproar (gifts he has given, associations made) and that hinders governing. The Republicans have stated they don't want to vote on anything he wants. So the question remains: how do we move ahead without forgetting the past?
On a personal note I think rugby is the bees knees. It's just all muck and muscle like football used to be. I have nothing against it.
And as always, comments are welcomed.