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Showing posts with label Barack Obama. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Barack Obama. Show all posts
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29 February 2008
Kool-Aid Cynics For Obama
"Holy Crap lets just all hold hands and drink the kool-aid!"
This movement can look unbelievable to a cynic who has become numb to the political system and the sorry state it is in.
This movement can look odd in its power and commitment because the generation just after the baby boomers has really never had someone to believe in or a reason to believe so deeply. But perhaps now we do.
Other politicians say: "I can do this for you."
Obama says: "We can only do this together."
Isn't it about time we mend the divides of race, religion, politics, color, and creed and come together. Barack is a great man, but just one man, and he will need our help to make sure our voices are heard in Washington and in the Board Rooms.
Make your voice heard. Vote in your primary and the general election.
Regardless of your choice, make your voice heard!
Namaste.
Bill Clinton On The Politics Of Hope
"Now one of Clinton's laws of politics is this: If one candidate's trying to scare you and the other one's trying to get you to think, if one candidate's appealing to your fears and the other one's appealing to your hopes, you better vote for the person who wants you to think and hope."
- Bill Clinton, 2004
Watch It Now:
- Bill Clinton, 2004
Watch It Now:
26 January 2008
A President Like My Father
Senator Obama won South Carolina tonight with a MAJORITY of all votes cast. 55 percent.
Caroline Kennedy has written a wonderful endorsement of Senator Obama.
Democrat. Republican. Independent. Please stand for change. Please cut and paste this editorial to everyone on your email address list.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/27/opinion/27kennedy.html?hp=&pagewanted=print
A President Like My Father
By CAROLINE KENNEDY
OVER the years, I've been deeply moved by the people who've told me they wished they could feel inspired and hopeful about America the way people did when my father was president. This sense is even more profound today. That is why I am supporting a presidential candidate in the Democratic primaries, Barack Obama.
My reasons are patriotic, political and personal, and the three are intertwined. All my life, people have told me that my father changed their lives, that they got involved in public service or politics because he asked them to. And the generation he inspired has passed that spirit on to its children. I meet young people who were born long after John F. Kennedy was president, yet who ask me how to live out his ideals.
Sometimes it takes a while to recognize that someone has a special ability to get us to believe in ourselves, to tie that belief to our highest ideals and imagine that together we can do great things. In those rare moments, when such a person comes along, we need to put aside our plans and reach for what we know is possible.
We have that kind of opportunity with Senator Obama. It isn't that the other candidates are not experienced or knowledgeable. But this year, that may not be enough. We need a change in the leadership of this country — just as we did in 1960.
Most of us would prefer to base our voting decision on policy differences. However, the candidates' goals are similar. They have all laid out detailed plans on everything from strengthening our middle class to investing in early childhood education. So qualities of leadership, character and judgment play a larger role than usual.
Senator Obama has demonstrated these qualities throughout his more than two decades of public service, not just in the United States Senate but in Illinois, where he helped turn around struggling communities, taught constitutional law and was an elected state official for eight years. And Senator Obama is showing the same qualities today. He has built a movement that is changing the face of politics in this country, and he has demonstrated a special gift for inspiring young people — known for a willingness to volunteer, but an aversion to politics — to become engaged in the political process.
I have spent the past five years working in the New York City public schools and have three teenage children of my own. There is a generation coming of age that is hopeful, hard-working, innovative and imaginative. But too many of them are also hopeless, defeated and disengaged. As parents, we have a responsibility to help our children to believe in themselves and in their power to shape their future. Senator Obama is inspiring my children, my parents' grandchildren, with that sense of possibility.
Senator Obama is running a dignified and honest campaign. He has spoken eloquently about the role of faith in his life, and opened a window into his character in two compelling books. And when it comes to judgment, Barack Obama made the right call on the most important issue of our time by opposing the war in Iraq from the beginning.
I want a president who understands that his responsibility is to articulate a vision and encourage others to achieve it; who holds himself, and those around him, to the highest ethical standards; who appeals to the hopes of those who still believe in the American Dream, and those around the world who still believe in the American ideal; and who can lift our spirits, and make us believe again that our country needs every one of us to get involved.
I have never had a president who inspired me the way people tell me that my father inspired them. But for the first time, I believe I have found the man who could be that president — not just for me, but for a new generation of Americans.
www.barackobama.com
03 March 2007
An Inconvenient Truth
I just watched the DVD "An Inconvenient Truth" - I know I am late on this viewing but I'd formed my own view on global warming long before the film came out. Global warming is real, I'd always thought from having read a zillion articles and other readings. But guess what, this film sums it all up in a crisp, concise manner that manages to disturb and motivate.
Shame on all those who can't see the inconvenient truth as something that is not political, not social, not religious, not anything but a frightening fact that has to be dealt with.
It's quite inconvenient. But so will the devastation to the planet in the next fifty or so years.
How will I answer my grandchildren - whether here or from the next life - if I don't at least try to help the change must to occur?
The old bogyman of environment vs. jobs just doesn't cut it, what job is worth anything if the environment is gone?
I can only hope that Barack will be as straight up on this is as he is on so many issues, and I hope Al Gore will endorse and support this Senator from Illinois.
Shame on all those who can't see the inconvenient truth as something that is not political, not social, not religious, not anything but a frightening fact that has to be dealt with.
It's quite inconvenient. But so will the devastation to the planet in the next fifty or so years.
How will I answer my grandchildren - whether here or from the next life - if I don't at least try to help the change must to occur?
The old bogyman of environment vs. jobs just doesn't cut it, what job is worth anything if the environment is gone?
I can only hope that Barack will be as straight up on this is as he is on so many issues, and I hope Al Gore will endorse and support this Senator from Illinois.
