Barack gave a spell-binding speech on July 24th at Berlin about all the divisions and walls between peoples coming down.
http://www.barackobama.com/2008/07/24/remarks_of_senator_barack_obam_97.php
In this new century, Americans and Europeans alike will be required to do more - not less. Partnership and cooperation among nations is not a choice; it is the one way, the only way, to protect our common security and advance our common humanity. That is why the greatest danger of all is to allow new walls to divide us from one another.The walls between old allies on either side of the Atlantic cannot stand. The walls between the countries with the most and those with the least cannot stand. The walls between races and tribes; natives and immigrants; Christian and Muslim and Jew cannot stand. These now are the walls we must tear down. We know they have fallen before.
In this new century, Americans and Europeans alike will be required to do more - not less. Partnership and cooperation among nations is not a choice; it is the one way, the only way, to protect our common security and advance our common humanity.
That is why the greatest danger of all is to allow new walls to divide us from one another.
The walls between old allies on either side of the Atlantic cannot stand. The walls between the countries with the most and those with the least cannot stand. The walls between races and tribes; natives and immigrants; Christian and Muslim and Jew cannot stand. These now are the walls we must tear down.
We know they have fallen before.
I loved it!
Especially because just four days earlier, in India, a saintly man of Christ-like love and omniscience had said the very same thing. He is known as Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba. I revere Sai Baba immensely.
He was addressing a Conference on Education at the ashram:
Take it from Me – in about 25 to 30 years’ time the entire world will become one. There will be only one caste, one religion, and one God. What is needed is such unity. Today, there are several differences between individuals on the basis of caste, creed, religion, language, nation, etc. Such differences should disappear and unity should prevail. The Veda has emphasised this unity in the declaration “Ekam Sath Viprah Bahudha Vadanthi” (Truth is one, the wise say it in different ways). http://sssbpt.org/Pages/Prasanthi_Nilayam/EduconfDiscourse20jul2008.html
Take it from Me – in about 25 to 30 years’ time the entire world will become one. There will be only one caste, one religion, and one God. What is needed is such unity. Today, there are several differences between individuals on the basis of caste, creed, religion, language, nation, etc. Such differences should disappear and unity should prevail. The Veda has emphasised this unity in the declaration “Ekam Sath Viprah Bahudha Vadanthi” (Truth is one, the wise say it in different ways).
http://sssbpt.org/Pages/Prasanthi_Nilayam/EduconfDiscourse20jul2008.html
I found this in a dKos diary... enjoy!
Copy-and-pasted from a dailykos diary. Enjoy. That's David Axelrod and Valerie Jarrett with Barack. (Who's that behind Axelrod? Bill Burton, the Rapid Response man?)
Copied this from a Comment in dKos. Love it! Enjoy!
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Originally posted as "Something About The Man" this version is remixed with snippets of his "Yes We Can" New Hampshire speech. Academy Award nominated composer lyricst Arthur Hamilton (Cry Me A River), 4-time Latin Grammy Award winning producer Kenny O'Brien, and composer/songwriter Alan Ross Fleishman have collaborated to create a campaign song for Barack Obama. SOMETHING ABOUT THE MANIn the tunnel it's so darkThat we don't know where we areSomewhere up ahead there's a manWith a flashlight in his handSomething about the man makes me want to follow himHe can lead us all the way back homeAll the way back home Something about the man says we got to follow himHe can carry usHe can walk usHe can take usHe can talk usAll the way back homeAll the way back homeSomething tells me he can show the wayShine the waySomething says if we don't know the wayHe'll find the wayAll the way back homeSomething about the man makes me stand up tallTells me no matter what I'm gonna get through it allSomething about the man makes me see the lightTells me no matter what he's gonna make things rightThere is something about the manThat tells me he knows what to doHe's gonna pull us upPull us outPull us freePull us throughA lot needs doin' and if anyone canThat man can do it.Something about the manSomething about the manSomething about the manLyric by Arthur HamiltonMusic by Alan Ross Fleishman, Kenny O'BrienProduced by Kenny O'Brien, Alan Ross FleishmanPerformed by Dennis Clark© 2007 ARF Music, ASCAPK. O. Music, BMIHarmony Grace Publishing, ASCAP
Hi there,I just remixed this song with snippets from Obama's "Yes We Can" speech. Please pass the link on to anyone you think might enjoy it.Hope all is well,Alan
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For Unknown User:Hi!
You made some interesting comments! I wanted to know more about you, but found no visible Profile when I clicked on your Username. ... such a pity!This is a real work-horse of a website! Here's a post by Sam Graham-Felsen to maximize your impact. It's called EIGHT FOR '08.http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/actioncenter/eightfor08/
As you see, the first step is to set up a PROFILE... See Sam's comments about this first step at
http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/samgrahamfelsen/CtzN
For your profile to be visible to all of us, you check the box against 'Searchable' at My Dashboard/Edit Profile; and for easy messaging, you pick 'Allow messages from Unrelated Users' at Message/Settings ie being a 'Friend' is not essential.I think you'll have more fun this way, if you stick around!
The picture and Comments below are from BAGnewsNotes .
(image: Jason Reed/Reuters. October 24, 2007. Via nytimes.com)A cheap shot? How about, a timely reminder about who is really running the show -- what with Cheney spearheading the "Bomb Iran" campaign. Reuters telegraphs the point in the second line of the photo caption. President Bush left the Oval Office early this morning on his way to Southern California to view the damage caused by wildfires. Vice President Dick Cheney was in the Oval Office as Mr. Bush left. You don't think, in previous presidencies, the subordinates would have been walked to the door as the President shut off the lights and headed out of town?
(image: Jason Reed/Reuters. October 24, 2007. Via nytimes.com)
A cheap shot?
How about, a timely reminder about who is really running the show -- what with Cheney spearheading the "Bomb Iran" campaign. Reuters telegraphs the point in the second line of the photo caption.
President Bush left the Oval Office early this morning on his way to Southern California to view the damage caused by wildfires. Vice President Dick Cheney was in the Oval Office as Mr. Bush left.
You don't think, in previous presidencies, the subordinates would have been walked to the door as the President shut off the lights and headed out of town?
I've been reading on the web at various places like TPM Talking Points Memo or Ben Smith's Blog or Andrew Sullivan's etc etc that the campaigns send out a "Memo" addressed to "Interested Parties" that attack or explain issues that are being hotly debated.
I wondered where I could find them on this website (before they appeared on TPM or Ben Smith's or First Read etc).
Well, from "Home", you can go to "Newsroom" or "In The News", and you still won't see them, unless you go down and click on "Get More News From BarackObama.com" which then takes you to
http://media.barackobama.com/ ....
where you will see the "Memos" and "Daily Talking Points", "Breaking News", etc. Eureka!! :-)
Hope this helps (there are so many doubts and questions that crop up in the "Chat Room" ie the Comments in the "Obama HQ Blog")
God bless us all, friend and foe.
Love
Interesting, well-written comment by Andrew Sullivan at
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2007/10/obama-gore.html
Let the speculation begin. I think Gore realizes that Obama is the only candidate who can break out of the brutal, polarizing, calculating, post-Vietnam syndrome and actually talk to all the country in clear ways about what practically we need to do at home and in the world. Gore would instantly erase the inexperience question over Obama; Obama would instantly erase the stylistic drawbacks of the Gore persona. The three big issues for me in this election are the war, the Constitution, and the environment. A Gore-Obama combo would be extremely hard to beat if those are your concerns.Gore, moreover, knows what the Clintons would take us back to perhaps better than anyone else. He knows the paranoia of their operation, the Cheney-like secrecy they crave, the pathologies within our political culture they would instantly reignite, the danger that they will breathe new life into a hopefully dying Christianist movement. But the Clinton machine is in full throttle. If Gore wants to help provide an alternative, he needs to intervene before Iowa. He needs to endorse Obama. For the sake of his country.
Let the speculation begin. I think Gore realizes that Obama is the only candidate who can break out of the brutal, polarizing, calculating, post-Vietnam syndrome and actually talk to all the country in clear ways about what practically we need to do at home and in the world. Gore would instantly erase the inexperience question over Obama; Obama would instantly erase the stylistic drawbacks of the Gore persona. The three big issues for me in this election are the war, the Constitution, and the environment. A Gore-Obama combo would be extremely hard to beat if those are your concerns.
Gore, moreover, knows what the Clintons would take us back to perhaps better than anyone else. He knows the paranoia of their operation, the Cheney-like secrecy they crave, the pathologies within our political culture they would instantly reignite, the danger that they will breathe new life into a hopefully dying Christianist movement. But the Clinton machine is in full throttle. If Gore wants to help provide an alternative, he needs to intervene before Iowa. He needs to endorse Obama. For the sake of his country.
What are they doing these days? Are they for Barack?
Click here to listen: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-lJu5ibAM8
Forgive, sounds good.Forget, I'm not sure I could.They say time heals everything,But I'm still waitingI'm not ready to make nice,I'm not ready to back down,I'm still mad as hellAnd I don't have timeTo go round and round and roundIt's too late to make it rightI probably wouldn't if I couldCause I'm mad as hellCan't bring myself to do what it isYou think I should
Forgive, sounds good.Forget, I'm not sure I could.They say time heals everything,But I'm still waiting
I'm not ready to make nice,I'm not ready to back down,I'm still mad as hellAnd I don't have timeTo go round and round and roundIt's too late to make it rightI probably wouldn't if I couldCause I'm mad as hellCan't bring myself to do what it isYou think I should
I hadn't filled in "Why I support Barack" in My Profile. Just did it.
Why I support Barack Obama:It was electrifying to hear him describe what he thinks his gift is: "I have the capacity to get people to recognize themselves in each other", Barack said during a TV interview.Let me explain here that I strive to be a spiritual disciple of the guru in India named Sathya Sai Baba - and that the Ancient Wisdom (or Sanathana Dharma) of my Mother India speaks of a Oneness that Barack seems to glimpse viz "The feeling of ' I ' or 'Self' or 'Atma' within all beings is the very same ' I '.... the one and only ' I ', the One without a Second. I am You; and You are I. Love all, Serve All".Therefore, in Barack Obama, I sense the presence of transformative good and the absence of selfish greed; as President of the most heavily-armed nation on earth, we need a 'godly' person who 'rules' with a sense of universal love for friend and foe, not narrow-minded love for just friends and family and yea-sayers.I feel deep within my heart that Barack Obama may well be "Blessed" (as his name in Swahili implies), a chosen instrument of God for these troubled political times.He seems to be a very rare and unique combination: a pragmatic genius from Harvard Law School with a track record in community and public service that is unselfish, compassionate and ethical. It's great that he was exposed as a child to different countries and cultures and religions in a broad-minded way, based on having a black father and a white mother, and raised by non-dogmatic, progressive grandparents. As President of USA, I sense that Barack will not be a puppet or slave of the usual greedy power cartels - he is not accepting donations from lobbyists and PACs; he is stating strongly that his political soul is not available for sale to selfish interest groups like the oil, energy, drug and armament sectors. As if this isn't enough, he is also dynamic, charismatic and spell-binding on stage! Very cool, as some young Americans might say! All of this, and more, make me support him strongly in my heart.May God's blessings be with him in his noble efforts! Om Sai Ram!
Why I support Barack Obama:
It was electrifying to hear him describe what he thinks his gift is: "I have the capacity to get people to recognize themselves in each other", Barack said during a TV interview.
Let me explain here that I strive to be a spiritual disciple of the guru in India named Sathya Sai Baba - and that the Ancient Wisdom (or Sanathana Dharma) of my Mother India speaks of a Oneness that Barack seems to glimpse viz "The feeling of ' I ' or 'Self' or 'Atma' within all beings is the very same ' I '.... the one and only ' I ', the One without a Second. I am You; and You are I. Love all, Serve All".
Therefore, in Barack Obama, I sense the presence of transformative good and the absence of selfish greed; as President of the most heavily-armed nation on earth, we need a 'godly' person who 'rules' with a sense of universal love for friend and foe, not narrow-minded love for just friends and family and yea-sayers.
I feel deep within my heart that Barack Obama may well be "Blessed" (as his name in Swahili implies), a chosen instrument of God for these troubled political times.
He seems to be a very rare and unique combination: a pragmatic genius from Harvard Law School with a track record in community and public service that is unselfish, compassionate and ethical. It's great that he was exposed as a child to different countries and cultures and religions in a broad-minded way, based on having a black father and a white mother, and raised by non-dogmatic, progressive grandparents. As President of USA, I sense that Barack will not be a puppet or slave of the usual greedy power cartels - he is not accepting donations from lobbyists and PACs; he is stating strongly that his political soul is not available for sale to selfish interest groups like the oil, energy, drug and armament sectors. As if this isn't enough, he is also dynamic, charismatic and spell-binding on stage! Very cool, as some young Americans might say! All of this, and more, make me support him strongly in my heart.
May God's blessings be with him in his noble efforts! Om Sai Ram!
I came across this powerful piece quite by accident while surfing on the web about Obama and blacks. Seems significant to me through my foreign eyes in distant Australia; is it really?
It's a Rock Hackshaw's blog at 'The Daily Gotham" at
http://www.dailygotham.com/blog/rock_hackshaw/a_november_boost_for_barack_obama. He says:
A NOVEMBER BOOST FOR BARACK OBAMAMany black political activists, some black nationalists and even a sprinkling of black moderates, will celebrate Black Solidarity Day on November 5th, 2007; and in keeping with the theme, a large group of blacks intend to endorse Barack Obama for president on that day. Included in that group is NYC councilmember Charles Barron and his wife (and fellow-activist) Inez Barron. The fiery council member from East New York, Brooklyn, intends to put together a group of progressives of all races, nationalities and ethnicities, behind this endorsement effort. He also intends to line up many anti-Iraq-War activists, some veterans, many church and community leaders, and hopefully also a few elected officials of all races, nationalities and ethnicities. Barron - a former member of the Black Panthers - claims that he has been closely following the presidential debates and is confident that he is making the correct endorsement.
A NOVEMBER BOOST FOR BARACK OBAMA
Many black political activists, some black nationalists and even a sprinkling of black moderates, will celebrate Black Solidarity Day on November 5th, 2007; and in keeping with the theme, a large group of blacks intend to endorse Barack Obama for president on that day. Included in that group is NYC councilmember Charles Barron and his wife (and fellow-activist) Inez Barron. The fiery council member from East New York, Brooklyn, intends to put together a group of progressives of all races, nationalities and ethnicities, behind this endorsement effort. He also intends to line up many anti-Iraq-War activists, some veterans, many church and community leaders, and hopefully also a few elected officials of all races, nationalities and ethnicities.
Barron - a former member of the Black Panthers - claims that he has been closely following the presidential debates and is confident that he is making the correct endorsement.
Barack - Jay Leno show - nbc - 17 Oct 2007
I wrote about the Gettysburg Address a short while ago, and my mind is still on Abraham Lincoln! Let me share this:
A few years ago..., they conducted a SUMMER COURSE ON INDIAN CULTURE & SPIRITUALITY at the Sathya Sai University. You'd think they'd talk about Mahatma Gandhi, but the Inaugural Address to the students was largely about ABRAHAM LINCOLN!!
It was by my Guru (or pastor, if you will). You may find it interesting... !
(Inaugural address at Summer Course on Indian Culture & Spirituality, May 16 2002 by Sathya Sai Baba)Embodiments of Love!The Bharatiyas (children of Indian culture) pray for the welfare and well-being of all the people of the world. This is the foremost principle of Bharathiya culture... <snip>....Truth and Self-confidence are the Keys to Success in Life Abraham Lincoln, who rose to become the President of America, was born in a poor family. His father was a carpenter. His mother worked hard to earn a little money to educate him. Their income was barely enough to run the family. Lincoln had to face many hardships. He did not even have proper clothes to wear. When he went to school, his schoolmates made fun of him as he was shabbily dressed. Unable to bear their taunts, one day Lincoln went to his mother and wept bitterly. She enquired as to what the matter was. Lincoln said, “Mother, all my schoolmates look down upon me because I am poor and do not have good clothes to wear. They dislike my company.” Then his mother pacified him, saying, “Son, you should understand our financial condition and act accordingly. Your schoolmates talk in this manner because they are well-to-do. We have to conduct ourselves keeping our financial condition in view. We are not rich. We have to face this situation with fortitude.” She drew him close, wiped his tears and said, “You should not feel unhappy over such a trivial matter. We do not have rich friends and relatives. But we are rich in self-respect and self-confidence. Understand that self-confidence is our true wealth. One with self-confidence and self-respect is the richest of all. Money and comforts are transient. So, strengthen your self-confidence and self-respect. They will certainly bestow on you all prosperity. Do not get carried away by what others say.”
(Inaugural address at Summer Course on Indian Culture & Spirituality, May 16 2002 by Sathya Sai Baba)
Embodiments of Love!
The Bharatiyas (children of Indian culture) pray for the welfare and well-being of all the people of the world. This is the foremost principle of Bharathiya culture... <snip>....
Truth and Self-confidence are the Keys to Success in Life
Abraham Lincoln, who rose to become the President of America, was born in a poor family. His father was a carpenter. His mother worked hard to earn a little money to educate him. Their income was barely enough to run the family. Lincoln had to face many hardships. He did not even have proper clothes to wear. When he went to school, his schoolmates made fun of him as he was shabbily dressed.
Unable to bear their taunts, one day Lincoln went to his mother and wept bitterly. She enquired as to what the matter was. Lincoln said, “Mother, all my schoolmates look down upon me because I am poor and do not have good clothes to wear. They dislike my company.” Then his mother pacified him, saying, “Son, you should understand our financial condition and act accordingly. Your schoolmates talk in this manner because they are well-to-do. We have to conduct ourselves keeping our financial condition in view. We are not rich. We have to face this situation with fortitude.” She drew him close, wiped his tears and said, “You should not feel unhappy over such a trivial matter. We do not have rich friends and relatives. But we are rich in self-respect and self-confidence. Understand that self-confidence is our true wealth. One with self-confidence and self-respect is the richest of all. Money and comforts are transient. So, strengthen your self-confidence and self-respect. They will certainly bestow on you all prosperity. Do not get carried away by what others say.”
... My teachers at School helped us develop in Elocution and Public Speaking, using famous speeches that we memorised and delivered from stage. One of them was the Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln. It's been so long since my early years in school that I looked it up on the web. Here it is, hopefully a timely and welcome reminder to all!
GETTYSBURG ADDRESS (1863) Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that the nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.Source: Roy P. Basler, ed., The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, vol. 7 (1953-1955), 22.
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that the nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Source: Roy P. Basler, ed., The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, vol. 7 (1953-1955), 22.
Appears that Al Gore's Emmy was for something called Current TV. Quick brief visit - found it be very interesting!!
One "Viewer Created Content" is this moving speech set in the CATHEDRAL DE LA IMMACULUDA It's in Spanish I think, with English sub-titles. http://www.current.tv/watch/35551799?list=newVidsByProducer&filterone=21848579&filtertwo=-1&sid=35551799&fr=7
