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Maraming Salamat Po, Pangulong Barack Hussein Obama!

Marc Guerrero, Journalist — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 21:45:29 EST

Thank you so much, President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden...

Mabuhay and God bless you!

Nota bene. Kudos to State Secretary Hillary Clinton!

Good health to George Walker Bush.

Blessed are you, me, him, her, them... Blessed are all of us

Marc Guerrero, Journalist — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 11:12:45 EST

http://www.change.org/oip/details/about

Great Principles by which OIP lives by... So help us God!

THE UNIVERSAL FILIPINO BEATITUDES

Blessed are the strange, the weird, the people we laugh at, those who do not fit our mold, specially the socially wretched and despised. By their presence in our lives, they expand our reality, on our part, reluctantly, and on theirs, so painfully, by forcing us to look at them in the hope that we see God in them.

Blessed are the depressed and the addicted, for they are called upon to demonstrate the healing miracles of God through their own awakening.

Blessed are those who are broken, those who fail, those who fall below our expectation, for they are asked to show the rest of us that not being perfect is part of the human condition; that accepting our imperfection is the first step in our realization of the divine perfection of all that is.

Blessed are the cruel, the callused and uncaring, for on some deep unconscious level, they choose to delay their own liberation, so that others may be enlightened by their example.

Blessed are those who cause us to suffer repeatedly by their mistakes, for they are our tutors who spend valuable time so that we learn our lessons well.

Blessed are the nameless, the faceless, the dispossessed, the refugees, the homeless and the poor, for they point us to the way to compassion. By their sheer numbers, they tell us that ultimately, the experience of compassion is inescapable.

Blessed are the people who arouse us to anger, those who bring out the worst in us, for they force us out of the denial that we harbor within; that we are hooked on them, that they resonate with something hidden inside us; and to break free, we must let go of our misguided moral superiority.

Blessed are those who do not seem to have a life, and specially those who do not have a choice, those who are physically debilitated, paralyzed or in a coma and cannot move, for they bring us a message that is lost in the age of frenzy; that to be worthy of God’s love, we need not strive to do or achieve anything, but simply BE.

Blessed are all of us, for whatever condition we find ourselves in, we can choose to remember our true nature, our original blessing, our timeless grace - anytime, any place and always - and be happy in our Oneness! - JIM PAREDES, great Filipino musician and composer, glamour photographer, inspirational writer and speaker, and artistic member of the Kyoto Accord

SALIN SA FILIPINO NI MARC GUERRERO
(Translation from English to Filipino language or Tagalog)

Pinagpala ang mga naiiba, ang katakataka, ang mga taong pinagtatawanan natin, iyong hindi nabibilang sa ating uri, lalo na iyong mga baliw at itinatakwil na salot ng lipunan. Nariyan sila upang palawakin ang mga katotohanan sa ating buhay, kahit na hindi natin matanggap, kahit na napakasakit ito para sa kanila, nang sa gayon ay mapilitan tayong bigyan sila ng kaukulang pansin sa pag-asang makikita natin ang Diyos sa kanila.

Pinagpala ang mga walang ganang mabuhay at mga sugapa, sila ay tinatawag upang maipakita ang nakapagpapagaling na mga milagro ng Diyos sa pamamagitan ng kanilang paggising na muli.
Pinagpala ang mga wasak sa pagkabayubay, iyong mga bigo, iyong mga hindi nakatutugon sa ating nasa, dahil hinihingi sa kanilang maipakita sa ating lahat na likas sa kalagayan ng tao ang hindi maging perpekto, na ang pagtanggap sa ating imperpeksyon ang unang hakbang sa pagpapatunay nating ang Lumikha at lahat ng kanyang lalang ang siyang tanging perpekto sa sanlibutan.

Pinagpala ang malulupit, ang matitigas ang puso at walang pakialam sa mundo, dahil sa kaibuturan ng kanilang ulirat, pinili nilang ipagpaliban ang kanilang paglaya, upang ang iba’y maliwanagan sa kanilang halimbawa.

Pinagpala ang mga taong sa kanilang paulit-ulit na pagkakamali’y nagdudulot sa atin ng ibayong pagtitiis, dahil nagsisilbi silang mga guro natin na naghahandog sa atin ng mahalaga nilang oras upang matutuhan natin ang mga aral ng buhay.

Pinagpala ang mga walang sariling pangalan, ang walang sariling mukha, ang walang sariling pag-aari, ang walang sariling bansa, ang walang sariling tahanan at mga mahihirap, dahil itinuturo nila sa atin ang landas tungo sa kabutihang-loob. Sa dami ng bilang nilang tumatambad sa atin, ipinababatid nila sa ating lahat na sa kasukdulan, walang makaliligtas sa katotohanang pinakamasarap na karanasan ang maging mabuti ang loob.

Pinagpala ang mga taong hinahamon tayong magngitngit, iyong pinipilit tayong magalit hanggang sa tayo’y mamuhi, dahil pinupuwersa nila tayong ilabas ang kinikimkim na pagtatatwa sa ating sarili, na siyang bumabagabag sa atin, mistulang umaalingawngaw na sama ng loob na pilit nagpupumiglas palabas; at upang tayo’y makalaya, marapat at matuwid na hubdin natin ang kahangalan at pagkapalalong moral.

Pinagpala ang mga taong animo walang kabuhay-buhay, at lalo na iyong mga walang masulingan, iyong may mabibigat na kapansanan, paralisado, nasa coma o wala sa sarili, at hindi makagalaw, dahil inihahatid nila sa atin ang isang mensahe na naglahong parang bula sa panahon ng kaguluhan, silakbo at kalituhan, na upang maging karapatdapat tayo sa pag-ibig ng Diyos, hindi natin kailangang magpunyaging gawin ang anumang bagay kung para lang may makamtam, kundi simple tayong MAGING.

Pinagpala tayong lahat, kahit anupaman ang ating kalagayan at kinasasadlakan, dahil kaya nating piliing maalala ang ating tunay na kalikasan, ang ating kinapanganakang pagpapala, ang ating walang hanggang grasya o karangalan, sa anumang panahon, saanmang lugar at sa lahat ng pagkakataon, at para maging maligaya tayo sa ating sariling Kaisahan sa Kanya!

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Filipino American Press Institute Walks with Obama, Clinton, Kennedy et al for Wellness is on!

Marc Guerrero, Journalist — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 03:32:29 EST

You are cordially invited to cofound with my free, responsible and responsive bloc of professionals and workers in the press and the media in The Philippines, in the US and abroad the...

FILIPINO AMERICAN PRESS INSTITUTE.

theINSTITUTE of Filipino American Press is not only for Filipino American print & broadcast journalists, artists (visual, performance, others), photographers, filmmakers, webbies and those in the health & business communication.

theINSTITUTE is also for foreign national friends of Filipino American press and media practitioners who live, work, study or tour The Philippines and over 100 countries outside of the US and The Philippines.

The Filipino American Press Institute shall not only be and become a vanguard of fair, honest & factual journalism, truth in advertising, advocacy in public relations, free & fair marketing practices, and related civil liberties.

theINSTITUTE shall, most importantly, walk with President-elect Barack Obama, Hillary and Bill Clinton, Ted Kennedy, Al Gore and other world statesmen for health, wealth and wellbeing.

The Filipino American Press Institute shall walk with leaders and public service-inspired believers of the US Democratic party, of the US Republican Party, of those political and nonpolitical entities in between the Dems and the GOP, of The Philippines's political and nonpolitical organizations who work for health & wellness of worldspeople.

There are three to five million Filipino Americans and Filipinos in Amerika across the US.

There are 80 million Filipinos in the Philippine homeland.

There are Filipinos in more than 100 countries outside of the US and of The Philippines.

There millions more who are Filipinos of foreign descent, ancestry or origin and those who are foreign national friends of the Filipino people worldwide.

This bloc is estimated to number 100 to 200 million strong across the universe.

We shall inspire such figure to help us, join us in nurturing free & responsible citizens of the world.

God-luck to Barack Obama... We are all Americans, declared a French newspaperman.

If Hillary Clinton will make good as Secretary of State...

Marc Guerrero, Journalist — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 05:54:36 EST

Mrs Bill Clinton will live down in history as another, if not better, than Henry Kissinger.

She can probably visit any one or all the 100 to 200 countries that either look up to America as some kind of big brother or big sister, or America has some influence or interest in them (hopefully) for common good.

By becoming a better Kissinger, Mrs Clinton as President-elect Barack Obama's State Secretary can probably bring back the "liking America again" fondness of many countries, big or small, in the process, better understanding what's the apt foreign policies for any one or all countries, friends or not, that will benefit not only the socalled leaders of those countries.

We remembered the excesses of Marcos being tolerated by America, until Lugar advised the strongman to cut and cut cleanly. The Filipino people had suffered much during those most trying times, most interesting times, most dangerous times for Filipinos in The Philippines. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo's dispensation - onwards its less-than-two-year stretch out of office - is being haunted, hounded by the ghosts of the unburied Marcos's past intelligent miscalculations. Her ilks are allegedly working heaven and earth to extend her term.

People Power - the first that relegated the great Filipino President Marcos into historical oblivion and installed a housewife (Cory Aquino to martyr Benigno 'Ninoy' Aquino Jr) to the corridors of power - will not allow that. Anyway...

If Hillary Clinton will make good in the next four to eight years, Americans and friends of the Americans abroad may carry her to White House, after Obama had effected necessary changes in America, as we would like to drum up and drumbeat.

As I wrote earlier, the next President after Obama will be a woman. Chealsea's mother could be "the man, for the tough job" of President for all of us. "We are all Americans," after all, or so says a French writer, whether we like it or not.

Unsolicited advice to Bill and Hillary Clinton?: Be your own man (woman). Do not upstage the Obama of the next four to eight years. There is a time for everything (Eccelsiastes). But where's Al Gore in all this? We'll find out next time...

Considering the creation of a new Group: Filipinos Walk with Obama for Health, Wealth and Wellbeing

Marc Guerrero, Journalist — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 08:47:07 EST

I write to pray for reconsideration of my request to create a new Group named "Filipinos Walk with Obama for Health, Wealth and Wellbeing" that was initially turned down (sort of) with the advise to connect with LA-based Filipinos for Obama.

The initial idea was to name the group, simply, Filipinos Walk with Obama for Wellness.

It is now being expanded, in form, as mentioned above.

My proposed group will be comprised by doctors, nurses, midwives, PTs, OTs, therapists, caregivers and all those in medical health sciences profession, including but not limited to, those in the integrative medicine, complementary medicine, wholistic/holistic medicine, etc, not only in America but across the globe.

"We are all Americans," afterall, or so declared a French chronicler, in a comment to my previous blog post.

May I share with you?: "Liking America again" / HUMMING IN MY UNIVERSE by Jim Paredes

Marc Guerrero, Journalist — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 09:36:48 EST

BLOGGER'S NOTES. Musician, glamour photographer, inspirational writer Jim Paredes, my columnist once in a national newspaper and in the Filipino singers collective, wrote some kind of a rave review in Philippine Star, a national daily, about the Barack Obama change in America phenomenon that is evolving. May I share with you his obra maestra? It goes like this...

A LOT OF POSSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY, irrationality and sentimentalism characterize my generation, the generation before mine, and even the present one’s feelings when the topic of America comes up.

In the Philippines, one grows up with a generous dose of American culture. In my time, our schoolbooks, the medium of instruction, the history that was taught us, were all American. Even when we studied Philippine history, so much of it had the US in it, most especially its political line that justified their continuing presence in the Philippines. America was everywhere and in everything in our daily life.

In the first 20 years of my life, America seemed to be such a wonderful place, with an almost mythical quality to it, where lots of wonderful, magical and creative things happened. There was Hollywood with its great movies and narratives that shaped my own dreams. At one time, I wanted to be Davy Crockett and fight a live bear, a cowboy who could lasso a wild horse and ride it from dawn till sunset, a Marine who could fight gloriously like the Americans did in The Longest Day, a spaceman, etc. America was a place where anyone could be anything he wanted to be.

In my teen years, Marilyn Monroe, Ali MacGraw, Natalie Wood, Katharine Ross, Audrey Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor and so many other American actresses, including sexy magazine centerfolds, sashayed into my libidinous fantasies. America’s sexual images delivered to us through the media shaped a lot of what we defined as sexy.

There was something about American women in the movies that was especially attractive to the Filipino male. Unlike Filipinas, they seemed aggressive, much more expressive and overtly affectionate, not to mention more abundantly endowed physically. They had an ephemeral “bitch-goddess” quality that defined what we adopted as our standards of beauty and lust.

America was also the source of good music. I memorized the original album of “West Side Story” from beginning to end. I thought it was one of the greatest musical works ever created. I still do. I remember my dad playing George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue on the piano. I adored pop music as well.

Pop and rock-and-roll have been constant influences and sources of joy and inspiration to me all these years. They were powerful forces in molding my musical taste. I thought Motown’s soul music was one of the greatest musical genres ever. Jazz was simply out of this world. My musical idols were mostly American—Stevie Wonder, Frank Sinatra, Frank Zappa, Billy Joel, Duke Ellington, Quincy Jones, Ella Fitzgerald, Steely Dan, and so many others.

The greatness of America extended to other fields as well, such as sports, science, fashion and style, and the arts. Muhammad Ali, Michael Jordan, Albert Einstein, Any Warhol were just a few of my personal idols. But to me, the greatest gifts that America exported to the world were the humanist concepts of equality, justice, opportunity, freedom and self-determination—values I held deep in my heart. Because of these, I held America in the highest esteem and affection.

America was the land of the possible where cutting-edge ideas were conceived and made flesh. I wanted to spend my life there. After I got married, my wife and I had planned to settle there. We even got green cards.

But as my love affair with the “land of the free” was going on, there were events taking place in the Philippines that demanded a wider, morerealistic view of my sentiments and relationship towards the US vis-à-vis my own country. The First Quarter Storm in the early ’70s opened my eyes to America’s imperialist motives in coming to the Philippines—something the Zaide history books we read in school never discussed honestly. Its support of the Marcos dictatorship was a shocking reality to me, who thought that the very existence of the dictatorship was a stark contrast to everything America professed to hold dear.

In fact, it was during the last days of Marcos when Ronald Reagan was still vacillating on whether the US was going to recognize the new Cory government that I first contemplated giving up my green card. I could not believe that Reagan, who was scheduled to visit the Philippines, had said that there was cheating on both sides! Luckily, Senator Lugar’s message to Marcos to cut and cut clean saved the day somewhat for the US, although many of us felt it had no other choice but to do what it did.

During the Cory years, I campaigned against the renewal of the US bases treaty. A song I wrote for APO called American Junk said it all as far as I was concerned. The euphoria of people power ringing in a new government was a political, cultural and a seminal coming-of-age for me. Senator Manglapus put it so well when he used the metaphor of “killing the great white father” to describe our process of weaning away from the security of having American bases in our country. I felt that we, as a people, were coming into our own.

America in my eyes was still a great nation, but I had now fallen in love with my own country. I promptly gave up my green card after the failed December coup led by Honasan where we almost lost our newfound freedom. I felt that I personally had to be present here to protect our freedoms by giving up my escape hatch.

The Clinton years were great as far as my sentiments about America were concerned; I thought that the US generally stood up for the right values as far as world affairs were concerned. Except for a few places, the world loved America. Clinton epitomized American charm at its best. In my eyes, the Lewinski affair did nothing to diminish Bill Clinton’s reputation. Politically speaking within the US context, I am a deep, left-of-center Democrat who is more forgiving of sexual pecadillos than war crimes.

When George W. Bush came to power, I was close to losing all my affection and respect for America. I was angry at this nation that professed the values of Lincoln and JFK but acted out the rhetoric of Rush Limbaugh and other Neo-cons. The sympathy generated by 9-11 quickly dissipated after Bush’s invasion of Iraq under false pretenses. I was awakened to the reality that with its invasion of Iraq, the suspension of some of the human rights of its own citizens, its policy of torture, Guantanamo and its arrogant treatment and disdain for the UN, America was, like Germany under Hitler, capable of becoming a fascist state.

America, she of the Statue of Liberty, the country of Jefferson and everything associated with an open and free society, was not a special idea after all. It, too was fallible and had its own fatal weakness like every other nation. Many times, I pondered with great distress on the fate of the world — with the only super power behaving so badly.

The Bush legacy with its hypocrisy and right-wing excess will hopefully be just be a blip, an aberration – though a costly one – in America’s history.

The spectacular rise and triumph of Barack Obama has made a lot of people, including myself, take a second sympathetic look at America. The US, with its image battered all over the world, its morale sunk so low, and its power and influence diminishing, could still spring a fabulous surprise on the world – and on itself.

I was ecstatic when Barack Obama won the presidency. To me it was a sign that America had come back to its senses, awakened to its greater self and touched base with what it preached. A black man with the middle name of Hussein, of mixed parentage and an alien past, has won. That makes me consider that perhaps the American dream is not yet a spent force.

This single event has turned the world around a considerable degree. Once again, I am in awe of the US and its capacity to correct itself. I have started to revisit American authors, artists, books and movies that I sometimes consciously bypassed in protest during the Bush years. I am liking America once again.

The world is on to a new beginning. The world’s most powerful person is black, the richest is an Indian, and the fastest-rising region is Asia. A still-powerful though more benign America playing its part in it will hopefully be of great benefit to the world.#

America should not forget her real friends, allies, partners

Marc Guerrero, Journalist — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 06:49:58 EST

America has the tendency to forget her friends. With a cannonball fire by Dewey at the onset of the 20th century,hehad Spain surrender to her and pay the last Spanish Governor-Generals US$20M for keeping Las Islas Filipinas. Education & democracy were made available to all; America kept the business. An abundance of gold, oil and natural resources were exploited. In the '40s,Japan destroyed Pearl Harbor. America bombed Manila & Hiroshima, she rebuilt Japan w/ Marshall fund into an economic power that, once in the past, was neck-and-neck w/ RP or PH in economic upbeatness. Manila was left to rebuild itself. Japan, meanwhile, almost beat the American automakers in their own turf afterwards, in electronics,too. America didn't bomb Korea, according to my uncle, aide to Douglas MacArthur, so communism flourished. And had not the young North Korean dictator been failing by his health, communism will be around forever. America lost everything in Vietnam in the '70s, yet,she rebuilt it into an emerging tiger economy, even leading its neighbors Bangladesh, Pakistan and PH to some extent, today. America bombed Iraq, she destroyed ancient history in the process. America is trying to rebuild Iraq; let's see if eternal peace in the Middle East can be achieved at last? And Communist China, once an archenemy of the US?America from all fronts is wooing Mainland China. Never mind if there are many Chinas. How about Soviet Russia? Not much of a threat now, after Berlin Wall fell. And so, therefore, America is pouring in all resources onto China so that when the sleeping dragon finally wakes up, the billion-Chinese will find a friend in America who, in the end, she can co-reign with in world. In the meantime, real friends have to fend for themselves. Will Obama change the course of that (unfairness and inequality in) history? Only God knows...

I WAS BROWSING CHANGE.ORG, I FOUND OBAMA THERE

Marc Guerrero, Journalist — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 09:12:21 EST

I would like to believe that Obama is everywhere.

I found myself recently in Change.org and I was attracted to a post by Heather Mansfield of Change nonprofit community. She wrote on the 7th of Nov 2008: "President Obama should Blog and Social Network."

Mansfield pointed out, "President-elect Obama should blog the issues once a month and continue to use social networking sites to empower, inspire, and inform the masses."

I recalled my own admonishing in Facebook to Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo:

"I have been urging Philippine President Arroyo and other Filipino politicians to Facebook and other social networking so that they may be guided accordingly as to the policies they initiate.

"Since last month, on the occasion of my umpteenth birthday, I have been doing to Filipino politicos as Heather Mansfield has been doing to have President-elect Barack Obama do social networking, so that they in government may feel the pulse of the people and for them to empower their governed to strengthen the state and democracy as it should be.

"Needless to say (but I'll say it anyway), I urged Filipino Americans in my bloc to accompany change in Amerika, if and when (only) they thought that Mr Obama is ready as they said he is. {I was part of the over 1 million Facebook hobbyists all over the world who asked people to vote and to rock their votes, for Obama.}

"Fact is, my most recent status for a few days in my Facebook home runs like this: "Marc told Facebook handlers of PGMA in OPS, Luli, Mikey, FG or whoever to tell her "Paminsanminsan mag-Facebook naman kayo mismo, Ma'am (read my notes shortly)." Last week, I welcomed Ms Arroyo in the house! The invite has an accompanying notes titled: 'I have been telling politicians, movie stars, sports stars et al...'

-->>"When VP Kabayan Noli de Castro created his first Facebook account last month, I welcomed him and told Gen Estonilo Reyes or those in the OVP the same way I will tell President Gloria Macaraeg Macapagal-Arroyo thru OPS, Luli, Mikey, FG or whoever handles her Facebook account:

>>"Kahit paminsanminsan lang (once a week or so), subukin ninyong kayo po mismo magsipag-Facebook at huwag basta hayaan na lang sa mga handlers ang pakikipagtalastasan sa proactive, positive, productive at progressive worldwideweb bloc na, ayon sa Facebook, mga humigit-kumulang 200,000 netizens, sa Filipinas pa lang...

>>"Hindi po yan mga communista, kaliwa, kanan o gitnang rebelde, at ibang political colors. Sila po ang mga masasabi nating paris ninyo riyan sa gobyerno ay nagmamalasakit din sa bansa natin.

>>"Masarap pong mag-Facebook once in a while, na kayo mismo ang titipa sa keys ng inyong mga boards at magsasasagot o magkokomentaryo o magpopost ng kung anuanong mga bagay - mahahalaga o hindi masyado. Person-to-person ang magiging dating ninyo... personalan ang pakikipagrelasyon sa taumbayan at hindi basta trabaho lang...

>>"Sa minsanang pagpe-Facebook ninyo ay 'pansamantala ninyong malilimutan ang mga suliranin ng mundo, ang mga problema ng bansa'... 'Malilimutan ninyo ring kung hindi man 'kayo ang may problema sa bansa' (namomroblema kayo sa bansa) ay, malamang sa hindi, 'kayo riyan ang pinoproblema ng bansa'..."

>>My same unsolicited advice goes not only to PGMA, Kabayan, Dick Gordon, Mar Roxas, Chiz Escudero etc, etc and so on and so forth, but to all ye glittering kind - political, showbiz, and what-have-you.

>>Welcome to the wonderful world of transformative technologies... who knows, they can win or lose political fortunes and careers?<<--

"In essence, I was telling them, "by social networking, blogging, and so on, you can temporarily forget about the nation's problems. Or, the nation's problems with you (politicians), if you don’t have problems with the people."

"Arroyo's Office of the Press Secretary (OPS) is managing her Facebook for her. I wanted her to do it, by herself, once a week. Anyway, she can wait for the wee hour of 3AM in Manila just for Obama's call from the US, why not blog or do social network?

"Posted in Facebook by Marc Guerrero on 11/21/2008 @ 02:52AM PST."

My interest in Obama did not stop there.

I told Facebook on the 4th of November 2008: The next President of the United States in 2016 after Obama, will be...

Marc Guerrero, Journalist — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 13:54:09 EST

The next United States President after Barack Obama will be a woman.

That was my most fearless forecast of a lifetime, done four to eight years before it will happen.

US President-elect Obama will be reelected in 2012, for another four-year term up to 2016.

After that, it will be anything goes for the "first woman President of the United States."

Palin can be it, Hillary Clinton can be it, Condoleesa Rice can be it, or another new name will crop up.

Cory Aquino was our first Filipino woman president when our 1986 First People Power Revolution of the World and in the World cut and cut cleanly a 20-year one-man rule and relegated President Ferdinand Edralin Marcos into the dustbin of history.

Earlier in "her-story" (it is not just the usual "history," because we are talking about women presidents here), there was Golda Meir, Indira Gandhi, Benazir Ali Bhutto, and Margaret Thatcher.

So please do not tell me that I did not tell you that after Barack Obama, the next US President by 2016 will be a woman.

I was One of the over One Million Five Hundred Thousand proactive Facebook members who donated our status to Rock the Vote for Obama

Marc Guerrero, Journalist — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 13:34:05 EST

Thanks to the Project Agape that built Facebook Causes.

Thanks to Sean, Joe, Christopher, Brad, Jennifer, Jimmy, Kevin, Kristjan, Keith and Josh Williams.

Facebook Causes was able to enjoin nearly two million proactive Facebook users to get out and vote last the 4th of November 2008, to tell others to get out and vote, and to rock the vote for Barack Obama.

I, myself, was able to elicit the support of average 100 of my 1,000 friends in Facebook who come from the media, entertainment, politics, literati and culturati to rock the vote for Obama, and to rock their friends to deliver the votes of their average 100 American friends each for Obama.

It's all in the Facebook record.