I pray we, all children of the earth, no mater our path to enlightenment, come to realize that we are one. We may walk our own paths, but we are not alone, for we walk at the same time, toward the same end. From our individual perspectives, be we Episcopal, Catholic, Christian, Muslim, Jew, Buddist, Taoist, or Hindu, are the same. I pray that we all feel the love of our Creator(s) and by example learn to see each other as brothers and sisters, allowing the boundary lines of religion to fade away. May the Lord bless your path. May you always have enough, and may you give enough in return.
Gods speed, blessed be.
Here is a wonderfully inspiring video. This video should open even blind eyes. Watch and Share!
http://www.vimeo.com/1742831#success
Have Joy Prayer Warriors! GOD is still on the Throne!! We pray hard. We seek the Lord diligently. We persevere in prayer. Join us as and log on to our Obama Convention Bump event.
We're giving $28 on August 28th, the night of Obama's speech at the Democratic National Convention, to give him an uproariously overwhelming show of support on line - as well as in the stadium.
Have Joy Prayerful People. GOD is still on the Throne!! We pray hard. We seek the Lord diligently. We persevere in prayer. Join us and log on to our Obama Convention Bump event. We're giving $28 on August 28th, the night of Obama's speech at the Democratic National Convention to give an uproariously overwhelming show of support on line - as well as in the stadium.
Rhonda,
Thank you for setting up the Diversity Group. I have enjoyed being part of a smaller national group that is committed to both making diversity work, and getting Senator Obama elected as President. I have enjoyed having the group as a resource for useful information. There are plenty of chat and blog sites on the internet, very few are actually useful to getting much done. For much of the past year, the Diversity4Obama group was one of those happy exceptions.
I have worked on diversity issues for many years, and have found that one of the most important rules for dealing with sensitive issues is both a respect for all parties, and a responsibility by all to treat each other respectfully. If a member is not willing to conduct themselves in a respectful manner towards others, they cannot e part of a group that builds solutions. It is in this area that I have seen the Diversity4Obama group break down.
Over the past few weeks, I have seen the Diversity4Obama group devolve into a bickering, abusive, unproductive and email clogging mess. The group posts are being clogged by constant back and forth bickering and personal attacks.
The center of this activity has been with two posters. These two have abused their privileges, been involved in multiple arguments with multiple members, and basically clogged the system with petty comments and attacks. The group has attempted self policing with repeated requests that we stay on the issues of how to help the Senator, and to not make the group a place for rumor mongering. Each of these posters has responded with venom and anger to such requests for civility.
These two posters have each talked about leaving other groups because of complaints by other users. I completely believe this, and see a pattern. I would expect that they were blocked from other groups, and do not expect them to change. I strongly encourage you to block these users, and urge the rest of the group to treat each other respectfully.
I do not know if you are following the group, but I believe that this would make a massive improvement to the group, and help return it to being a product asset for the campaign.
I sincerely look forward to your response.
Be well,
Doug Williams
Atlanta GA
PURPOSE: The "Green Matters" event is a grassroots, one-day mass-donation event with the purpose of bringing the ENVIRONMENT into the forefront of the 2008 Presidential race. HOW IT WORKS: A massive one-day donation event on a nationally celebrated day of environmental awareness (Earth Day), and on the same day as the Pennsylvania primary, will penetrate the national dialogue, once again moving the environment to the forefront of Presidential politics. Our idea is to combine concern for the environment with Barack Obama's wide appeal and extensive grassroots support by recruiting people to make an official campaign donation in support of Barack Obama and the environment, on Earth Day - April 22, 2008. The success of this endeavor will show that the environment is a strong viable issue in the 2008 campaign, that Barack Obama is the right candidate to tackle the issue, and that Green Matters to many Americans.
WHY?:
Why do we feel it is so important to send this message now, more than ever?
* The health of the environment is a health care issue
* Environmental insecurity is an issue of national security
* A poor environment disproportionately affects the poor
* The environment is an issue that affects everyone
WHAT TO DO: 1. Go to www.envirobama.com/greenmatters to sign up and be a part of making history this Earth Day. 2. Sign up for the MYBO Environmentalists for Obama group at my.barackobama.com/page/group/EnvironmentalistsforObama
3. RSVP for the Green Matters! event at http://my.barackobama.com/page/event/detail/4r89v
4. Go to www.envirobama.com to learn more about Barack Obama's strong environmental positions. 5. Pass all of this info on to as many people as possible, spread word across the internet, and help us get word out to powerful people and media outlets. 6. JOIN US BY PARTICIPATING ON APRIL 22 IN A ONE-DAY, MASS-DONATION EVENT TO SHOW THE WORLD THAT GREEN MATTERS! Thank you, Environmentalists for Obama Envirobama.com
Here are just a few things Fox hosts and guests said in the last two days:
Sullivan denies having made comparison between Obama and HitlerThursday, February 14, 2008
Fox News Radio's Tom Sullivan aired "side-by-side comparison" of speeches by Hitler and ObamaWednesday, February 13, 2008
Fox News host Banderas called Obama a "Halfrican"Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Fox allowed Ralph Reed to repeat Bush's false claim that "Obama has said that he will embrace Ahmadinejad"Wednesday, February 13, 2008
What follows is an email composed in collaboration with other supporters. It draws heavily from the outstanding speech Senator Obama gave yesterday in Atlanta, and was inspired as a response to the despicable emails making the rounds about Barack, spreading horrible lies about his faith and his patriotism. I encourage you all to send this to your contacts, or to draw from his speech and create your own email in honor of the day. The speech speaks to all of us, and different passages will have particular meaning for different groups and individuals. The email also contains a link to the full text of Barack’s speech, as well as the video of it. I think everyone can benefit from reflecting upon this speech, especially “on this day of all days.”
Some inspiring thoughts in honor of Martin Luther King Day:Unity is the great need of the hour is what King said. Unity is how we shall overcome. Unity is the great need of the hour - the great need of this hour. Not because it sounds pleasant or because it makes us feel good, but because it's the only way we can overcome the essential deficit that exists in this country. I'm talking about a moral deficit. I'm talking about an empathy deficit. I'm taking about an inability to recognize ourselves in one another; to understand that we are our brother's keeper; we are our sister's keeper; that, in the words of Dr. King, we are all tied together in a single garment of destiny. We have an empathy deficit when we're still sending our children down corridors of shame - schools in the forgotten corners of America where the color of your skin still affects the content of your education. We have a deficit when homeless veterans sleep on the streets of our cities; when innocents are slaughtered in the deserts of Darfur; when young Americans serve tour after tour of duty in a war that should've never been authorized and never been waged. We are told that those who differ from us on a few things are different from us on all things; that our problems are the fault of those who don't think like us or look like us or come from where we do. Every day, our politics fuels and exploits this kind of division across all races and regions; across gender and party. It is played out on television. It is sensationalized by the media. On this day of all days, each of us carries with us the task of changing our hearts and minds. The division, the stereotypes, the scape-goating, the ease with which we blame our plight on others – all of this distracts us from the common challenges we face – war and poverty; injustice and inequality. We can no longer afford to build ourselves up by tearing someone else down. We can no longer afford to traffic in lies or fear or hate. It is the poison that we must purge from our politics; the wall that we must tear down before the hour grows too late. It is not enough to bemoan the plight of poor children in this country and remain unwilling to push our elected officials to provide the resources to fix our schools. It is not enough to decry the disparities of health care and yet allow the insurance companies and the drug companies to block much-needed reforms. It is not enough for us to abhor the costs of a misguided war, and yet allow ourselves to be driven by a politics of fear that sees the threat of attack as way to scare up votes instead of a call to come together around a common effort.If we are to truly bring about the unity that is so crucial in this time, we must find it within ourselves to act on what we know; to understand that living up to this country’s ideals and its possibilities will require great effort and resources; sacrifice and stamina. All of us will be called upon to make some sacrifice. None of us will be exempt from responsibility. Dr. King understood that unity cannot be won on the cheap; that we would have to earn it through great effort and determination. Brothers and sisters, we cannot walk alone. In the struggle for peace and justice, we cannot walk alone. In the struggle for opportunity and equality, we cannot walk alone. In the struggle to heal this nation and repair this world, we cannot walk alone. So I ask you to walk with me, and march with me, and join your voice with mine, and together we will sing the song that tears down the walls that divide us, and lift up an America that is truly indivisible, with liberty, and justice, for all. --Barack Obama, "The Great Need of the Hour," Ebenezer Baptist ChurchAtlanta, GA, January 20,2008 (for the full speech, see http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/01/the-ebenezer-se.html; for the video see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kf0x_TpDris )
If you long for unity in our nation and in our communities, please send this to 10 friends. I can't promise you good luck as chain mails might, but you just might help tear down the walls of Washington and reach the promised land of a country restored to its people.P.S . I don't know if you've received an email saying some pretty shocking things about Barack Obama and his background, but if you have, you're not the only one. Newsweek magazine investigated it and found out that those emails have completely false information and are political tricks designed to help Obama's opponents. If you've gotten any of those emails, you should click http://www.newsweek.com/id/91424 to read about the tricks the political operatives are trying to play on people.
Since i was elected as a delegate to go to he county convention to represent MR. Obama i have been doing more to get him out there and be known such as calling all of my other relatives taht live in other states and telling them about obama, to get him out there. i want obama to get to be president and i am going to do everything in my power to make it happen.
BUT THE QUESTION IS NOT WHAT CAN I DO FOR HIM BUT ASK YUORSELF WAHT CAN YOU DO.
Despite what people may say about Barrack Obama, he is not giving up and will not drop out like other want him to. in my personal opinion i am going to stick with him till the end of the campign or until he is no longer president. for the sole fact that he is the only presidential candidate that is ready to impliment the change he isn't lying to us about what he is and wants to do with this country. so please everyone stand with us , and do not focus on the bad parts of this election,but the good stuff that will come out of Obama being President.
Happy New Year! I'm so glad it's finally 2008--the year we will elect Barack Obama to be the next president of the United States of America.
We were fired up in Waukee's 3rd precinct today and working hard to bring in the caucus for Barack. I don't know what the temperature or wind chill factor was--it was damn cold! But every time my canvassing buddy and I talked to a once-undecided voter--who is now firmly in Barack's corner--we were fired up again! We're not taking anything for granted and will continue to work hard until the caucassing begins on Thursday night. I can't wait! Wish us luck and then get ready to do the hard work where you live. OBAMA '08
