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A Running Account
Racism started in and caused the Diaspora(s). Like a dragon, it has grown many heads and morphed into many shapes. In our self-serving blindness to the effects and impact of our own belief systems on others, we are often blind to all forms of it that are not visited on ourselves.
I believe that part of our attraction to the Obama campaign is not that Barack has the idea of rising above racism and other societal and political ills alone, but that the campaign gives each of us as individuals a voice in that campaign and many others tangential to it. We are strengthened and emboldened to express the love that, like a sword, is truly the only answer to slaying this dragon.
Keep on swinging the sword!
http://www.nypost.com/seven/07272008/news/nationalnews/o_fears_a_jet_lag_in_polls_121811.htm
Barack Obama is back on American soil after a whirlwind trip abroad - and despite the adulation he met in the Mideast and Europe, he suspects his summer travels might have hurt him at home. Hours before boarding his flight back to Chicago yesterday, Obama told re porters in London he wouldn't be surprised by a dip in his poll numbers in coming days. "People are worried about gas prices and home foreclosures," he said. "We have been gone for a week." A national Fox News poll released Tuesday as the Democratic candi date toured the Middle East seemed to confirm his fears. His lead over Republican rival John McCain had shrunk to 41-40 percent, the Fox poll found. Last month, a Fox poll had Obama leading 45-41 percent.
During Barack Obama's much ballyhooed London visit, the White House hopeful confessed in a private chat with a British political leader that he was looking forward to taking a break. Unaware that an ABC News microphone was listening as they strolled, Obama was asked by Tory boss David Cameron, "Do you have a break at all?" "I have not," Obama replied. "I am going to take a week in August." He then says that if he gets elected, he'll take the advice of "somebody who had worked in the White House who - not [Bill] Clinton himself, but somebody who had been close to the process - said that, should we be successful, that actually the most important thing you need to do is to have big chunks of time during the day when all you're doing is thinking. "The truth is that we've got a bunch of smart people," he says, "I think, who know 10 times more than we do about the specifics of the topics. And so if what you're trying to do is micromanage and solve everything, then you end up being a dilettante." http://www.nydailynews.com/news/galleries/barack_obama_world_tour_summer_2008/barack_obama_world_tour_summer_2008.html Read More »
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