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I voted for the President but what he said regarding the disabled community was a non-traditional symptom of Cultural Poisoning that should be looked at closer.
As a matter of Cultural Health we should always endeavor to reduce Cultural Poisoning of all types. Normally I do cultural commentary on Cultural Poisoning as it relates to Black and White ethnic group issues. Cultural Poisoning as it relates to the disability community is a reality that is even less known and understood then Black/White issues.
For the first time, a sitting President appeared on the Jay Leno Show, where President Obama unfortunately referred to bowling and the “Special Olympics”. See the video on YouTube.
First let me say that anyone can, and most of us do, exhibit a symptom of Cultural Poisoning (CP) from time to time. for instance, Dr. Martin Luther King used the “N” Word (Negro) as common parlance. I have watched the President closely and I have not detected any inter-ethnic Cultural Poisoning yet so, why this odd off hand disrespect of the disability community. Was it competitive arrogance?
If you have ever been in a Gym locker room and heard the trash talk, you might suspect that the President probably picked up this CP in such and environment. Whatever the case, the good news is that unlike Bush and the forty thieves, this President immediately acknowledged the mistake and apologized. Now, that is change, and a good example of how to cure a specific symptom of Cultural Poisoning. Amen!
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Since January 20th 2009 Barack Obama is the 44th president of the United States of America, a very historic inauguration day. Think back to 1963, when Martin Luther King held his famous speech, saying "I have a dream...", and see what a positive change has allready been made since then. With Barack Obama the first African American president in US history is in the White House, Martin Luther King`s dream is about to come true and that´s really great ! - Shop America supports Barack Obama and wishes him all the best for his future, hoping that he can really perform the "Change" for America and the world ! - Visit our Barack Obama section and check out "Yes We Can" and other political designs on t-shirts, buttons, stickers and more: BARACK OBAMA DESIGNS - YES WE CAN
BARACK OBAMA DESIGNS - YES WE CAN
As we honor the legacy of Dr. King this weekend, and prepare for Obama's Inauguration, I post brief excerpts from the speech Dr. King gave one year before his death. These excerpts contain the phrase that Obama often used to explain why he ran for president: "the fierce urgency of now."
Excerpts from "Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence," a speech given by Dr. Martin Luther King to the assembled "Clergy and Laymen Concerned About Vietnam," at Riverside Church in New York City on April 4, 1967 I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered. A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our past and present policies. On the one hand we are called to play the good Samaritan on life's roadside; but that will be only an initial act. One day we must come to see that the whole Jericho road must be transformed so that men and women will not be constantly beaten and robbed as they make their journey on life's highway. True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it is not haphazard and superficial. It comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring. A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth. With righteous indignation, it will look across the seas and see individual capitalists of the West investing huge sums of money in Asia, Africa and South America, only to take the profits out with no concern for the social betterment of the countries, and say: "This is not just." It will look at our alliance with the landed gentry of Latin America and say: "This is not just." The Western arrogance of feeling that it has everything to teach others and nothing to learn from them is not just. A true revolution of values will lay hands on the world order and say of war: "This way of settling differences is not just." This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into veins of people normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice and love. A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death. America, the richest and most powerful nation in the world, can well lead the way in this revolution of values …. A genuine revolution of values means in the final analysis that our loyalties must become ecumenical rather than sectional. Every nation must now develop an overriding loyalty to mankind as a whole in order to preserve the best in their individual societies ....We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history there is such a thing as being too late. Now let us begin. Now let us rededicate ourselves to the long and bitter -- but beautiful -- struggle for a new world. This is the calling of the sons of God, and our brothers wait eagerly for our response. Shall we say the odds are too great? Shall we tell them the struggle is too hard? Will our message be that the forces of American life militate against their arrival as full men, and we send our deepest regrets? Or will there be another message, of longing, of hope, of solidarity with their yearnings, of commitment to their cause, whatever the cost? The choice is ours, and though we might prefer it otherwise we must choose in this crucial moment of human history.
Hey, everybody. While it's pretty cool that Barack Obama is half black, why don't we not make it about race. And let's make sure that we make this new president get down to business, right away! I want to see some real responsible governing. I want to see real progress. I want to see deficit reduction. I don't care if we have to raise taxes. Tough Sh!t. We can't leave the next generations ANY debt! Would you leave your children hundreds of thousands of dollars of debt that they would be OBLIGATED to pay back? I wouldn't! It may mean that even working class people have to sacrifice a bit.
We are all in this together. EVERYBODY! I know what I am going to do. I am going to try to help build a consensus on issues and send that info right to the white house and Congress. I am going to continually write my congresswoman and senators and ensure they know what I expect. I am going to think about the next generation, about the world as one, and I am going to fight for what's right.
I challenge anyone to come on board to a political debate site like www.u4prez.com and discuss issues and develop consensus. That's got to be OUR job, not Obama's. We have to pull together, and I mean really together .... for the future.
My very best regards to the new Congress and president,
Sir Richard Fattengausse, "virtual candidate" for President of the United States www.u4prez.com and member-at-large, the House of Lords
“Rosa Parks sat so Martin Luther King could walk. Martin Luther King walked so Obama could run. Obama ran so we could fly.” – JayZ
Imagine a World where each and every one of was committed to discovering who we are truly here to be, committed to unwrapping our gifts, to living from our deepest Being. Imagine a world where we support each other in that quest. Imagine a world where we are seen for our potential to Become – Buddha to be, Gandhi to be, Einstein to be. Imagine a world where we greet each other with compassion and an open heart – Dalai Lama to be, Amma to be, Mother Theresa to be. Imagine a world where we thirst for justice and respect – Mandela to be, Joan of Arc to be, Ang San Suu Kyi to be. Imagine a world where we dare to be ecstatically different – Rumi to be, Mary Magdalene to be, Wonder Woman to be. Imagine a world where we stand up for the planet as part of who we are – St. Francis to be, Julia Butterfly to be, Al Gore to be. Imagine a world beyond the constructed boundaries of class, colour or creed. Imagine a world where a black man can become president of the United States of America – Rosa Parks to be, Martin Luther King to be, Barack Obama to be.
Imagine a world where each person reached just a little bit further, towards compassion, sustainability, harmony and creativity. Imagine a world that stretched even further, to the place where ecstasy lives. Imagine a world of celebration for life in all it’s joy and all it’s pain. A world where nothing stands in the way but fear itself. Where fear is just a passing fancy, replaced by unyielding hope, undying trust, indestructible vulnerability. A world where everyone and everything that happens to you is part of an extraordinary opportunity to learn and grow and evolve. Imagine a world that reflected back all the love in your heart, beaming right back at you, blinding you with it’s brilliance. Imagine a world where the extraordinary life you are here to live is here. Imagine if you could start living that life, right now. Your fierce light shining bright.
You can. Yes, you can.
~Velcrow Ripper
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After loosing the elections to Obama. John Mccain goes home with hope of having a wonderful Thanksgiving with his immediate family. Mccain flew into his hometown on his private jet but when he reached the airport, his usual guest didn’t greet him. There weren’t any balloons, the bands weren’t playing or crowds weren’t cheering. This was unusual, he didn’t even see Sarah Palin. He looked into the distance but all he could see was snow and his cold breath in the air. He looked at his secret service and even they looked shocked about what was happening. For 40 years his town greeted him every Thanksgiving, so WHAT HAPPENED.
He looked at his wife and gave her a smile then said, “Moneys been tight this year for everyone baby. Maybe the town couldn’t afford a celebration this year”
Mrs. Mccain looked at her husband with her devilish grind, “You’re probably right baby. Everyone can’t afford the things we have!”
Mccain grabbed his wife arm and helped her through the snow. He looked at his wife then said, “At least we still have our limo!”
Mccain’s limo was black and warm inside. The bar was filled with Champaign, just like years before. His secret service followed the limo in their black Yukon. Mccain could see despair in his wife’s eyes. He looked at her and said this while he rubbed her thigh, “Baby, I’m still your little P.O.W, right”
Mrs. Mccain’s wife batted her eyes then ran her finger thru Mccain’s hair and gave him a hug as he continued to rub her thigh, “You are my little soldier. Don’t worry!”
Mccain leaned back in his leather seats proud of what he just heard. But when he looked out his window it all disappeared, “What’s going on here?”, Mccain yelled.
Mrs. Mccain rushed to the window because she wanted to see. But what she saw she couldn’t believe, “Why do everyone in your town have Obama campaign signs in there yards!’
Mrs. Mccain looked at John and she immediately knew he was scarred. His eye lit up like a deer staring into your headlights, “I can’t believe it. My own people voted for Obama. What’s going on?”
Alarms kept ringing in John’s ears as he looked out the window and things slowly started to become clear. Most of the people he knew was in Obama’s below 250 thousand dollar tax bracket. While Mccain was trying to help the rich, he was forgetting about the poor. This is something that Republicans have done thousands of times before. As Mccain’s thoughts lingered as his wife started to scream.
Mrs. Mccain, “What the hell did you do? You lost to a black man. Now our lives are ruined. No one will ever remember you for being a prisoner of war. Now everyone will look at us and laugh. And our friends want come to our parties or to any of our functions because you were the first White Republican Man to loose to a Black Democrat.”
Mccain couldn’t believe what was ringing in his ears. He looked at his wife because he felt like he had to make things clear, “LooK!”, pointing, “This race wasn’t about color. I lost to a great man. A-----smart guy!”
Mrs. Mccain laughed, “You lost to a Smart Guy… You lost to a great man”, She paused, “You didn’t say that when you were running around calling him a terrorist. You didn’t say that when you made allegations that Obama was a socialist or he wasn’t fit to be President for the last 23 months”
John looked his wife dead in her eyes, “Now you listen here. I only said those things because your family was about to be taxed because of his policies, if your family loose money then I loose money. I didn’t marry you for only your body, Baby. I married you for power and your family seen me as an opportunity to increase their power.”
Mrs. Mccain was furious about what she just heard. Her eyes was red and her vision was blurried, “You little short dwarf. I know you are angry right now, so I’m going to act like I didn’t hear what you just said. But remember one thing! I made you and I’ll break you… Believe it..You had a chance to get power but you lost, I never lost and I can changed your world with a flick of the wrist”
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We know that Martin Luther King's prophecy was fulfilled on November 4, 2008.
We know that mankind all over the Globe is praying for Barack.
We know that Barack in the Hebrew means, "Blessed"; that each time any human uses the word Barack he is invoking a biblical blessing upon what ever is the subject of the sentence.
The Bible states that they will be blessed who reach the 1335 days (Daniel 12), meaning all who exist after the 1335 biblical years have expired will be blessed.
We have met the 1335 time period; let us rejoice; this generation shall not passaway until the eternal joy shall come.
Though at times, there will be in the next four years, confusion, babel and the wicked (evil axis); since the Bible states these will be with us until the end of the age, not world; let us Rejoice in the righteousness (right standing) of the moment.
Martin had a dream, as tears welled his eyes too, let us rejoice.
Speaking as a psychologist, when I hear the angry gossip about Barack Obama's muslim, terrorist, marxist, socialist takeover of the real America, I am reminded of the people with whom I work. Their parents might have died when they were very young, or they might have been forced from their homes or countries by poverty, genocide or environmental calamities. They are ordinary Americans who have been traumatized by some of life's most unfortunate events. These are people who become experts at predicting dark outcomes in order to avoid ever feeling loss, hurt or disappoint again.
Many of my generation witnessed the assassinations of inspirational leaders. John F. Kennedy was killed on November 22, 1963. Aren't the tears and fears of that day still part of us? On April 4, 1968, didn't the shot that fell Martin Luther King tear into all of our hearts? Most of us were just beginning to believe that his mountaintop could be all of our homeplates. And who didn't love Bobby Kennedy? Just two months later, he was assassinated on June 5, 1968. He led with the promise that no matter who we were and what were facing in the tumult of the times framed by an increasingly painful Vietnam war, we could all end up in that better world for which we all hoped.
Have we recovered from traumas some forty years old? I don't think so. We buried our pain and learned to expect less from ourselves and others. We got used to a kind of dull apathy. It just didn't make sense to have too many expectations. My generation has been haunted by the ghosts who aggressed upon our idealism. We became calculating, pragmatic and cold - a quite cynical group used to the abuses of living in a country perched high upon aggressive materialism.
And then Barack Obama showed up, asking us to believe again. "Yes, we can," he said. "Yes we can."
Some of the gossip and anxious sputtering about the two kinds of America and and the symbolic use of a radical student from 1968 remind me of what happens to trauma victims when they have a chance to recover and to live again. They resist. They make excuses. They conjure up old imagery to keep from taking the risk of trust. Nobody in the real or not-real America wants to feel pain again.
When a people experiences great losses it is easier to subdue living. And most of us have become the widows of our dreams. We have a chance on November 4th to risk falling in love again with our faith, values and highest estimations of our own humanity. It will hurt, and it won't be easy. But there is life on the other side.
Not being able to vote, because I am not a USA citizen, I yet join the Barack Obama campaign today. Why not earlier? Because I had become sceptical about all politics but cynism and sceptism will not change the world we have to save. My first confrontation with cruelty (apart from a big bouvier trying to attack me when I was just 4 years young) was the news about the assasination of J.F.K, followed by the death of Martin Luther King and to complete the Triple A of very sad affairs, the murder on Robert Kennedy. All happened when I was not even 14. These events too made me the person I am now: a person who believes in the word and in acts of love and peace and understanding, un-drugged and de-romantized. It is us here and now who can make a change if we go on trying to collect the right knowledge how to to deal with one and other. We have to because we are all in the same train!
I believe in Barack Obama because he is emphasising that we all have the power within us to 'do the right thing". Barack's motto (in slightly different words the same as one of Nelson Mandela's )"we have nothing to fear but fear itsself" is a compelling truth. When we are able to face that truth, we still not know whether rough nature or "climate" will allow us to survive, but for the time being planet earth would become a better place to live. We have to cross fronteras más, mucho mas.
My personal motto is that one better acts inconsequently right than consequently wrong -we are all but humans.
I hope, fellow Americans, that when Obama is chosen to be your President, you will not analyze his actions to pieces. I hope you will be able to correct his deciscions and actions by remembering the dream he stood for during his campaign. Barack is no saint, none of us is, but he could bring you and the world a little bit closer to what we imagine the world should be.
Fellow travellers, I greet you all whole-heartedly from the Netherlands and I hope the best may win the election. For me that is Barack Obama.
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