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Change Has Come

By Doreen from Chicago, IL - Jan 26th, 2009 at 5:11 pm EST

Change Has Come

In the 60's Sam Cooke sang so eloquently about a change comin,’

Dr. Martin Luther King visualized it and kept everyone drummin.’

In the 80's, Rev. Jesse Jackson personified it and started runnin’!

In 2008, Sen. Barack Obama exemplified it and got the voters hummin,’

It was an arduous 2 year uphill battle an all encompassing task,

He skillfully debated Sen. Clinton and McCain and he still didn’t bask--

Because he is a community organizer at heart but now just on a larger scale.

Who has beautiful women behind him like Sasha, Malia, Marian and Michelle!

In 2009, he took the oath and his platform of unity, hard work, family first and sacrifice,

To the White House with the mantra of YES WE CAN which should surely suffice-

For a country divided by everything underneath the sun,

From the war in Iraq, to women’s rights to the control of guns.

But thank goodness we have a well versed intellectual as the first in command,

Who wants all of us to get in on ground zero, roll up our sleeves and use our hands--

To rebuild this great nation and fulfill the promises that our forefathers spoke of.

Because first and foremost he is a family man, and his ideals are rooted in love.

On that note, I will close, and say a prayer for our 44th president,

Who has more than a clue and more than a hint

On how to get this country back on track,

For everyone not just the poor or the rich or white or black.

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Happy New Year

By Khaidji - Jan 2nd, 2009 at 9:28 am EST

After I wrote my friend I realized that the phrase Happy New Year like Our Lord Jesus also had 12 letters. This number 12 was starting to seem even more important. When I think of the things I wanted to pray for my family and friend this New Year, I came up with these during an early morning soliloquy.

Happy New Year

Here are 12 letters, 12 lines and 12 things in A Prayer For You

A prayer that all Your Earnest Prayers Come True

Peace And Goodwill to you and your fellow man

Prayers for Good Health and to be the best that you can

Your family and friend’s True Undying Love

Nurturing for Spiritual Growth from our Father above

Every Day Contentment and that you find early

Wisdom to help guide in times of uncertainty

Your mind, body and soul, I’ll pray for His Healing Touch

Every Blessing Bestowed you and none be too much

At this turn of the year I pray for you Great Prosperity

Ring in 2009 with my prayer for God’s Promise Of Life Eternity

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Today I Voted

By Trenay from Clementon, NJ - Nov 4th, 2008 at 9:57 pm EST

Today I voted

Today was a day of history in the making

Today is the day, there shall be no more taking

Of my rights and privileges

I made a statement beautiful and bold

Today couldn't have been more perfect

Even the weather just right, not cold.

We chose right, others chose wrong

Only in my eyes because I thought very long

Of the candidates that were given

It wasn't a black or white thing to me

It was about health, education and oil

Also how to keep the middle class financially free.

My children went with me

Inside the voting booth, we walked in liberty,

The sacrifices of our forefathers have paved the way for us

My children were quite amazed; someday they"ll share with their own kids

How we voted for the first black president

I pray that a lot of people did.

Cause change is what we need

And this man God has in His hands indeed

To lead this nation and restore it back to order

Today I voted, for whom I feel will help this nation

Whose politics are right side up not upside down

Like the former administration.

Today I voted! Did you?

By: Trenay Parker

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Why I Support Barack Obama

By Marisa Angelis - Jul 15th, 2008 at 11:00 pm EDT

I support world Democracy. I support Barack Obama because he is the person who can lead not only the United States of America, the whole world. Obama is clearly and obviously The 'Change We Can Believe In' and as a world citizen, I would very much like to see Barack Obama as The President of America and The world leader – it is about time, it is about diversity, it is all about DEMOCRACY!!!
There is no one better in our time NOW to lead.
‘GO OBAMA!’ – Written by Marisa Angelis an Australian - Artist Designer Writer Poet Philanthropist Humanitarian Promoter - Four Nominations including "Australian of the Year 2003" Role Model (Short list).

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Hillary vs O'Reilly

By Khaidji - May 1st, 2008 at 8:43 am EDT

Oh what an evil web we weave when first we practice to deceive. I have been watching how Bill O’Reilly was dropping all the positive comments for Barack Obama over the last week, I was sure to lure him into the clutches of Fox. I never wanted Barack to appear at Fox, especially prior to these primaries in Indiana and North Carolina, not because Barack can’t go toe to toe with the likes of Bill but what purpose does it serve sitting down someone so bent on destroying you under their terms. Barack went on Fox with Chris Wallace but apparently that wasn’t enough for Bill O’Reilly. Is it that he alone has a monopoly to the Fox viewers?

Hillary Vs O’Reilly

Have I missed the argument at its core

Is it everyone’s opinion that she was good, even more

Looks like everyone but me gives her a grade A

Lots of evasiveness with chuckles, a calculated display

All crafted to paint this false picture

Reaching demographics which eluders her

You’d never expect these two to plot

Vying to put Obama on the spot

So like you I dismissed this until Bill’s spout

Obama on the Miller segment was being called out

Repeating that Barack no longer can stay away

Except he wants to be their easy prey

I knew for days O’Reilly was weaving his web

Looks like he’d managed to get others “in bed”

Let me warn the Obama’s campaign to avoid this attack

You must be careful if you are going to expose Barack

See other Acrostic Poetry here on Barack Obama
By Khaidji

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Welcome

By Paris Artists for Obama - Jan 14th, 2008 at 10:23 am EST

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Advance Praise for 'Notes' and it's Author!

By Adrienne Zurub - Aug 24th, 2007 at 8:44 pm EDT

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HEY, I'M CALLED: Wonder Woman
Posted by sealingwax at 10:08 am on August 24th, 2007 in .

Look for a new book coming soon by one of the most amazing women on the planet. No, she's not a candidate for political office--not yet, anyway. Running for office is probably one of the few things she hasn't attempted.

What makes her so remarkable?

Well, for starters, she's a veteran cardiac surgical nurse in one of the most prestigeous institutions in the nation. To top that off, she's a super Mom, poet, actress, author, philosopher, and--get this--standup comic!

A book about life.

Her soon to be released book, Notes from the Mother Ship, is not just an autobiography, it's a poetic and sometimes tragic look at life in general. The pathos of the OR as she describes it is a touching look at life and death from the vantage point of close proximity.

Just as the author seeks out other avenues for her self expression and ways to escape the morass of the life and death situations in a cardiac OR, the book takes you on a whirlwind tour de force of personal experiences and behind-the-scenes glimpses into the world of standup comedy. It's a Faulknerian stream of consciousness that allows the reader entre into the mind--and great heart--of this remarkable woman.

Who is she?

You don't want to forget her name. Adrienne Zurub can be found on the web at www.ADRIENNEZURUB.COM and a google of her name will reveal a number of other sites--blogs, information, etc.--that come from the prolific pen and hardy heart of a woman to be reckoned with.

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ROSES ARE RED – Obama, Poet

By 17 - Jul 7th, 2007 at 7:15 pm EDT

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Written By Rebecca Mead; from the 7/2/07 New Yorker magazine...

In his first book, "Dreams from My Father," Barack Obama described the marijuana that he smoked as a young man as "something that could flatten out the landscape of my heart, blur the edges of my memory." This confession of youthful indiscretion was at once more sober and more lyrical than those proffered by presidents Forty-two ("I didn't inhale") and Forty-three ("When I was young and irresponsible, I was young and irresponsible"), and it comes as little surprise to discover that another, less publicized intoxication to which the young Obama succumbed was the composition of lyric poetry.

In 1981, Feast, a literary magazine produced at Occidental College, published two poems by Obama, who was then a student there. The first, "Pop," appears to be a loving if slightly jaded portrait of Obama's maternal grandfather, with whom he spent a large part of his childhood. Free in structure and with a bold use of enjambment, it begins, "Sitting in his seat, a seat broad and broken/In, sprinkled with ashes,/Pop switches channels, takes another/Shot of Seagrams, neat, and asks/What to do with me, a green young man/Who fails to consider the/Flim and flam of the world, since/Things have been easy for me." The second, "Underground," offers a vivid if obscurely symbolic description of a tribe of submarine primates. An exemplary few lines go, "Under water grottos, caverns/Filled with apes/That eat figs. /Stepping on the figs/That the apes/Eat, they crunch."

Harold Bloom, who in fifty-three years of teaching literature at Yale University has had many undergraduate poems pressed hopefully upon him, said, when reached by telephone in New Haven last week, that he was not familiar with Obama's oeuvre. But after studying the poems he said that he was not unimpressed with the young man's effort--at least, by the standards established by other would-be bards within the political sphere. "At eighteen, as an undergraduate, he was already a much better poet than our former Secretary of Defense William Cohen, who keeps publishing terrible poetry," Bloom said. (Cohen has published two collections of verse: "Of Sons and Seasons," in 1978, and "A Baker's Nickel," in 1986.) "And then there is Jimmy Carter, who is in my judgment literally the worst poet in the United States." (Carter's first volume of poetry, "Always a Reckoning and Other Poems," which was published in 1994, included a work called "Why We Get Cheaper Tires from Liberia": "No churches can be built/dug in the rolling hills/for those milking Firestone's trees, who die/from mamba and mosquito bites.")

Of the two Obama poems, Bloom said, "Pop" was "not bad--a good enough folk poem with some pathos and humor and affection." He went on, "It is not wholly unlike Lanston Hughes, who tended to imitate Carl Sandburg." Bloom was fascinated by Obama's use of an unusual verb, "shink" ("He ... Stands, shouts, and asks/For a hug, as I shink, my/Arms barely reaching around/His thick, Oily neck"), a word that does not appear in any of the dictionaries that Bloom consulted but which is defined in an online slang dictionary as "An evasive sinking maneuver."

"It undoubtedly was a word that was in common usage, having to do with feeling very strong emotion, in this case a very strong need for comfort," Bloom said. He takes the subtext of the poem to be Obama's reckoning with his absent father, for whom his grandfather is, inevitably, an inadequate substitute. "This is, in effect, his own father," Bloom said. "That 's very touching, and it also shows a kind of humane and sad wit. There's a mind there." "Underground," Bloom said, is the better poem of the two. "It gave me the oddest feeling that he might have been reading the poems of D.H. Lawrence--it reminded me of the poem 'Snake,'" Bloom went on. "I think it is about some sense of chthonic forces, just as Lawrence frequently is--some sense, not wholly articulated, of something below, trying to break through."

Poetry aside, Bloom has formed a good impression of Obama--"Though if Mayor Bloomberg runs, I am voting for him," he added. In any case, he said, Obama has chosen the right career, at least if it comes to a tossup between politico and poet. "If I had been shown these poems by one of my undergraduates and asked, Shall I go on with it?, I would have rubbed my forehead and said, On the whole, my dear, probably not not. Your future is not as a person of letters," Bloom pronounced. "But they would by no means have seemed to me unworthy of my attention." [credits at top]

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I believe!

By Adrienne Zurub - Mar 23rd, 2007 at 6:28 pm EDT

As I read more and more about Obama, I sincerely believe that he IS the person that can heal not only our country's standing in the world but can approach the problems of the world in a more thoughtful and inclusive manner. We, as Americans NEED this pivotal person to lead us away from the 'old boys' network of politics.

I know Mr.Obama is not an isolationist.

I know Mr. Obama's philosophy incorporates a more holistic worldview.

I respect his apparant integrity and worldview. My hope is for YOU, Mr. Obama!

Adrienne Zurub

author/speaker/actor/comedian/pOet/RN author of the forthcoming book:

'Notes From the MotherShip ~ Naked Invisibles' Publication date: September 2007,

Chase & Wunderlick Publishers

Link Check out my other blogs at: Link http:www.adriennezurub.typepad.com ;

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