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FROM ASTROLOGY EVOLVED ASTRONOMY
FROM ALCHEMY EVOLVED CHEMISTRY
FROM RELIGION EVOLVED PHILOSOPHY
FROM POLITICS EVOLVED MIRACLE
Perhaps the world would not have witnessed the woes of social illness and sickness of poverty.
Eear of unacceptance is the greatest fear.
Barack Obama spells hope not only to AMERICA but for the multitude of millions of human beings allover the world who believe in themselves , trust others and hope for betterment of world.
I AM INSPRIED BY YOU MR OBAMA.
AND I AM PROUD TO BE YOUR CONTEMPORARY INHABITING THIS PLANET IN YOUR TIME.
DO NOT GIVE UP , BE VALUE BASED, CHERISH, HUMANITY, GOVERN WITH A POSITIVE ATTITUDE.
THE IMMINENT THREAT OF THIE ECONOMIC CRISIS MIGHT LOOM LARGE BUT YOU CAN
YES YOU CAN
for now it is not JUST AMERICA BUT THE WHOLE WORLD THAT YOU HAVE WON OVER WITH GOOD WILL AND CHARM
YOU CAN
YOU WILL
YOU MUST
STRIVE NOT TO BE THE THE BEST BUT BE JUST
WITH LOVE AND GOODWILL ON BEHALF OF MORE THAN A BILLION INDIANS
DR SENTHIL KUMAR SANRAN
There was five of us sitting in a room. The television showed one news channel, while the computer streamed live feed from another. We had all been watching for quite a while. We had all been waiting a lot longer.
When both channels went silent, we all put own our drinks, our food, and stared. At the same moment, both channels predicted, in a peaceful, soft way, that Barack Obama will win the presidency.
We had champagne in the kitchen, waiting, hoping, to be opened. In less than twenty seconds, the bottle was emptied. No one sat. Other apartments emptied and came into ours. All doors were opened. None were locked. The hallway was filled with hugs from friends, and strangers.. neighbors, family, and guests.
On the New York City streets Tuesday night, the gatherings of people celebrating were less than difficult to find. Most streets were occupied by fast-walking, smiling New Yorkers, shouting and cheering across the streets to one another. Other areas, like Union Square, or St Marks and 2nd Ave, was a different world. Cars pulled over, blasting music... swarms of people engulfing the entire park under a giant american flag, swallowing up the ever-flowing masses of people. It was, for many people, the birth of a new country within us.
This was not an ordinary election. This was not just a process; this was a defining moment for millions of Americans. It was a defining moment for everybody.
Obama supporters have been continuously called frontrunners, trend followers, disillusioned. Let the author express why so many support Obama. We don't think he will save the world. We don't expect him to be successful in every single thing he says he will do. We do, however, believe in what he stands for. He represents a different era of thinking. The commanding generation is slowly becoming our own. We are a molten nation. We are not built of bricks. We don't align and assemble ourselves and remain immobile after we've been placed. We flow. Barack Obama represents a chance for America to pick itself up. He is not perfect. McCain is not the devil, either. We see in Obama everything we all have been feeling. We all want the best for this country. We are tired of how things have been going. We want change. Not change for change's sake. We are not 'blinded by the thirst for change" and simply voting Obama because he seems different and is telegenic. It's much more than that. We see a tomorrow so different and new that we can barely comprehend just how far we (not merely Obama) actually have the power to take this country. It's time to stop attempting to fix a speeding train. We need a new direction. We need to stop, and move forward in a completely fresh way.
The streets Tuesday night echoed and howled. Cheers from blocks, miles away, roared down the charged streets. Cheers from buildings, dorms, apartments, passing cars... the honking of horns... the thousands of people in different gatherings across the city (and the country)... the city howled. The city howled for hope and for optimism.
To be able to walk down the streets of New York, the chilling yet inspiring and beautiful howls filling your ears, and high five strangers, hug people you've never met, cheer along with so many different types of people, people of different ages, sexual orientations, ethnicities, beliefs, and cultures... it's something that will slowly be realized as one of the most significant turning points in our country's history.
There is no way of knowing what tomorrow will bring. It's the terrible beauty of being human. I will leave the reader with this... no presidential election has been like this in quite some time... and if you turn on any channel, or were lucky enough to be apart of the celebrations Tuesday night, you will see that these next four years will be four of the most important years to the current and future generations of Americans.
wow we did it! it was a lot of work but i am so happy I helped work on this campaign and that we elected Obama as president! Congratulations Obama and your family, all the great supporters, your great team, and America!
I hope this will not be the end of bottom up unity! I hope Obama will find a way to keep his supporters conected to his presidency and policy service.
Aided by a few hours sleep, energetic music, and my ever-present cup of coffee, I feel the need to commemorate this moment personally, beyond just tears or shouts of joy. Perhaps it will be a rough-draft manifesto of sorts, a kind of social New Year Resolution, a longer declaration of what this all means to me.
So what does this day mean to me? A lot of things, trivial and sublime. There’s having a young black man in the highest office, and I feel no shame in admitting my intense pride in that, but it’s more than that: it’s having a person of his caliber. In an age of culture wars, especially between populists and Ivory Tower types, we have a person who is intellectual, relatable, and empathetic. As I said before, Barack Obama is an American for all Americans. We’re talking about the man who gave the best assessments and reconciliation of the issues of faith and race in this nation; someone who can acknowledge the truths in different, and even inflammatory, perspectives without creating more division.
And when I say we can be example for the world, I don’t mean by strong-arming, covert ops, or unfair trade agreements. We can do it fairly.
I also believe American Christianity has a chance to be turned back to the light of peace and justice. I have watched as what began as a movement for the uplifting of all became the idolatry of a very narrow view of “Family Values”. I refuse to give back my baptism, because it is mine and under no one else’s oversight, but it has been most torturous to see the Pharisaical spectre raised as never before and have to wonder if even calling myself a Christian by the most liberal of definitions could be morally correct. As an American and a spiritual person, to say that my heart bled is an understatement.
Now, I will take a moment to mention abortion, since this is has been, and will continue to be, a divisive issue. I will state it plainly: I do not like abortion. No one does. I called my own children babies, not fetuses, from the moment the EPT stick had two lines. However, abortion is a desperate choice, and people will only be more desperate if more choices are taken away. I agree wholeheartedly with McCain’s concept of “a culture of life”, but you can’t say that you want to encourage adoption and then oppose same-sex couples adopting. You can’t pledge to support families after defining “family” in a very narrow way. This is what I want: Adoption to be normalized in our culture to the point that it is part of the family-planning discussion of most couples, for adoption to be normalized to the point that the process is quick, clean, inexpensive, and open for all sorts of alternative relationships for the birth parents. Remove the stigma, plain and simple. I want marriage and adoption equality. I want a basic, good, standard of living to be a human right. I want comprehensive sex education, and cheaper and safer birth control. I want unwed, poor, or young parents to be treated with respect and love. I want this culture to take a stand and assist against domestic violence. I can guarantee you, that if these things are fixed, abortion will take care of itself; it’ll become obsolete except for medical necessity. You give people better accessible choices, they will make better decisions. In fact, that to-do list will fix a great deal of social ills: they are all connected.
I am pro-choice because I am pro-life; All lives.
So many Obama supporters aren’t just walking with heads held high because “their candidate won”, but because those last shreds of fear are melting away. Yes, there is the social-psychological aspect of being on a “team” and winning. But look at the campaign, look at the people and their motivations, listen to their stories:
We didn’t wait for someone to come and unchain us; we unlocked the shackles with ourt voice and our vote.
It looks like Proposition 8 passed in California. I would normally be very angry, and indeed I am irritated. It is in my nature to gripe and rail against injustice, I will admit it. I can be quite the curmudgeon. However, in this moment, I have achieved the state of soul that is perhaps the ideal for my type, which is a nose for injustices buttressed by motivation and hope. My real reaction: “Game On”. I’m not itching for a fight anymore; I’m itching to get to work. The work of healing, fixing, and reconciliation. Let’s face it, we can be as angry as we want, and we deserve to be, but we also need to be multi-lingual in Hope. People vote for things like Prop 8 out of fear, just read the stories. Never has it been appropriate, never more affordable, never more necessary, to be Peace-Mongers.
I won’t pretend that this is all going to get fixed in one term, or even two.
Barack Obama is not a Hero because he will save us; he is a Hero because he will inspire and represent us. It is a very meager sampling of people that cannot see themselves reflected to some degree in him, his family, or his campaign. The bonus is that he did it by appealing to our inner-angels, not our inner-demons. He decried policy without demonizing people. For me, Barack Obama represents even better something that I’ve been complimented on before and what I really want to be: he’s a True Liberal. I differentiate this because it means that a person will seek the path of the most responsible freedoms, without dismissing tradition just because it’s tradition. When I know that someone won’t be an ideological genuflector, my trust in their leadership increases exponentially.
This election season brought us to the social edge, and an Obama victory was our deliverance. What do I mean by this? I suppose the best example I can give is an anecdote that Mary gave about local commissioner Kathleen Hudson several years ago. She said things about Jews and the LGBT community that were so vile and inflammatory, it brought people “to the edge” and made them peer into the ideological abyss. People could no longer be neutral, and they saw the slippery slope of what they could become by allowing such bigotry to masquerade as normalcy. Maybe these were things people thought at one time or another, but when they saw it take shape in a public forum, they shuddered at the reflection. That’s what this election was like for me to watch: I saw some of the most bigoted, racist, xenophobic, homophobic (not just heterosexist), and anti-Muslim spectacles in my lifetime. On this precipice, I was angry, but I knew that these undercurrents needed full exposure, so that people could look over that edge before unwittingly falling into that abyss. Those were the birth pains for this part of our history. Barack Obama’s election is the midwife to a new age.
There will still be pains, but we can no longer go back. We not only saw a battle between base-minded fearful populism and the empathetic examination of justice and mercy, we saw the victory of the latter. This may not be THE Mountaintop, but it is one of them.
Look at the vista spread before us: this is America. My parents promised me this day would come. Someone told me that nothing would change except their taxes. If that becomes so, then I swear it will not be because of a lack of effort on my part.
I believe.
We will have justice.
We will have freedom.
We will have mercy.
For all.
Yes We Can.
A historic and amazing time in history.
On Nov 4, 2008 we elected Barack Obama. A Mullato Black man from Hawaii. Both parents where not always around. Both parents died young. Grandparents raised him, and his grandmother died the day before he won the biggest election of our life. Against all the odds. He persevered. Believed in himself. Educated himself, and went without. Lived in South Chicago to learn about his community. Never stopped, or gave up. He was the first Black President at Harvard. He is an American. He reached out across racial lines, bridging the gap between the ages. We have now been propelled into the future, and we have now experienced a country just transforming itself. Thank you to all the Americans who voted. Take enormous pride in your actions. We fighted for our positions. We have made our choice. It's now time to come together.
By
Bobbi Miller-Moro
BE STILL MY HEART!
Dear Michelle, I recommend pastel lavender drapes with a fine muted floral pattern, 62" x 108" for the Lincoln Bedroom...
At 8:40 when we won Pennsylvania, it seemed we had it. At 9:34 when we won Ohio, you knew we won the election. At 11:00, we won Virginia, and Barack's win was official, as the west coast polls closed. At 11:12 Bush congratulated Barack. At 11:20 McCain conceded. By 11:25, Florida made it a landslide. The only question was, by what margin. And at the stroke of Midnight, Barack addressed 125,000 in Chicago, and the world. Indiana straggled in this morning, and North Carolina is still too close to call. Popular vote 52% to 47%. Voter turnout 64%, the highest since 1908.
A point of great pride, I brought my 18 month old baby girl into the voting booth with me. I started the lever to select Barack, and she pulled it down, casting the historical vote of vision and reason that will guide and steward the environment she grows up in.
The mandate that a more than two-to-one landslide brings, re-affirms that America can recognize heartfulness and good sense. It tells us that many people with deep emotional investments in other parties have the ethical integrity to realize that we are all in this together, do some homework, consider different views, and choose empathy for people over the comparative shallowness of party. This is something everyone should respect. An elder I knew used to say "I wasn't born Democrat, Republican or yesterday" and she also used to say "It's never too late to do the right thing". My faith in America has risen higher.
Barack is not perfect, and he is not all things to all people, but he is an organic conduit or an awakening progressive movement. The doors to ideas are open for business, inspiration is back on the table, vision is back in stock on the shelves, and reason is the special of the day.
Now that the ship has come into port, and the lines are cleated, we can begin our journey to make a thousand dreams, positive healthy dreams of vision, a reality. Welcome all, as we are indeed all in this together. Last night I posted "I will gaze at the moon for a moment and toast our beautiful family. If you gaze at the moon too, our spirits can mingle there to smile at the road ahead." To all who joined me, Down with disease! To health and better days! Cheers!
LOVE to all, and to all a GOOD night.
Pleasant Dreams & All Good Things, Greg-joyous happy tears-
They just turned Florida Blue on CNN... and as I watch the McCain speech with their 'boo's and sneers - I have to smile the most calm and peaceful I have smiled in years...
We 'Baracked the Vote' here in Florida....
Here's to at least 4 years (and onward) of the CHANGE we have worked to help bring.
http://marcuscyganiak.blogspot.com/2008/11/new-president-draws-near.html
In just a few hours, Americans will have made their choice, Barack Obama or John McCain. This isn't the time to spin Obama, this is a time to be thankful for the time spent here with many volunteers trying their best to make their country a better place.
My girlfriend and I spent 4 days making calls, entering voter data, picketing in front of a voting place and going door to door to get people to vote for Obama. Many things we saw don't exist in Quebec or in Canada; some would be outright illegal in our system. Some other campaign methods are identical, just adapted for a longer ballot and for a larger population. We learned a lot and will grow from this experience.
Special thanks go to Dave Hendrie in the Manchester, NH office for helping organize our coming here and to the Schroeders for welcoming us in their home. Many thanks also go to the Obama team managers that guided us through the rules of US politics and tought us the work that needed doing.
Great many thanks.
-->Last call, if you havn't voted yet and are allowed to. Get out to your polling place and Vote for Obama and your local democrats.
I watched all three debates. Obama won all three. I compare these to the Kennedy-Nixon debates, where Kennedy, a young, good-looking, smart guy shows the nation how presidential he is. Nixon looked scary and sleazy.
Obama was cool, logical, and presidential. That just increased through the three debates.
However, McCain looked mean, angry, and uncomfortable. The only thing he improved upon was eye contact, but then last night he ruined that by rolling his eyes a couple of times. McCain was grimacing, squirming, and constantly scribbling on his note pad -- he looked very un-presidential.
Last night, McCain brought up several points -- verbatim -- that he brought up in the previous debate. So Obama just refuted them again. He even said at one point, "As I said in our last debate..." McCain's only new material was "Joe the plumber". After invoking "Joe" (brought up memories of Joe Sixpack) 14 times, it became farcical. A joke.
McCain looked sad, corpse-like, and desperate. McCain may have shored up his base, but he lost the undecideds with his negativity and downright un-likability.
Barack got the hat-trick!
Manifest Obama! http://manifestobama.com/
Pass it on! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8Bzp0Fxq28
By Gocachi / Marcail Parker
Marcail parker
October 8, 2008
Inspirational speech for the Obama Campaign
I support Barack Obama because we are on the same righteous path to serve America without fraud. We believe that all Americans deserve the chance to live the American dream. Moreover, we both believe to fight for the legal rights of Americans that cannot speak out due to their fear of opposition or a handicap that imposes upon them an immobility to courageously stand up and fight for the American dream. Like Obama, I too will one day follow his steps as a Senator to help other Americans fulfill their American dreams. I believe change will come. It gives me great joy to stand up and support a righteous leader that believes America needs change. That is why I support Obama.
Barack, Barack, what makes a man, a man, is his prodigy. The people, on the other hand make presidents. Americans are not stupid. We are very intelligent and we know all politicians receive donations for their campaigns. The righteous candidate will win this presidency, but will have to unfold truth to the people with your utterance, and not from the voice of your opponent. State your truths about your contributions and your sources and move on with this race.
America is interested in the security of our nation and the future of our children. Our economic status is our utmost concern. We need to hear more than ever from a righteous voice the assurance the next president will balance the budget, reform the American dream, uphold the laws studied, and change. This is not a statement of hope. The righteous candidate will discern that this is what America wants and needs.
America does not care about the personal attacks, and frankly prefer that neither candidate feed lies to America. Voters that want drama will turn to sources that are shaky, and proven false, because that is what they want, and there is absolutely nothing you can do to change drama chasers.
Serious voters will make an intelligent decision and there is absolutely nothing you can say with your eloquence that will change our minds.
Obama, your record of accomplishments will help Americans make the right decision. Serious Americans will do their own research about each candidate. Some will be very impressed with your work as a Senator. You have accomplished in such a short period of time, great things. In comparison, they will study McCain’s 21 years of service to see that it was disadvantaged. If a man falls but just once, shame discredits his accomplishments. Nevertheless, the humility expressed by his actions will resurrect him to a profound glory observed by the people that favored him most.
However if a man continues to repeat his mistakes, the people will not favor him and will let him fall to destruction. In addition, neither, men or God will redeem him because he has proven by his greed and corruption that he will continue to do the people wrong.
May I remind you the privilege to serve the people was initially decreed by God’s own utterance? It was his decision to give men the privilege to rule dominions of people while he rest. Moreover, throughout history we can trace the good, the evil, and the corrupt and righteous kings. Make this what you may but remember God has a hand in the direction of all righteous leaders. So continue to make right your strong hold and share your views with the people. Stand firm and support democracy. Uphold the values of the American dream high, so the people will favor your righteousness and not the history of failed kings, senators, and presidents. May God bless your efforts to change the way Americans thinking positively, will motivate righteousness and stamp out corruption so that America can move forward and rebuild our economy, explore the beauty of her inhabitants and gifted, so that she may bring about peace, and hopefully, one day security under righteous conditions.
So when your opponent attacks you with ill remarks remember, “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.” These are clear characteristics of a righteous man. You just have to listen to reason.
As Americans, we all have an obligation to perform righteously. Therefore, this letter goes out, not just to Presidential candidates and congressional representatives but, to Americans upholding self-evident truths… The laws may separate the state from the church. Even so, when it is all said and done the final decision falls upon all American men and women as one. Moreover, that one decision will be for America. Therefore, for people who chose to silence their right to vote, or imbalance the election by choosing a candidate that is less likely to win, may you be reminded that your decision will effect America and not just the actions of your choice.
The failed unrighteous presidency of George Bush is self-evidence that a silent vote can lead to corruption, economic devastation of our economy and the destruction of the American dream. Behold my brother’s keeper! Behold my father’s keeper! Behold my mother’s keeper! Behold my sister’s keeper! Behold my grandmother’s keeper! Behold my grandfather’s keeper! Behold my American brothers and sisters the actions of your choice. Your right to vote for a presidential candidate has always been allowed by God to determine whether men can rule righteously. President Kennedy’s actions remind us… Martin Luther King’s actions remind us… Abraham Lincoln’s actions remind us… of the importance to vote righteously.
It is a political race so God will only watch. So choose wisely, my American brothers and sisters your candidate. As I close this speech, may I remind you, voting to imbalance the election is not righteous and may do Americans more harm than good? Moreover, you will have to live the rest of your life knowing you voted righteously or with deceit. The burden of the presidency never has been, just between two men. The burden of the Presidency weights on all Americans, because the votes we cast will chose just one President, with the hope that he will represent just one America with righteousness. May God bless the righteous candidate to prevail so the people will take note to cast their vote for the new President of the United States of America?
Sincerely,
Gocachi/ Marcail Parker
