Everytime Obama is attacked I am more and more impressed with him. I thought this speech was perhaps his crowning achievement for it was incredible, not to mention truthful and to the point. I do hope he becomes our President for we would at last have someone that we can be proud of. Here is the link to the speech. A speech that should be listened to by all not just now but many times over our lives.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/23695322#23695322
This is a link to a funny video.
http://www.dipdive.com/dip-politics/ywc/
For anyone who has not taken the opportunity to go to a Barack Obama rally, visit his website and listen to what he has to say; feel inspired and move forward for the status quo is no longer acceptable.
www.barackobama.com
America can only be great and achieve great things when all its' citizens participate and everyone is doing well. For we cannot be well if our neighbor is not, Boston cannot be well if New Orleans is not, and America cannot be well if Mexico is not. We are all integrated in this new global economy and decisions that America makes affects people far and wide. There is no longer "us" and "them" but only humanity.
Now I know that many say Obama does not have the experience and I was in that camp for a while too but then I stopped to think "where has experience got us so far?" Because of fear we allowed the govenment to go into Iraq without anyone questioning the data. Because of fear we abandonded the citizens of New Orleans. I say "we" because we get the government we deserve, we elect our officials and we pay for them. If they do something that you don't like or agree with you should be banging on their door, or at the very least calling your senator every week to get your point across. Based on the passed six years I want my money back and I definately don't want to see any "insider" in power from any party and that includes Bill Clinton who I voted for twice.
In that vein please read this piece written sometime ago by the editor and founder of the Resurgence magazine, Satish Kumar, a sane voice in an otherwise insane world. It is worth keeping as unfortunately you will refer to it time and time again. And as you read it please think 'do you want the same old same old or will you have the courage to vote for change!!. Sign up for the Barack Obama Avalanche and do some phone calling for the campaign. I haven't yet but I made my first donaton ever to a political party today and I just signed up to make a difference in this race. I don't want to see the Clinton political machine steal the vote, what happened once has set a precedence and it is for us all to ensure it never happens again.
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Fear seems to rule our life. We are afraid of terrorism, afraid of death, afraid of old age, of loneliness, of illness, of being attacked. We build nuclear weapons and than bunkers. We are afraid that we will run out of “stuff” and so we insist that success measured by constant growth and yet growth creates global warming. To save ourselves from global warming we want to cover the earth with wind turbines, nuclear power stations, or corn fields for ethanol which takes land away from food growth and this in turns produces the actual scarcity that that started this revolving door in the first place.
Fear is the cause of our environmental problems which cannot be solved by fear of a global catastrophe. Telling our children to “be environmentally friendly or civilization will come to an end” is the wrong message. We should not be protecting the earth because we are afraid of its demise but because we love Mother Earth. We should promote living in harmony with the Earth, being sustainable, frugal, simple and compassionate to all beings – humans and otherwise. A culture of non violence, respect and reverence for life has to become part of our psychological make up. Even if there was no global warming or oil shortages we should not be destroying life, because life is sacred.
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