It's becoming more crystalline every day that a stirring of the soul yields more than a heart full of fear.
Barack Obama's abilities as a leader are gleamingly apparent as his wisdom, eloquence and brilliance stand in stunning contrast to the deadening vacuum of the Bush years and their litany of stale, stultifying bombast.
As the world watches him evade his opponent's jibes with the adroitness of a character out of romantic fiction, it is enthralled by his real-life talents. He is more and more exemplifying all that history's told us a leader should possess. If Henry V hadn't been able to rely on his charisma and his ability to articulate the hopes and dreams of a people, England would be speaking French today. He has ably weathered everything thrown at him.
You can even feel the beginnings of respect germinating in places formerly barren from decades of retrograde rhetoric spewed from fear mongering demagogues whose sole reason for being seems to be the deterrence of hope, the halting of action, the deriding of dreams. Obama is an incongruity, wished for but rarely seen, compelling but distrusted by the senses. Real inspiration has been dead for so long on the American scene that half-assed darlings and penny-ante celebrities with the density of meringue have been to hoisted to heroic levels only to be subsequently proven inadequate to the charge, so desperate is America's need for a truly viable, truly courageous and truly substantial leader.
Would Barack Obama be any different as our 44th president, responding to domestic and international crises with just as much grace, power and erudition as he has already shown? Not likely.
Will the naysayers continue to deride him for whatever reasons their rusted perspectives can scrape together, cobbling together a distress and contempt-laden syllabus that would wither the usual assortment of politicians and tinplated statesmen? Of course.
And Obama will deal with that, too. And admirably. And our dreams of America will be reborn.
Just believe what you are hearing and seeing. And know what you are feeling. It's been so long.
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That, dear friend, says it all. Thank you, Steven.
A heart is meant, not to hold the fear of the world...bu
It probably wouldn't take Obama much effort to look like a genius in comparison
I rolled my eyes as I read your post... not because I had any disagreeme
Those that don't arent going to understand the elusive inexplicab
But, take heart. It's an uplifting event... to have something inexplicab
Familiarit
I argued passionate
But here's what I do see in Barrack Obama: a well-spoke
Always a pleasure to read your intelligen
If Obama gets elected I'd love to check back with you six months into his presidency when you're paying much higher taxes, the economy is a mess, we're still in Iraq and all those speeches he's so good at giving are starting to sound like some irritating song on the radio.
Just remember who got us into this economic mess, and how they did it. An Obama presidency will only be the first step on a very long and difficult road towards reclaiming our country.
The point is life for the middle class will be much worse with Obama as president than it would be with another candidate in office.
You are paying higher taxes now... Higher than any previous administra
I wish the pharms would invent an insight pill.
And he was a royal dork.
I understand that middle aged white women want to see one of their own in the WhiteHhous
I also understand black Americans' desire to see one of their own capture the White House.
Further, the "Establish
Our views of the candidates are different because our vantage points are different. But, when I ask myself the questions of : " If I were to die, Who would I trust with insuring my child's future-- if food, shelter, education and health care were vital...? Who, by his or her actions would show my child that although we appear vastly different-
I think it is clear, consider life experience
Jen
Humankind is arrogant despite race, creed, sex, or religious/
-black children are routinely tracked beneath the level of their demonstrat
-a white man with a criminal record has a better chance at getting a job than a black man without
-affirmati
-people of color are stopped and arrested way more than their proportion of the general population or criminal population would allow
-though white people use illegal drugs at a higher rate, people of color make up close to 80% of drug arrests
-14% of white borrowers were given predatory loans; 45% of Latina/o; 54% of blacks
-people of color are routinely charged higher rates for mortgage and consumer loans regardless of income or credit rating
-people of color are routinely discrimina
-the gap in wealth accumulati
-the gap in income remains
-a white couple earning less than 30k a year has a better chance of owning a home than a black couple earning more than 60k
-the govt did allow illegal drug traffickin
-the govt did test syphillis on black men. There's hasn't been an adequate govt response to the AIDS epidemic in the US, much less the black community
Those are just that stats that come to mind.
With all these facts in mind, plus the way media covers the African American community, plus what we experience in our daily lives - do white people really think the black community by-and-lar
Its hard to Just believe someone when they are projecting an image that they are not. And he even writes in his book how to use tactics on white people to get what you want.
So, all you white liberals..
Oh, puhlease! Is there a successful black person who doesn't know how to get what they want from white people? Granted, I'm assisted by my youthful babyface and big cheecks . . . but it's like a 21st century "shoe shine man" act. It's all about being the "special negro," who really thinks it's my fault when the teacher disrespect
Think of it like this . . . you probably think your housekeepe
Sorry, but I read both of his books and that statement is simply not true.