Can we also stay hopeful in the midst of market meltdown and the calamity of being amidst two economically and emotionally draining wars?
Ray Hanania | Posted 12.09.2008 | Politics
Obama's election as president has changed America and can also make it a far better nation, one that truly embraces the ideals that motivated our founding fathers.
Joyce McFadden | Posted 12.09.2008 | Living
Obama inspired our country by realizing that we need in our country the very same thing we need in our personal lives: to use the better part of hope and fear together.
Darryle Pollack | Posted 12.08.2008 | Politics
Best of all was the surge of hope -- to feed a starving country. As if Obama took a fresh batch of cookies out of the oven, and the scent floated all over the world, impossible to resist.
Kelly Nuxoll | Posted 12.07.2008 | Home
The reason I voted for Obama had little to do with the candidate and everything to do with the crowd.
Nancy Chuda | Posted 12.07.2008 | Politics
President Obama will build that bridge everywhere he goes -- he will connect, one person to another --giving them the ability to leap from faith to future.
Stephen Zunes | Posted 12.07.2008 | Politics
Posted on Alternet, Nov. 6. 2008 Barack Obama's resounding victory has brought even this cynical observer of Democratic Party politics to dare to hop...
Cenk Uygur | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics
No matter what your name or race is you can make it here. America is for real. The hope is real.
Sasha Abramsky | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics
The tears running down my face last night and this morning were of something so much more than happiness, so much more than simple relief. They were an exhalation.
Stephen H. Dinan | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics
Obama is our country's better nature: A blend of the best of our world's cultures, Made real as a divine gift, so that we each better remember who we are, and what we can yet become.
Rusel DeMaria | Posted 12.06.2008 | Home
I've arrived at the edge of a desert of despair, the tears forced upon me by a message of hope. For the first time, I've seen the American promise f...
Rob Kall | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics
Looking at the faces of the people in the crowd, as Obama gives his first speech as president-elect, I see a hope that beams bright, a hope that does not stop at red or blue state borders.
Vicky Ward | Posted 12.05.2008 | Style
If you weren't in Times Square tonight, the only place to be was downtown in the West Village at Gavin Brown's gallery for an installation by Jonathon Horowitz called Obama '08.
David Weinberger | Posted 12.04.2008 | Politics
The hope Obama offers is that we can get past the knee-jerk positions that are used to test the loyalty of the faithful.
Marc Cooper | Posted 12.03.2008 | Home
Hope, says the dictionary, is about our desires. Faith, on the other hand, is about confidence. I've got tons of the former, and damn near none of the latter. So if Obama offers hope, I'll take what I can get.
Susie Hoeller | Posted 12.03.2008 | Home
My friends, a couple and their two young girls, and I drove from Arkansas, two hours north to Springfield, Missouri for the Obama rally held Saturday ...
Dale Pendell | Posted 11.29.2008 | Politics
I had been dreaming politics -- action committees, meetings, proposals. I too have succumbed to the Great Hope.
Paula Gordon | Posted 11.27.2008 | Politics
I revisited Barack Obama's speech on the subject of race in the United States last night. Yes, I was sorely in need of an effective antidote to Repub...
Max Fraad Wolff | Posted 11.27.2008 | Business
Unquestioned faith in the old order produces shock and panic as one pillar after another crumbles and falls. So it is with cursedly interesting times.
Dr. Susan Corso | Posted 11.26.2008 | Politics
I was sitting on my porch just now reading a terrific book when the phone rang. I set the book down and, because it was breezy, put a rock on the cove...
Elaine Hall | Posted 11.24.2008 | Living
We found that Obama speaks for all people who cannot speak. Who do not have a voice, literally and figuratively. Somehow, some way, my son with severe autism had picked up this truth.
Tabby Biddle | Posted 11.17.2008 | Living
I think Barack described our situation well when he said, "When that dream of opportunity is denied to too many Americans, then ultimately that pain has a way of trickling up."
Ben Arnon | Posted 11.13.2008 | Politics
"I think what then happened was that there were a lot of people who were digging Obama but they didn't have any way to symbolically show their support."
Donna Fish | Posted 11.10.2008 | Home
Saying used to be that pregnancy is just one of those things that you are or you are not. But sitting with one of my patients who has undergone invit...
Lance Simmens | Posted 10.26.2008 | Home
Fear versus anger, defense versus offense, past versus future, insecurity versus hope. These are the trademarks of the current decisions Americans must make in the next six weeks.
Tabby Biddle | Posted 12.10.2008 | Politics