Obama Hope

Obama Selling Out --"Say It Ain't So 'Joe' "

Miles J. Zaremski | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics


Miles J. Zaremski

Without a public option as part of his health care reform package, Obama has turned himself into a political pariah that no one will be able to believe or trust.

Haaretz: Obama's America Is Not Delivering The Goods

Haaretz | Gideon Levy | Posted 09.16.2009 | World


With great sorrow and deep consternation, we hereby declare the death of the latest hope. Perhaps rumors of its death are greatly exaggerated, to para...

Obama: Is it Time to Give Up? (Part III of a Series)

Peter Clothier | Posted 08.08.2009 | Politics


Peter Clothier

I have watched with increasing dismay as "the system" manages to re-establish itself after the ripple of the Obama election.

Barack Obama, Here to Save the World?

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 05.30.2009 | Style


Michael Henry Adams

Is our first African American president something or what? Did you see him respond to the crowd and the crowd respond to him, at his latest town hall...

Lexicon of Disappointment: The Readers' Edition

Naomi Klein | Posted 05.21.2009 | Politics


Naomi Klein

700 or so comments later, here are the best of the bunch. Let the record show that you people are way more cynical than I am...

HopeOver, HopeLash, HopeBreak: A Lexicon of Disappointment

Naomi Klein | Posted 05.18.2009 | Politics


Naomi Klein

Hope was a fine slogan when rooting for a long-shot presidential candidate. But as a posture toward the president of the most powerful nation on earth, it is dangerously deferential.

Baby Steps

Matthew Owen | Posted 03.02.2009 | Politics


Matthew Owen

The day after the inauguration, in the U.S. and abroad, we were like new parents, mouth agape, filled with awe, hope and excitement.

What Makes You Cry... Besides the Obama Inauguration?

Rob Kall | Posted 02.27.2009 | Living


Rob Kall

I've been thinking about the tears of joy, that feeling of choking up, the chill up the back of the neck, of sympathy and empathy, for a few decades.

Purple Ticket Holder: A Mom's Story of Heartbreak and Hope

Vince Beiser | Posted 02.25.2009 | Living


Vince Beiser

Unable to get in, I clung to the fact that whether she remembered it or not, my daughter will always be able to say she had witnessed history. It would have to be enough.

The Difference Between Hope and Change

David Sirota | Posted 02.23.2009 | Politics


David Sirota

I think we're excited at the prospect of change, but fear being fooled by mere hope. After all, those two concepts -- hope and change -- are not the same thing.

Selling Hope Instead of Fear: 
Redefining Activism

Christiana Wyly | Posted 02.21.2009 | Politics


Christiana Wyly

We need to follow Obama's example of reaching across the barriers that divide us as a people. We must learn how to reach into our hearts and truly meet another human being exactly where they are.

Our Hope in Obama, Our Hearts to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Jack Healey | Posted 02.15.2009 | Living


Jack Healey

We miss Dr Martin Luther King, Jr each day. His day, our day, asks each of us to stand up for decency and justice and non violence in our time, in our community, in our family, and in our world.

Now We Can

Rick Siegel | Posted 02.13.2009 | Politics


Rick Siegel

Now we can and must demand better ethical standards from our bankers, financial advisors, corporate and political leaders.

The Fierce Urgency of Now: Why the Obama Administration Must Appoint an NIH Director Committed to Cures

Lou Weisbach | Posted 02.12.2009 | Politics


Lou Weisbach

There must be a place in the NIH where the discovery of knowledge is focused on preventing or curing the diseases of our loved ones.

Ebenezer Scrooge - Hope, Redemption and the 2008 Election

Paula B. Mays | Posted 01.23.2009 | Living


Paula B. Mays

The election of Obama also offers a chance for redemption: redemption from allowing unprovoked warfare, tacitly accepting torture, and permitting a denegation of our civil rights.

How Obama Brought Sexy Back to the White House

Mira Veda | Posted 01.12.2009 | Politics


Mira Veda

I hope and pray that the ease and calmness that Obama so effortlessly carries will bring about a new sense of political rationality to our Nation and foreign policy.

Barack Obama: Change

Don King | Posted 01.11.2009 | Politics


Don King

The world is watching American history in the making, live and in living color. We've taken an important step in the right direction by electing Barack Obama as President.

Barack Obama and the God of Love

Harriet Rossetto | Posted 12.25.2008 | Living


Harriet Rossetto

If Obama's vision of hope and unity is to take root, each one of us must struggle to integrate ourselves by maintaining those thoughts, attitudes and actions that connect us.

In Defense of the 2009 (and Beyond) Dream

Jane Devin | Posted 12.14.2008 | Politics


Jane Devin

If we can dream it, it is possible. A battle to revitalize the human spirit requires no enemies, and a revolution of peace requires no violence.

(R)Evolution -- We All Want to Change Your Head

Suzette Standring | Posted 12.11.2008 | Politics


Suzette Standring

This new multi-cultural, interracial, eco-green, techno-savvy, globally-minded young generation has made history.

The Obama Moment

Bob Burnett | Posted 12.11.2008 | Politics


Bob Burnett

Many will regard the 2008 election as evidence Americans have grown up: we've decided to elect a President who has the temperamental and intellectual qualities required to do the job.

Destiny

Darryle Pollack | Posted 12.08.2008 | Politics


Darryle Pollack

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.

Obama's Crowds Made the Difference

Kelly Nuxoll | Posted 12.07.2008 | Home


Kelly Nuxoll

The reason I voted for Obama had little to do with the candidate and everything to do with the crowd.

The Morning After

Laurel Kaufer | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics


Laurel Kaufer

As we have heard from the analysts on both sides for much of the last month, this year we saw "the perfect storm" hit the Republican party in almost every conceivable way.

America Awakens

Stephen H. Dinan | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics


Stephen H. Dinan

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.