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Posted: Wed Nov 5th, 2008 10:39 pm |
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Tricky wrote: "Hope springs eternal......
Our 44th President (elect). Barack Obama. I am so blessed to have lived during this historic moment and during the Civil Rights movement.....and now, the fruits of our labor has emerged as a result. I can still hear the echoes of John F. Kennedys call to action....and now, I get to see the vision of Martin Luther King's Dream come to pass. We're at the dawning of the Age of Aquarius, which began back in the sixties, and we're back on track. What a great feeling to experiece this....again. "a renaissance and a golden age is right around the corner." What a great beginning with such a great Leader. God Bless America."
Bambi - You can't really be serious about returning to the "woodstock" era!
Thanks guys for staying on topic.
I wasn't a part of the Woodstock mentality. I went to school and studied and worked....no time for parties or drugs. I was one of those who should have gone into the Peace Corps or Vista, but instead worked to pay for my education in teaching. I taught the disadvantaged and the handicapped. More good feelings.
But this is what I felt during those days...and what the blacks are probably feeling today. Not Wookstock and drugs (feel goods) but Freedom and emancipation. Burned my Bra....why? Cause I was free. Free of having to abide by old mentalities. Blue laws. Confinement. Free to make my own decisions. A woman who can finally divorce without being ostracized and xcommunicated. A woman who can get pregnant and "show" that pregnancy as a teacher, without having to quit my job, as was the case back then. Free to compete for the same job as a man. Free to be paid the same wages for the same job as a man. Free to shop on Sundays or drink a glass of wine at the bar without being called a woman of ill repute. Free to drive and HAVE my own car. Free to wear pants and not just a dress. FREE...FREE...FREE. And it was a struggle to finally get there.
No...not another Woodstock, but an Emancipation Proclamation from the chains of servitude of old mentalities. Free to embark on a new journey of Hope.
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Posted: Wed Nov 5th, 2008 09:26 pm |
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Tricky wrote: "Hope springs eternal......
Our 44th President (elect). Barack Obama. I am so blessed to have lived during this historic moment and during the Civil Rights movement.....and now, the fruits of our labor has emerged as a result. I can still hear the echoes of John F. Kennedys call to action....and now, I get to see the vision of Martin Luther King's Dream come to pass. We're at the dawning of the Age of Aquarius, which began back in the sixties, and we're back on track. What a great feeling to experiece this....again. "a renaissance and a golden age is right around the corner." What a great beginning with such a great Leader. God Bless America."
Bambi - You can't really be serious about returning to the "woodstock" era!
i don't think we'll go back quite that far. i am thinking we would only get back as far as the Carter era.Last edited on Wed Nov 5th, 2008 09:27 pm by QCVillager
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Posted: Wed Nov 5th, 2008 09:18 pm |
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Oh, I don't know. Those were some pretty good times. Kinda like today, the whole world is changing all around us.
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Posted: Wed Nov 5th, 2008 07:57 pm |
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"Hope springs eternal......
Our 44th President (elect). Barack Obama. I am so blessed to have lived during this historic moment and during the Civil Rights movement.....and now, the fruits of our labor has emerged as a result. I can still hear the echoes of John F. Kennedys call to action....and now, I get to see the vision of Martin Luther King's Dream come to pass. We're at the dawning of the Age of Aquarius, which began back in the sixties, and we're back on track. What a great feeling to experiece this....again. "a renaissance and a golden age is right around the corner." What a great beginning with such a great Leader. God Bless America."
Bambi - You can't really be serious about returning to the "woodstock" era!
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Posted: Wed Nov 5th, 2008 07:15 pm |
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Bambi wrote: I made up my mind that whether it was McCain or it was Obama, I was going to have the attitude that whatever blueprint they devise, I would stand behind it and help to enforce it.
This is the attitude we should all have, always. If we have to criticize do it with respect and always respect the office.
I'm a conservative but I'll admit a part of me wanted Obama to win just to put an end to the constant venom coming from the left. It's really gotten old.
We will soon have the most liberal president+congress ever. I'm willing to give them a chance. I'm hopeful.
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Posted: Wed Nov 5th, 2008 05:57 pm |
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His job is to be an intelligent and inspiring leader; one who has promised to cross party lines and bring people together. One who has confidence to assist us, not take us, but assist us out of the black hole of hopelessness. No handouts. We will be digging ourselves out of this hole, with his help. We all have to work together, once he develops that "blueprint" to success and sustainability, to make it work. To sit back and ask where is the answer President Obama, is premature. He's not a dictator. He's not a monarch. He's not a tyrant. He is going to include the people we elected to represent us, to devise this blueprint....that includes Republicans. He is trying to change the attitudes of hopelessness to hope.
It is not Obama who states he is the messiah. It is the people's "need" for a messiah....a savior to save them. It's the people who will build this country again, by the blueprint developed by Obama's circle of influence and by Congress. That's why he has nothing to show yet. Both he and McCain could only speculate on what would work and what wouldn't. It still has to be developed, once he gets into office and sees the mess Bush has got us into. He won't know the gravity of the situation, until he enters those Portals, with scholars and capitalist alike. That's when you'll see his leadership skills at work, as he guides the collective great minds of our time to come up with some solutions.
That's when you will see answers evolve.....answers derived thru consultation with his cabinet, staff and Congress. No miracles from this messiah.
When Kennedy said to help your Country, we devised the Peace Corp and Vista, among other entities, to make it happen. The people followed by enlisting. Yet, those who lost the election condemned Kennedy for doing so...socialism again. Purposeless. Yet, it served to build character and assist others who were disadvantaged, into getting jobs and taking care of themselves. It became a part of the "equipment" it takes to keep this Country running as a democracy.
I made up my mind that whether it was McCain or it was Obama, I was going to have the attitude that whatever blueprint they devise, I would stand behind it and help to enforce it.
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Posted: Wed Nov 5th, 2008 05:01 pm |
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Bambi wrote: "The road ahead will be long, our climb will be steep, we may not get there in one year or even one term, but America -- I have never been more hopeful than I am tonight that we will get there," Obama said in his hometown of Chicago.
"I promise you -- we as a people will get there." Barack Obama.
Hope springs eternal......
Our 44th President (elect). Barack Obama. I am so blessed to have lived during this historic moment and during the Civil Rights movement.....and now, the fruits of our labor has emerged as a result. I can still hear the echoes of John F. Kennedys call to action....and now, I get to see the vision of Martin Luther King's Dream come to pass. We're at the dawning of the Age of Aquarius, which began back in the sixties, and we're back on track. What a great feeling to experiece this....again. "a renaissance and a golden age is right around the corner." What a great beginning with such a great Leader. God Bless America.
How do you tell when you get "there" if there is not defined? Kinda like the word "hope" and "change" that was a driving force in his campaign. He didn't really promise free gas and no mortgage payments and whatever else his supporters think he will do-just planted a seed but not a blueprint on how to get to a real tree. I don't think its the end of the world (yet) but I don't think he is even close to what his supporters thinks he is.
I think he is already starting to un plant the seed of "hope" with we might not get there in one year or one term--my take is "hey I am not the messiah you think I am so make sure you give me some room to make mistakes"
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Posted: Wed Nov 5th, 2008 02:14 pm |
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"The road ahead will be long, our climb will be steep, we may not get there in one year or even one term, but America -- I have never been more hopeful than I am tonight that we will get there," Obama said in his hometown of Chicago.
"I promise you -- we as a people will get there." Barack Obama.
Hope springs eternal......
Our 44th President (elect). Barack Obama. I am so blessed to have lived during this historic moment and during the Civil Rights movement.....and now, the fruits of our labor has emerged as a result. I can still hear the echoes of John F. Kennedys call to action....and now, I get to see the vision of Martin Luther King's Dream come to pass. We're at the dawning of the Age of Aquarius, which began back in the sixties, and we're back on track. What a great feeling to experiece this....again. "a renaissance and a golden age is right around the corner." What a great beginning with such a great Leader. God Bless America.
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