Barack Obama is someone who has a chance to restore the soul of this nation. If America is a melting pot, then we are a multicultural melting pot. And Barack is a multicultural maestro who can lead the nation to be at its best. It’s time to let America be America, as defined in the Constitution of the United States. They need to let that unclassified document fulfill the vision of its founders.
Obama’s name begins with a vowel and ends with a vowel. That’s something that people of Italian descent can get behind. The country needs political inspiration. That’s what a president should be doing, inspiring people, pushing people to do better. When you inspire people, they will rise to the occasion to achieve something greater. They will take pride in their work and become less dependent on government. JFK and MLK, Jr. did it right. They inspired people to be better. Maybe that’s because they were well-read and very literate. JFK inspired people to put a man on the moon within a decade. George W. Bush had a brief moment of inspiration when he visited the wreckage site of the World Trade Center in 2001. Unfortunately, he chose to take that inspiration and turn it into war fever. Hitler inspired people, but he inspired them with hatred and prejudice. The job of a leader is to inspire with words and deeds. Can Barack do this? Who inspires Barack? Who does Barack look up to? What is Barack’s fundamental philosophy? Tell us, Barack. We need to know.
When you run for president of the United States, the future of the nation is at stake. Running for this office means that you take the greater good into your own hands. The greater good is like a Samurai’s sword. Running for office is like wrapping your hands around the handle of this sword. The onlookers wonder how you will use it. Will you use it for good or will you use it for some other uninspired purpose?
Obama is more than just someone who is running for president. He is a multiculturalist who is the future of America, if America does indeed still have a future as “America”. This could be the turning point that determines whether we become “Vice” President Cheney’s vision or we become what Martin Luther King, Jr. envisioned and spoke so eloquently about. Cheney truly is the president of vice. His vision, if allowed to go “unimpeached” will drag America to its knees. “Vice” President Cheney’s greatest vice is fear. The Cheney government is a government of secrets, supported by the NSA, the CIA, and the FBI. A secretive government is one that inspires fear. People of secrets suffer in silence.
What I fear is that our royal republican rulers will not allow a minority or a woman anywhere near the White House. There is a conspiracy to stop them, just as they stopped Al Gore and John Kerry, which means that they will do anything to stop Barack and Hillary. They shot dead JFK and they hunted and killed MLK, Jr.
As Election Day nears, I fear a scenario where we go to war with Iran in order to scare and confuse the American electorate. The recent incident in the Strait of Hormuz is Yankee dirty tricks war-mongering as usual. American fundamentalists would prefer to have Judgment Day before Election Day, especially with a minority or a woman president likely to become a reality. FDR said it best: “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” The nation has survived Bush and Cheney, why wouldn’t it survive Barack or Hillary?
What defines America? What makes America unique among nations? It’s the Constitution of the United States. Is America so paralyzed with prejudice and fear that it cannot see the vision of the Constitution? Believe in this document or perish. Leave monarchy to the British.
We have to keep our eyes on the prize. The real battle now is the fight for America’s soul. We need to get it Barack.
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underdog // January 11, 2008 at 8:54 pm
I am a Ronald Regan conservative.
But so much more these days.
Beyond the rhetoric and rancor of moonbats and neocons are the broad colors of the true American Spirit.
Here, in this new century, at a time of uncertainty and war it is not more FEAR that we need, not more endless chattering about one or the other political neandrethal sect – it is hope that we need.
I don’t have faith in faith
I don’t believe in belief
You can call me faithless
you can call me faithless
But I still cling to HOPE
AND I believe in Love
and that’s faith enough for me.
Neil Peart
Politics needs to inspire – to lift up the huddled masses of humanity. The captains of industry – reaching out to a small inner city school to provide hope through knowledge. The preacher in the pulpet before 5,000 on a Sunday morning, taking off his fancy suit, and clothing a child who is lost. The Black man standing tall above the racial divide – talking about a dream.
I may not agree with Mr. Obama on all of the issues. Certainly it is the hope of all mankind that someday we can disagree – and agree to do so without hatred. And that is the message that trancends belief, and becomes real when we act upon it. I don’t have faith in faith … but I believe in Hope, and Love.
We have nothing to FEAR but fear itself… and of all the things that we as a nation, inspired to DREAM once again can OVERCOME… yes we can overcome fear……
yes we can.