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The audacity TO hope - Yes We Can!!
(Path of my Life)
Election Night Hope
Date: 11/5/2008 12:02:55 AM ( 16 y ago)
We WANT to have hope, but we have learned to give up on that... and then Barack Obama was giving his acceptance speach, and for a moment there so many of us allowed ourselves to have hope again.
Barack gives us permission to hope again.
You could see it on the faces of the crowd in front of him - eyes wide open, tears flowing down their cheeks, tears that felt SO GOOD that nobody was wiping them away.
Its been so long since we could dare to have hope. That moment felt so good.
A promise of greatness? Maybe, but all that takes is to persue good things and not fear-based greedy goals. Most of us believe that there are many simple and easy things to do that have been resisted by greedy self-interests in the past. Consistently resisted. Powerfully resisted. Greatness perhaps, but only because Barack just might be a decent person. We let ourselves hope he is, he sure appears to be. We sure hope he is, because this world is on its knees.
Just compare Barack's acceptance speach with Bush's speach that was so full of fear, so threatening to the world, so rife with division. Bush told us that personal protectionism and greedy self-interests would be able to flourish, he promised us that much. And he delivered it for his friends and wealthy supporters.
Barack Obama was supported by people with $5 each, and he raised more money than any canadidate ever did before.
Barack Obama reached out to the whole world and told them to have hope too, unless they were trying to tear the world down, but somehow that threat sounded so different than what Bush 2 was saying to the terrorists [because it was a threat to anyone who didn't do what he said, I suppose].
LOOK AT THOSE FACES!!! There was real hope, I was crying at the sight of it. I had hope too. Tears of hope. Its so close now, we just have to decide to do the right things. We need a leader who is willing to do it, but we have not had one since Kennedy, and maybe he was not it either, we don't know. [Barack is not going to die]. Nixon, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush - what a parade of ugly fear, decades of evil... its amazing we still remember how to hope.
Government as a solution, rather than the problem?? Dare we hope??
This whole world STINKS! We know it. Resigned to pessimism, we let ourselves believe for a minute there during Barack's speach. It felt good.
America the bully, the one to fear, the wrecker of all things decent... and now we have Barack Obama to change that.
Compare the message to Barack's opponents and detractors:
"I WILL BE YOUR PRESIDENT TOO"
To the tone of the Bush acceptance speach:
"NOW YOU ARE MINE"
Finally, let me say thank you to the African-American people for campaigning and voting for Barack Obama. I am sure your hope was buried so much deeper than mine was, and it is inspiring to see that you got up and went out and got Barack Obama elected. It could not have happened without your efforts and support, and the world is forever indebted to America's black population.
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