All these pundits whining about all the familiar faces in Obama’s administration would do well to read Obama’s books. It bothered me immensely throughout the election campaign that his opponents succeeded (to some degree – the media bought it) in casting him as good at giving speeches but not a man of action. …
Monthly Archives: November 2008
Optimism
This seemed like a good time to dig up one of my favorite quotes:
“Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, it’s unlikely you will step up and take responsibility for making it so. If you assume that there’s no hope, you guarantee that …
The Unspeakable
Assassination. There, I said it. It invariably comes up whenever I am talking to people about Barack Obama. The parallels are too stark to ignore. Most of us had the same reaction when we first heard Obama give a speech: he sounds like JFK, RFK, and MLK jr. all wrapped into …
A New Day, A New Blog.
So this whole blog thing is something I’ve pondered doing for awhile but somehow it seems just right to start it now. It feels like a tipping point was reached the other day when Obama was elected. My greatest hope from all of this is that now the voices of reason will increasingly dominate the …
Barack Obama is the next President!
There is just so much that this victory represents I felt the need to write some of these thoughts down.
The obvious is the historical significance of four centuries of racial oppression in the United States. Certainly, this cannot be overstated. Personally I find myself wondering if I would have been able to break free of …