If these clips don't tell the story of GWB, I dont know what else will
Saturday, January 31, 2009
Monday, January 19, 2009
Are we Free at Last?
Is The Dream to be Realized tomorrow? Good timing this year: http://ping.fm/2zHvS
After having just read and listened to the "I have a Dream" speech, I find it ironic that we will have an African-American President in the next 13 hours, but yet America as whole has less freedom's than we did in 1963.
I know that might be construed as racist, since clearly African Americans did not have the same freedoms that white Americans did, but society as a whole was not as burden by a government that felt it needed to protect its citizens by curtailing rights, liberties and freedoms in the name of democracy. Or maybe, society as a whole has shifted to increase the freedom of some, but reduce those liberties for others, in order to keep some karmic general ledger in balance.
Anyways, it will be interesting to see if President Obama will be able to come up with such poignant and moving rhetoric tomorrow as was heard here 45 years ago. I think most of the nation is looking forward to hearing this type of speech, that will move Americans, and allow us to reach for the possibilities again, rather than what we have become, an introverted, protectionist, arrogant nation who no longer recognizes that the world is made up of many different cultures that have existing long before our founding fathers had a revolution, that should be respected, regardless of their ideology, or their proximity to oil. Just my thoughts on this inauguration eve
After having just read and listened to the "I have a Dream" speech, I find it ironic that we will have an African-American President in the next 13 hours, but yet America as whole has less freedom's than we did in 1963.
I know that might be construed as racist, since clearly African Americans did not have the same freedoms that white Americans did, but society as a whole was not as burden by a government that felt it needed to protect its citizens by curtailing rights, liberties and freedoms in the name of democracy. Or maybe, society as a whole has shifted to increase the freedom of some, but reduce those liberties for others, in order to keep some karmic general ledger in balance.
Anyways, it will be interesting to see if President Obama will be able to come up with such poignant and moving rhetoric tomorrow as was heard here 45 years ago. I think most of the nation is looking forward to hearing this type of speech, that will move Americans, and allow us to reach for the possibilities again, rather than what we have become, an introverted, protectionist, arrogant nation who no longer recognizes that the world is made up of many different cultures that have existing long before our founding fathers had a revolution, that should be respected, regardless of their ideology, or their proximity to oil. Just my thoughts on this inauguration eve
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