It’s been 2 weeks since Obama WE made history and the buzz is definitely slowing down, but I still get choked up thinking about the possibility of the future. As much as I love all the positive vibes we’re feeling, I’m worried some people expect Obama to carry us in his arms while he leads us to safety, but the insane amount of expectations we’re loading on to the back of one man may only lead to disappointment. When you lift someone up that high, the chance they might fall is even greater. We need to remember that he cannot change the world by himself. He needs America to help themselves. His appointment to the highest seat in the country does not give us carte blanche to sit on our asses now.
President Obama will show us the path, but we must walk it. So get up, stay positive, stay focused and let’s move to the future together.
Watch as I go on about the struggles to shift my paper usage paradigm. It hasn’t been easy. The video is a bit choppy this time, but there’s some recycled redemption and a little comedy in there for you. At leat I thought it was funny.
I know this video is old, but its powerful, even more so than ever. Congratulations, Mr. President.
I never intended this blog to be political. I was never really one of much political conviction and I just didn’t feel it was necessary for getting my message across. About 6 months ago, things started to slowly change for me. I knew I wanted to vote for Barrack Obama shortly before the California primary election, but I didn’t know how much his words, his thoughts, his own conviction would seep into my heart and soul. By the time the general election came around, I was a devout follower of Barrack Obama because I felt it down to my bones that this man would lead us out of the quagmire that we’ve been in for several years.
One of these days, I hope to sit down with my grand kids and tell them about how I witnessed history. Not only did I help elect the first black president, but I watched him become the most significant president in my lifetime. My mom had John F. Kennedy and now I have Barrack Obama. For the first time in my life I feel like this is my President, the one I was meant to fight for and the one who will do the same for me.
Of course I understand I’m putting him on a pedestal which only leaves him room to fall hard, but I feel he will rise to the occasion. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t expect him to cure all the country’s ills, but I know that if he felt he had a chance to do that, he would. I don’t expect anything more than for him to be an honorable man and restore faith and assurance to the title of President.
Of course there will be the naysayers. In fact, I was watching Fox News just yesterday out of morbid curiosity, wondering if they would be lambasting Barrack Obama already. I watched as Sean Hannity and Karl Rove did a little dance to try and sound conciliatory, but it didn’t take long for them to throw the slings and arrows, trying to knock him out of the sky only 1 day after the election. If you’re a supporter of Obama, please don’t suffer the doubting Thomas’, they bring nothing but grief and would rather cast a shadow over this light than try to find the middle ground.
That being said, despite the awesome high I’m riding after the election, I’m still more than a little bummed about Proposition 8. As proud of America I am right now, I’m equally disappointed in my home state for allowing this thinly veiled hate crime disguised as legislation. This isn’t about gays and lesbians and not wanting to acknowledge their existence. This is about the fear and ignorance that squashes civil rights.
No matter what your thoughts on homosexuality might be, it is not in the nature of this country to write laws preventing them from the same right we have as heterosexuals. Would you also allow a proposition banning marriage between mixed races? How about banning marriage between older women with younger men? As ludicrous as those examples might sound, they are inherently the same as banning marriage between gays or lesbians. Allow me to introduce you a piece of text that might clear this up.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
Basically what that means, don’t fucking tread where you don’t belong or you will get tossed. This country was based on the ideas that we ALL have rights regardless of our age, the color of our skin or our sexual orientation, and when you step on those rights, you will get thrown off. This fight is long from over.
In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about Hope - Barrack Obama
I apologize in advance for the coloring of this video. It’s about as bad a quality as it gets, but if you can get past the yellow haze, and all my nervous ticks, the info is still good.
Today I’m talking about 3 books I recently read and you should check out.
Green Christmas by Jennifer Basye Sander, Peter Sander & Anne Basye
BONUS! One randomly selected commenter will win a copy of Green Christmas, so make them juicy and spread the love. Comments must be received by November 7th. Winner will be notified by me via email.
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