The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
Obama engages themes raised in his keynote speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, shares personal views on faith and values and offers a vision of the future that involves repairing a “political process that is broken” and restoring a government that has fallen out of touch with the people.
–Daphne Durham (amazon.com)
| When Senator Robert F. Kennedy entered the presidential race during the chaotic year of 1968, anarchy appeared to be gathering on the horizon. America was coming to grips with an unwinnable war in Vietnam and unacceptable social policies at home. The Last Campaign examines Kennedy’s bold (and tragically shortened) efforts to awaken his country’s social conscience and moral sensibility. In contrast to the cocksure attitude of Thirteen Days (RFK’s own 1962 memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis), Thurston Clarke reveals a very human politician who often trembled at the podium and scanned crowds for an assassin’s glare. Though motivated to serve by an unwavering desire to help the poor and oppressed, Kennedy also lived with a deep fear that his life would be cut short by violence. “I’m afraid there are guns between me and the White House,” he prophetically remarked during the spring of ‘68. Yet The Last Campaign chooses not to explore what could have been. Instead, Clarke focuses on what is certain: for an 82-day period, Kennedy “convinced millions of Americans that he was a good man, perhaps a great man.” –Dave Callanan |
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During the 2008 presidential campaign, Barack Obama was given God-like status by the media in regards to his oratory skills. He was so articulate, as well as being clean and bright! His mesmerized followers dropped like flies; passing out during his brilliantly inspired speeches about hope and change. Even one of my sisters (political neophyte who thankfully never voted in her life) commented on how he had such a nice voice – so smooth and silky. All Obama had to do was …
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“First, there’s evangelist Bill Keller, founder of liveprayer.com, that, in an amusing column bewailed the following: “The answers and hope they find in Glenn Beck’s “faith” will only do one thing, lead their eternal souls to the flames of ….. whether it’s on the campaign stump or in the pulpit. In sum, I reject outright the statements by Rev. Wright that are at issue.” Now what racist scum said that? President Barack Obama. Well, I guess Wrights brand of liberation …
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Just as I had chosen to work on your campaign inspired by what you said, that “we are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek,” I also chose to face my fears, to risk it all, to seek that change, and sit-in so that the … by: you @ soon. To post this comment click here: Otherwise click cancel. You must enter a subject for your comment. Thanks Again, Pam. For all you’re doing for migrant youth. Hope you saw what I wrote about you in this post: …
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IN THE Middle East, U.S. President Barack Obama has spent the first year and a half of his presidency seeking to undo the damage wrought by his predecessor. He has made up some ground. But given how slowly U.S. policy has shifted, his administration runs the risk of … In the wake of the colonial era, as Arab nationalist movements emerged and took power across the Middle East, Europe either ignored the challenge they posed or treated them as Soviet-inspired irritants. …
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel has signaled unease over the prospect of a possible speech by Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama at Berlin’s historic Brandenburg Gate. Merkel has “only limited … The gate was inspired by the Propylaea, the entrance to the Acropolis in Athens. The structure is crowned by the “Quadriga of Victory”, a statue of a chariot drawn by four horses. The Doric gateway once served as a customs port. From 1961 to 1989 the gate was blocked …
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Even when there was no “peace process,” the possibility of resurrecting one provided hope to the gullible, cover to the guileful, beguilement for the press, an excuse for doing nothing to those gaining from the status quo, ….. In February 2009, unnamed sources leaked to the news media, initially to The Politico, that Freeman was Director of National Intelligence Dennis C. Blair’s choice to chair the National Intelligence Council in the Barack Obama administration. …
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Even when there was no “peace process,” the possibility of resurrecting one provided hope to the gullible, cover to the guileful, beguilement for the press, an excuse for doing nothing to those gaining from the status quo, and – last but far from least – lifetime employment for ….. Tomorrow’s meeting may well demonstrate that, the election of Barack Obama notwithstanding, the United States is still unfit to manage the achievement of peace between Israel and the Arabs. …
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