When was the last time the world looked upon a single person as an ambassador of hope and change? Nelson Mandela and Martin Luther King seem to be the closest examples of great global who inspired many to be forces of good in the modern …
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Bush had so viciously exploited, Barack Obama hitched his campaign to the awesome energy of an awakened popular optimism. This has always been America’s strength—ungrounded hope, the driving force behind its boundless pragmatism. …
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I’m not so niave to think that things are going to change overnight. But watching Barack Obama give his acceptance speech that night inspired me and made me believe that things can change. It made me believe that my children’s lives …
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He did not just campaign in Blue America or Red America, Real America or Fake America; he was not concerned for the issues facing one America over the other. Instead, he brought his message of change and hope to all of the people in the …
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Barack Obama won an historic victory this week, and with it the right to take office under the most difficult circumstances since Franklin D. Roosevelt during the Great Depression. Maybe more difficult, because while both FDR and Obama …
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We might find hope in the growth of opposition to war and occupation worldwide. Or we might be inspired by the growing movements for reparations and prison abolition, or the rising immigrant rights movement and the stirrings of working …
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He picked people who put together a campaign the likes of which has never been seen before. He is the first democratic candidate ever to outspend the republican candidate. Ever. His team reached out across the internet and inspired 3 …
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“The Hopeful Hearts Club is a painting that reflects the essence of hope that the campaign has inspired in millions of Americans over the past 2 years. The 1967 Beatles Sgt. Pepper album manifested during a time of social, economic, …
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“Yes we can,” the mantra of Obama’s campaign for change, has risen above the high level of hope it inspired for these last two years. Now, change is so close we can almost feel it, touch it, experience it ourselves. …
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A hundred thousand people came out in red states to hear Obama; a hundred fifty thousand turned out in purple ones, even after all this time, when they should have been sick to death of Hope and Change. In Michigan, people put an …
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