For 82 days in 1968, Robert F. Kennedy ran for President. His campaign was described as magical and mystical. With RFK, we believed that anything was possible. Then his life was tragically cut short. His great potential left unfulfilled. There hasn’t been another politician, since RFK, who has inspired this country so profoundly…until Barak Obama. Will Barack Obama be able to recreate the magic of those 82 days?

Archive for January 6th, 2009

Preoccupations: Tilt into the future

Tuesday, January 6th, 2009

and prescient, attuned to the challenges of technology and globalisation, to what an inter-connected world means — and to the significance of education. It is youthful and attentive to youth, inspired by hope and looking to the future:

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t r u t h o u t | Greening the Ghetto

Tuesday, January 6th, 2009

He went on, “If we come together and get this done, we will have achieved something quite extraordinary. We will have achieved something greater than Barack Obama has. What gave him the audacity of hope? You did.

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How Do You Say, “Pay for Play” In Spanish? : WesternFront America

Tuesday, January 6th, 2009

Richardson, the “Great Brown Hope” for Hispanics, was nominated by Barack Obama to be the Secretary of Commerce. However, as reported by NBC News (1), in part,. “New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, tapped in December by President-elect

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the [T] dot: With An Inauguration Just Days Away!

Tuesday, January 6th, 2009

That’s how ‘hope‘ works. Or rather doesn’t. Obama’s predominant mantra has been ‘change‘. Indeed, his massively-funded, record-breaking campaign was based on that one word - change. This is a technique used by Bill Clinton and many

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MEG WHITMAN: Considering Run For California Governor, Quits Boards

Tuesday, January 6th, 2009

Whitman is one of three Republicans who are considered front-runners in the 2010 California gubernatorial campaign. The others are state Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner and former Rep. Tom Campbell.

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AHCI Lunch: How will Obama use Web 2.0 to govern?

Tuesday, January 6th, 2009

A month after winning the White House, David Plouffe, Obama’s campaign manager, sent a message to Obama’s campaign e-mail list of 13 million. “Now it’s time to start preparing and working for change in our communities,” the e-mail read,

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The Water is Poison: Barack Obama's New World Order

Tuesday, January 6th, 2009

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What Are You Prepared To Do?: Change From Within

Tuesday, January 6th, 2009

Senator, or rather President Barack Obama’s campaign was a masterpiece of strategy and maverick audacity. I am well aware of John Hanson and the other Presidents that were of at least some African ancestry.

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S e m i O b a m a: *Another* Time Cover

Tuesday, January 6th, 2009

By placing the Faiery-inspired image on the cover, Time acknowledges that this kind of fringey street image has become the putative visual marker of Obama’s campaign. Also, with its roots in the WPA posters of the FDR regime,

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Mbarakanamozo: WITH OBAMANISM,ANGLOPHONES SHOULD HOPE

Tuesday, January 6th, 2009

Indeed the election of Barack Hussein Obama into the oval office had made that dream come true thus the minorities could also hope. By this election, Obama had inspired the world that minorities could also stand up one day and be

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