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 19th, 2009

Its been quite a day…. « J.B.Landry Playwright

Monday, January 19th, 2009

All men grow and change and today that is my hope…. The President elect was silent on gay rights issues through the campaign and then he asked a hate monger to give the invocation at his inaugural and still we held hope

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Correctly Political: Sports ‘n’ Politics ‘n’ Stuff Year Under

Monday, January 19th, 2009

President-elect Barack Obama wanted it both ways, too. Near the end of both the baseball and campaign seasons, Obama cringingly implied to fans in two critical swing states, Florida and Pennsylvania, that he supported their team during

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Reviving the Arts, Resurrecting The Dead | Breaking the Silence

Monday, January 19th, 2009

That will change on Tuesday when Barack Obama takes the oath of office. And it’s hard to doubt that he will live up to his promise to “use the bully pulpit and the example he will set in the White House to promote the importance of arts

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From Popsucker: HBO Censors Openly Gay Bishop During Inauguration

Monday, January 19th, 2009

When President-Elect Barack Obama named the bigoted mega church pastor Rick Warren to give the invocation at his inauguration, I lost the hope I had for his administration. Sure, he would still be a welcome change to the outgoing regime

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Jilly Gagnon: The Obam-guration…Drinking Game! - MashGet

Monday, January 19th, 2009

This is a short talk on our audacity to believe, inspired by Jeremiah 29;11, and Barack Obama’s“The Audacity for Hope…followed by the poem, “The truth is what I spit” by Terrence T Ellery. Come election time, a revolutionary will

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Muata's Truth Telling: Promises, Promises, Promises

Monday, January 19th, 2009

Listed below are ten promises/pledges that President Barack Obama made to the American people during the pander-filled campaign season. A season that has accumulated to the finality: Inauguration Day. The promises were made I am certain

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Rich: White Like Me (A Day I Never Thought Would Come) | Drudge Retort

Monday, January 19th, 2009

The world doesn’t change in a day, and the racial frictions that emerged in both the Democratic primary campaign and the general election didn’t end on Nov. 4. As Obama himself said in his great speech on race, liberals couldn’t

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Nancy Leo: Doing it All, for Obama | BlackNewsTribune.com

Monday, January 19th, 2009

However, Barack Obama’s speech the night he won Iowa inspired me to get involved once again with hope that this time we had the chance to alter the misdirected American policies set by the Bush administration.

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Mah Rabu: Them parties will have to wait / There's so much to do

Monday, January 19th, 2009

The “Bush Must Be Defeated” message (whether his name is Bush, McCain, or anything else) was part of the 2008 campaign, but so was the positive vision put forward by Barack Obama (and by Hillary Clinton), and this positive vision

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Midland Daily News > Local News > Midlanders go to Washington

Monday, January 19th, 2009

The excitement and vitality of the campaign will continue. I am humbled by the level of enthusiasm I see in people each day. People express hope for the future despite the crushing personal circumstances that so many face.

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