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| …some people have a hard time taking me at face value. When people who don’t know me well, black or white, discover my background (and it is usually a discovery, for I ceased to advertise my mother’s race at the age of twelve or thirteen, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites), I see the split-second adjustments they have to make, the searching of my eyes for some telltale sign. They no longer know who I am, Privately, they guess at my troubled heart, I suppose-the mixed blood, the divided soul, the ghostly image of the tragic mulatto trapped between two worlds…the tragedy… is not mine alone, it is yours, sons and daughters of Plymouth Rock and Ellis Island…it is yours children of Africa…(Obama, Dreams, p. xv). |
What follows tries to jab at the pain of racism, to understand the psychological damage wrought by slavery and its aftermath, linking us to Obama as savior,
not in a blasphemous sense, but as ‘psycho-political savior’. It is assumed here that the deep racial divides that have characterized the history of the
Americas have wrought violence and painful scars on the souls of people of all colors, white as well as black, at least in terms of psychological violence and
the need for healing. Obama’s very presence in the White House will help to heal our wounds of separation and alienation from our brothers and sisters
along color lines. Obama’s policy towards the deeply ugly racial realities of America—half of all men in jail, for example, are black while black people
represent some 13% of the population—will be much ‘kinder and gentler than what has gone before, and an era of progressive politics under his lead will
first help us to understand the subtle ways in which we ourselves are racist, to have a basis for the purge, in our own soul and spirit, of the demon of racism
and the way in which it has robbed us all, especially in the Americas, Latin as well as Anglo souls. The world looks to Obama for healing of long-held and
agonizing—approach/avoidance reactions—often hostile, to America, and the dominating and manipulating character of her foreign policy. And this is not in
any way a revolution of the poor. Rather, if anything, it is a revolution of the rich, Obama’s strongest and most stable support base. On an international
level, one sees Germany and Japan leading the way in Obamamania, which most clearly suggests that not only does Obama help one to live with the reality
of being a capitalist pig, but also a child of a fascist state not that long ago. Redemption in Obama’s name, by his example, is political redemption from
psychological chains, grounded in communal understandings of identity. Obama’s own self description above as “a tragic mulatto trapped between two worlds”
speaks to the divide that we need to heal, and speaks to our potential as Americans to make a profound contribution to humanity at large, by electing Obama
as President of the United States in November. Obama is our first, best hope for healing. Please help us help him win!
For people of color and white folks of good faith who are not racist: Obama is rocking us all. His honesty, dedication to peace, and concern for the least
fortunate among us—this draws us to Obama, uniting us together in a moment of testimony to the very nature of who we are—who we decide to be this
coming November. Obama is capable of healing open, gaping wounds in our society as well as our psychological makeup; this pain of rampant injustice has
suffocated many of us down through the centuries: archetypes of oppression, repression, exploitation, and misery radiate throughout our American stories, as
immigrants, as slaves, as bougeoise nobility, each American has a multi-fabric reality that is multicultural at least, and multilingual at most. Obama as
leader shatters myths and walls that stand in front of us as Americans and the most powerful country on the planet. Healing from within the United States,
working to curb our arrogance and build diplomatic bridges. How in the name of God and it be helpful to refuse to even talk with Iran? What conflicts have
been resolved without talking? Obama will soon be helping us to mend the fences that have been seriously strained all over the world. We want a president
who extends the hand of friendship to the world without brandishing the stick before even attempting a dignified dialogue.
He helps us to atone for our past and to recover our future. As Hegel (who had a profound influence on Karl Marx) so eloquently explained, all of us suffer
from the master slave relationship that has characterized centuries of capitalist production and consumption. Obama will not bring justice to all on every
score, but he can be the beginning of a new search for justice, new definitions and understandings: he will come to define compassion in politics and his legacy
will live on for centuries to come. Obama is on top of the wave and we bask in a sense of liberation that is as at once chilling but oh so very soothing. Free at
Last! Free at Last! Obama helps many of us to be saved—from ourselves. President Obama will help to free us from our own—often deeply subconscious—
self-definitions of master and slave, old archetypes from the dark ages of slavery that smother our self-actualization and keep us trapped in old, out-dated,
and immoral ways of thinking. For centuries, if not many hundreds of thousands of years, we have been defined as master and slave deep in our souls
whether we are poor or rich, each has borne his challenge and his pain.
The wealthy suffering? Yes they do, that is why they chose Obama over Clinton. America’s wealthy are clearly looking for a little bit of redemption. The
wealthy man has been stolen from as a result of structures of injustice—economic, legal, moral, etc.—and in the absence of any viable political alternative,
psycho-political healing has eluded the rich man. Undoubtedly, psycho-political healing has occurred at other points in American history. FDR and JFK come
immediately to mind. But Lincoln speaks with the greatest clarity. To understand why rich people tend to lavish such high numbers of political support, one
has only to look at the abolitionist New Englanders that fought tooth and nail against slavery, provoking a civil war in which one out of 10 Americans were
either killed or wounded, or died of disease in the camp, waiting to move. The abolitionists who brought Lincoln to office were in need of political healing, and
they attained it through fire and brimstone. Today, hopefully, this will be done at the voting booth, a strong voice of dissent, a groundswell of desperation for
a progressive rather than retrogressive perspective of the planet and the many challenges that she faces, the mother earth that gave birth to us all, of all
colors, first, second, third worlds: Obama will be the first public servant who has ever been free to deal with the strategic and interconnect complexities of
planetary power.
Those who resist Obama are those who tend to live in the past rather than the future. Obama’s political opponents are nostalgic for a past of privilege to
which they can never return. There is bitterness that America has been betrayed, but America betrayed herself through two Bush Administrations, and it is
time that she be reconciled with her solid majority that does not want a third Bush term. Old rich people who support Obama do not tend to be as bitter about
the past as is the case with many older people disenchanted with politics, money, and often their children and grandchildren—many of whom will vote for
McCain as a way to retain continuity and fidelity to a past that has taken their entire moral investment. Conversion for Republicans, becomes increasingly
difficult with age. Yet Obama is calling out to older Americans, pulling us to hope, healing, and victory; helping to heal the wounds of history by his mere
presence in the Oval Office. And he is a pragmatic man, another way to say much of this is that he represents the wave of Americans who are tired of our
children dying in Iraq and coming home maimed, thousands and thousands struggling for the rest of their lives with Post-Traumatic-Stress Disorder while all
of us pay $5.00 a gallon for gasoline—oil and blood spilling together in the Middle East. This is just not what we had in mind as the way things should work
out. Obama heals!
Obama has come to us at a unique juncture in history. After the sheer wretchedness of war in the 20th century, followed by a new millennium characterized
most graphically by the fact that the Middle East is in flames, and Afghanistan and Pakistan represent protracted problems that no one seems to have
planned for or had any well thought out strategy for the region except Osama Bin Laden. Bin Laden new that Bush would go into a quagmire in Iraq, Bin
Laden and Sadaam Hussein were not friends, as many were led to believe, but, rather, they were among the worst of enemies, rivals for power in our most
volatile regions. Now, even though extraction will not be easy, especially in Afghanistan, many of us our very serious about bringing about a new age of peace
with justice through a more egalitarian distribution of resources and the implementation of programs of sustainable development that do not destroy the
planet. If America were to become a world leader in favor of peace, truly promoting peace rather than constantly brandishing its sword, enough resources
could be saved so that all of ‘our’ children, the children of the our planet, could have an adequate diet, medical care, and education. First and foremost,
among those groups in need of basic assistance and educational resources, are the Palestine people, both at home and the diaspora. Would it not have been
sounder policy to give the Palestinians a truly helping hand to begin with, instead of giving it all to Israel for new military gadgetry? This book is not written
either by or for Americans; it is hoped that this project will follow for decades of constant revision (like the Talmud). This is a global project authored by
people from all over the world. Obamamania is catching, global, revolutionary; for the first time America will have a leader that fully understands how
desperately we need to take active measures to develop our economic resources in a more planet-friendly fashion and stop destroying our home through
pollution and fossil fuels—big oil—solving conflicts through dialogue rather than spending a third of our budget on war and the destruction of both our people
and our home.
Developing technology in a profitable way at the same time that the planet has a chance to breathe, heal itself, become green once again—this is everyone’s
concern. The United States only has about 6% of the world’s population while it consumes over one third of the world’s energy. Does not the United States
have the responsibility, therefore, to lead the world towards more planet friendly policies? This awareness of the urgency of saving our planet is now so widely
recognized that even John McCain is making green speeches and flying over to Europe to reassure the Europeans that he would be more flexible than his
predecessor on environmental issues. But the Europeans do not trust him and neither do we. Like most Europeans, we have much more trust in Obama to do
what is right for the planet. We have already seen where Republican leadership has taken us on this issue and we want new, progressive, planet-friendly
policies on the basis of international friendship, working together as teams of entities with equal voices of dignity. Among many things, we support Obama so
that America will stop being a leader in planetary destruction and become a major contributor to turning the problem around rather than continuing to make
it worse. John McCain is a classic, pro-industry Republican who thinks that toxic sludge is good for you under the right conditions—where corporate profits
are involved. A clear break with the past is called for, building a new era where we put out children first, the children of the world, rather than blackening the
planet, suffocating her with clouds of black smoke from war and burnt petroleum, investing in our babies, not the ongoing proliferation of the industrial
military complex. Now, we are locked into the situation that has resulted from our bellicose stances during the Bush years, were disarming is very painful:
Vote Obama 2008!
We want to break down the entire industrial military complex, become a world leader at beating our swords into plowshares. The predominantly Republican
corporate profit structure bleeds democrats and republicans alike. Yet, the Republican’s son, the man who votes for McCain and it would never cross his
mind to vote for Obama, his child is more likely to go to college while the democrat’s son—white or black—is more likely to be blown up in Iraq—especially
Latinos and African Americans. Obama will strike accords with other countries to limit arms productions and spend this money on things like food for our
children. With President Obama, the military industrial complex will begin to crumble, slowly, from the inside into a million pieces of light, energy that can
then be put to the purposes of peace rather than destruction and oppression. Our drug addicts need hospitals not prisons, and our non-violent criminals need
re-education. We need a government that thinks in terms of kindness rather than domination and force. We need to have a government that has taken a
basic psychology class and is capable of investing in our children, especially those at risk, rather than stuck in somebody else’s civil war over oil, trying to do
the impossible, dominating the indomitable in the Middle East. Obama will give welfare mothers free Internet and incentives to work online while they care
for their children in the same room, perhaps saving some of them from stray bullets flying outside. New, progressive policies will be initiated so that America
may someday look more like Sweden and less like Russia. Now, due to our hostility, the Russian bear has awakened thanks to the Oil Wars of today. How to
best stop the Oil Wars, the Energy Wars, well, ride a bicycle, drive a green car, contribute to the Obama campaign.
America is hungry for peace with justice and greater equality of opportunity. A new majority of people are emerging who are beginning to realize that they
have been and still are largely marginalized from the American dream. What possible reason could a fast food employee or a janitor have for voting for
McCain, nurses, health care workers, teachers, journalists, all would be stronger with through and about Obama. love time of peace through equality,
bringing the races together so that we no long fear each other. Societies with racial issues in their past, like Japan and Germany; lot’s of people go nuts over
Obama in those countries. It is called This Book about Obama is written by you, people like you, from all over the world. At this time, the Obama Book
Project supports Bill Richardson for Vice President. We need a non-white team to take us forward, protect our private property, but at the same time
streamline our economy to make use of available labor—men and women--black, Hispanic, indigenous, or white: Mexico is now helping California put out its
fires, can we not come up with a more workable plan with Mexico where we help each other economically through guest worker programs, or does everything
always have to be done with force by the U.S., more patrols, virtual walls and fences, barriers to justice and international solidarity. By strengthening the
voter’s grasp on public policy generation, wrenching it away from war, big oil, $5.00 at the gas pump, Obama is already leading us away from the path of
destruction and to the splendor of a foreign policy of light, green energy, green industry, peace, collaboration, sharing, and the joy of living without fear of
exploitation of your brother. This is why rich people generally voted for Obama instead of Hillary, they wanted to sleep better at night without having to take
pills. Who forgives in America? Who hears our confessions and responds to them? The Pope? We think not!
Of those Americans traveling abroad these days, many if not most report being loathed, mostly for the Iraq War, at least those who are conscious of the
issue. And, of course, it depends where one goes. But this book is struggles to articulate a foundation for that fear and distain surrounding America in the
world, to understand it, and to bask in the hope that is felt at this time for the way that electing Obama as president will serve to atone for our sins in the
multi-national arena. Yet we try and go deeper still, to the level at which Americans have so long hated themselves, especially those accustomed to traveling
abroad in the Third World. This book is about Barack Obama, and what he is doing to America, giving us the first opportunity in our brave ‘new age’ to
accept ourselves as ‘a people’ thus capable of coming to grips with ‘our’ mistakes; Obama opens a window of opportunity to turn our world around from a
place that runs on greed, to a planet with a smiling face that no longer consumes itself. For the first time, all Americans might be able to savor the sweetest
of self-respect and pay the price of generosity towards others, thereby healing both themselves and those with whom they share the planet.
The healing that is called for is global. And, as the economic center or hub of the world, and the leading military engine on the planet, the fate of America has
an enormous impact on the fate of the rest of the world—for better or for worse. As America’s stock market falls, so does—ironically—that of the Chinese,
for example. Money has conquered the world and Obama does not dispute this. Obama seeks to give capitalism a human face, as have—quite unsuccessfully—
the Chinese. And the irony here deepens further since it is not the Chinese that are riding the Obama wave. While broad sectors of the world are most
favorably intrigued by Obama, it is the Japanese and the Germans who are most excited, who read most about Obama. One sees this, for example, in our own
record of visitors to www.ObamaBook.org; while they come from all over, statistically speaking, the interest of the Japanese and the Germans is quite salient.
This strikes to the central point of what follows, psycho-political healing: the Germans and Japanese are drawn to Obama in such large numbers because they
are most in need of healing—as the former fascist powers that committed massive genocide barely a few generations ago. The healing power of Obama is
fundamentally international, breathing hope into the soul of those of us—in particular—with a deep and abiding love for the Third World, inspiring the long
treasured vision of Third World dignity held dear yet abandoned in the apathy and impotence of an America that wields too much stick and too few carrots.
Republicans are like dogs, they run in packs, American liberals and Democrats are more like cats, and this helps to explain how the Republicans have been
successful at ruling as a minority for so long, determining foreign policy as if liberals did not even exist—until Obama. Obama rocks because he has brought
us cats together under a single banner. No longer are we howling in our individual cages, looking out at each other from afar. An new American majority is
coalescing around Obama for he makes hope for liberal Americans possible, at once the reflection of what we still dare not admit, our innermost treasures of
soul and our ability or inability to face up to who we are and act upon our freedom—long denied—as political agents with a voice, the voice that is led by
Obama. We are now able to speak only because Obama has brought us together and given our voice meaning, and most importantly, power. He is the
embodiment, the incarnation of our vision, our hope that has not perished within us, our thirst for justice and dignity, being able to look at ourselves in the
mirror with no shred of shame for who we are: Americans.
To be Continued With Your Help?
not in a blasphemous sense, but as ‘psycho-political savior’. It is assumed here that the deep racial divides that have characterized the history of the
Americas have wrought violence and painful scars on the souls of people of all colors, white as well as black, at least in terms of psychological violence and
the need for healing. Obama’s very presence in the White House will help to heal our wounds of separation and alienation from our brothers and sisters
along color lines. Obama’s policy towards the deeply ugly racial realities of America—half of all men in jail, for example, are black while black people
represent some 13% of the population—will be much ‘kinder and gentler than what has gone before, and an era of progressive politics under his lead will
first help us to understand the subtle ways in which we ourselves are racist, to have a basis for the purge, in our own soul and spirit, of the demon of racism
and the way in which it has robbed us all, especially in the Americas, Latin as well as Anglo souls. The world looks to Obama for healing of long-held and
agonizing—approach/avoidance reactions—often hostile, to America, and the dominating and manipulating character of her foreign policy. And this is not in
any way a revolution of the poor. Rather, if anything, it is a revolution of the rich, Obama’s strongest and most stable support base. On an international
level, one sees Germany and Japan leading the way in Obamamania, which most clearly suggests that not only does Obama help one to live with the reality
of being a capitalist pig, but also a child of a fascist state not that long ago. Redemption in Obama’s name, by his example, is political redemption from
psychological chains, grounded in communal understandings of identity. Obama’s own self description above as “a tragic mulatto trapped between two worlds”
speaks to the divide that we need to heal, and speaks to our potential as Americans to make a profound contribution to humanity at large, by electing Obama
as President of the United States in November. Obama is our first, best hope for healing. Please help us help him win!
For people of color and white folks of good faith who are not racist: Obama is rocking us all. His honesty, dedication to peace, and concern for the least
fortunate among us—this draws us to Obama, uniting us together in a moment of testimony to the very nature of who we are—who we decide to be this
coming November. Obama is capable of healing open, gaping wounds in our society as well as our psychological makeup; this pain of rampant injustice has
suffocated many of us down through the centuries: archetypes of oppression, repression, exploitation, and misery radiate throughout our American stories, as
immigrants, as slaves, as bougeoise nobility, each American has a multi-fabric reality that is multicultural at least, and multilingual at most. Obama as
leader shatters myths and walls that stand in front of us as Americans and the most powerful country on the planet. Healing from within the United States,
working to curb our arrogance and build diplomatic bridges. How in the name of God and it be helpful to refuse to even talk with Iran? What conflicts have
been resolved without talking? Obama will soon be helping us to mend the fences that have been seriously strained all over the world. We want a president
who extends the hand of friendship to the world without brandishing the stick before even attempting a dignified dialogue.
He helps us to atone for our past and to recover our future. As Hegel (who had a profound influence on Karl Marx) so eloquently explained, all of us suffer
from the master slave relationship that has characterized centuries of capitalist production and consumption. Obama will not bring justice to all on every
score, but he can be the beginning of a new search for justice, new definitions and understandings: he will come to define compassion in politics and his legacy
will live on for centuries to come. Obama is on top of the wave and we bask in a sense of liberation that is as at once chilling but oh so very soothing. Free at
Last! Free at Last! Obama helps many of us to be saved—from ourselves. President Obama will help to free us from our own—often deeply subconscious—
self-definitions of master and slave, old archetypes from the dark ages of slavery that smother our self-actualization and keep us trapped in old, out-dated,
and immoral ways of thinking. For centuries, if not many hundreds of thousands of years, we have been defined as master and slave deep in our souls
whether we are poor or rich, each has borne his challenge and his pain.
The wealthy suffering? Yes they do, that is why they chose Obama over Clinton. America’s wealthy are clearly looking for a little bit of redemption. The
wealthy man has been stolen from as a result of structures of injustice—economic, legal, moral, etc.—and in the absence of any viable political alternative,
psycho-political healing has eluded the rich man. Undoubtedly, psycho-political healing has occurred at other points in American history. FDR and JFK come
immediately to mind. But Lincoln speaks with the greatest clarity. To understand why rich people tend to lavish such high numbers of political support, one
has only to look at the abolitionist New Englanders that fought tooth and nail against slavery, provoking a civil war in which one out of 10 Americans were
either killed or wounded, or died of disease in the camp, waiting to move. The abolitionists who brought Lincoln to office were in need of political healing, and
they attained it through fire and brimstone. Today, hopefully, this will be done at the voting booth, a strong voice of dissent, a groundswell of desperation for
a progressive rather than retrogressive perspective of the planet and the many challenges that she faces, the mother earth that gave birth to us all, of all
colors, first, second, third worlds: Obama will be the first public servant who has ever been free to deal with the strategic and interconnect complexities of
planetary power.
Those who resist Obama are those who tend to live in the past rather than the future. Obama’s political opponents are nostalgic for a past of privilege to
which they can never return. There is bitterness that America has been betrayed, but America betrayed herself through two Bush Administrations, and it is
time that she be reconciled with her solid majority that does not want a third Bush term. Old rich people who support Obama do not tend to be as bitter about
the past as is the case with many older people disenchanted with politics, money, and often their children and grandchildren—many of whom will vote for
McCain as a way to retain continuity and fidelity to a past that has taken their entire moral investment. Conversion for Republicans, becomes increasingly
difficult with age. Yet Obama is calling out to older Americans, pulling us to hope, healing, and victory; helping to heal the wounds of history by his mere
presence in the Oval Office. And he is a pragmatic man, another way to say much of this is that he represents the wave of Americans who are tired of our
children dying in Iraq and coming home maimed, thousands and thousands struggling for the rest of their lives with Post-Traumatic-Stress Disorder while all
of us pay $5.00 a gallon for gasoline—oil and blood spilling together in the Middle East. This is just not what we had in mind as the way things should work
out. Obama heals!
Obama has come to us at a unique juncture in history. After the sheer wretchedness of war in the 20th century, followed by a new millennium characterized
most graphically by the fact that the Middle East is in flames, and Afghanistan and Pakistan represent protracted problems that no one seems to have
planned for or had any well thought out strategy for the region except Osama Bin Laden. Bin Laden new that Bush would go into a quagmire in Iraq, Bin
Laden and Sadaam Hussein were not friends, as many were led to believe, but, rather, they were among the worst of enemies, rivals for power in our most
volatile regions. Now, even though extraction will not be easy, especially in Afghanistan, many of us our very serious about bringing about a new age of peace
with justice through a more egalitarian distribution of resources and the implementation of programs of sustainable development that do not destroy the
planet. If America were to become a world leader in favor of peace, truly promoting peace rather than constantly brandishing its sword, enough resources
could be saved so that all of ‘our’ children, the children of the our planet, could have an adequate diet, medical care, and education. First and foremost,
among those groups in need of basic assistance and educational resources, are the Palestine people, both at home and the diaspora. Would it not have been
sounder policy to give the Palestinians a truly helping hand to begin with, instead of giving it all to Israel for new military gadgetry? This book is not written
either by or for Americans; it is hoped that this project will follow for decades of constant revision (like the Talmud). This is a global project authored by
people from all over the world. Obamamania is catching, global, revolutionary; for the first time America will have a leader that fully understands how
desperately we need to take active measures to develop our economic resources in a more planet-friendly fashion and stop destroying our home through
pollution and fossil fuels—big oil—solving conflicts through dialogue rather than spending a third of our budget on war and the destruction of both our people
and our home.
Developing technology in a profitable way at the same time that the planet has a chance to breathe, heal itself, become green once again—this is everyone’s
concern. The United States only has about 6% of the world’s population while it consumes over one third of the world’s energy. Does not the United States
have the responsibility, therefore, to lead the world towards more planet friendly policies? This awareness of the urgency of saving our planet is now so widely
recognized that even John McCain is making green speeches and flying over to Europe to reassure the Europeans that he would be more flexible than his
predecessor on environmental issues. But the Europeans do not trust him and neither do we. Like most Europeans, we have much more trust in Obama to do
what is right for the planet. We have already seen where Republican leadership has taken us on this issue and we want new, progressive, planet-friendly
policies on the basis of international friendship, working together as teams of entities with equal voices of dignity. Among many things, we support Obama so
that America will stop being a leader in planetary destruction and become a major contributor to turning the problem around rather than continuing to make
it worse. John McCain is a classic, pro-industry Republican who thinks that toxic sludge is good for you under the right conditions—where corporate profits
are involved. A clear break with the past is called for, building a new era where we put out children first, the children of the world, rather than blackening the
planet, suffocating her with clouds of black smoke from war and burnt petroleum, investing in our babies, not the ongoing proliferation of the industrial
military complex. Now, we are locked into the situation that has resulted from our bellicose stances during the Bush years, were disarming is very painful:
Vote Obama 2008!
We want to break down the entire industrial military complex, become a world leader at beating our swords into plowshares. The predominantly Republican
corporate profit structure bleeds democrats and republicans alike. Yet, the Republican’s son, the man who votes for McCain and it would never cross his
mind to vote for Obama, his child is more likely to go to college while the democrat’s son—white or black—is more likely to be blown up in Iraq—especially
Latinos and African Americans. Obama will strike accords with other countries to limit arms productions and spend this money on things like food for our
children. With President Obama, the military industrial complex will begin to crumble, slowly, from the inside into a million pieces of light, energy that can
then be put to the purposes of peace rather than destruction and oppression. Our drug addicts need hospitals not prisons, and our non-violent criminals need
re-education. We need a government that thinks in terms of kindness rather than domination and force. We need to have a government that has taken a
basic psychology class and is capable of investing in our children, especially those at risk, rather than stuck in somebody else’s civil war over oil, trying to do
the impossible, dominating the indomitable in the Middle East. Obama will give welfare mothers free Internet and incentives to work online while they care
for their children in the same room, perhaps saving some of them from stray bullets flying outside. New, progressive policies will be initiated so that America
may someday look more like Sweden and less like Russia. Now, due to our hostility, the Russian bear has awakened thanks to the Oil Wars of today. How to
best stop the Oil Wars, the Energy Wars, well, ride a bicycle, drive a green car, contribute to the Obama campaign.
America is hungry for peace with justice and greater equality of opportunity. A new majority of people are emerging who are beginning to realize that they
have been and still are largely marginalized from the American dream. What possible reason could a fast food employee or a janitor have for voting for
McCain, nurses, health care workers, teachers, journalists, all would be stronger with through and about Obama. love time of peace through equality,
bringing the races together so that we no long fear each other. Societies with racial issues in their past, like Japan and Germany; lot’s of people go nuts over
Obama in those countries. It is called This Book about Obama is written by you, people like you, from all over the world. At this time, the Obama Book
Project supports Bill Richardson for Vice President. We need a non-white team to take us forward, protect our private property, but at the same time
streamline our economy to make use of available labor—men and women--black, Hispanic, indigenous, or white: Mexico is now helping California put out its
fires, can we not come up with a more workable plan with Mexico where we help each other economically through guest worker programs, or does everything
always have to be done with force by the U.S., more patrols, virtual walls and fences, barriers to justice and international solidarity. By strengthening the
voter’s grasp on public policy generation, wrenching it away from war, big oil, $5.00 at the gas pump, Obama is already leading us away from the path of
destruction and to the splendor of a foreign policy of light, green energy, green industry, peace, collaboration, sharing, and the joy of living without fear of
exploitation of your brother. This is why rich people generally voted for Obama instead of Hillary, they wanted to sleep better at night without having to take
pills. Who forgives in America? Who hears our confessions and responds to them? The Pope? We think not!
Of those Americans traveling abroad these days, many if not most report being loathed, mostly for the Iraq War, at least those who are conscious of the
issue. And, of course, it depends where one goes. But this book is struggles to articulate a foundation for that fear and distain surrounding America in the
world, to understand it, and to bask in the hope that is felt at this time for the way that electing Obama as president will serve to atone for our sins in the
multi-national arena. Yet we try and go deeper still, to the level at which Americans have so long hated themselves, especially those accustomed to traveling
abroad in the Third World. This book is about Barack Obama, and what he is doing to America, giving us the first opportunity in our brave ‘new age’ to
accept ourselves as ‘a people’ thus capable of coming to grips with ‘our’ mistakes; Obama opens a window of opportunity to turn our world around from a
place that runs on greed, to a planet with a smiling face that no longer consumes itself. For the first time, all Americans might be able to savor the sweetest
of self-respect and pay the price of generosity towards others, thereby healing both themselves and those with whom they share the planet.
The healing that is called for is global. And, as the economic center or hub of the world, and the leading military engine on the planet, the fate of America has
an enormous impact on the fate of the rest of the world—for better or for worse. As America’s stock market falls, so does—ironically—that of the Chinese,
for example. Money has conquered the world and Obama does not dispute this. Obama seeks to give capitalism a human face, as have—quite unsuccessfully—
the Chinese. And the irony here deepens further since it is not the Chinese that are riding the Obama wave. While broad sectors of the world are most
favorably intrigued by Obama, it is the Japanese and the Germans who are most excited, who read most about Obama. One sees this, for example, in our own
record of visitors to www.ObamaBook.org; while they come from all over, statistically speaking, the interest of the Japanese and the Germans is quite salient.
This strikes to the central point of what follows, psycho-political healing: the Germans and Japanese are drawn to Obama in such large numbers because they
are most in need of healing—as the former fascist powers that committed massive genocide barely a few generations ago. The healing power of Obama is
fundamentally international, breathing hope into the soul of those of us—in particular—with a deep and abiding love for the Third World, inspiring the long
treasured vision of Third World dignity held dear yet abandoned in the apathy and impotence of an America that wields too much stick and too few carrots.
Republicans are like dogs, they run in packs, American liberals and Democrats are more like cats, and this helps to explain how the Republicans have been
successful at ruling as a minority for so long, determining foreign policy as if liberals did not even exist—until Obama. Obama rocks because he has brought
us cats together under a single banner. No longer are we howling in our individual cages, looking out at each other from afar. An new American majority is
coalescing around Obama for he makes hope for liberal Americans possible, at once the reflection of what we still dare not admit, our innermost treasures of
soul and our ability or inability to face up to who we are and act upon our freedom—long denied—as political agents with a voice, the voice that is led by
Obama. We are now able to speak only because Obama has brought us together and given our voice meaning, and most importantly, power. He is the
embodiment, the incarnation of our vision, our hope that has not perished within us, our thirst for justice and dignity, being able to look at ourselves in the
mirror with no shred of shame for who we are: Americans.
To be Continued With Your Help?
| Chapter One: Psycho-political Healing, Obama as Healer Slavery is founded on the selfishness of man's nature-opposition to it on his love of justice. These principles are in eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow. Abraham Lincoln, 16, Oct. 1854, Peoria Ill., during a debate with Stephen Douglas. |
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