Why hope matters.

[mmonk]

Why hope matters
Because without hope, there is despair.

When there is despair, inaction sets in
for lack of hope.

When inaction sets in, there is no change.

Change matters in order for hope to be possible.

Motivational speech inspires one to act for change,
and make hope real.

[TexasObserver]

1. HOPE is the reason Obama will win. Bitterness and Pettiness are the reasons Hillary will lose.

[Yossariant]

2. Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

[mmonk]

10. Then the inspiration must be good.

[Yossariant]

11. Yeah, like being "inspired" to invade Pakistan is good.

:crazy:

[mmonk]

12. Or Iraq.

[Yossariant]

13. Hope for the past.

:evilgrin:

[mmonk]

14. Or to shake it off.

[Yossariant]

17. Hey, it's your premise. And I'm not at all surprised that it is selective.

[mmonk]

18. There can be comfort in the past, but promise in the future.

[Yossariant]

19. Ah! I see. You default position is that the invasion of Iraq is a "comfort." Way to go.

:crazy:

[mmonk]

22. Not exactly.

I'm borrowing from this theme:

"The promise of "change" is what drives the Obama juggernaut, and "change" means wanting out of wherever you are now."

found here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x4613704

And why the Clinton campaign is running into difficulty they didn't expect nor can control by saying Obama gives speeches with no substance.

My theme is the use of the theme of hope instead of political commentary for its sake.

[H2O Man]

3. Keep Hope Alive!

"I was born in the slum, but the slum was not born in me. And it wasn't born in you, and you can make it. Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but the morning comes. Don't you surrender. Suffering breeds character. Character breeds faith. In the end faith will not disappoint.

"You must not surrender. You may or may not get there, but just know that you're qualified and you hold on and hold out. We must never surrender. America will get better and better. Keep hope alive. Keep hope alive. Keep hope alive. On tomorrow night and beyond, keep hope alive."
-- Jesse Jackson; 1988 Democratic National Convention

[0007]

15. Keep trucking!

Every evening on the news we hear of death and suffering. We can see this in our backyards and alley ways. Children die, beaten by their parents. Life is hard but harder for many. Drive by's and rape, theft and murder. When living in this kind of darkness, where does the light come from? Where do we find the strength?

Dreams have wings, but they are often clipped by the ravages of reality. This poem expresses the weight of the darkness and the longing for the light.

[mmonk]

16. Dreams are the light we see in the distance.

[rug]

4. The implication is that without Obama we're hopeless. Sorry, no dice.

[mmonk]

24. No, my theme is hope.

[rug]

31. And my experience is that the people of this country are not hopeless or helpless.

[Double T]

5. HOPE like MOTIVATIONAL SPEAK is a whole lot of BS.

REAL ACTION with substance is ALL that matters.

[mmonk]

7. Words.

What's empty platitudes to one (words)
is the fuel for change in another (words)

[NJmaverick]

29. That statement is a "whole lot of BS"

People are a combination of logic, reason and emotion. Neglect the emotional side and you get dispair. Just because your candidate doesn't inspire, doesn't mean it's BS or unimportant. It means you need to pick a different candidate.

[Birthmark]

6. Hope is like a lighthouse keepers' beam

That's what Klaatu said, anyway.

[TexasObserver]

8. just as despair can come to one another only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given ...

Elie Wiesel:

"I have learned two lessons in my life: first, there are no sufficient literary, psychological, or historical answers to human tragedy, only moral ones. Second, just as despair can come to one another only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings."

Hope is the lifeblood of all we do.

[earthlover]

9. Hillary: despair from day one!

That's what we get if hope is attacked as foolish or naive. A depressing campaign theme indeed.

We need actions in addition to hope. But without hope, actions seem futile.

Faced with an economy in such shambles....a 25% unemployment rate, stock market crash, banks closing, and misery that makes our recession look like a boom time....FDR BEGAN his administration by saying the only thing we have to fear is fear itself. Today, I guess the Hillary Herd would attack this as being naive and foolish words. We also should be reminded that Hoover was quite experienced when he was elected president, and he was ready from day one. Sometimes hope trumps experience.

[mmonk]

25. Yes to this:

"FDR BEGAN his administration by saying the only thing we have to fear is fear itself. Today, I guess the Hillary Herd would attack this as being naive and foolish words."

and many others including McCain.

[TexasObserver]

20. He who has never hoped can never despair.

George Bernard Shaw:
He who has never hoped can never despair.

[rug]

21. "However, one cannot put a quart in a pint cup."

- Charlotte Perkns Gilman

[mmonk]

26. But a full pint cup is better than an empty one.

[rug]

32. A stitch in time saves nine.

Swapping slogans is fun isn't it?

[mmonk]

36. I can go as long as you can, but hope itself is substance

when combined with a theme of change.

[TexasObserver]

23. We are all of us in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars

Chrissie Hynde, as borrowed from Oscar Wilde

[rug]

33. Just Add Happy.

http://www.hallmark.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/home%7c10001%7c10051%7c-1

[NJmaverick]

27. YES WE CAN!

That is what this Country needs HOPE! Inspiration! Leadership!

[TexasObserver]

28. “Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.”

some guy named Einstein said that

[mmonk]

30. As someone who has worked on campaign strategy before,

I give the Obama campaign an A+. It's hard to run against hope by pushing cynicism as its antidote.

[Tommy Jefferson]

34. Does "Hope" substitute for rational action?

I hear a lot of "hope" from him. I don't hear any substantial discussion of the national debt.

[LWolf]

35. Hope matters.

In order to have hope, one must see a light at the end of the tunnel, and believe that it might be possible to reach it.

I don't see that light. I don't see either of the current choices working to implement the changes that I wish to see.

I don't see them repealing NCLB or the Patriot Act.

I don't see them getting out of Iraq and bringing an end to the march to empire under cover of the bogus "war on terror."

I don't see them repealing NAFTA/CAFTA.

Going to war with Monsanto.

Fighting for public financing for elections.

Instituting a fairness act. Re-regulating everything that has been de-regulating, undoing all of the privatization over the last generation.

I don't see them working for universal pre-school through college, universal, single-payer, not-for-profit health care, or guaranteeing employment at a living wage.

I don't see those things as possibilities under either of the two choices, and so, from my perspective, hope is dimmed.