"A New Hope" - Rolling Stone endorses Barack Obama

[kpete]

Rolling Stone endorses Barack Obama
A New Hope
JANN S. WENNERPosted Mar 20, 2008 3:00 PM

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...along comes Barack Obama, with the kinds of gifts that appear in politics but once every few generations. There is a sense of dignity, even majesty, about him, and underneath that ease lies a resolute discipline. It's not just that he is eloquent — with that ability to speak both to you and to speak for you — it's that he has a quality of thinking and intellectual and emotional honesty that is extraordinary.

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Obama rejected the subtle imagery of false patriotism by not wearing a flag pin in his lapel, and he dismissed the broader notion that the Democratic Party had to find a way to buy into this entire load of fear-mongering War on Terror bullshit — to out-Republican the Republicans — and thus become, in his description of Hillary Clinton's macho posturing on foreign policy, little more than "Bush-Cheney lite."

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We need to recover the spiritual and moral direction that should describe our country and ourselves. We see this in Obama, and we see the promise he represents to bring factions together, to achieve again the unity that drives great change and faces difficult, and inconvenient, truths and peril.

We need to send a message to ourselves and to the world that we truly do stand for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

more at:
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/19106551/a_new_hope

[Vinca]

1. I love Rolling Stone! nt

[State the Obvious]

2. I like this...

" We need to recover the spiritual and moral direction that should describe our country AND ourselves."

We ARE a country trying to recover.

[zanne]

5. I think we'll all be in rehab for awhile... nt

[Window]

3. Great!

Thanks for sharing.




Peace:thumbsup:

[zanne]

4. The first thing I noticed about Barack Obama was..

When I heard him speak at the Dem convention, I thought "It'd be great to have a president like this guy, who doesn't speak down to us". I didn't think it was possible at the time, but as soon as I heard he was running I felt the first stirrings of hope. (It was hard to recognize the feeling).

The first step in restoring our reputation in the world is to have a president who doesn't sound like a complete moron. I hope, hope, hope he wins.

[babylonsister]

6. Great endorsement! GOBAMA! nt

[Scurrilous]

7. K & R

:thumbsup: