Dare to hope! Yes he/we can: Barack Obama 44th president of the USA

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In an email to his supporters he wrote:

We just made history.
And I don't want you to forget how we did it.

Audacity of hope (excerpt)

Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing.

Friedrich Schiller
Hoffnung Schiller

Es reden und träumen die Menschen viel
Von bessern künftigen Tagen,
Nach einem glücklichen goldenen Ziel
Sieht man sie rennen und jagen.
Die Welt wird alt und wird wieder jung,
Doch der Mensch hofft immer Verbesserung.

Die Hoffnung führt ihn ins Leben ein,
Sie umflattert den fröhlichen Knaben,
Den Jüngling locket ihr Zauberschein,
Sie wird mit dem Greis nicht begraben,
Denn beschließt er im Grabe den müden Lauf,
Noch am Grabe pflanzt er - die Hoffnung auf.

Es ist kein leerer schmeichelnder Wahn,
Erzeugt im Gehirne des Toren,
Im Herzen kündet es laut sich an:
Zu was Besserm sind wir geboren!
Und was die innere Stimme spricht,
Das täuscht die hoffende Seele nicht.

Quelle

Presidential Election: Shame on you vs. authenticity

I found at Think on these things an article about an interesting video on you tube highlighting the "shame on you" - discussion (with music of Pink Floyd):

I tried to warn about how Youtube will catch you if you are frontin’ back on May 19, 2007 in a post called, “Democrats Beware: Clinton-Style Politics No Match for the Youtube Era.” I hear she’s paying her consultants of millions of dollars for advice. I’d only charge $4,600 for my advice…which I would promptly donate to Barack Obama.

Btw: interesting how youtube and social media change the situation ...

Presidential Paintball

Letterman: Barack gives the Top Ten

24/01/08

Barack Obama stopped

... smoking

Back in college, Barack Obama and many of his friends smoked cigarettes, a habit common in the Bohemian world in which they circulated.

Nearly three decades later, Obama is a member of the U.S. Senate, a likely presidential candidate and the father of two young girls, and now the smoking thing is a liability.

So the Illinois Democrat, just days before he is expected to announce his run for the White House, tells the Tribune that he is trying to kick the habit.

"I've never been a heavy smoker," Obama says. "I’ve quit periodically over the last several years. I've got an ironclad demand from my wife that in the stresses of the campaign I don’t succumb. I've been chewing Nicorette strenuously."

His wife was a big influence. So, indirectly, were his two young daughters.

"It's not a habit I want my kids to be exposed to," he said.

The Swamp

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