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Obama: The Poetry Man?
by Leah Sellers
2008-06-28 09:52:14 |
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You’re a smart cookie, Mr. Obama. Machiavelli, would probably be impressed with the unexpected and surprising money game you decided to play with your future political funds (no limiting yourself to the taxpayers' public finance advantage; no, that’s too small a cap for you, sir). Instead, you opted to break your word in order to make an open-ended, capitalistic, opportunistic decision which will help ensure your campaign’s growth and outreach in the gruelling month’s ahead, so that you can, hopefully, buy yourself a ‘win’ in the presidential election.
Well, that’s the way the cookie crumbles!
You have shown yourself to be a Pragmatic-Idealist. Yes, it’s true. The two entities can exist within the same Body, Heart and Soul. It may be confusing to unsuspecting onlookers at times; leave their heads spinning; their doubts scurrying, but it is possible.
We all have the capacity to change our Mind; change our Hearts, our Characters, our Lives. However, Mr. Obama, it is my profound Hope (since you are the candidate of Hope and Change) that on the Big issues - the Big questions such as stopping the War and bringing the precious lives of our troops home, (insurance corporation free) Universal Health Care for all American citizens, fair taxes for all American citizens, quality (non-corporationized) education for all American youth, fair priced energy equity and alternative energy resource developments, Homeland security, etc.... that you are as good as your Word, Mr. Obama.
Because, Mr. Obama, I, too, am a Dreamer, an Idealist. I had begun to envision the possibilities of your being the American Man of our time, just as I had begun to see Mrs. Clinton as the American Woman of our time. Be that as it may, the Democratic Party made its decision. It’s to be the Man. The Poetry Man. The Poetry Man who Sings the Radiant Song of Hope and Change. The Strong, Articulate, Matriarchal (strong Mother, strong Wife) American Black Man needed to effectively address many of the present day social difficulties within our wonderful, complicated nation because your time has come. Are you ready for the arduous tasks before you?
Mr. McCain is a Good Man. A Decent Man. He fought in another War for a rich empire’s oil holdings many year’s ago. He spent years as a prisoner; a slave to those who meant him harm every moment of every day; who when the moment suited them tortured and humiliated him. He knows what Fear is. He knows what his Heart of Darkness is. He faced it; became steeped within its intimacies. He left Viet Nam an humbled man, but within that humility Mr. McCain found the Source and Strength of His of Humanity, his Spirituality, Him-Self. He came back to America a Better Man. A Stronger Man. A Wiser Man. A man rooted within the traditions of another place and time.
Mr. Obama, the promise of Hope and Change that you espouse appears to intimate some of Christ’s philosophy. If a person owns two coats and encounters a poor person without a coat. The person with the two coats is to take off one of their coats, and give it to the person who has none. If a person has food and encounters a person who has none; the person who has food is to share their food with the one who is without.
‘Red and yellow, black and white, they are precious in his sight. Jesus loves the little children of the World...’
What is the Poetry that you Weave, Mr. Obama? Your words of Hope and Change propose and elucidate the egalitarian world of wisely benevolent social justice, equity, faith and charity that Christ envisioned. A world that many great prophets and many great men have at one time or another envisioned. Is this your true Pragmatic Ideal, Mr. Obama? Is this Your Heartfelt Poem of Hope and Change? Is this a Poem of Expediency or of Your Unbroken Word?
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