A Community Organizer for President
Barack Obama has precisely the experience that our country and our world need now.
The words and actions of George W. Bush have gravely divided our nation and our world. Led by Karl Rove, W played the politics of polarization on both the national and international stage. He favored Christian fundamentalists, corporate leaders, and militarists. He used trickery, slander, malicious prosecution, and war to achieve his goals. And when his actions provoked criticism, his critics were vilified. The politics of polarization was Rove’s game plan all along. And W played it with pleasure.
John McCain’s statements indicate that he plans to continue the politics of polarization. In so doing he will continue the politics of division, hate, paranoia and fear. He will not help us address the profound problems and challenges we face as a nation and a planet.
Barack Obama will. According to his campaign biography, he moved to Chicago in 1985 and became a community organizer for a church-based group that worked to improve poor neighborhoods. He went to Harvard Law School and returned to Chicago to practice as a civil rights lawyer. He was elected to the Illinois State Senate, where he worked with both political parties to help working families, by creating programs for tax credits and expansion of early childhood education. Since his election to the US Senate, he has worked to ensure that veterans get the disability pay they were promised, and that the Veterans Administration is prepared to receive military personnel from Iraq and Afghanistan. Recognizing the terrorist threat posed by weapons of mass destruction, he traveled to Russia with Republican Dick Lugar to begin a new generation of non-proliferation efforts designed to find and secure deadly weapons around the world. Knowing the threat we face to our economy and our security from America's addiction to oil, he has worked to bring auto companies, unions, farmers, businesses and politicians of both parties together to promote the greater use of alternative fuels and higher fuel standards in our cars. And, realizing the challenges and demands we face in the Middle East, he has undertaken a bipartisan tour of that region, and visited our European allies, as well.
The fruit of his experience, and the promise of his Presidency, can be heard in what he said at the Tiergarten:
"Now is the time to join together, through constant cooperation, strong institutions, shared sacrifice, and a global commitment to progress, to meet the challenges of the 21st century."
Preach it, Barack!
[This Obama photo is not from the Tiergarten, but I think it is one of his best. I got it from Babs. I don’t know where Babs found it.]
The words and actions of George W. Bush have gravely divided our nation and our world. Led by Karl Rove, W played the politics of polarization on both the national and international stage. He favored Christian fundamentalists, corporate leaders, and militarists. He used trickery, slander, malicious prosecution, and war to achieve his goals. And when his actions provoked criticism, his critics were vilified. The politics of polarization was Rove’s game plan all along. And W played it with pleasure.
John McCain’s statements indicate that he plans to continue the politics of polarization. In so doing he will continue the politics of division, hate, paranoia and fear. He will not help us address the profound problems and challenges we face as a nation and a planet.
Barack Obama will. According to his campaign biography, he moved to Chicago in 1985 and became a community organizer for a church-based group that worked to improve poor neighborhoods. He went to Harvard Law School and returned to Chicago to practice as a civil rights lawyer. He was elected to the Illinois State Senate, where he worked with both political parties to help working families, by creating programs for tax credits and expansion of early childhood education. Since his election to the US Senate, he has worked to ensure that veterans get the disability pay they were promised, and that the Veterans Administration is prepared to receive military personnel from Iraq and Afghanistan. Recognizing the terrorist threat posed by weapons of mass destruction, he traveled to Russia with Republican Dick Lugar to begin a new generation of non-proliferation efforts designed to find and secure deadly weapons around the world. Knowing the threat we face to our economy and our security from America's addiction to oil, he has worked to bring auto companies, unions, farmers, businesses and politicians of both parties together to promote the greater use of alternative fuels and higher fuel standards in our cars. And, realizing the challenges and demands we face in the Middle East, he has undertaken a bipartisan tour of that region, and visited our European allies, as well.
The fruit of his experience, and the promise of his Presidency, can be heard in what he said at the Tiergarten:
"Now is the time to join together, through constant cooperation, strong institutions, shared sacrifice, and a global commitment to progress, to meet the challenges of the 21st century."
Preach it, Barack!
[This Obama photo is not from the Tiergarten, but I think it is one of his best. I got it from Babs. I don’t know where Babs found it.]
posted by Alex Budarin | 11:52 PM
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