I have heard that some rightwing extreme groups are spreading outright lies in a whisper campaign about Barack’s Israel policy positions and this is disturbing if true. For a look at Barak’s actual policies on anything (instead of propaganda) please simply visit http://www.barackobama.com/.
For info regarding his beliefs and activity history specific to Israel I suggest downloading the PDF file on his Foreign Policy Page at his site here>>.
Also, more info is on his fact pages here>>
I may have revised some small bits, but the spirit remains.
Hi, _______-- Jerry'O again... I just listened to the Barack speech he gave in Philly today... It is a masterpiece.
I was for Obama since the beginning. When I hear the various arguments going back and forth, I keep coming back to 2 basic ideas... feelings really, more than thoughts...
Number 'One') Obama is from the original 'Generation X'... Those of us at the tail end of the baby boom, the 'bust-ing' part; by some people’s measurements those born between 1958 and 1964, roughly.
I think this observation matters more regarding the perspective which his campaign is viewed through, than his race. It is why I think his campaign appeals to the young so much. The late Bill Strauss (co-founder of the Capitol Steps, that Bill Strauss) co-wrote a series of books about the world’s historic and generational peculiarities and divides, and it’s too bad he’s dead because I really wonder how he’d view Obama’s candidacy through this prism.
To clarify, here’s a quote of a description I found on the net of his book ‘13th Gen’ (I apologize, I can’t find my own copy here in the house):
“It's "13er" Nancy Smith's "...generation after. Born after 1960, after you, after it all happened." It's those born after the Boom, but before the Babies-on-Board 1980s, between 1961 and 1981 (I was born in 1977). It's those alternately tagged "Generation X," "Baby Busters," "Computer Babies," the "New Lost," "Nowhere," "Boomerang," or "MTV" generation. It's the generation with a terminally bad image, one no spin doctor press agent would have even tried to manage... Everyone hears about sagging test scores, rising violence, sexually transmitted diseases, the declining job market and the fact that this generation will be less well off than those which came before...”
We of this bust period were the ones who arrived late to the Summer of Love, after eating and buying all the philosophy and pabulum, and ready to party...
Only, oops! Reagan’s in office and, hey, where did all my older brothers and sisters go..?
We are the ones who’ve been dubbed the original ‘Slackers’. We’ve been largely the service industry for those others: Waiters, then office administrators and other mercenary service society to those who came before, and more than a little disillusioned by it... It’s argued we’re viewed largely with confusion, distrust and even as a threat by the boomers before us... Because, hey, we’re pissed, and why shouldn’t we be..?
Think you’re gonna get that job after the boss retires..? Sorry, didn’t you hear they’re raising the retirement age to 75..? Didn’t get that memo..? Oops, my bad... Well, you know, we can’t go anywhere just yet because we’re all so healthy and pumped up from yoga... And it’s like, our spokesman, Dennis Hopper says in the Ameriprise commercial, “We’re not going out to pasture!”, because hey, we don’t really have as much money saved for retirement as we need (because we’ve been blowin’ it all on those little blue pills and Botox injections).
Obama will not be trusted, and not because of race really, and not because of the so-called bad guys he (more than any other politician we know) associates with; but because he’s, get this, like those other Slackers... inexperienced... can you hear Jimi Hendrix..? Are you experienced, Obama..? Are you ‘experienced’?
Yeah, give it to the yuppie; not the puppy...
That’s just Number ‘One’...
Number ‘Two’) Listen to his Philly speech... Try not to cry... not because he’s somehow manipulating you... but because of the truth of it...
Hillary is sincere with her tears, and I do believe they come from her heart. She believes with all her heart in her ideals and will fight to the death to defend them,
But Obama brings the tears from you, because he has resonated more than once with a truth many feel in their own hearts.
People have tried to nail him to the wall with his imperfections as a man or politician with facts dug up from here or there...
But he’s not choosing, for the most part, to fight with facts... He’s choosing, like other imperfect but truly inspired leaders before him, to align himself with truth... that inner stuff... as long as he takes the high road the facts thrown at him will only show what we already know— that he’s just a man... but it won’t change the truth he’s aligning with...
The truth is a funny thing-- You can throw facts at it, you can shoot it, you can call it names, you can say it’s inadequate, dysfunctional, you can associate it with as many bad things and people as you want, but it will only be the man who is flawed, who dies or loses an election; not the truth he aligns himself with...
For better or for worse, I feel in my heart of hearts that this man is honestly attempting to take this high road... to align himself with the truth...
That’s why this has become a ‘movement’. This isn’t at the level of rhetoric anymore...
This is part 2 maybe, of what the boomers started years ago... and it’s more than a little ironic that they couldn’t see it coming...
The party is finally just getting started.
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Copyright © November 2008 by Gerald Ollison. All rights reserved.
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