The last barrier to African Americans actually achieving the American dream has been broken. Barrack Obama has been elected president of the United States of America in a landslide win.
Obama’s decisive political sweep indicates it’s time for citizens to unify, to celebrate their similarities and to look forward to a future marked by changes. Healing will NOT take place overnight and change will meet resistance. The dog in the manager right wingers are bound to bark and howl and whine as the move forward is made. They were not able to top this tsunami of support for Obama. Barrack Obama has won the hearts of the American people and now it’s up to them to open their hearts to one another and work together to make the changes happen.
This historical election means it’s time for the American people to actualize, and to initiate the changes at the individual and local level, and work together from the bottom up.
364 electoral votes is the likely final count. Barack Obama not only got a clear majority of the votes, he won with a coalition that dramatically redrew the Electoral College map. Commonly red states – Indiana, Colorado, Nevada and Virginia – have gone blue.
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The smear campaigns and divisive politics did not work and the Republican Party now faces a long list of problems with no clear national leader and an identity crisis.
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Lana
November 9, 2008
That’s the part that scares me. For real “change” everyone has to do their part. Unfortunately I have little faith in humanity, but I COULD be wrong!
soulMerlin
November 15, 2008
I was really pleased when Obama got it.
The trouble I think is Greed. The other trouble is that the voters will back any ticket that will allow them to take out more than they put in…and will vote against anything that will mean tightening belts.
I hope that Obama has enough leverage and charisma to persuade otherwise.
Your blog looks lovely and your writing hits the spot.
best wishes
henry
timethief
November 16, 2008
IMO the greed is endemic and caused by the unrealistic expectation of achievement of the “American Dream”. In fact the bailout resulted in American each man, women and child in America carrying a debt burden of $199,000. That figure does not include the individual mortgage and credit card debt, etc.
Banker and former Presidential candidate Charles Collins is a lawyer, has owned banks, and served as a bank director. He believes we’ll never get out of debt because the Federal Reserve is in control of our money.
“Right now, it’s perpetuated by the Federal Reserve making us borrow the money from them, at interest, to pay the interest that’s already accumulated. So we cannot get out of debt the way we’re going now.”
Economist Henry Pasquet is a tenured instructor in economics. He agrees the end is near for the U. S. economy.
I think this video is worth watching. The Money Masters: How International Bankers Gained Control of America
http://pakalert.wordpress.com/2008/11/16/the-money-masters/
Most Americans are in the dark when it comes to understanding the forgoing, let alone, accepting it. Change is inevitable. The form it takes is unpredictable and Obama is IMO in an unenviable position. He is also faced with the bitter defeated Republicans and among them we find many corporate shareholders and corporate kingmakers. In the past Americans have consumed their way into prosperity by relying on easy credit. This is no longer the option that it was in the past. He is faced with an ignorant populace with high expectations who have yet to accept the realities of the economic state of their own nation let alone, globalization. In fact, America has become a huge corpocracy and the citizens of today will be handing off a legacy of debt to future generations of Americans.
When I wrote above about Americans starting at the bottom in their own neighborhoods and communities to help one another I did not include this link that illustrates just one example of what can be done http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/SmartHome/story?id=6118522