It is just plain exceptional that we are about of have a wonderful young man who looks like me become president of the United States, leader of the free world and commander-in-chief of the most powerful military force ever.
When I was six years old, I could read books in the public library but was not allow to check them out. As they said at the MLK Program at my church this morning, he brought us from a mighty long way. (He being God for my heathen friends—right- sin, cast, stone.)
The roughest part of the swearing for me will be thinking about people like my daddy who did not live quite long to see this historic event. My daddy was always so proud when a Black person won on Wheel of Fortune since he had a preoccupation with moving African Americans forward. He also obsessed on “guiltying” negative people of color into changing for the good of the nation and race.
Congratulations America for climbing this hill and best wishes on the next one, and the one after that.
Mr. President, you surely have my support.
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Enjoyed the moment; let’s hope some of that stuff gets done. Did you see Rep. Sanford Bishop (one of my old bosses) rocking the red fedora so his GOP constituents could see him being nice to the Bushes and the Dems could see him shaking Obama’s hand. SDB is one smooth and calculating guy.
When he does the same thing during the State of the Union speeches, my GOP friends see that at home and dig it a little; better than a zillion campaign ads. In that regard, you think about Republicans being surprised that Bishop and now Obama doesn’t not hate the other side.
How were you raised if you did not know that there are people who don’t hate constantly. And booing Bush and Cheney is a “goon move.” At the MLK event yesterday in Sylvester, Ga, the speaker hit 1 Corinthians 13:11 “When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.” That booing, childish thing.
I am hopeful about President Obama. He is inspiring hope and enthusiam at a time when we need it the most. I may not agree with all of his policies, but I am excited to see that our country is at least *starting* to come together to get things done. Its not anything I can put my finger on…its a feeling that our new president is bringing to the nation.
I agree with you. He is the right person for the job and his positive vibe will hopeful be contagious. The guy is not a King (you know royal King, not MLK) so I think he is positioning his term to encourage each person rather than people waiting for him to fix their broken lives.
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