QUIET STORMS: "If there’s a poor child out there, that’s my child"Thats OUR President

[Boz]

I know that there’s some folks that are going through their own quiet storms.

All across America there are quiet storms taking place. There are lives of quiet desperation. People who need just a little bit of help.

Because if there’s a poor child out there, that’s my child. If there’s a senior that’s having trouble, that’s my grandparent. If there’s a guy who’s lost his job, that’s my brother. If there’s a woman out there without healthcare, that’s my sister. Those are the values that built this country. Those are the values we are fighting for.

http://cdn1.ustream.tv/swf/4/viewer.24.swf?vid=680394

[flamingdem]

1. He's our Dylan and our Martin Luther King nt

[liberalmuse]

2. I love that Dylan song...

"The Times They Are A-Changin'"

Come gather 'round people
Wherever you roam
And admit that the waters
Around you have grown
And accept it that soon
You'll be drenched to the bone
If your time to you
Is worth savin'
Then you better start swimmin'
Or you'll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin'.

Come writers and critics
Who prophesize with your pen
And keep your eyes wide
The chance won't come again
And don't speak too soon
For the wheel's still in spin
And there's no tellin' who
That it's namin'
For the loser now
Will be later to win
For the times they are a-changin'.

Come senators, congressmen
Please heed the call
Don't stand in the doorway
Don't block up the hall
For he that gets hurt
Will be he who has stalled
There's a battle outside
And it is ragin'
It'll soon shake your windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'.

Come mothers and fathers
Throughout the land
And don't criticize
What you can't understand
Your sons and your daughters
Are beyond your command
Your old road is
Rapidly agin'
Please get out of the new one
If you can't lend your hand
For the times they are a-changin'.

The line it is drawn
The curse it is cast
The slow one now
Will later be fast
As the present now
Will later be past
The order is
Rapidly fadin'
And the first one now
Will later be last
For the times they are a-changin'.

[flamingdem]

5. I do too! On his list of favorite artists Obama included Dylan nt

[AnnieBW]

3. When I was hungry, you gave me to eat

When I was thirsty, you gave me to drink;
That which you do to the least of my brothers, that you do unto me.

I guess I learned more from church camp than I thought...

[renate]

4. beautiful

That is the kind of talk I want to hear from my president. :applause:

[Occam Bandage]

6. A beautiful sentiment. This is the faith of Obama.

Contrast this to the hateful, exclusionary "faith" of the right wing.

[Boz]

7. Kick.

[PeaceNikki]

8. That was part of this evening's speech!

:bounce:

Pics here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=6872177&mesg_id=6872177

[Boz]

9. Milwaukee

[ProgressiveEconomist]

10. K&R

[jgraz]

11. Please tell me that's not a quote from John Edwards.

[tokenlib]

12. That could make a compelling commercial...n/t