Pictures In A Word: CHANGE

[DeSwiss]

** - In their October 13th issue, http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2008/10/13/081013taco_talk_editors">The New Yorker Magazine's editors have endorsed Barack Obama for President of the United States. The editorial covers the central issues that we are faced with superbly in my view. As well as giving voice to the insight that this election is more about America's character, rather than Obama or McCain's alone. It lays bare the facts of our world today, and quite laboriously spells out the reasons why we cannot continue on this path. McCain not only continues us upon it, but he adds his own kind of crazy to the mix. It's worth reading.

Here's an excerpt from the final paragraph that sums things up, and I think reflects in prose what our eyes can see in the pictures below....

We cannot expect one man to heal every wound, to solve every major crisis of policy. So much of the Presidency, as they say, is a matter of waking up in the morning and trying to drink from a fire hydrant. In the quiet of the Oval Office, the noise of immediate demands can be deafening. And yet Obama has precisely the temperament to shut out the noise when necessary and concentrate on the essential.

The election of Obama—a man of mixed ethnicity, at once comfortable in the world and utterly representative of twenty-first-century America—would, at a stroke, reverse our country’s image abroad and refresh its spirit at home. His ascendance to the Presidency would be a symbolic culmination of the civil- and voting-rights acts of the nineteen-sixties and the century-long struggles for equality that preceded them. It could not help but say something encouraging, even exhilarating, about the country, about its dedication to tolerance and inclusiveness, about its fidelity, after all, to the values it proclaims in its textbooks.

At a moment of economic calamity, international perplexity, political failure, and battered morale, America needs both uplift and realism, both change and steadiness. It needs a leader temperamentally, intellectually, and emotionally attuned to the complexities of our troubled globe. That leader’s name is Barack Obama.

- Very well put.....
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DeSwiss


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[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. This is wonderful...

Thank you!

K&R

[ClayZ]

2. Thank you! K and R

[BrightKnight]

3. You would never see faces like that at a McCain ralley. - n/t

[Vektor]

4. He must have padded the audience with models. Those people are too attractive!

Oh, no wait - it's the Republicans that are curmudgeonly, bitter, angry, and sour looking.

Democrats, by virtue of their good nature, and positive attitude, simply SHINE. :-)

I cannot see how anybody can look at Sarah Palin, and think "attractive"...just look at the smiling faces of all these radiant Obama supporters - now THAT'S beautiful.

[southernleftylady]

5. What a great group of pictures this is amazing! nt

[DeSwiss]

6. Looking at those pics....

- ...I can actually feel some of the wounds healing. This is gonna be great!

KICK!

[dbt]

7. Rednecks For Obama? HAIL Yes!!!

Let's see Poor Old John McCain take a picture that's a TENTH as good as President Obama.

[pilar007]

8. Sadness

HE IS ONLY A MAN...That is what I tell myself all the time. However, when I see pictures like these, I see more. I see HOPE. Obama has a heavy responsibility when he wins the election...I know he will win. It feel a sadness because our hopes are high and he cannot fulfill the hopes and dreams we have of him-no one can. I don't want those young people to feel let down by the limitations of a man and the high expectations of many.
Sorry for the sappiness, but the images moved me to tears.

[Mind_your_head]

10. I understand .

He's gonna need a lot of support ~ he can't do it alone.

So he's either got to 'companion with'

A) US, the people

or

B) The corporations and the top 1%'ers

Let's make it easiest for him to 'companion with' us, "the people"

Peace,
M_Y_H

[proud patriot]

9. I love that last one , really made me think of MLK's dream

I'm so hopeful.

[DeSwiss]

12. Yes, me too.

[malaise]

11. Lovely thread

That smiling little girl gazing at him speaks volumes.

[DeSwiss]

13. That one's my favorite too....