When I began this blog in 2001, I was appalled by President Bush's headlong rush to an illegal war (we were not in fact under attack). As time wore on and Bush began his assault on the Constitution and any people bold enough to criticize, I believed that "the republic is endangered more by actions of our own government than by those of any terrorist." With the election of a high-minded, compassionate, intelligent man like Barack Obama, my fears have ceased.
"Honor them with peace, not war"
United for Peace
Wednesday, November 05, 2008
I am nearly speechless with amazement and joy at the election of Barack Obama. Last night I wept again and again as I read the returns online (don't have a tv)
This whole decade has seemed emotionally barren and cold. Bush turned his back on America's allies around the world and on the American people as well.
Reading a N.Y.Times article today about the outpouring of joy and happiness and hope around the world started me weeping again.
Bush seems to have put a lot of effort into alienating most of the world from us. There was a time when I hoped others- the French or the British, perhaps - would rescue us from him. It's quite clear now that we had to rescue ourselves -- and we have done it! Thank you America, and thank you President Obama!
Copyright © 2001-03 Pam Shorey
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I am nearly speechless with amazement and joy at the election of Barack Obama. Last night I wept again and again as I read the returns online (don't have a tv)
This whole decade has seemed emotionally barren and cold. Bush turned his back on America's allies around the world and on the American people as well.
Reading a N.Y.Times article today about the outpouring of joy and happiness and hope around the world started me weeping again.
PARIS – Barack Obama's election as America's first black president unleashed a renewed love for the United States after years of dwindling goodwill, and many said Wednesday that U.S. voters had blazed a trail that minorities elsewhere could follow...
In Indonesia, where Obama lived as child, hundreds of students at his former elementary school erupted in cheers when he was declared winner and poured into the courtyard where they hugged each other, danced in the rain and chanted "Obama! Obama!"...
'This is the fall of the Berlin Wall times ten,' Rama Yade, France's black junior minister for human rights, told French radio. 'America is re-becoming a New World.'...
...'At a time when we have to confront immense challenges together, your election raises great hopes in France, in Europe and in the rest of the world,' French President Nicolas Sarkozy said in a congratulations letter to Obama....
Poland's Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski spoke of 'a new America with a new credit of trust in the world.'
-- NY Times, By JOHN LEICESTER, Associated Press Writer, "Obama victory sparks cheers around the world"
Bush seems to have put a lot of effort into alienating most of the world from us. There was a time when I hoped others- the French or the British, perhaps - would rescue us from him. It's quite clear now that we had to rescue ourselves -- and we have done it! Thank you America, and thank you President Obama!
Palema
3:56 PM
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