Feeling It

There are a lot of folks who don't like Obama. He scares them and I don't think it is always for the reasons they may be verbalizing. I don't know how Obama will fare in this unstable situation. The truth is nobody really does. I hope the nation does not forget it is time for us to stay informed and aware and vocal. Most of all I hope we can begin to participate more actively in making the world a better place by taking more responsibility for ourselves and our own country.

I don't pretend to be a political scholar, but I have found that the thing I can trust the most is how a person makes me feel when I hear them speak or see their body language in action. Nobody is perfect but I can say that on my personal barometer the man keeps registering as authentic.

Authentic is good, intelligence and maturity to go with it is even better and just what this country needs after 8 years of George Junior.

I found this article by Laurence Tribe, one of Barack Obama's Harvard Law School Professors, this evening and this is what he has to say about Barack Obama:

As the decade progressed, the most impressive student I had ever taught was quietly pursuing his own political trajectory. In 1989, I had met Barack Obama and hired him as my research assistant while he was still just a first-year Harvard law student. His stunning combination of analytical brilliance and personal charisma, openness and maturity, vision and pragmatism, was unmistakable from my very first encounter with the future president.

For all those who mock the worlds enthusiasm at our choosing Obama and the change he represents, you might note that it is not lost on the rest of the world how our power reverberates in their Universe and even for all our handouts and lip service to the less fortunate of the world, they have been wondering why we, American Citizens, allow our leaders make a mockery of our American ideals.

No one is unaware at this point that the chickens of our past have come back to roost on our future. I remember wondering a decade ago what would happen if our country did not start to live by our ideals instead of hiding behind them. Sometimes I think we are the only ones who believe the lies we tell ourselves anymore.

I just hope those among us who can't live in a world without someone to hate don't succeed in messing this up for the rest of us.

Peace Y'all