Posts Tagged ‘barack obama’

thousand word thursday

In images, life on 22 January 2009 tagged barack obama, finally, inauguration, thursday with no comments

finally.  hope springs eternal.

hope

In life, words on 20 January 2009 tagged barack obama, hope with 4 comments

i’m filled with hope today as i watch my country welcome a new president. hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul, and sings the tune–without the words, and never stops at all, and sweetest in the gale is heard; and sore must be the storm that could abash the little bird [...]

change is good

In life, quotes, words on 5 November 2008 tagged barack obama, change, election, victory speech with 3 comments

this is our time, to put our people back to work and open doors of opportunity for our kids; to restore prosperity and promote the cause of peace; to reclaim the american dream and reaffirm that fundamental truth, that, out of many, we are one; that while we breathe, we hope. and where we are [...]

seven days to go

In life on 28 October 2008 tagged barack obama, democrat, vote with no comments

and i endorse barack obama. 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 [...]