The first lady of America holds more power in her hand than you know. Yes we all know how women can manipulate their men, but this has nothing to do with that. Michelle has managed to captivate the hearts of the world now that they have all given her a chance. She has gone from “unpatriotic” following the distorted sound bytes of her “For the first time.. I’m proud of my country” speech, to become one of the most beloved Americans ever. It all came from her, back down to the unprecedented hugging of the Queen. Oh Michelle, my belle!
Michelle
Mighty is the power of America’s first lady
It’s not because of her status through the Presidency
Cause many before her has held this place
Her power transcends marriage status, creed and race
Eras have passed and we’ve never seen a close facsimile
Listens to the aristocrat and the layman equally
Loves her Nation and its children in a very special way
Even though she’ll be busy, I pray her a Blessed Mother’s Day!
This WILL be very short! I have very little time! In fact, I shouldn't be takin' these moments.
But I want to be sure that ALL REPRESENTING the "Barack Contingent" get their opportunity to show up for "The Event" being held on This Friday Night, April 17th, 5pm-7pm. Your attendance, while not "MANDITORY", Would say much about the quality of folks I hang with HERE! And I like to show off my Obama "peeps"!
Details as to how to sign up (and how to get here!) are in previous posts!
ADDITIONALLY I am including a link that takes you DIRECTLY to my CarePage blog. It is:
www.carepages.com/carepages/HealingThroughHumor you can also join THAT SITE, and I HOPE you do! I have learned to love the word, "HOPE"! It is hope that got us a President in which we can be proud! In him, and our own selves! I literally would not be alive today, were it not for that "HOPE"! I just tested the link...you'll have to cut and paste, as it doesn't seem to be directly linking. It IS CASE SENSITIVE, so bear that in mind!
Thank you for your support and all you do for you, our President and his wonderful family, and listening to me rant, often "on and on"!
That's all I have!
Steven =)
Ain't she SWEET? We all know the tune...sing along! (see her walkin' down the (now heavily guarded) street/ the kind of girl I'd like to meet/ Ain't she sweet!)
I never before really cared about "First Laidies" until Michelle burst upon the scene. All of the recent ones, with the exception of Hillary, seemed to be either NUTS (witness Barbara!) or hoplessly shallow (you'd have to be to put up with "43"...a number to which he couldn't count; which has been scientifically proven; and we ALL know how much they held science close to their hearts!)
I, of course, cannot bring any of the First Ladies from Jackie-O back into the fray, as THEY all had class and even inluence!
It took me a while but here is a link to Michelle Obama's full speech to the students in London. It is 16 minutes in length.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/7982563.stm
Did everyone call their local Representatives yet? If not, get on the stick! We all worked hard to get Barack elected; votin' for him isn't enough in today's world. We are MORE than obligated to do more than sit on that vote!
We must, as vocally as possible, SUPPORT THE VISION for which we voted! And if that means using some cell phone minutes, so be it!
Barack is speaking right now "across the pond", as they say! Strange to see an "American Style Town Hall Meeting" taking place in a foreign country.
Obamas Prepare to Plant White House Vegetable Garden - NYTimes.comSource: www.nytimes.com
Michelle Obama is planning the first such garden since Eleanor Roosevelt’s victory garden in World War II.
Stephen Crowley/The New York Times Sam Kass, left, an assistant White House chef, and Dale Haney, a White House gardener, at the site of a new vegetable garden on the South Lawn.
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BLOG January 30, 2009. If you want to see an awesome picture of the inaugurational address, please check out Photographer David Bergman who is putting the “aweeeeeee luckie here” in a photo:
http://www.davidbergman.net/blog/2009/01/22/how-i-made-a-1474-megapixel-photo-during-president-obamas-inaugural-address/
I was totally surprise to find this little gem. He took a gigapan imager that consists of 220 shots all integrated into one enormous photograph. In his own words:
“My final photo is made up of 220 Canon G10 images and the file is 59,783 X 24,658 pixels or 1,474 megapixels. It took more than six and a half hours for the Gigapan software to put together all of the images on my Macbook Pro and the completed TIF file is almost 2 gigabytes.”
You can use the controls to zoom and pan around the photo.
You can also double click to zoom in and double click again to get even closer and see the scene in amazing detail and clarity.
And you can see close-up the expressions of your favorite — and least favorite — politicians and dignitaries as Obama makes his inaugural address.
After viewing this for over 30 minutes, I found the picture will take you into the crowd that is so vivid you will get to feeling of the largeness of the audience, expressions on people’s faces, and an instant in time. I’m sure you’ll never think of a photograph as “just another shot again”. The high resolution was astounding to me. The shot is also for sale framed, with and without the logo and in full color! I encourage you to go see this for yourself. ---- Minerva
January 20, 2009- A day that will forever live in my heart as the day the United States of America decided to reclaim its rightful place as the leader of the free world. When I looked at my television and saw the mass of people waiting eagerly to see Barack Hussein Obama be sworn in as the 44th President- I could not help but think how blessedly ironic that moment was.
There they were at the Capitol- a place that was built by enslaved Africans watching a decendent of those same Africans swear before God that he would faithfully fulfill the duties of the office of the president of the United States.
There they were watching the man look out over the reflecting pool;the same pool that inspired a mass of people to come out in 1963 to hear the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr give his eloquent and timeless "I Have a Dream" speech.
There they were looking at people like Rep. John Lewis- a man who literally was beaten within an inch of his life just because he had the audacity to want Black people to have the same civil rights as White people.
It is a new day people! We have been give all the encouragement and inpiration we need. We cannot stop, we cannot rest. Our task is too great, our target too large. We must continue what was started with generations before us that decided that enough was enough. We must be the change that we seek!
American Politics has managed to reach a new low in World History. We have been shamed as a Nation, and diminished as a people before the World under the reckless guidance and administration of the 109th and 110th Congress, and the Bush Administration. We have endured through two questionable elections that went unchallenged which led us into a historic financial World Crisis, and an awakening.
Our Trusted News Media abandoned us, spinning confusion and deception which divided us and pitted neighbor against neighbor, State against State. They eliminated the purity of the White which has ever-bound the Red and the Blue together as one, raising walls between Republican and Democrat neighbors that must now be torn down.
The world couldn’t see that we Americans lived under a shadow of fear and neglect through the Media’s caustic webs. The world couldn’t know that we were under a Domestic Assault by corporate interests, until the world’s populations discovered we were all victims of a government sanctioned unbridled greed.
But the corporate interests that disrupted the world’s Global Economy got too reckless. Wall Street executives and Bankers rushed too quickly to cash in on the people’s suffering, and boldly entered into a Contract with an angry Nation. Then they promised “transparency” and reneged on the agreement only months into the transaction.
When our Federal Government failed us, our State and local Government Officials and Boards of Directors failed to protect us too. They ignored the pleas of the people and the Experts that didn’t agree with their own personal Experts. They demonstrated a consistency of putting their own personal prosperity above their own people’s welfare, our fearless leaders fearlessly hiding behind the Privilege of their elected offices.
Out of the gloom came Barack Obama, who had the audacity to speak of Hope in the face of the growing despair. And the prominent Politicians and the News personalities laughed at him. But the whispers of hope would not be drowned out by the laughter.
We saw the hope in a mother’s eyes, in our First Lady Michelle Obama, the image of strength, intelligence and grace. We witnessed the resurrection of a dream in the eyes of our people, and saw the light of hope cast back the shadow of fear hanging over us.
We were told if we dared to believe in Change, Barack could take us all the way to the White House, and hope flourished into new-found friendships and a new awareness of unity, determination and civic duty. Against all the odds, in the face of this enormous crisis, we won the election and took our Country back. Now President Barack Obama is in Washington, and with him is the good will of the American People.
We have our President and Team Obama but, there is so much work to be done. The last eight years have been traumatic, and cries for Justice against the transgressions by the Rogue Bush Administration and their pals are growing. We need not worry, there is nowhere for them to go.
We told President Obama that we would trust him, and at the first difficult decision he was faced with, in regards to the Bush investigations, he has already been criticized. We all feel the anger, we all feel betrayed but, we have to give the Obama Administration the ability to make those decisions if they are to have a chance to succeed.
We need to stay focused on the Change, on restoring the damage our Country has suffered. Team Obama cannot stand alone against our corrupted Congress. We must use the Call to Service to work swiftly and challenge any obstacles who try to keep us from moving forward.
We need to continue organizing and get to those who have yet to get involved. Our President needs us to stand by him, and behind those Public Servants who are standing with us. All across this Country there are many Public Servants who have been blocked by partisanship who need our help too. We have more friends in Government than it appears.
We can’t lose sight that there are many Americans still suffering at the hands of corporate interests. There are homeless families that need us, and our precious World War II generation has been tragically abandoned. Thousands are barely hanging on to their homes while the Mortgage companies are refusing to help them. We are involved in two wars, and our Soldiers and their Commanders have been disastrously neglected. Our wounded Soldiers continue to be neglected as well by an antiquated system. It’s long past time to Show them that their Country is behind them.
We Americans have been through times like this before. These are indeed bad times but, we have endured through the misery of the Status Quo until it shattered itself and exposed the big Conspiracy to be nothing more than a self-perceived Ruling Class, and their utter contempt for their own people. Well, they don’t need to love us. They just need to serve us.
We have also seen from the World’s reaction to the election of President Obama, that it wasn’t America that the world hated. Our global friends and neighbors remember who we are and want Americans to succeed. And from the world we have learned that what makes our Country great isn’t uniquely an American thing. It is a shared human quest that lives among all people. A quest that believes there must be a place in the world where hope and dreams and prosperity can be the birthright of all people, and that one day, that birthright can belong to them and exist within their Home Countries.
We now find ourselves in a new age of technologies that is initiating a New World Culture, in which the world’s populations have a shared interaction and a voice. There is a free exchange of ideas and culture that is redefining the established Media bias of distrust between Nations. With the new technologies we are organizing, and we are also re-establishing Journalism in a new tradition, one that can be trusted by the people, a New Age interactive Journalism that can be easily sourced and verified.
The Global Markets have also opened up opportunities that have yet to be explored in developing new Industries and re-establishing the old. The middle executives have been discarded by the top executives into the melting pot. New networks of entrepreneurs from around the world are free to spawn a new era of growth, while the old Icons of Business blunder their way to ruin. And the corporations who take care of their workers will be favored above the rest by consumers.
The Chronicles of History are no longer the providence of conquering powers or Media historians. In this age, the Chronicles of History are the providence of technology, owned by none and belonging to all. It is continually being recorded by the witnesses of our time by the most unprecedented intercommunication in human history. The story of our time is being recorded every minute of every day, amidst the multitudes of posts on Web Forums and Feature sites, in text messages and in personal Blogs. History is being recorded by you.
The Representatives of Government may write their hundreds of books to shape their own Legacies. And the world will respond with their hundreds of millions of unique perspectives for the future Historians to study in retrospect.
P. G. Rose
Breakthrough
By
Robert Ferrell
A little over four hundred years ago in a hot cotton field an already drained tired old woman dropped a seed of blood from her dried hard hands into the soiled dirt of mother Earth. No tears, no fears. The blood like the old woman refused to cry and die in the blistering sun. Instead it soaked and steadily rolled deep into its mother never to stop never to wait for death was not a fate.
Somewhere on the same plain under another owners name was another slave, feeling the burn from the crack of the whip being ripped from his back. And if that isn’t enough pain the word nigger replacing his African name by a man of another complexion. No shock here that a tear or two full of hopes and dreams rolled off his hot salty face and drill themselves into the calm sands. As he prays that his children somewhere in this unknown land don’t feel the same affliction.
Not calm for long is this unfertile dirt as the tears and the red seed that moved constantly finally meet in the underneath. Never a fight between mother and father, as they began to composite with one another deep down in their mother. After some time in the dirt’s clutches a root of Will broke through. It seems that through all the infinite numbers of tears. Tears of hope, and fight from above began to find ways to seep through the significantly thick pavement being poured on top layer after layer.
Through all the turmoil above the rapes, beatings, lynching, mutilations, bombings, and assassinations, was a loud thought that echoed deep into the grains causing the root to feed rapidly. In time the root replied to this thought but not by sound. Not by the speeches not by the violence. The root was never judgmental of the two. For they never out weighed each other in their time of struggle. The root heard the calling from the two. The root heard the songs being sung while marching, and felt the pressure from the hoses, and the teeth of the protected German Shepherds break through the skin of the young men and women. The root felt the tremble of the body that fell in the Audubon auditorium for bringing meaning to the phrase “by any means necessary”.
As the root began to feed on these acts and ideals it grew a stem that started to push itself through the cracks of the controversial pavement. The bottom from which the root came softened from the resurrection of the tears of hopes and dreams and the Will carried by the seed.
Yet after overcoming all those obstacles the seed still toils to get through the gravel. The sharp edges of laughter pointed at a young black man who has the audacity to think he can become a senator let alone the idiocy to dream of being a presidential nominee.
The summer of two thousand and eight is just about over and the stem inched its way above the blistering pavement. Now the sun that harassed the seed so long ago finds itself supporting the seeds beliefs. The senators’ peers no longer laugh, but cast a ballot under his name on their behalf.
A little over four hundred years ago a fearless seed was planted and hopes and dreams nourished it. The dreams became a belief and the hopes were raised to a promise. On a cold night in November two thousand and eight something unspoken had taken place. The stem grew a leaf when it was expected to freeze. That young senator now a little older stands center stage on a cold night in Chicago. That little stem flexed its roots and broadened its stance.
All these roots, all the martyrs, and all this pain endured by so many others, hint a grin to one another of the sacrifice put forth along the way. Now today is a breakthrough that is our honor to speak his name by stating first “the forty-fourth president of the United States of America”. A country shouted the word “change!” and now the world speaks his new name. President Barack Hussein Obama, the man who has challenged a planet of many to think about the single leaf growing on a very young tree in need of company.
Hello Group! I just got invited to join by my new friend Mary Nickum...I love and adore Michelle and I don't use that kind of language in my everyday life...I can't wait to see how she transforms the "First Female" thing...I expect she will play it very, very safe for at least her first term...still, whatever she does will be amazing because that's just who she is...
I also am kind of in love with Sasha & Malia, but I hope Michelle keeps the press out of their lives as much as possible...it will be better for them not to be hounded...
Madama
Makiah's Bill
NOW, that WE have children in the White House, let's make 'the children' the nation's TOP PRIORITY, as they are in Barack and Michelle's life.
Let's be a part of the integral age, while surfing the agriculture, industrial, information, conceptual, integral, magic and utopian ages. Let's ALL be part of the Dream Team, of playing the ultimate game of life.
Let's get Makiah's Bill on every desktop of every congressman, senator and the President of the United States of America. This is a TOP PRIORITY bill coming from the bottom UP...Let's start the NEW Year, January 20th 2009 with the world's highest priority, the children.
makiah.com
I've been here in Nevada for almost a week from California. I'm here in Nevada to help re-enforce change as we did in California. Would you believe that I'm disabled? However, as in life, we have to fight like our life depends on it and not get too comfortable.
We are turning Nevada blue with much determination. I got a chance to see Senator Obama and Michelle on separate occasions while here working. I was sad to hear of Obama's Grandmother on the day Michelle was here and our blessings and heart goes out to them. They are both amazing and I know they will be great leaders for the United States of America. We all know that it has been such a challenge for people with disabilities dealing with our meds and healthcare. Let's all help bring this win home and make this the United States we all love, especially those with disablilites!!!
YES WE CAN!!
Please be inspired by this video we made in California:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2E8DYDbHxUs
Tracy Hardy-Mosbey
As a member of this website, I would to take this opportunity to congratulate Senator Obama for allowing me to follow him on his incredibly long journey to arrive at this spot today.On a more somber note, I would like to publicly offer my sincerest, heartfelt sympathy on learning of the passing of his dear grandmother, Mrs. Madelyn Lee Payne Dunham, affectionately known as "Toot".God knows that I had been routing for her to endure to see the outcome of Barack's remarkable Presidential journey but only God knows the hour or the day that we will be called home.To Barack, the fond memories will stay with you forever and with God's help and time your heart will feel less heavy.
O my Jesus, forgive us our sins, save us from the fires of hell, lead all souls to heaven, especially those most in need of Thy mercy.
I love you and the peace and love of God be with you today and always. In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost.
