Too much money is the root of stupidity
We equate money with success even though their is no logic to that kind of thinking when the world is such a mess and rich people made it that way. If money meant intelligence, the world would be perfect because there’s plenty of money everywhere you look. But the truth is money makes life easy for those who have it. Easy living encourages weakness and ignorance. Our economy actually grew out of monasteries in the late first millennium where people from wealthy and powerful families who were highly educated took vows of poverty and went on missions into lands with little or no resources where they were forced to invent ways to build churches and support new flocks of poverty stricken followers with little or no support from the outside world. Much of the technical advancements that lead to the industrial revolution got their meager beginnings out of those early Christian movements. And it didn’t work when their monasteries were corrupted by money. The flight to new and unchartered lands in the Americas was driven by the same kind of incentive that lead to the building of the modern world we live in that is now being corrupted by the same kinds of wealth that prevented many early monasteries from being successful.
Barack Obama is a natural born leader
We have the answers to all our problems if they are allowed to be given a voice as loud as our Constitution allows for them to be. I hope Barack Obama understands this aged old and now renewed concept of freedom through honest government and that he doesn’t try to legislate us out of this depression. It won’t work. We need leadership, not to be governed. It was government that brought us here. We simply need to be lead back where we came from and shown where the paths we missed that would have avoided us coming here are.
I know Barack Obama can lead. He just has to keep doing the great things he did in his campaign, reasoning through his talk and actions in a way that moves our hearts and minds. It’s all we need. It’s not about what the Democratic party needs to give us or what needs to be taken away from the Republicans. It’s what we all need from Barack Obama, something this country hasn’t seen in a long time. Of course some of us need to be moved out of the way but a cleared path to an honest and prosperous future is all we need, that and a continuous diet of Barack Obama’s encouraging words and acts of support that seem to come from his heart, not from his advisors or script writers.
If he can do that, he will have accomplished what no other leader ever has. But if he compromises it in favor of politics, his voice will weaken where his legacy will end, if he is lucky, with simply having bettered the world. From where we sit now, anything good from the White House will be better. But we deserve to go back to where the Bush family started replacing our hopes and dreams with idiocy, greed, and the worst corruption mankind has ever seen. We need to start over with a clean slate like Ronald Reagan left us before the Bush family used his coattails to take it all away from us. The end of the cold war, the booming economy, it was all there and they squandered it. Now look at us, all we have left is hope, which before the presidential election ended, that was gone as well. But the election results bring hope for a new future no matter how Barack Obama chooses to use his new found success. I’m hoping for a kind of vision and leadership never dreamed of before by free men and women.
Our founding fathers got half the vision right after being taught by a corrupt king what they wanted from life and government. But they still had slaves and didn’t see the true value in women. Obama is not descended from slaves. He’s also just as white as he is Black. But he knows what it’s like to be born a hundred percent of a man and then have half of it persecuted away from him for no reason other than white people have traditionally done this to Black people. Perhaps it’s better this way. Maybe there would be more a sense of justice with his being elected if he had been descended from slaves. But then he wouldn’t be Barack Obama who touches all of our hearts in ways that opens up new dimensions for where the future can take us.
Perhaps it’s impossible for ex-slaves or ex-slavers to master the art of reason the way Barack Obama has. Whatever the answer is, I am grateful for today and these kind words a Black man I was inspired to write. I can’t imagine what I would have said if McCain had won. But I’m sure they would not have been publishable. We need change and we have it. Under Barack Obama’s leadership, I believe every day will bring hope for more of the same.
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