--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" <rick@> wrote: > > > > Article by a friend of mine, who used to be in the TMO, > > about Obama: > > http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3518573,00.html > > Very nice. Someone who perceives on the level > of energy and not the silly thinking, media- > indoctrinated mind. > > Obama personifies that which his detractors > fear -- hope. > > All that the detractors have to offer is fear. > Read their posts. Pay attention. All that they > have to offer is the same old same old. > > And fear that it could be different.
This, my friends, is what's known as a thought- stopper, the favorite tool of those who fear thoughtful consideration of their pronouncements. (And how exceedingly peculiar to include Hillary Clinton supporters in the category of those who are afraid of things being different! You could write a very similar essay about a Hillary Clinton presidency, except that it would be more than half the world's population who would be inspired and empowered by it.) Hope is not what Obama's detractors fear (at least not those among them who are progressives). There's nothing to fear about hope, and change is needed desperately. What Obama's progressive detractors fear is that he lacks commitment to progressive goals, and that the hopey-changey mantra is just a tactic for getting elected with nothing solid behind it. We fear that he will be a bitter, crashing disappointment to those who have invested so much of themselves in his candidacy. We fear that they have been deceived, and that, in fact, all *he* has to offer is same old, same old, that he is neither interested in nor capable of bringing about the transformation his candidacy has been peddling.
