DesertJoy
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15 years ago @ Change.gov - New challenges, new op... · 0 replies · +3 points
15 years ago @ Change.gov - New challenges, new op... · 3 replies · 0 points
I agree. I thought this thread was about goals for 2009. I will say, however, that any words from Rick Warren will probably be forgotten by the time Barack Obama delivers his inaugural address and Rev. Lowry finishes the benediction. You all remember Rev. Lowry, don't you? He's the one who offered these words at Correta Scott King's funeral:
"We know now there were no weapons of mass destruction over there. But Coretta knew and we know that there are weapons of misdirection right down here. Millions without health insurance. Poverty abounds. For war billions more but no more for the poor!"
I think we need to focus on President Obama's plans to save our the middle class. Without its middle class, there is little hope for anyone else in this great nation.
15 years ago @ Change.gov - New challenges, new op... · 8 replies · +2 points
I love the idea of conflict resolution. Isn't it one of the primary tenants that the mediator not take sides?
15 years ago @ Change.gov - New challenges, new op... · 3 replies · +1 points
Also (here I go nitpicking...sorry) it is my fervent hope that, beginning in this new year of 2009, the phrase "under the bus" could be run over by a fleet of Greyhounds and hauled off to the junkyard of overused cliche's. Now, there's a resolution for you to work on mark.
15 years ago @ Change.gov - New challenges, new op... · 0 replies · +2 points
15 years ago @ Change.gov - New challenges, new op... · 23 replies · +3 points
I have a much better feeling starting off this new year than I've had in quite some time.
One of my resolutions for 2009 is not to get sucked into petty and sometimes hateful bickering. It's high time we lift our collective nation out of the muck and get on with the business that effects each and every one of us. This is how I interpreted the CHANGE message of Barack Obama. It's up to each and every one of us.
In the words of Ghandi: "BE the CHANGE you want to see in the world."
15 years ago @ Change.gov - Happy Holidays! | Chan... · 3 replies · 0 points