Nancy has me up in arms – again. The AstroTurf comment just keeps replaying in my head, right behind Michelle’s speech from UCLA on Feb. 3, 2008. The comments from Maria at the end helped a lot also. Glen Beck inserted a clip in his broadcast, so as a responsible citizen, I went to you tube and discovered the entire UCLA rally and spent over an hour watching, listening and copying word for word what she said. I found it quite inspiring. Take note and apply her words to your own thinking….
“When power is confronted with real change they will say anything.”
I believe we are seeing that come to light today. I may be blinded by my own point of view (as we all are) – but I really don’t recall the past administrations name calling when they were confronted by protesters – if fact George Bush’s responses seemed along the lines of – this is a great country and every citizen is entitled to voice their opinion. I don’t recall him ever making fun of the protester with the type of sarcasm that I have seen from this administration ( see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPBqyQjTNqQ - Obama To 'Folks Waving Tea Bags Around' : "Let's Not Play Games"), or Nancy Pelosi calling them AstroTurf, Harry Reid, Barbara (call me Senator) Boxer, …. The list goes on, and on and on.
Michelle goes on..
“The truth is, America CAN handle the truth”It would be nice to hear some truth right about now.
“But sometimes we don’t know what the truth looks like, 'cuz we haven’t seen it in such a long time.”Now ain't that the truth.
“We say we’re ready for change, but change is hard. Change will always be hard, and it doesn'tt happen from the top down.”It sure feels to me like they are trying to make changes from the top down.
I think the middle class, and common sense folks have just started rolling up our sleeves.“We don’t get universal health care, we don’t get better schools because somebody else is in the White House. We get change ecause folks from the grassroots up decide they’re sick and tired of other people telling them how their lives will be when they decide to roll up their sleeves and work.”
"And Barack will require you to work. He is going to demand that you shed your cynicism. That you put down your division. That your come out of your isolation. That your move out of your comfort zone. That you push yourselves to be better and that you engage. Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual, uninvolved, uninformed. You have to stay the the seat of the table of democracy with a man like Barack Obama. Not just on Tuesday, but it a year from now, in 4 years from now, in 8 years from now. You
will have to be engaged. You will have to be engaged and we are gonna need you. I hold no level of fear in this race because I have no expectation that we are doing this alone. We will need all of you standing with us, praying with us, working with us every step of the way because that is how change happens in this country.”
However when we (me – yes I admit it fully and completely) the uninvolved, the uninformed and the unengaged finally do get engaged they mock us with sarcasm and name calling.
There is a quote that comes to mind from our history when someone tried to destroy America from inside our borders.
“ I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.”
Barack and Michelle should be quite proud, they have done more for this country in six months than any republican has since Jimmy and done it much better and much stronger.
As the uninformed, uninvolved, unengaged lower end middle class, under educated, nothing special (white chick from the democrat Hispanic New Mexico school district, raised by both parents - both working in order to make just enough money to live paycheck to paycheck – but too much money to get any help – aka a product of affirmative action). You know us losers who weigh the value of get a job or get an education. Debt was the lowest form of accomplishment in our family. You got a car when you had cash and debt was only for a mortgage or a major emergency. The fridge burnt out – and the food is gonna spoil. Ice chests can only go so far. Sorry – back from the rant….
Back to the pride of Barack – it takes a lot to get my dead ass off the couch and into this blog o sphere world, getting informed, researching and OMG say it isn’t so - considering getting involved and going to meet with these people who are supposed to be working for me.
As for the AstroTurf comment Nancy – thanks… it’s true. I don’t need your fertilizer (aka BS) to grow – so quit throwing it. Grass needs fertilizer (B.S.)
Back to the UCLA rally with Maria Schriver, she opens up by shout out’s to all parties running for president and the spouses. She goes on about follow your own voice and your own truth, moments in life and then brings it around to:
“If Barack Obama were a state he’d be California.”
I would definitely agree with that, I did my 2 year stint there. I’m allowed to agree.
She continues:
“Think about it, he’s diverse, open, smart, independent, bucks tradition, innovative, inspiring, dreamer, leader. Not about himself, about us. He brings people together.”
He’s bringing people together alright.
Then she goes on to explain the end of a Hopi Indian prayer:
“We are the ones we have been waiting for.”
So that’s where that came from – now I know.
So speaking truth to power is OK when it’s their truth, when it’s my truth I’m AstroTurf.
We are empowered and proud when we follow our own voice when it is an echo of the Obama machine – we’re hecklers if the sound is not to their liking.
New topic:
Character Counts – brought to us 16 years ago by the Clintons. Remember all those billboards and commercials, and the priority of character in schools. The year was 1993, and they still act like characters instead of getting some.
Obama likes to say “This is not about me.” Damn right it’s not about you bucky – it’s about us. He needs to let all his groupies (Pelosie, Reid, Boxer, Hoyer…etc) know. They keep saying the angry mobs are about attacking him. We know it’s not about him – it’s about us and our rights.
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