yes, we can . . . blah, blah, blah

As if you didn't believe it, you gasp and cry in the amazement of the reality that it "actually happened."  Or, perhaps it was relief that it actually came to pass ... this dream you so hoped would become a reality.  Perhaps this is why I did not vote for Obama. 

And now as so many are beginning to chant:



I don't know, and I realize that I am strange ... and PLEASE don't get me wrong, I'm thrilled Obama won, I knew he would the moment he won Iowa.  And, I did participate in making history as I voted for a candidate who also happened to be black and happened to be female:  Cynthia McKinney.  She was the Green party candidate who actually really represented the kind of change I believe we need to make now. 

I realize that Obama DOES represent a kind of change we may only be ready to recognize now, one that many people had to simply experience it to confirm it for themselves, that, yes, it is indeed true ... and so I am happy that has happened.

To be honest, for me, it didn't matter who won ... first, I already knew Obama would win barring thievery on such a grand scale it could not be covered-up.  But, on all my key issues, the main one being:  using violence to resolve conflict, both the red and blue were the same ... I saw no substantive change he was offering.  Obama is going to continue down the same path we are on, only in a different way ... which I suppose is good enough for now.


Unless Obama opens up a discussion about and addresses:

1. the spread of disaster capitalism principles throughout the world
2. the perpetuation of the use of violence to resolve conflicts
3. the expansion of the debt-based economy to the global infrastructure (such as is being formed in the Security & Prosperity Partnership aka the American Union), and
4. the nearly non-existent individual and states rights and re-integration of Constitutional rights and values in America

Ok, so he's raspberry gelato instead of pistachio ice cream and boy, we were tired of pistachio and we are highly lactose intolerant!   Yes, it is historic ... but once we get over that ... what kind of change are we going to lead him to take?


Most people are not inherently racist and in our nation today, within the walls of the majority of people's minds, we know and understand the truth of equality amongst people.  And, for those who may have been slightly challenged by the programmed racism that still exists today, the truth of the unsustainability of our future was so real, people voted for whatever straw of change that was being offered.

With the complete black-out of other voices of real change coming from major political parties such as the Green Party and the Independent Party, and the system of control the ruling party, a singular entity comprised of the Republicans and Democrats, has here in America:  you mush ask yourself honestly ...


It is like teaching children only how to add and subtract ... without ever teaching them the way to exponentially calculate using mulitiplication or division.

 ... but as I sat and watched the silent tears come down my husband's face and I asked "why are you crying?" and he responded, "I just really can't believe this is real."  *Knowing* the truth:  anything is possible; and *Understanding* that truth is a definite line that many Americans crossed in this election.  We now not just understand this possibility, we UNDERSTAND its reality ... Shakti Gwain teaches much about this in his teachings on visualization.  A shift has happened in America with this election.

The day my daughter was born, I had to UNDERSTAND what Obama's mother understood ... not "yes, maybe you can"; but "yes, you can" without question, without doubt, without wishing, without hoping and without dreaming.  Possibility became reality in her small body ... right then and there.

My daughter was just under 2 years old when I introduced her to the White House . . . as I watched her toddling around in front of the residence, I told her, "baby, if you ever want to live there ... I will do whatever it takes to make that reality for you."

I think we really need to take a look at ourselves and see if we are REALLY still only ready for addition and subtraction ... or whether we can help Obama be the real change we need using higher math than what he had to use in order to secure his position in the White House.

I don't know if he is capable of leading me and others like me who see the path to REAL CHANGE.  But, given the tenor of his acceptance speech and the words I heard him speak, I have faith in him ... what I question is  ... now that you UNDERSTAND that we are past the critical mass of this simple mundane, outdated and obsolete belief that race is a limitation ... and proof of that is nice ...



Who is willing to voice our truth and challenge ourselves to rise above even the historic measure of what has been accomplished ... Obama cannot lead where the people are not ready to go.  But, I do believe Obama will take us there if we tell him we're ready for more and we are ready to do the work he has asked each of us to do to help us get there!


peace & harmony,
elaine
'freedom must be exercised to stay in shape!'