Here's an intersting take:
A cathartic moment, a sudden change of vista and a vision of hope -- the election of Barack Obama as the next US president was all these things, despite some ominous signs of things to come, writes Hamid Dabashi* (Published in Cairo.)
Ultimately, I voted for Obama for all the right reasons, reasons that in the course of the grueling presidential campaign were turned upside down and turned into causes not to vote for him. I voted for Obama because the noble anger of Malcolm X resonates gently in his two books ( Audacity of Hope and Dreams from my Father ), and no matter how hard he now tries to conceal the cadences of Malcolm's voice and speech patterns we can still hear the Muslim revolutionary emerge from under Obama's sweet and gentle demeanour.
I VOTED FOR OBAMA because for two long and formative decades he was graced by the prophetic voice of Jeremiah Wright, the liberation theologian who lent Obama the title of his book -- "The Audacity of Hope" -- and preached to him in the abiding moral voice of a nation in search of its better angels. I voted for Barack Obama for the courage he once had to seek the company of Bill Ayers, the defiant voice of the Civil Rights Movement, whom John McCain and Sarah Palin called a "domestic terrorist." If Bill Ayers once saw something in Obama worthy of his friendship, then there must have once been something good in Obama...
ACKKK! Who the he!! is that sick (deleted bad words)??? I am a gentle vegetarian ahimsa practicing ol’ lady (yes I am actually MRS lj) but reading that vile stinking crap makes me want to find a weapon and beat that (deleted bad words) until he stops breathing and his heart is broken into many pieces. I have to get away from my computer right now for my mental health and blood pressure.
You are a saint that you find this stuff, it takes guts and determination, the world needs to know that truth about the jackal who fraudulently “won” the election and the evil people who support him and indeed, pull his strings.
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