To those who equate this movement with that movement...

[mirrera]

I have to speak up.
This is in reference to the video called "The Movement" which overlays Obama and crowds of inspired young people juxtaposed with the young people who got caught up in the Weather Underground movement. I am not sure what the message is supposed to be, but I suspect it is fear based. I was a flower child/hippie during that time. The younger sister— too young to have close friends in Vietnam— but old enough to party at the anti-war rallies. Hillary took part in all that too, so let us be proud of what that generation did. Let Newt Gingrich fight that 60s fight, but not us. Hillary denouncing Barack for his association with Ayers is ludicrous with her history. Kind of like Bush challenging Kerry's war record.

I did not want to leave a comment on the video thread because I hope it sinks like a stone. If this is the direction the Republicans go I will not be surprised and we need to band together to fight it for our very survival. if this is the direction that Hillary supporters want to go they should look to Clintons rich and admirable record during the turbulent times in which the Weather Underground, the Black Panthers, the assassinations, etc. took place.

We are indeed at the beginning of a revolution, however it is not the same one, even though the roadblocks are similar. The revolution is going to be along the lines of the industrial revolution, and it will sweep you up or leave you behind in the same way. The forward thinkers will get rich, and if it succeeds we will all live in a cleaner more sustainable world. Even those initially against it will benefit.

Clean energy.
Running our food production, our transportation, our infrastructure.

Production without waste.
All new manufacturing systems, packaging, purchasing.

All new systems for our civilization's very survival. If we do nothing for just a few more decades the planet will be fine. It is us that will be extinct, and the die off will be slow and painful... Resource wars, flooding, refugees, famine, illness, declining births, everything we are already seeing, only more.

The USA is known for its creativity and will—when we have the information and the leadership.

This is Obama's revolution, but it is not based on HIM. He has become the receptacle for our collective need to heal. In the beginning of this primary, that need could have been fulfilled by either Hillary, or Barack. Now, not so much.

What you hear again and again from the Super Delegates who are supporting him is that he can "bring people together". Why are they saying that, knowing both of them? I suspect it is because they KNOW she can not. Does she have the brains and the policies? Probably she does. Everyone who knows her says she is an incredible policy wonk. She is not known for bringing people together. It would not be listed as one of her natural strengths. She could not bring people together around her health care initiative, her rhetoric toward Iran is alienating, and her surrogates and advisers are helping her divide this party.

The Revolution is about getting AWAY from politics as usual and DOING something different to change the world as we know it. This is real, not just another election/sports event. I rarely hear Hillary supporters talk much beyond her fighting her way to some changing finishing line, and beating McCain. Her idea of bridging the divide is to sit down with Richard Mellon Scaife.

The young people in this country, may look like the young people in the 60s, but they have the LUXURY of being peaceful in the expression of their demands. There is no draft, so they have the luxury to be on-line communicating with each other. They are informing their parents and grandparents. The divide between the generations is not as polarized as it was in the 60s. Grannies are marching too.

The idea that Clinton/McCain would use this time in history to take a young man like Barack Obama down at this moment is stunning. The fact that Obama is winning with funding from us, says it all.

Inspiration plus imagination equals manifestation

The Revolution is happening and Barack Obama is going to be the president that allows it to flourish.

[glowing]

1. Nice melody. I'll refrain from expressing something I've been feeling

for a while about Senator Obama.

[Straight Shooter]

2. "He has become the receptacle for our collective need to heal."

Lemon tree very pretty
And the lemon flower is sweet
But the fruit of the poor lemon
Is impossible to eat

Be wary of investing too much emotional and psychic energy in a mortal.

[mirrera]

3. All our elected officials are mortal...

I have no choice about choosing one. We need leadership that is responsive to facts and the people, I believe he is that. It is the people who equate him with something scary that have invested too much into him.