Someone Please Quell My Fears

[Steely_Dan]

As I watch the hate speech against Senator Obama escalate on a daily basis, I am beginning to worry about the kind of atmosphere he will face once he takes office. It is one thing to take on the job of leading this country out of 8 years of darkness, it is quite another to do it in such a hate filled environment. Am I being paranoid? Am I worrying about nothing?

-P

[tekisui]

1. We will have a substantial majority in the House and a filibuster-proof

majority in the Senate for AT LEAST 2 years. What's to fear?

[mucifer]

2. Well first he has to win. Second, some repubs are endorsing Obama we may see more soon.

I hope.

[DainBramaged]

3. ....................

Up on the hill
People never stare
They just don't care
Chinese music under banyan trees
Here at the dude ranch above the sea
Aja
When all my dime dancin' is through
I run to you

Up on the hill
They've got time to burn
There's no return
Double helix in the sky tonight
Throw out the hardware
Let's do it right
Aja
When all my dime dancin' is through
I run to you

Up on the hill
They think I'm okay
Or so they say
Chinese music always sets me free
Angular banjoes
Sound good to me
Aja
When all my dime dancin' is through
I run to you

[Steely_Dan]

7. Thank You...

I needed that. Aja always calms me down.

-P

[DainBramaged]

10. My FAVORITE album by SD

On my wall in a picture frame, a ticket stub, ELO with Steely Dan opening for them at Philharmonic Hall in NYC.


I was proud to be there.

[lumberjack_jeff]

16. What excellent advice.

I only have it on LP, I hadn't listened to it in a ages and it is sounding great. Definitely what the doctor ordered.


:bounce:

[DJ13]

4. Just put on Aja and relax

Its going to be fine.


Edit: DainBramaged beat me to it!

[daninthemoon]

5. i've been terrified of justthat thing. palin has left thousands of followers

believing he is a terrorist plotting the overthrow of the country. the campaign went way too far for many people to ever accept President Obama, to the point of believing they must stop him. now for the hopeful part: I am hoping that mcpain's campaign will be exposed in this twit with the backward "B" setup, and that that will cause even some oif the die hard rw wackos to question what their leaders have done, before any actual bloodshed.

[Soup Bean]

9. That woman is going to have to answer if anything happens to Obama.

She pushed a button that no one should push. There is still a great deal of ignorance and hatred in the country because of skin color. And the tougher the economic times, the more this will rear itself with the first Black President. Obama will be under a great deal of pressure when he wins, but I know he can do it. I am amazed at the level of hatred right now, with McCain just down in the polls. What will happen when it's official?

[mscuedawg]

19. "Silence in the face of hatred is NOT fit to lead!!!"

[Soup Bean]

6. No, you're not paranoid.

Obama is going to have a rough go at it of governing at first, unless he gets a large Democratic majority. Also, conditions are SO bad that anyone that becomes President are screwed. However, I feel that the man is so good, he will be able to steer the Congress in the proper direction. I'm not so worried about Congress as I am of the hard right lunatics that will be after him from Day One. I also hope the Secret Service is geared up to take care of him.

The only thing that I fear is a repeat of the Clinton years, where manufactured scandals dogged the President so badly that he couldn't concentrate on his agenda. I have great hopes that Obama will be able to avoid scandal, however. He is extremely disciplined, and I believe that he knows that so many people are counting on him that he will over-achieve. He has to know that he is an historic figure already, and that he already has a great deal on his shoulders.

[FrenchieCat]

8. You sound like the reporters that were worried about

how the convention would turn out with the Hillary/Obama delegates.

Noticed what happened there?

[jillan]

11. Hey stranger! No you are not alone - but -

I have a feeling that Obama is going to be able to unite the country.
I really do. He has such a calming way about him.

Racists will always be racists, hopefully they will crawl back under their rocks when the election is over. And hopefully Obama will win by a landslide to show them that they are in the minority.

[bronxiteforever]

12. The only thing we have to fear is fear itself-Channel your inner FDR

Prepare for the good fight and lets save America (yes we Democrats will have to do it again!)

[Terran]

13. A lot of it will simply die down after the election is over.

And I'm pretty sure even more will go away once people see what a capable leader Obama is. There will always be a segment of the population--those people who frequent that 'other' site--who will hate him for no real reason other than that he won, and because of the color of his skin.

[goletian]

14. out of the darkness will come light. obama knows hes taking a risk

but its for the best. lets just be vigilant.

[stillcool]

15. Okay...

Never doubt that a small, group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
- Margaret Mead

But the nearer the dawn the darker the night,
And by going wrong all things come right;
Things have been mended that were worse,
And the worse, the nearer they are to mend.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
Tales of a Wayside Inn--



Life may change, but it may fly not;
Hope may vanish, but can die not;
Truth be veiled, but still it burneth;
Love repulsed,--but it returneth.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
- Jacques Anatole I. France

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe



"They attack the one man with their hate and their shower of weapons. But he is like some rock which stretches into the vast sea and which, exposed to the fury of the winds and beaten against by the waves, endures all the violence."--- Virgil



To-day is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our Works and Thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed, is painful; yet ever needful; and if Memory have its force and worth, so also has Hope.
- Thomas Carlyle



No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.
- Heraclitus of Ephesus


We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.
- R.D. Laing



"It is never too late to give up your prejudices." - Walden

[Geek_Girl]

17. All they got is a few Hate mongering racist on their side

They are the most ignorant, moranic people on the planet and their numbers are dwindling.

After the election they'll have nothing to rally behind. They'll be no crazy old man, or semi attractive nit witt to get hot and bothered over. They'll go back to being Joe the whatever and Jane the hockey/soccer/ whatever mom and become not even a foot note in history. They'll be no more kkk (GOP) rallies for them to attend, for them all to congregate in one place and manifest their hate.

The GOP can't continue to exist by frothing up the dwindling number of racist, backwards, lunatics in this country. They're going to have to do something different.

Think of the next few days as a last hurrah for insane racial bigots.

[noiretextatique]

18. we are the majority

with most of the country and the world on our side. the racist loudmouths represent an stubbornly ignorant minority. focus on the positive :thumbsup: we have a movement going on, the likes of which i have not seen in my lifetime. people are sick and tired, even people who happily supported bush four years ago...people are awakening. this is the start of the change we...the world...needs and wants.
the hateful ones are stuck in a past that no one wants to revisit. they cannot stop the movement.