They just want to hear that we do not hate them

[Lorax7844]

Look at their faces, I disagree with islam when it comes to their treatment of women, but I stand with my president when he said that:

"America will align our policies with those who pursue peace, and say in public what we say in private to Israelis and Palestinians and Arabs. We cannot impose peace. But privately, many Muslims recognise that Israel will not go away. Likewise, many Israelis recognise the need for a Palestinian state. It is time for us to act on what everyone knows to be true.

Too many tears have flowed. Too much blood has been shed. All of us have a responsibility to work for the day when the mothers of Israelis and Palestinians can see their children grow up without fear; when the Holy Land of three great faiths is the place of peace that God intended it to be; when Jerusalem is a secure and lasting home for Jews and Christians and Muslims, and a place for all of the children of Abraham to mingle peacefully together as in the story of Isra, when Moses, Jesus, and Mohammed (peace be upon them) joined in prayer."

Or this:
"Resistance through violence and killing is wrong and does not succeed. For centuries, black people in America suffered the lash of the whip as slaves and the humiliation of segregation. But it was not violence that won full and equal rights. It was a peaceful and determined insistence upon the ideals at the centre of America's founding. This same story can be told by people from South Africa to South Asia; from eastern Europe to Indonesia. It's a story with a simple truth: that violence is a dead end. It is a sign of neither courage nor power to shoot rockets at sleeping children, or to blow up old women on a bus. That is not how moral authority is claimed; that is how it is surrendered."

Wow, just wow.

Say what you will about Obama but those words will help the world.

Even I say sometimes that words without actions are meaningless, but sometimes words are all that survive. Look at our founding fathers, my favorite Jefferson was a slave owning, adulterous, sexist fucktard... but the words he put into the Constitution and the Bill of Rights changed the world. The words were a blueprint for a better world, even if their deeds did not match the inspiration.

Today Obama went to a Muslim Nation and said that the US does not hate you. The people of the United States do no wish for the deaths of Muslim families or children. Those words matter, those words change the world, those words make the world a better place.

McCain would not have said that, Bush never said words like that, Reagan never said words like that, that is why Obama is important, culturally and historically.

I am watching him and vocally disagreeing with him when it comes to the bank bail-outs and his financial team, but today I was with him every step of the way. Obama made me proud and made the world a better place, that's why I voted for him. I wanted something better, thankfully in this respect I got it.

Cheers to our President.

[denbot]

1. K & R

Nice post Mahatma :-)

[Lorax7844]

2. I tear up when I read this quote

"It is a sign of neither courage nor power to shoot rockets at sleeping children, or to blow up old women on a bus. That is not how moral authority is claimed; that is how it is surrendered."


Chill bumps. That sentence will be repeated around the world. Wow.


It's an echo of Ghandi and King, it's on that level for sure. Obama isn't perfect but then again neither was were MG and MLK.

[grantcart]

3. And strangely that is all we want to hear as well

[Lorax7844]

4. don't we all

I wish the fundies would stop with the hate, little steps though.

tons of good quotes from this speech, tons. All making their way into the history books.

[Uncle Joe]

5. Kicked and recommended for the family reunion.

"Too many tears have flowed. Too much blood has been shed. All of us have a responsibility to work for the day when the mothers of Israelis and Palestinians can see their children grow up without fear; when the Holy Land of three great faiths is the place of peace that God intended it to be; when Jerusalem is a secure and lasting home for Jews and Christians and Muslims, and a place for all of the children of Abraham to mingle peacefully together as in the story of Isra, when Moses, Jesus, and Mohammed (peace be upon them) joined in prayer."

Words do have power, from the word springs the deed; if not from the orator, from the listener or reader.

Thanks for the thread, Lorax.:thumbsup:

[Triana]

6. Everything you said: ditto

I still want to bash Geithner and Summer's bone heads together and smack Obama upside his for choosing those two clowns - and I'd like to send goddamned Max Baucus to another galaxy where he can do no more harm to actual health care reform - but TODAY I was VERY PROUD of our President.

He said some things that have long needed saying.

(and that camel photo just cracked me up!! Rahm Emmanuel on a camel! Ohhh how I wanted the AUDIO of that! Bwah!)

[myrna minx]

7. K&R. I hope the speech is up on youtube, because I missed it today.

Thank you for the post.

[Lorax7844]

8. it's at huffington post

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/04/obama-cairo-speech-video_n_211210.html

here is full text:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jun/04/barack-obama-keynote-speech-egypt

[myrna minx]

11. Thanks. I'll watch it now. n/t

[Hatalles]

10. Full Speech on YouTube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaxZPiiKyMw

[myrna minx]

12. Thanks. n/t

[yellerpup]

9. There is hope in those faces.

We are the change we have been waiting for. :kick: & R

[Cha]

13. That's a very sweet and

true observation, Lorax~

[Number23]

14. Fantastic post. I'm so happy to rec

Thank you for this.

[NYC_SKP]

15. K & R! nt