From: Judy Miriga
Yes people,
They still ask, who is this Barack Obama whom after close to 4 years, they still don’t know and dont want to understand……….They looked at him and saw that he does not look like them and from the word go, they refused to welcome him; they rejected him. It is not because he did something bad, it is because they have not accepted him like one of them.
He came with an electrifying impact of peace and unity that no one could have resisted even if they wanted to. He energized the ground like never seen before. He found the world was lost in a frenzy of confusion and were thirsty for direction. Both the rich and the poor found themselves in deep trouble of economic instability they wanted to repair and fix, but did not know how to do it. He came with a promise of Hope to give life a new meaning on the wayforward; to be relieved from getting stuck in the mud and find meaning for life, the purpose for God’s creation; but they will not give him a chance to do what he came for. He found everyone had lost hope and were living in despair in hopeless situation. Both rich and poor are caved in the same pit of confusion not knowing how to get out of the quagmire. They instead formed a wall of rejection to oppose all good plan he put forward in a bi-partisan fashion.
They did not know the answer was in the missing link of the Builder’s cornerstone of Zion. The house of humanity with nature preservation is not complete without the Builder’s cornerstone that balances and carries the weight to make the house firm and strong that cannot be shaken by any diverse storm.
President Obama carrying with him the hope of the missing link of the builder’s cornerstone needed to complete the work. What he was asking and pleading for is cooperation from the other-side of the Special Interest who are afraid of shift in their confort zone; so in fairness, a bi-partisan collaboration can be found in Congress and in Senate able to make work easy and operational in Washington instead of staging blockages against facilitating public mandate in service delivery.
President Obama is a success story. His ways has been tested, he struggled and delivered in the midst of storm and so he can be trusted. We therefore trust that he is able to deliver with little or no obstruction, he needs cooperation so things can be done. The fact remain that, they rejected him from the word go, because he does not look like them. But this behavior must change. They are not rating him in value to what he is capable of doing, but they feel that he should not because of racial biasness and hate.
The missing link, which is in the blood of the black society, cannot be wiped-out, forgotten or be ignored in the wayforward at Global Progressive Agenda for shared mutual cooperation in the Emerging Markets. It cannot be said that black has nothing to offer in the progressive development agenda. The slaughter of the black and the blood of the black have reached heaven high and must come to a stop in the newness of life. It is the missing link that must be accepted with honor and dignity as valuable treasure to fix the problem in the missing link in the Builder’s cornerstone. We are at a point of Referendum before choices that will be made by voters…….the point is at a crossroad where voters will choose between
In reference, the Biblical builder’s cornerstone (Kidi Mar Jo Gedo) of the Zion is a symbol of unity that unites the two intersecting walls of the house. Symbolically, President Obama is that rock for Peace and our unity of common purpose can be found in fair share Partnership prospects of Liberation, and it depends in the Structural Plan in the missing link he holds as symbol for Unity in the newness of life. This missing link bonds humankind together and make us whole at peace with each other under the commandment of love as we all endeavor in struggle, in competition and challenges to make the best of lifestyle we all choose to engage. Without a cornerstone, the house is unlikely to withstand the storm and test of time in the Global Economic instabilities.
A second chance means electing bi-partisan people who are able to engage in a cooperative manner to join with President Obama in moving the country forward; those who truely are focused and are willing to play fair game to the benefit of all and are not selfish but in solidarity are able to move America on top of the world.
The kind of leaders who strives to fight the Govenment and struggles to reduce government ability to facilitate, control and balance public and business activities but instead, prefers to offer Special Interest freedom over the Government, need to check their facts. They are the cause of Global Economic collapse which has failed and cannot be relied on. Their business idiologies have caused enormous human pain and sufferings including those of environmental disastors.
Like the builder’s cornerstone in Zion; President Obama is the present tested stone, a precious cornerstone for a sure foundation; those who trust and believe in peace and unity, will not be disappointed or dismayed. He is a good man and is likeable. He should be given a second chance to complete his term with honor and we all shall not live to regret.
Peace be with us all as we tred……..
Cheers everybody……!!!
Judy Miriga
Diaspora Spokesperson
Executive Director
Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc.,
USA
http://socioeconomicforum50.blogspot.com
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President Obama: “We’ve Come Too Far to Turn Back Now.”
Published on Aug 18, 2012 by BarackObamadotcom
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Four years ago as I had the privilege to travel all across this country and meet Americans from all walks of life.
I decided nobody else should have to endure the heartbreak of a broken health care system. No one in the wealthiest nation on earth should go broke because they get sick.
Nobody should have to tell their daughters or sons the decisions they can and cannot make for themselves are constrained because of some politicians in Washington.
And thanks to you we’ve made a difference in people’s lives. Thanks to you there are folks that I meet today who have gotten care and their cancer’s been caught. And they’ve got treatment. And they are living full lives and it happened because of you.
We’ve come too far to turn back now. We’ve got too much work to do to implement health care. We’ve got too much work to do to create good jobs.
We’ve got too many teachers that we’ve got to hire. We’ve got too many schools that we’ve got to rebuild. We’ve got too many students who still need affordable higher education.
There’s more homegrown energy to generate. There more troops that we’ve got to bring home.
There more doors of opportunity we’ve got to open to anybody who is willing to work hard and walk through those doors.
We’ve got to keep building an economy where no matter what you look like or where you come from, you can make it here if you try.
And you can leave something behind for the next generation, that’s what at stake right now Colorado. That’s why I’m running for President of the United States of America.
That’s why I’m asking for your vote. I still believe in you. And if you still believe in me, and if you’re willing to stand with me, and knock on some doors with me, and make some phone calls with me, and talk to your neighbor and friends about what’s at stake—we will win this election. We will finish what we started.
And we’ll remind the world why America is the greatest nation on earth.
God bless you and God bless the United States of America.
Obama! U the? bomb
heatedchaos007 5 hours ago
Nice?
lsandqvist 5 hours ago
I think this is a good reason why Obama should win. Even if he fails miserably, I can say he tried to do good. More than I can say for most republicans? with bad intentions and their successes only hurt America more.
MultiBlasian 5 hours ago
This made me cry. If Obama doesn’t win i am leaving America!?
crystalmua 5 hours ago
Tht was beautiful?
MsLatingirl143 5 hours ago
Best.? President. Ever.
peteagassi 6 hours ago
THIS IS? WHY I’M VOTING OBAMA!
peteagassi 6 hours ago
Just remember no matter how great our? president is he can’t do it alone. This should be obvious to everyone who has a pulse. President Barack Obama needs a Congress and Senate that are equally great. So on election day lets remember to vote for our progressive leaders that will help this country become great once again. GO AMERICA!
grand1976 6 hours ago
President Obama Urges Congress to Pass American Jobs Act
Uploaded by whitehouse on Sep 14, 2011
President Obama travelled to North Carolina State University where he delivered remarks on the American Jobs Act, emphasizing the need for Congress to pass it now and put more people back to work and more money in the pockets of working Americans, while not adding a dime to the deficit. September 14, 2011.
Reid: Next Steps Towards Deficit-Reduction, Job-Creation
Uploaded by SenateDemocrats on Aug 1, 2011
Senator Harry Reid, speaking to reporters on Monday afternoon, says that once a compromise plan to reduce the deficit becomes law, Congress will focus on getting Americans back to work.
Obama Urges Congress to Help Put Teachers Back to Work
By Mary Bruce | ABC OTUS News – Sat, Aug 18, 2012
With students heading back to school, President Obama is accusing Republicans of wanting to cut education funding to give tax breaks to the wealthy, saying their economic plan “undercuts our future.”
“This year, several thousand fewer educators will be going back to school,” the president says in his weekly address. More than 300,000 local education jobs have been lost since the end of the recession, according to a new White House report on the impact of teacher layoffs.
Obama says cuts in education “force kids into crowded classrooms, cancel programs for preschoolers and kindergarteners, and shorten the school week and the school year.”
Even in tough fiscal times, Obama says states should make education a priority, but adds, “Congress should be willing to help out – because this affects all of us.”
“That’s why part of the jobs bill that I sent to Congress last September included support for states to prevent further layoffs and to rehire teachers who’d lost their jobs. But here we are – a year later with tens of thousands more educators laid off – and Congress still hasn’t done anything about it,” he says.
The president says the Republicans’ economic plan would “make the situation even worse.”
“It would actually cut funding for education – which means fewer kids in Head Start, fewer teachers in our classrooms, and fewer college students with access to financial aid – all to pay for a massive new tax cut for millionaires and billionaires,” he says. “That’s backwards. That’s wrong. That plan doesn’t invest in our future; it undercuts our future.”
Obama touts the steps he has taken to boost the nation’s education system, including instituting the Race to the Top competitive grant program, giving states flexibility on No Child Left Behind requirements, and reforming the student loan program.
Obama Says George Clooney Friendship Born in Sudan, Not Hollywood
By Matthew Larotonda | ABC News Blogs – 4 hrs ago
President Obama’s reelection campaign has benefited immensely from the backing of much of Hollywood’s elite, but few share a closer relationship with him than George Clooney. In an interview to be aired Monday, the president contends those ties were born out of shared policy vision before assuming the Oval Office.
“The truth is we got to know each other because of a substantive issue,” the president says. “He is a terrific advocate on behalf of the people of Darfur, and to the people of Sudan who’ve been brutalized for a long time.”
Speaking with CBS’ ” Entertainment Tonight,” Obama recounted laboring with Clooney on the troubled region when he was a senator.
“That was an issue that I was working together on a bipartisan basis, and George, who had traveled there, done documentaries there, and was very well-informed, came to testify in Congress,” he said. “And so we got to know each other, and he is a good man, and a good friend.”
Clooney has become a permanent fixture of humanitarian movements regarding Sudan, which the United Nations estimates still houses nearly 2.5 million displaced individuals after years of strife. In March Clooney was arrested outside Washington’s Sudanese embassy in protest of the ongoing turmoil.
Despite the close relationship, Obama says in the actor and film producer is acutely aware of the image problems involved with getting too close to the White House.
“He’s very protective about not bothering me. And he’s also sensitive to the fact that if he’s around a lot, then somehow it’ll be tagged as ‘Obama hanging out with Hollywood stars,’ and that’s not who he is,” he said.
Regardless, Clooney has contributed significantly to Obama’s reelection campaign, most recently attending a star-studded fundraiser at his home in March that drew in $15 million.
Obama’s “ET” interview comes as he faces mounting criticism for a string of recent softball interviews with entertainment media and local television outlets outside the Washington press. On “Fox News Sunday” this morning, Obama campaign man and former White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs defended the interviews.
“The notion that this president is somehow not doing interviews is ridiculous. Not long ago, we were answering questions and charges that somehow Obama was over-exposed,” he said.
Republicans have attempted to pin the campaign on this point, with Mitt Romney taking the unusual step of making himself available to the press twice recently. However, Romney himself sat down with People Magazine last week, joined by running mate Paul Ryan and their families.
Mine “bloodbath” shocks post-apartheid S.Africa
By Jon Herskovitz | Reuters – 1 hr 54 mins ago
MARIKANA, South Africa (Reuters) – The police killing of 34 striking platinum miners in the bloodiest security operation since the end of white rule cut to the quick of South Africa’s psyche on Friday, with searching questions asked of its post-apartheid soul.
Newspaper headlines screamed “Bloodbath”, “Killing Field” and “Mine Slaughter”, with graphic photographs of heavily armed white and black police officers walking casually past the bloodied corpses of black men lying crumpled in the dust.
The images, along with Reuters TV footage of officers opening up with automatic weapons on a small group of men in blankets and t-shirts at Lonmin’s Marikana platinum plant, rekindled uncomfortable memories of South Africa’s racist past.
Police chief Riah Phiyega confirmed 34 dead and 78 injured in Thursday’s shootings after officers moved against 3,000 striking drill operators armed with machetes and sticks at the mine, 100 km (60 miles) northwest of Johannesburg.
A sombre-looking President Jacob Zuma, who cut short a trip to Mozambique for a regional summit because of the violence, travelled to Marikana and announced he had ordered an official inquiry into what he called the “shocking” events.
“This is unacceptable in our country which is a country where everyone feels comfortable, a country with a democracy that everyone envies,” he said in a statement read at a news conference. He did not take questions.
Phiyega, a former banking executive appointed to lead the police force only in June, said officers acted in self-defence against charging, armed assailants at Marikana.
“The police members had to employ force to protect themselves,” she said, noting that two policemen had been hacked to death by a mob at the mine on Tuesday.
However, the South African Institute of Race Relations likened the incident to the 1960 Sharpeville township massacre near Johannesburg, when apartheid police opened fire on a crowd of black protesters, killing more than 50.
“Obviously the issues that have led to this are not the same as the past, but the response and the outcome is very similar,” research manager Lucy Holborn told Reuters.
In a front-page editorial, the Sowetan newspaper questioned what had changed since 1994, when Nelson Mandela overturned three centuries of white domination to become South Africa’s first black president.
“It has happened in this country before where the apartheid regime treated black people like objects,” the paper, named after South Africa’s biggest black township, said. “It is continuing in a different guise now.”
Zuma, who faces an internal leadership election in his ruling African National Congress (ANC) in December, called on South Africa to mourn together. “It is a moment to start healing and rebuilding,” he said at Marikana.
“We believe there is enough space in our democratic order for any dispute to be resolved through dialogue without any breaches of the law or violence,” an earlier statement from him said.
Despite promises of a better life for all South Africa’s 50 million people, the ANC has struggled to provide basic services to millions in poor black townships.
Efforts to redress the economic inequalities of apartheid have had mixed results, and the mining sector comes in for particular criticism from radical ANC factions as a bastion of “white monopoly capital”.
In Washington, the White House said it was saddened by the loss of life. “We encourage all parties to work together to resolve the situation peacefully,” spokesman Josh Earnest said.
POLICE PRESENCE
Hundreds of police patrolled the dusty plains around the Marikana mine, which was forced to shut down this week because of a rumbling union turf war that has hit the platinum sector this year.
Crime scene investigators combed the site of the shooting, which was cordoned off with yellow tape, collecting spent cartridges and the slain miners’ bloodstained traditional weapons – machetes and spears.
Six firearms were recovered, including a service revolver from one of the police officers killed earlier in the week.
Before Thursday, 10 people had died in nearly a week of conflict between rival unions at what is Lonmin’s flagship plant. The London-headquartered company has been forced to shut down all its South African platinum operations, which account for 12 percent of global output.
South Africa is home to 80 percent of the world’s known reserves of platinum, a precious metal used in vehicle catalytic converters. Rising power and labour costs and a steep decline this year in the price have left many mines struggling to stay afloat.
Although the striking Marikana miners were demanding huge pay hikes, the roots of the trouble lie in a challenge by the newer Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU) to the 25-year dominance of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), a close ANC ally.
“There is clearly an element in this that a key supporter of the ANC – the NUM – has come under threat from these protesting workers,” said Nic Borain, an independent political analyst.
Pre-crackdown footage of dancing miners waving machetes and licking the blades of home-made spears raised questions about the habitual use of violence in industrial action 18 years after the end of apartheid.
“This culture of violence and protest, it must somehow be changed,” said John Robbie, a prominent Johannesburg radio host. “You can’t act like a Zulu impi in an industrial dispute in this day and age,” he said, using the Zulu word for armed units.
World platinum prices spiked nearly 3 percent on Thursday as the full extent of the violence became clear, and rose again on Friday to a five-week high above $1,450 an ounce.
Lonmin shares in London and Johannesburg fell more than 5 percent to four-year lows at Friday’s market open, although later trimmed their losses. Overall, they have shed nearly 15 percent since the violence began a week ago.