On Mar 5, 7:09=A0am, "ltl...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
" <ltl...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> The following quote is part of the commentary from
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/04/opinion/04brooks.html
>
> in which NYTimes columnlist David Brook described how Obama's politics
> can be different,
>
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> "And Barack Obama leapt right in.
>
> He spoke after 11 p.m. The crowd had been sitting for four hours. In
> the previous months, Obama had been criticized for being bland on the
> stump. But this night, he unleashed a zealous part of himself that has
> propelled his candidacy ever since.
>
> His first big subject was belief itself. Instead of waging a partisan
> campaign as Clinton had just done, he vowed to address "not just
> Democrats, but Republicans and independents who've lost trust in their
> government but want to believe again."
>
> Then he made a broader attack on the political class, and without
> mentioning her, threw Clinton in with the decrepit old order. "The
> same old Wa****ngton textbook campaigns just won't do," he said, in a
> now familiar line. He said it was time to "finally tackle problems
> that George Bush made far worse but that had festered long before
> George Bush ever took office -- the problems that we've talked about
> year after year after year."
>
> Obama sketched out a different theory of social change than the one
> Clinton had implied earlier in the evening. Instead of relying on a
> president who fights for those who feel invisible, Obama, in the
> climactic passage of his speech, described how change bubbles from the
> bottom-up: "And because that somebody stood up, a few more stood up.
> And then a few thousand stood up. And then a few million stood up. And
> standing up, with courage and clear purpose, they somehow managed to
> change the world!""
Sounds very much like Mao Zedong declaring the PRC, "China has stood
up".
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>
> Great words!!
> And I would go one step furtherer. "Change bubbles from the bottom up"
> is the essence of demcoracy.
> Any such change is the defining moment of any democracy.
>
> But then I am perplexed.
> Does anyone believe Obama's "change bubbles from the bottom up"?
> If so, there is no reason for any beleiver to wait for Obama to take
> the presidency?
> He or she should be thinking about change and how this change can
> buble up early on.
> How come there is no change bubbles up since Obama had made himself
> known politically?
It takes leader****p to lead. Obama may be the man to do it. I
believe it.
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