No Dictation

Yes They Can

This teacher uses Barack’s speech on Race and his Yes We Can speech to foster some great discussion.

Obama Yes We Can Music Tribute by Will.I.Am

Obama speech set to music

This is old news, but I am waiting for the speech Obama gave today on Economics to be put up on line. I came across the parody of this video. The one based on one of McCain’s speeches instead of Obama’s and decided to post both of these videos.

McCain- Parody of the Yes We Can tribute to Obama

Like Hope but Different

No you Can’t

One more parody

Bill Richardson

Chris Mathews getting it!

Teaching art all week, so a little news starved. Here is a link to Richardson before his endorsement of Obama. He is at a University and tells a nice story about the debates and being on stage with Obama:Bill Richardson informal talk

Barack Obama: ‘A More Perfect Union’

A speech on Race

Anyone who doesn’t get EVERYTHING that Obama brought up in his speech on the 18th is deliberately not getting it. No one can really be offended by any of it and I think the pundits who pick it apart, scattering blood for the sharks are idiots. But, even worse are the people who parrot their opinions without the respect of a listen. HOW can someone have an opinion about it if they haven’t heard it for themselves?!?

The bobbleheads on 24 hour news channels talk about mistakes to any guest they can invite. There were no mistakes in this speech. Would they look for mistakes in the Gettysburg address? The “I have a Dream” speech? This speech is like that. Written by the man himself, delivered to a whole planet at a time of great need. This is so beyond politics.

Reverend Wright

Here is the speech in full, have the courage to listen all the way through:

People who say Obama’s former pastor was talking hate should listen to Rev. Wright’s whole sermon. If one is not looking for blood, one can hear that he is saying God never changes. God doesn’t change even to suit the governments of countries. Fact: Governments DO change and fall and have done so since the beginning of time. In that context he is saying that God doesn’t bless a country that is killing innocent people. No matter what the justification of us mere mortals. No! Instead God damns all injustice. In that context you have the “God Damn America” that was played all over the news.

People can say “God bless” all they want, but God doesn’t change. If you believe in God  which I will leave alone in this post  then you might understand that there are no exceptions made by God.

Some Americans hide behind nationalism and exceptionalism to justify bad behavior. To those Americans the Reverend’s words are difficult to hear. They believe America is always right and Americans are super heros that are always good. To those Americans the words would seem hateful. Even though grasping more than one concept at a time is a skill the politicians think we lack, most Americans can recognize the good in America while still having a strong desire to right what is wrong.That is not hatred of America, that is passionate hatred of injustice. Rev. Wright is RIGHT When heard in context…

Maureen Dowd thinks she is being pithy when she called the Reverend a “Wack-a-doodle” in her column (article). How dare she?

Here is a great link for a better look at the wonderful UCC church Trinity:
truthabouttrinity.blogspot.com

Here is a letter Reverend Wright wrote to the NY Times after an interview in which he thought they were doing a “spiritual biography” of Barack Obama, about who he said “For two hours, I shared with you how I thought he was the most principled individual in public service that I have ever met.” They wrote a hit piece based on 5-7 minutes of conversation which they distorted. (Read the letter)

note:

Jerry Falwell— so respected by the white community and  treated as a spiritual leader—  said this in reference to the towers coming down:

“I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People for the American Way all of them who tried to secularize America I point the finger in their face and say you helped this happen.”

Now that is hatred!

just sayin