Creepy Sleepy: The Obama Inauguration …and you.
hidama
· 11 months ago
I love that "The Sweetest Thing" was playing in the background.
Is America entering a paradigm shift by electing him? I felt that Obama was a way to apologize to the world for our foreign policies. I can remember my European and Canadian friends tweeting me and writing on my wall at the end of October, “Don’t mess this up!” In so many ways, I feel that it was the world who elected Obama, more so than the US Citizens - I could hardly grasp the concept that my friend in Wales stayed up until 6am to get the news about the presidency, while students on my campus were apathetic.
Does Obama mean change? I think he does.
Can he accomplish change? He can accomplish change only if we change as well. I think many feel that once we elected our president that our civil duties are over. I foresee radical changes if Obama can stir a cry for justice - or at the very least get us off of the couches. But if Obama is unable to persuade the common man that his inaction is a detriment and that community and unity is vital to our future, then Obama will be dragged down by the weight of an apathetic America.
“An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.” Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Is America entering a paradigm shift by electing him? I felt that Obama was a way to apologize to the world for our foreign policies. I can remember my European and Canadian friends tweeting me and writing on my wall at the end of October, “Don’t mess this up!” In so many ways, I feel that it was the world who elected Obama, more so than the US Citizens - I could hardly grasp the concept that my friend in Wales stayed up until 6am to get the news about the presidency, while students on my campus were apathetic.
Does Obama mean change? I think he does.
Can he accomplish change? He can accomplish change only if we change as well. I think many feel that once we elected our president that our civil duties are over. I foresee radical changes if Obama can stir a cry for justice - or at the very least get us off of the couches. But if Obama is unable to persuade the common man that his inaction is a detriment and that community and unity is vital to our future, then Obama will be dragged down by the weight of an apathetic America.
“An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.” Martin Luther King, Jr.