Pride
I have found myself crying a lot in the last week since Obama’s inauguration. In my life, I cannot remember such an amazing feeling of pride for my country and the choices we all have made to change our world for the better.
I remember the day that Kennedy died- people of every race and religion crying in the streets and shops in every town in America and around the world. It was not just that the man had been killed, but truly the American ideal of hope. Hope for everything that as a child I was told set America apart from all other natioins on earth. The American Dream!
Well I wished many times I would wake up from the nightmare of the last 8 years to the reality of a country that had seen enough of politics which embraced fear over hope, and hatred over love.
So yes, I’ve been crying a lot! With pride for my US of A which has awakened and remembered why we are such a great country, ready to change the world by being the best we all can be- white, black, brown, red, yellow, straight, gay, and of every religion and background on the globe.
That’s who we are.
Americans!
Bill Landesman — January 25, 2009 @ 2:08 pm
I agree. I’m so excited about the future. I can’t ever remember feeling this much hope all around me, where ever I go. I honestly feel this is one of those times that may happen only once in a life-time, if ever. And I’m so proud and happy to be alive now and be a part of history in the making.
By the way RD, love your site. Many of your friends have been long aware of Dover’s world (and I’m not talking about the web site) But now everyone can get a glimpse.
Liz Austin — January 27, 2009 @ 10:29 pm
Robert! I am so glad I’m not the only one who crys when I hear, “President Obama.”
LOVE your new site. Cory (my boyfriend) was very impressed with the picture of you and Robert R.
He is also VERY impressed that you know Tom Welling and is envious! Hope to see you at the World Masters this weekend, give Wild One a kiss from me!
Best,
Liz
RDover2 — February 11, 2009 @ 6:44 pm
Hi Bill and Liz.
Thanks for your comments on DoversWorld and I hope to see you both very soon!
xo
RD
Marcia Donaldson — February 20, 2009 @ 1:15 pm
Robert — I too have been crying. Crying as I watch our nation’s financial future be squandered on unparalleled pork (aka, “stimulus bill”), and watch the stock market continue to plunge.
Let’s see who and why we’re crying in 2012.
Respectfully,
Marcia
RDover2 — February 20, 2009 @ 1:58 pm
Marcia, I agree that not even a great man like our new president, Barack Obama, and his amazing new team can undo the absolute mess our last administration got us into.
I also think that until the country stops paying billions of dallars to corrupt CEO’s and hold them accountable, we will not move forward to a stronger economy.
Once we have done this and entered a new time of honesty in our financial systems, the American economy will enter a new era of growth and we will see poverty deminish by leaps and bounds until it is a thing of the past.
And that will happen by the end of 2012, with the help of Obama!
How’s that for a prediction?
RD
Marcia Donaldson — February 25, 2009 @ 11:26 am
I’ll hold you to that prediction, Robert! However, when predicting poverty will diminish by “leaps and bounds” by the end of 2012, how about a definition of “leaps and bounds”?
Still respectfully,
Marcia
Jolie Blauvelt — February 25, 2009 @ 5:04 pm
Let me weigh in on this as well. Under Bill Clinton there was a major economic boom which he and the Democrats never wasted a chance to extoll. But, lo and behold, the corruption was staggering. Many of these wonderful creations were being double-booked and so the scandals eventually broke and the bubble burst. Our new “team” is already rife with financial shinanigans that you believe will lead somehow to impeccable honesty. Astounding! And this miracle will bring prosperity to all through the what? the Sainthood of our present politicians? They are busily gathering so much power unto themselves that it is staggering — and so, mark my words, will be the devastating results. The power of power to corrupt is unexcelled — vastly greater than wealth alone. Beware.
I will still take my chances with businesses I can shun, ignore, reject or sue. Try doing that with an all powerful government.
Very Skeptically,
Ardath