A new beginning

Amen! I feel happy about this one.

Glad the world love Barack Obama. He excel in building bridges. He strives on this and will surely succeed in uniting people and bringing hope so that change can be made.

Obama should have chosen to speak, to the muslim world, from a democratic muslim country. Like Turkey, Indonesia or France (since they are none in the arab middle east). Well it's nice that the US administration cares about their feelings. Scary when a superpower is afraid about what 'others' think and need to be liked! Keyef! Dai! Enough!

Thank you Jami for your excellent piece. You hit the nail on the head when you mentioned the world is too small for inter-religion fighting. All Moslem friends I have known over 35 years have been peace loving and very kind people and we should avoid the huge mistake of generalizing the idiot behavior of very few to a religion embraced by the world's fourth population

What happen to lisa bloom ???????? I watch court Tv all the time, I turn on the tv to watch cour tv and no lisa what happen to her,

Sara

THE BALFOUR DECLARATION OF 1917. Google it, read it, understand it and study it. Then please take the time to think about it, you may the possibly be a better educated judge of the Palestinian Plight that went on too long while the Israeli put cotton on our eyes blinding us to the truth Mr. Cooper.

abey-

Wonderful post!!!

I would be willing to bet you voted for BO.

How do you explain how he excels at building bridges? Can you give us even one example of this?

I will agree with you that he brings hope and unites people around that. But, all of us can do that, the way he does. He reads a speech that involves pointing out facts we all know; war is bad, economy is a mess, Israel and Palestine should be at peace, etc. This encites the cheers from the crowd. Then he says that we ought to change these things. More cheers. The next step is talking about his hope for change. More cheers. The problem is, there is never an actual idea for a solution. Just that we need to change some things and he hopes we can.

When he spoke to us about the United States economic problems, he told us we should hope for change. Did any of us get, from those words, that he had plans to mortgage our children's, children's children's future? Did we envision that he would create a situation where the United States government is a majority owner of many of our industrys?

The only bridges Barack Obama has ever built are bridges of hope. These bridges result in blinding us to the fact that the changes he has in mind will one day change our way of life. Keep us so dependent upon the United States government that we will have to accept there involvement in all aspects of our life. Where we work, where we live, who we marry, maybe even what we eat.

But, we can all HOPE that's not the way it's going. We can embrace the CHANGE and sleep well. Just like we did when Dubya told us we should invade Iraq to make our country safer.