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sheshe2

(87,272 posts)
Sat Apr 13, 2013, 01:07 AM Apr 2013

A Repost, because~

Its been a tough week for all of us - no one more so than our President. As I've watched him battle the tears over the loss of our babies only to have to switch gears to take on the lunatic fringe in Congress, I've been spending some time thinking about how grateful I am that he is willing to represent us by taking this all on. I can't imagine another human being I'd rather have in the White House at this moment in history.

SNIP


I'd like to once again repeat something Alice Walkerhttp://immasmartypants.blogspot.com/2010/11/it-is-soul-that-must-be-preserved.html wrote to President Obama shortly after he was elected.

I would advise you to remember that you did not create the disaster that the world is experiencing, and you alone are not responsible for bringing the world back to balance. A primary responsibility that you do have, however, is to cultivate happiness in your own life. To make a schedule that permits sufficient time of rest and play with your gorgeous wife and lovely daughters. And so on. One gathers that your family is large. We are used to seeing men in the White House soon become juiceless and as white-haired as the building; we notice their wives and children looking strained and stressed. They soon have smiles so lacking in joy that they remind us of scissors. This is no way to lead. Nor does your family deserve this fate. One way of thinking about all this is: It is so bad now that there is no excuse not to relax. From your happy, relaxed state, you can model real success, which is all that so many people in the world really want. They may buy endless cars and houses and furs and gobble up all the attention and space they can manage, or barely manage, but this is because it is not yet clear to them that success is truly an inside job. That it is within the reach of almost everyone...

Because, finally, it is the soul that must be preserved, if one is to remain a credible leader. All else might be lost; but when the soul dies, the connection to earth, to peoples, to animals, to rivers, to mountain ranges, purple and majestic, also dies. And your smile, with which we watch you do gracious battle with unjust characterizations, distortions and lies, is that expression of healthy self-worth, spirit and soul, that, kept happy and free and relaxed, can find an answering smile in all of us, lighting our way, and brightening the world.

http://immasmartypants.blogspot.com/2012/12/mele-kalikimaka-mr-president.html

Reposted from:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/101788268

Thank you Mr. President!
Aloha, Mele Kalikimaka...
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Cha

(305,137 posts)
1. Mahalo, She.. Alice Walker has written so beautifully what I never lose sight of..
Sat Apr 13, 2013, 01:18 AM
Apr 2013
Because, finally, it is the soul that must be preserved, if one is to remain a credible leader. All else might be lost; but when the soul dies, the connection to earth, to peoples, to animals, to rivers, to mountain ranges, purple and majestic, also dies. And your smile, with which we watch you do gracious battle with unjust characterizations, distortions and lies, is that expression of healthy self-worth, spirit and soul, that, kept happy and free and relaxed, can find an answering smile in all of us, lighting our way, and brightening the world.




BOG Aloha~

SunSeeker

(53,599 posts)
2. We're further than we ever thought we'd be on gun control, but Kid Rock is on the homepage.
Sat Apr 13, 2013, 04:37 PM
Apr 2013

No one is posting about the amazing headway we made in recent days in DC, with Obama's masterful handling of Congress and flying the Sandy Hook parents in for scenes straight out of Mr. Smith goes to Washington. Nope, fuck that (much to the relief of the gungeoneers here). Instead, everyone here is in a tizzy over something that has not happened--SS cuts. They claim this is unprecedented, never happened before, even though SS cuts were ACTUALLY signed into law by other Dem presidents, namely Carter and Clinton (not just suggested as a bargaining chip to save the social programs for the poor).

sheshe2

(87,272 posts)
4. So true SunSeeker, the views are myopic.
Sat Apr 13, 2013, 09:47 PM
Apr 2013

The threads that try to talk about Sandy Hook and gun control, get hijacked. Bigtree posted a thread the other day. The comments and the fury came quickly. How dare we talk about something other than chained CPI!

We saw it on the fiscal cliff, now here on chained CPI.

It's a sorry state that we have come to here at DU.

sheshe

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