Barack Obama… and Change

Barack Obama is making a big thing about promising change; I’m sure we all hope that he delivers on it too. However, it is only natural to distrust politicians and their promises, but why is that? After all most of us agree with a lot of what he says….

The fact is that at a deeper level we know that no one else can really deliver Change for us. Change has to start from within us. If the American people didn’t at some fundamental level feel frightened and want to lash out and punish those nameless, faceless people who burst their bubble on 9/11, then their country would not be bemired in Iraq, spending trillions of dollars that could be better spent on healthcare, housing and health. I suspect that until we all change something within ourselves we will get the politicians we deserve…

As the old joke goes, “The trouble with political jokes is they often get elected….”

“We must become the change we want to see.” Mahatma Gandhi

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