Letters to the Editor
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Movement
This is a people's movement, not something that Obama started. Barack Obama has found himself at the right place, in the right time. The times we live in, are informing the man that Barack Obama is. He could not have been half as effective if he were running in say 2000 or even 2004. The country had to come to this dismal state of an illegal war, a bad economy and everything else, to stand up and demand change. Obama has taken that opportunity to be an agent for that kind of change. Hillary represents that which is the same old, same old, the politics of status quo, the politics of the few to rule over the many, the politics of lobbyists and special interests that have squeezed this country dry.
Is this a movement? Hell yes. But it is not a movement that Obama generated. He just happens to be caught right in the middle of it. Look what movements generated? The feminist movement got Hillary to where she is, the anti-war movement put an end to the war in Vietnam, the civil rights movement ensured that someone as gifted and talented as Obama could also run for the President of the United States of America. The Reagan and Bush years were all about rolling th clock back and returning the country to an elitist brand of governance.
I am hoping that this movement, whatever we want to call it, will bridge the gaps between rich and power, between women and men, between black and white and brown, between all Americans.