RENDEZOUS with DESTINY
Posted on Feb 4th, 2008
by 
Michael
Michael
Toby Harnden, reporting on the US Elections 2008, and the only British journalist from outside the US on board 'Obama One', wrote in his Telegraph NEWSREVIEWonSaturday column last weekend ...
It had already been a heady week. On Monday, the day before, Obama had been endorsed for President by Senator Edward Kennedy and Caroline Kennedy, the brother and daughter of JFK. Turning against his friend Hillary Clinton, Kennedy - the liberal lion of the Senate - hailed Obama's "extraordinary gifts of leadership and character, matched to the extraordinary demands of this moment in history" which could lead the US to its "rendezvous with destiny".
Toby Harnden went on to describe - a biting critique of Clinton, by Obama, that framed the battle for the Democratic nomination as being about "the past versus the future. TALKING tough and tallying up your years in Washington is no substitute for judgement, and courage, and clear plans... Dream big dreams ... I would come to meetings with world leaders with the understanding that I was opposed to this war in Iraq from the start, that I had consistently described a US foriegn policy that puts diplomacy at the forefront. As somebody who myself lived overseas [in Indonesia] for a time, the world would see me as a different kind of President, somebody who could see the world through their eyes".
From the seeds of small acorns, large oaks grow ...
What WE CAN BE - WE MUST BE zaadzsters of THE planet UNITE
GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK
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It had already been a heady week. On Monday, the day before, Obama had been endorsed for President by Senator Edward Kennedy and Caroline Kennedy, the brother and daughter of JFK. Turning against his friend Hillary Clinton, Kennedy - the liberal lion of the Senate - hailed Obama's "extraordinary gifts of leadership and character, matched to the extraordinary demands of this moment in history" which could lead the US to its "rendezvous with destiny".
Toby Harnden went on to describe - a biting critique of Clinton, by Obama, that framed the battle for the Democratic nomination as being about "the past versus the future. TALKING tough and tallying up your years in Washington is no substitute for judgement, and courage, and clear plans... Dream big dreams ... I would come to meetings with world leaders with the understanding that I was opposed to this war in Iraq from the start, that I had consistently described a US foriegn policy that puts diplomacy at the forefront. As somebody who myself lived overseas [in Indonesia] for a time, the world would see me as a different kind of President, somebody who could see the world through their eyes".
From the seeds of small acorns, large oaks grow ...
Yes We Can - Barack Obama Music Video
What WE CAN BE - WE MUST BE zaadzsters of THE planet UNITE
DESTINY IS that which one discovers ... IF every opportunity, with which you are faced, is responsibly acted upon in all humility. FATE IS what you are faced with if you don't.
GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK
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April 2018 
We have now won east and west, north and south, and across the heartland of this country we love. We have given young people a reason to believe, and brought folks back to the polls who want to believe again. And we are bringing together Democrats and Independents and Republicans; blacks and whites; Latinos and Asians; small states and big states; Red States and Blue States into a United States of America.
THIS … [RENDEVOUS with DESTINY] … IS the new American majority.
THIS IS what change looks like when IT happens from the bottom up.
And in THIS ELECTION, your voices will be heard.
Barack Obama
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SEEMINGLY the only FACT that the peoples of the USA should focus on, in the context of statements made by Hillary Clinton, IS that the native north american saying of ….
”speaking with forked tongue ” … IS ABSOLUTELY TRUE …
in HER “politically expedient” CASE … but alas such is politics thoughout the world
” In much of the popular mind, politicians are ALL the same. They're a bunch of egotistical, lying narcissists who sold their souls long ago and would auction their children tomorrow if they thought it would advance their career. They are selfish, manipulative, scheming, venal. The only feelings they care about are their own … They are not people you would want your son or your daughter to marry.”
Jeremy Paxman as quoted by Anthony Sampson
in his cutting edge epic WHO RUNS THIS PLACE?
… but every now and then, there comes along a family of souls whose aura speaks volumes in the context of the re-incarnation of the rule of ”Akbar the Great”.
IN the context of my ”speaking with forked tongue” comments elsewhere …
Samantha Power has said in her recent interview with The Daily Telegraph …
The ”special relationship” between Britain and America would, she believes become stronger if Mr Obama won the White House because he would make voters in this country warm to the United States.
”A restoration of trust will have to occur between the US Government and the British public,” she says. ”There is a sense of disappointment but people still want to believe in the USA.”
The leaders of the people would be chosen in the old way - not by their political party, or who could speak the loudest, boast the most, or by name calling or mud slinging, but by those whose actions spoke the loudest. Those who demonstrated their love, wisdom, and courage and those who showed that they could and did work for the good of all, would be chosen as the leaders or Chiefs. They would be chosen by their “quality” and not the amount of money they had obtained. Like the thoughtful and devoted ”Ancient Chiefs”, they would understand the people with love, and see that their young were educated with the love and wisdom of their surroundings. They would show them that miracles can be accomplished to heal this world of its ills, and restore it to health and beauty.
200-year-old prophecy by an old Cree woman named Eyes of Fire
Following today's politically expedient statement, by Geraldine Ferraro, Solideogloria's comment post to Toby Harnden's blog, IS THE most compelling …
The US (and the world) does not need 24 years of Bush and Clinton. Do we really want a nation that is run on the lines of Florentine Renaissance politics, with all its attendant intrigues? I'm sure the ruthless, cynical Clintons don't give a damn, but some of us want to see a radical change - and Obama is that change. Hilary is manipulative - she hides behind her gender to deflect criticism. The suggestion that women have somehow suffered more than people of colour in the US is outrageous and deeply cynical. The world does not need the Machiavellians Ferraro and Clinton …
and should Clinton win a second term 28 years of Bush and Clinton.
Let's just hope that Obama has read and taken to heart the words of Machiavelli himself …
” There is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle than to initiate a new order of things. For the reformer has enemies in all who profit by the old order, and only luke-warm defenders in all those who would profit by the new order. This quality of lukewarmness arises partly from a fear of adversaries, who have the law on their side, and partly from the incredulity of mankind, who do not truly believe in anything new until they have had actual experience of it.”
… and understanderbly Barack Obama was justifiably angry at Ferraro's race remark, saying …
“I don't think Geraldine Ferraro's comments have any place in our politics or in the Democratic Party. They are divisive. I think anybody who understands the history of this country knows they are patently absurd. And I would expect that the same way those comments don't have a place in my campaign they shouldn't have a place in Senator Clinton's either.”
AS the foremost power on earth … let the peoples of the United States BE AWARE
The leaders of the people would be chosen in the old way….
Who's compassionate, kind, strong, and who will speak up when God says it must be…Who's hands have worked diligently in the guts of mankinds hearts, and spat in the face of the norm.. when stale abomination and selfishness yell in their faces. That's who I want to see lead…
What did you learn from your mother that influenced your political career?
How to imagine that the future leader of OUR PLANET could be Barack Obama and that his 10 or 12-minute inaugural address, as President of the United States of America, could go something like this …
While I’m president of the United States we will never torture another prisoner and while I’m President of the United States we will never go to war unless our own security is directly threatened …
IF THIS were truly 2 B IT would undoubtedly transform the image of the United States in the minds of a multitude of people around the world …
SO BE IT
Republicans fear John McCain defeat against Barack Obama
“Unfettered markets have led to excesses that are going to cost the global economy trillions … & IRAQ is the first war that has been totally financed on credit … so this recession is likely to be the worst since the Great Depression”
“I've been talking to Barack Obama's team about issues like the cost of the war and regulatory problems. I think the agenda he's putting forward is a very positive one.
There IS a leadership deficit at the moment and he's the best hope to turn things around.”
Joseph Stiglitz
” Barack Obama shares JFK's command of words and recognises their power. I am very excited to see how he has inspired young people who have been so cynical about politics for so long. “ … and what better way to set and example to ALL the peoples of this planet than to lead by example
” Tonight we mark the end of one historic journey with the beginning of another …
a journey that will bring a new and better day to America ”
Barack Obama
Can Barack Obama win the US presidential election? …
” The world seems once again prepared to give [America] the benefit of the doubt “
THE REALIZATION of The American Dream …
“No one knows better than Senator Clinton how desperately America and the American people need change, and I know she will continue to be in the forefront of that battle this fall and for years to come.”
Barack Obama
” WE ARE on a MISSION to make self-reflection hip for just a moment, just long enough to save us. If we can ALL COLLECTIVELY acknowledge our insanity, shrug and roll our eyes at each other at how nuts it is being a human, let alone having to pretend every day that we're 'normal', the amount of energy we'll inherit that has been wasted on the mask will be enough to creatively solve ANY GLOBAL PROBLEMS”
Jamie Catto & Duncan Bridgemann, 1 GIANT LEAP
GRAND post Michael!! Just grand!
Never ceases to amaze me that such a large number of “non-US folks” are following our election with such keen interest.
This is, I feel very strongly, a collective 'Movement' … globally …
A collective “Movement” … INDEED
I will consider it a collective moment… when all people have clean water to give their children.
Without clean water for ALL … NONE of the species will survive !
So what kind of change can Britain expect from a President Obama?
His aides suggest a break from the Reagan-Thatcher and Clinton-Blair models.
Brown aides had clearly hoped the visit would revive the PM's flagging image but Labour MPs focused on the apparent gulf between the two men's fortunes. Ian Gibson, MP for Norwich North, said: ”We need our Obama and we haven't got one, and that is sad.”
… and unless the voters of the USA realise that they now have the awesome responsibility of voting for a leader of an all-inclusive, non-protectionist GLOBAL COMMUNITY, to which OUR SPECIES as a WHOLE belongs, the likes of ”the toxic anger brigade” will LEAD US ALL, lemming-like, to the precipice of existence … in on unsimilar way than our leaders in Europe ”NO LONGER WISH to LISTEN to the PEOPLES of EUROPE” …
oh for the ”inconvenience of referendums on everything” that the Swiss plebiscite enjoys, as well as ALL the benefits of the “European Economic Community” without the interference of the top-down undemocratic obsession of our Eurozone leaders …
for as Phil Kean has commented Danniel Hannan's Telegraph Blog …
We can't expect the march of conspiratorial EU federalism to stop for anything so irrelevant as the democratic opinion of the Irish people.
However, Europe will soon see a welcome & direct politcal casualty, partly due to Labour's blatent lie to the British people to offer a referendum.
Hopefully, where Ireland were fortunate & respected enough to be able to voice their dissent through their referendum, Britain will be in the vanguard of nations to remove our corrupt conspiratorial Labour regime, and hopefully start a trend which will result in the cleansing of treacherous governments right across Europe.
PERHAPS THE TIME HAS COME for THOUGHTS ANEW …
with respect to how we elect our European Leaders !!! ?
LET THE PEOPLE DECIDE
REgional counter moves in Europe -in Poland too f.e. are not surprising.
Has simply to do with the varitey of identies at diverse levels in such a rapidly growoing collective holon.
As Tom Friedman postulates a kind of “Manhattan Project” or National Think Tank for US the EU and innovative European citizens have to develop and to intiate it too.
Better yesterday than today……..:):)
Albert
ALL of these ISSUES have … as Albert SO RIGHTLY says … simply to do with the variety of identities at diverse levels in such a rapidly growing collective holon … & there exists more than enough evidence and understanding of why & how these issues can be holistically addressed …
BUT the one lesson for today, that ALL national, supranational and truly international leaders have to LISTEN to & ACT upon IS HUMILITY.
As Tim Melville-Ross has said - ”It's easy to lose touch with reality. You become detached and surrounded by people who tell you you're great, and that can be underlined by the sort of profile you're getting, the media interviews and the urgency of situations you have to deal with. You think you're one hell of a feller, and you arn't. You're just an ordinary human being.”
Melville-Ross's technique for avoiding the delusion brought on by isolation when running the Nationwide Building Society was to keep in regular touch with the grassroots of the business, coming face to face with customers themselves and listening and acting upon what they had to say.
IT IS TIME for our leaders to listen to …
those who understand why & how these issues can be holistically addressed …
and to put into ACTION solutions which will address ANY GLOBAL PROBLEM.
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