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Facebook June 16 2010:
Last night I listened to Obama's address and
some of the inane CNN chatter which followed. I wondered how long it would
take for the talking heads to get to the "we have to change direction
regarding energy" bit. It took a while and when it was finally mentioned it
was finished it off with these words, "not the right time". I've given this
some thought and you know what? Those who say it's not the right time are
right. The right time for the US and the rest of us to move to alternative
forms of energy has long past. Man it'd be nice to hear some truth come out
of all this.
Facebook Comments Following Original Post:
Not so much that I've lost hope in Obama but
lost hope that anyone will make a significant difference.
Nevertheless, I trudge on...
After
taking more shots at Obama (deserved or not) in the first segment, last
night Jon Stewart echoed what I mentioned here in the second segment of The
Daily Show. I guess it goes back eight Presidents, all the way back to Nixon,
that this alternative energy thing has been talked about. That's a long time
to do nothing. I don't want to lose hope but...
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Stages of Hope
(The election of Barack Obama as a sign of the times and the effect on
Hope.)
As a sign of the times, the election of Barack
Obama revived in me an all but dormant hope that sanity still lurked
somewhere in the shadows of a mad world. Through the Facebook photo album
"Stages of Hope" I use and
abuse the iconic Shepard Fairey Hope poster to express my own hopes as they
ebb and flow. Lately my hope in humanity's sanity has seen better days
and we'll see what the future brings. I can only hope...
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"Lost Hope" ~
Digitally Recycled Recreation originally published through the Facebook
Photo Album "Stages of Hope" and also May 18, 2010 Journal
entry "Watch for Children" Copyright © 2010 by Petrus H. Boots
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Just one more...
The original Shepard Fairey Obama Hope Poster alongside the original
photo for which he got in copyright trouble. Precedent set, I use artistic
license and also choose to ignore copyright law doing what I please
as far as expressing my hope and the loss of it.
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enhance a personal point of view and in no way indicates or infers the
individuals depicted or the photographer's or artist's support of any
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