Without order, nothing can exist...
I'm an Obama fan, one-hundred percent.
I don't know if anyone has been keeping up with will.i.am's music videos with his support for Obama (like the one on my profile) but I just found a new posting on YouTube and found this speech in the About section of the video. I'm not sure who wrote it (it looks like will.i.am may have himself), but I'm going to post it below with minor edits. this is the original link, so you can see the speech unedited.
People say Obama's words are just words, but...when was the last time "words" weren't important? When was the last time a great leader didn't use words to lead? When was the last time a person didn't use words to describe how they felt? When was the last time "words" weren't empowering?
And we can all recall the last time "words" were used to divide us and install fear. Bush used words to fear us into voting for him the second time around...
Terror this, terror that; nuclear here, weapons of mass destruction there... and those words effected a lot of peoples' choices.
"Enough is enough." Let's rebuild. Let's change ourselfs. Let's allow positivity to guide us. Let's take action, let's activate our passion! We are Americans, and this is the first time in forever that someone running for president represents US.
Some say this is all excitement; I call it "proud to be an American."
Some say this whole Obama movement is "cult-like." Well, if it comes across as cult-like, then this cult is called America.
The obama movement is connecting America, and it has made US realize our importance. The youth is excited and activated; adults are passionate and motivated; the elderly are proud to know the country they built is in safe hands. We are one.
For too long, politics has been corrupt, separate from the American people, with agendas that go against what the American people "need": Education, health, safety, jobs, et cetera. Politicians have spoken a different language, making it so the youth and poor people feel as if voting was only for the wealthy and old people; making US feel as if WE had no voice; making US feel powerless, making it feel as if we did vote, it wouldn't change anything...but wait, that did happen. Some of us voted, and it didn't change anything.
We were in the dark; we had no voice; we were powerless--all because America, and "they" spoke a different language, and "they" had an agenda different from our well-being.
Correct me if I'm wrong, or speak up if I'm missing something... we want education, health, safety, and good jobs...right? Oh, yeah, and "a healthy planet to live on."
But here we are: in a war, poor education, poor health programs, the dollar is down, the planet, polluted; the rich, richer, and the poor, struggling, with sky-high gas prices to top it all off.
And now even the rich aren't really rich internationally because our dollar has fallen so far down. In our slumber, a very few got really rich, because when you're sleeping, "it's hard to change agendas."
We know what happened in 2000 and 2004, but in 2008, it's different. We are awake, and there is a movement, and "it's hard to change a movement."
Last time we didn't have a movement, America wasn't united. And now, "United" and "Standing" for something...we know the power of US, and we have a person who represents the U.S.
"US."
"We are the ones we've been waiting for."
I'm proud to be an American.
I don't know if anyone has been keeping up with will.i.am's music videos with his support for Obama (like the one on my profile) but I just found a new posting on YouTube and found this speech in the About section of the video. I'm not sure who wrote it (it looks like will.i.am may have himself), but I'm going to post it below with minor edits. this is the original link, so you can see the speech unedited.
People say Obama's words are just words, but...when was the last time "words" weren't important? When was the last time a great leader didn't use words to lead? When was the last time a person didn't use words to describe how they felt? When was the last time "words" weren't empowering?
And we can all recall the last time "words" were used to divide us and install fear. Bush used words to fear us into voting for him the second time around...
Terror this, terror that; nuclear here, weapons of mass destruction there... and those words effected a lot of peoples' choices.
"Enough is enough." Let's rebuild. Let's change ourselfs. Let's allow positivity to guide us. Let's take action, let's activate our passion! We are Americans, and this is the first time in forever that someone running for president represents US.
Some say this is all excitement; I call it "proud to be an American."
Some say this whole Obama movement is "cult-like." Well, if it comes across as cult-like, then this cult is called America.
The obama movement is connecting America, and it has made US realize our importance. The youth is excited and activated; adults are passionate and motivated; the elderly are proud to know the country they built is in safe hands. We are one.
For too long, politics has been corrupt, separate from the American people, with agendas that go against what the American people "need": Education, health, safety, jobs, et cetera. Politicians have spoken a different language, making it so the youth and poor people feel as if voting was only for the wealthy and old people; making US feel as if WE had no voice; making US feel powerless, making it feel as if we did vote, it wouldn't change anything...but wait, that did happen. Some of us voted, and it didn't change anything.
We were in the dark; we had no voice; we were powerless--all because America, and "they" spoke a different language, and "they" had an agenda different from our well-being.
Correct me if I'm wrong, or speak up if I'm missing something... we want education, health, safety, and good jobs...right? Oh, yeah, and "a healthy planet to live on."
But here we are: in a war, poor education, poor health programs, the dollar is down, the planet, polluted; the rich, richer, and the poor, struggling, with sky-high gas prices to top it all off.
And now even the rich aren't really rich internationally because our dollar has fallen so far down. In our slumber, a very few got really rich, because when you're sleeping, "it's hard to change agendas."
We know what happened in 2000 and 2004, but in 2008, it's different. We are awake, and there is a movement, and "it's hard to change a movement."
Last time we didn't have a movement, America wasn't united. And now, "United" and "Standing" for something...we know the power of US, and we have a person who represents the U.S.
"US."
"We are the ones we've been waiting for."
I'm proud to be an American.
...Without chaos, nothing can evolve.
