orn that is an interesting thought..
Allan

On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 1:52 PM, ornamentalmind <[email protected]>wrote:

>
> archy, there is one here in the US who is focused on peace. Of course,
> he mostly receives attention to marginalize his world view.
>
> Source of overview and specific links:
>
> http://kucinich.house.gov/issues/issue/?IssueID=1564
>
> Personally I like Dennis a lot. In most ways he appears to be one
> politician who hasn’t been tainted by power nor money.
>
>
>
> On Oct 9, 4:14 am, archytas <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I tend to this view Francis - in hope.  Frankly, I was think it is an
> > old, doomed strategy.  I note there is no real vision of what a
> > peaceful world would be and how we would regulate through democracy,
> > plenty and so on.
> >
> > On 9 Oct, 10:18, frantheman <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > > So, the prize committee chooses Obama, less than a year after he has
> > > begun to operate on the world stage, before many concrete results have
> > > been seen.
> >
> > > Spontaneously, I see this as a gesture of thankfulness and hope;
> > > thankfulness to the American people that they have elected a successor
> > > to Bush, a man who did so much global damage, a successor who works
> > > with different visions and ideal-structures, a more positive
> > > fundamental view of what it means to be human and what societies
> > > (local, national and global) can and should be doing and achieving.
> >
> > > Hope that he will realise some of this vision and trust that his
> > > country and the world puts in him. The past few months have made me a
> > > little concerned that the experts and lobbyists, advisors and
> > > professional analysts are wearing him down with detail and
> > > realpolitik.
> >
> > > Maybe this award will strengthen that "Yes, we can" impetus, in the
> > > face of the everyday inertia of the thousand arguments of
> > > complicatedness against changing anything, against daring to hope.
> >
> > > Francis- Hide quoted text -
> >
> > - Show quoted text -
> >
>


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