America: Michelle Obama speaks to the Nation

Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Michelle Obama speaks to the Nation

It is one of the most powerful speeches of our times.
http://mikeghouseforamerica.blogspot.com/2008/08/michelle-obama-speaks-to-nation.html

Which one of the 301 Million Americans who has watched her was not moved by it? There was a point, an inneundo, a hint that touched every soul in that beautiful speech.

That couple, Michelle and Barak are the ideal leaders for our nation, they have a heart big enough to embrace every one, hug every one, empathise with every one and understand every one. Yes I am a man, and yes I was teary like several other humans in that audience. The last few times that brought such joyful tears were when the gutless, war mongering, sycophantic republicans were booted out of the congress on Tuesday November 7, 2006, when Nelson Mandela was released and when Carter, Arafat and Peres signed the peace treaty.

I hope the World does not think about us Americans by the actions of the Republican party and judge us. We are as good as any one in the world, we Americans want peace and are not eager to go to war with others. The extremists among the Republicans are the mirrors of the extremists around the world. I sincerely believe, it is time for the Republicans to believe that there is an Almighty God out there who is powerful than them. God is loving and not the hateful and revengeful God that the Neocons and a few Evangelists want to make it out to be. I really hope that the Republicans go back to their roots and rid of all the extremists who talk about war and who want to destory others... we need people who have the capacity and ability to dialogue. At this time it is hard to find a Republican who believes in a dialogue and I want to be disproved, because I have hopes with the republican party and the moderate majority will wake up and tell them boys enough is enough. http://www.mikeghouse.net/Articles/Republican-or-Democrat-which-way.asp

In contrast I listen to McCain and I cannot relate with him any more, they are about war, destruction, frightening others. They are loaded with hate and contempt towards others, pull any video of McCain and show me where he is not hateful and a war monger. Do I want a president whose proclivities are not solutions but wars? Is he capable of thinking in terms of sitting across the table and solving the problems?

Michelle's video is at this link: http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/player/popup/?rn=3906861&cl=9447453&ch=4226716&src=news

My Dream

I have a dream, a dream to strengthen the pluralistic values of America, and the desire to encourage the community of nations to review our values of Liberty, Justice and co-existence as catalysts for prosperity.

No community or a nation can have undue advantages over others. Such benefits are temporary and deleterious to lasting peace.We have to maintain a healthy balance within our communities and with all nations, what is good for America, has got to be good for the world and vice versa.

God bless America

Mike Ghouse
http://www.mikeghouse.net/
http://mikeghouseforamerica.blogspot.com/

1 comment:

AnonymousAugust 26, 2008 at 1:28 PM
Mike, I agree

She was way better than Hillary. And still pleasant, calm and collected. Barack is the best political speaker I ever heard. Last Sunday we had a visiting Black priest give the sermon. Electrifying!

You are from India. You know for yourself how chauvinistic most Americans are. You could not dream up a better resume for a cosmopolitan president than Obama And they say he is inexperienced!

Tony
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Committment

Personally, I am committed to promoting goodwill amongst people, I believe knowledge leads to understanding, and understanding to acceptance and appreciation of a different point of view.

If we can learn to accept and respect the God given uniqueness of each one of the 7 billion of us, then conflicts fade and solutions emerge.

Ray Bradbury "Until one is committed, there is hesitancy... Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred.… Whatever you can do or dream that you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now."

and this "If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down."

Dr. Abdul Hamid Abusulayman "There is a clear distinction between doubts and problems. Doubts provoke obstruction, frustration and discouragement, where as problems inspire motivation, action and diligence

Mike Ghouse " Whatever you do in life, do it wholeheartedly, there is joy in it for every one around including ourselves"

Taking a principled stand

Please be aware that I will do my best to take a principled stand on Justice. Which simply means no matter who, what or where there is injustice, I will speak out.

Most of our policies are based on short sightedness, What is our gain? Who can we please and how can we remain in our power positions? Be it our President, Congressman, Senator or a public officer, I will speak out.

When it comes to other nations, if they are non-inclusive and mistreat any segment of their population, I will speak out.

I will defend the goodness of every religion, religion is the reason we have relative peace in the world, without which it will be chaotic. For the crimes of mankind, let's find the culprit and laser bark at him, and not his family, his race, his ethnicity or his religion.

I am a moderate Republican, and my first loyalty is to democracy before the blinding loyalty to my party.

Obama is the right man in our history for our nation at this time and I have supported him all the way, the more I know about him, the more I feel he is the right man for the job.

My thought process is similar to Obama's. In fact he has used the same words in his speeches that I wrote on my blog a week ahead of him.

ISRAEL & PALESTINE

Thank God, I have no barriers between me and another human being.

Time permitting I want to see all points of view with an open mind, ultimately it is me or you, who is going to feel right or wrong about things and the pangs I will endure for realizing that I believed in the wrong thing.

No Imam, Rabbi, Pundit or Pastor is responsible for my actions and finding the truth is my own responsibility. Watching a Hamas movie does not make me a Hamas supporter or a Zionist movie would make me a Zionist supporter. We need to raise about such petty pegs.

My loyalty is to justice; and not to Israel or Palestine, which means support is based on issues and items and not wholesale blind support or un-support.

We do not have peace in Middleeast because of our loyalties to entities and not Justice. Every one wants peace, but they are not going about the right way.

Speaker and Writer

Mike Ghouse is a Speaker, Thinker, Writer and a Moderator.

He is a frequent guest on talk radio and local television network discussing Pluralism, interfaith, Islam, India, Multiculturism, Terrorism, Peace, Politics and Civic issues. He co-chairs the center for interfaith inquiry of the Memnosyne Foundation and presides the Foundation for Pluralism. He is the president of World Muslim Congress a think tank with a simple theme: Good for Muslims and good for the world and vice-Versa.

His comments, news analysis and columns can be found on the Web sites and Blogs listed at his personal web site www.MikeGhouse.net . He has authored over 600 articles on Pluralism, interfaith, Islam, India and peace.

His life mission is to open people’s hearts and minds towards fellow beings by mitigating conflicts and nurturing goodwill. He is a peace maker and an educator with two Master degrees and working on his doctorate in Psychology. He has two books on the horizon ; Basic Islam- everything you want to know about Islam and Pluralism, a text book on Pluralism 101.

Mike is a Neighborhood Commissioner at the City of Carrollton, and a Board Member of Dallas Peace Center. He is an Ambassador for Peace for the Universal Peace Federation and a member of the International leadership council. He has initiated the annual events like the Annual Thanksgiving Celebrations in its 12th year, Unity Day USA in its 5th year, Holocaust and Genocides, event just finished its 2nd Annual event. Mike Ghouse Cricket Gold cup and several other initiatives were taken. He was Past President of Indian Creek HOA and North Texas Cricket Association and has been a member of several Boards.

Mike is a Dallasite for three decades and Carrollton is his home town.

For a full still to be updated bio: http://www.mikeghouse.net/ProfileMikeGhouse.asp