President Obama - Be a Statesmen - Listen to the past to shape our future
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Many great men and women have gone before. They have left a legacy in history that has shaped our world. Our future shape; and that of a safe planet for our children, now hangs in the balance.
A few great men and women may start out being the power of one, but no single great man, no single great woman, from the start of history or into the future, will make a change without collective will.
We need collective will, collective effort, and collective vision, for our collective future. You and yours. Me and mine. Them and theirs.
Sing this petition to President Obama to become the Statesman American and the world needs to look well beyond his term in office and implement sound policy on climate change to save the future (a safe future) for our children and theirs.
President Obama listen to the past with 20/20 hindsight of which it is said we can be wise, and with 20/20 foresight on our future, change one that is finite to one that is safe.
Be WISE.
Be a Statesman.
Listen to the past to change the future.
Martin Luther King Jr.
%u201CWe are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history there is such a thing as being too late. Procrastination is still the thief of time. Life often leaves us standing bare, naked and dejected with a lost opportunity. The %u2018tide in the affairs of men%u2019 does not remain at flood: it ebbs. We may cry out desperately for time to pause in her passage, but time is deaf to every plea and rushes on. Over the bleached bones and jumbled residue of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words: %u2018Too late.%u2019%u201D
These words 'Too late' now written in history must not become the epitaph left by us, to be uttered by our children. Too late must not be our fate.
President Obama, make the hard policy decisions necessary with a mandate from the common man.
Become the Statesman we need.
Before it is 'TOO LATE'
A few great men and women may start out being the power of one, but no single great man, no single great woman, from the start of history or into the future, will make a change without collective will.
We need collective will, collective effort, and collective vision, for our collective future. You and yours. Me and mine. Them and theirs.
Sing this petition to President Obama to become the Statesman American and the world needs to look well beyond his term in office and implement sound policy on climate change to save the future (a safe future) for our children and theirs.
President Obama listen to the past with 20/20 hindsight of which it is said we can be wise, and with 20/20 foresight on our future, change one that is finite to one that is safe.
Be WISE.
Be a Statesman.
Listen to the past to change the future.
Martin Luther King Jr.
%u201CWe are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history there is such a thing as being too late. Procrastination is still the thief of time. Life often leaves us standing bare, naked and dejected with a lost opportunity. The %u2018tide in the affairs of men%u2019 does not remain at flood: it ebbs. We may cry out desperately for time to pause in her passage, but time is deaf to every plea and rushes on. Over the bleached bones and jumbled residue of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words: %u2018Too late.%u2019%u201D
These words 'Too late' now written in history must not become the epitaph left by us, to be uttered by our children. Too late must not be our fate.
President Obama, make the hard policy decisions necessary with a mandate from the common man.
Become the Statesman we need.
Before it is 'TOO LATE'
Many great men and women have gone before. They have left a legacy in history that has shaped our world. Our future shape; and that of a safe planet for our children, now hangs in the balance.
A few great men and women may start out being the power of one, but no single great man, no single great woman, from the start of history or into the future, will make a change without collective will.
We need collective will, collective effort, and collective vision, for our collective future. You and yours. Me and mine. Them and theirs.
Sing this petition to President Obama to become the Statesman American and the world needs to look well beyond his term in office and implement sound policy on climate change to save the future (a safe future) for our children and theirs.
President Obama listen to the past with 20/20 hindsight of which it is said we can be wise, and with 20/20 foresight on our future, change one that is finite to one that is safe.
Be WISE.
Be a Statesman.
Listen to the past to change the future.
Martin Luther King Jr.
%u201CWe are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history there is such a thing as being too late. Procrastination is still the thief of time. Life often leaves us standing bare, naked and dejected with a lost opportunity. The %u2018tide in the affairs of men%u2019 does not remain at flood: it ebbs. We may cry out desperately for time to pause in her passage, but time is deaf to every plea and rushes on. Over the bleached bones and jumbled residue of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words: %u2018Too late.%u2019%u201D
These words 'Too late' now written in history must not become the epitaph left by us, to be uttered by our children. Too late must not be our fate.
President Obama, make the hard policy decisions necessary with a mandate from the common man.
Become the Statesman we need.
Before it is 'TOO LATE'
A few great men and women may start out being the power of one, but no single great man, no single great woman, from the start of history or into the future, will make a change without collective will.
We need collective will, collective effort, and collective vision, for our collective future. You and yours. Me and mine. Them and theirs.
Sing this petition to President Obama to become the Statesman American and the world needs to look well beyond his term in office and implement sound policy on climate change to save the future (a safe future) for our children and theirs.
President Obama listen to the past with 20/20 hindsight of which it is said we can be wise, and with 20/20 foresight on our future, change one that is finite to one that is safe.
Be WISE.
Be a Statesman.
Listen to the past to change the future.
Martin Luther King Jr.
%u201CWe are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history there is such a thing as being too late. Procrastination is still the thief of time. Life often leaves us standing bare, naked and dejected with a lost opportunity. The %u2018tide in the affairs of men%u2019 does not remain at flood: it ebbs. We may cry out desperately for time to pause in her passage, but time is deaf to every plea and rushes on. Over the bleached bones and jumbled residue of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words: %u2018Too late.%u2019%u201D
These words 'Too late' now written in history must not become the epitaph left by us, to be uttered by our children. Too late must not be our fate.
President Obama, make the hard policy decisions necessary with a mandate from the common man.
Become the Statesman we need.
Before it is 'TOO LATE'
Help President Obama become the Stateman we need.
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# 130:
4:48 pm PDT, Apr 17,
Charlie Dyrsten, Colorado
# 129:
7:47 pm PST, Feb 16,
Abbie Dawn, Australia
# 128:
7:29 am PST, Feb 8,
Sabine Yenen, Turkey
Dear President Barack Obama, We trust on you. You may also trust on us.
Dear President Barack Obama, We trust on you. You may also trust on us.
# 127:
7:16 am PST, Jan 26,
Name not displayed, Malaysia
# 126:
9:26 pm PST, Jan 24,
Leanne Cook, Australia
# 125:
7:41 pm PST, Jan 24,
Courtney Elizabeth, Florida
# 124:
11:08 am PST, Jan 23,
Name not displayed, Massachusetts
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2:06 am PST, Jan 22,
Ari R. Kolman, Canada
Beautiful Obama & Michelle; We need collective will, collective effort, and collective vision, for our collective future. You and yours. Me and mine. Them and theirs. Please look well beyond your term in office and implement sound policy on climate change to save the future (a safe future) for our children and theirs. Call on Governments to protect the polar bear's and Marine Life habitat and slow the effects of global warming. Call on Governments to take the lead in protecting our natural heritage. Which include the Animals.. Call on Governments to establish strong regulations concerning access to and removal of natural resources where so many animals are either slaughtered, hunted, or tortured and then killed to make wave for Oil and gas development that should not come at the expense of our nation's wildlife and the Global Environment (Global Warming). I call on the Government to maintain essential habitat for all Arctic wildlife and all wildlife, to ensure that communities are not disrupted by climate change because of all the land destruction and wildlife killing. PLEASE STOP THE KILLING OF OUR WILDLIFE THROUGH GUN SHOT, SEAL CLOBBER, ANIMAL SLAUGHTER FOR FUR AND SKIN, AND EVERY BARBARIC BEHAVIOR THESE PEOPLE TAKE OR ENCOURAGE AGAINST HUMANITY AND THE ENVIRONMENT. I always say it’s the people who DO NOT listen to the environmentalists, humanitarians, and animal activists of the world that will destroy us so please listen to us. We can all make the world a better place this way, for if we don’t the Governments will continue to allow the destruction of planet, the killing of animals, and the poison of people.. Radio Active Foods, Water, Air, Diseases, Products, and particles in the air to ingest when we breath. The perfect receipt for Government Profit… Obama you know The Governments and all their Plastic Loving Game Players invest; spend and make millions of dollars every year on projects that will destroy us all if we don’t fight for solar power, wind power, hydro power and geothermal energy when ever we can. Like everyday…. The amount of paper alone delivered to the businesses we work for, is constantly destroying pristine forests and lands of trees that animals need to survive, and if they don’t survive then they and the constant removal of forest will deplete our lands from the little safety of clean air that we have left, not to mention animal and creature survival and of course GLOBAL WARMING. We need the animals to survive, WE NEED ALL THE ANIMALS IF GLOBAL WARMING IS TO Decline IN SOME WAY; when will everyone acknowledge that their killings is another donation to Global Warming, and stop killing them… Thank Obama for caring about the the people, the environment and the animals, and WTG with all your wonderful contributions. I’m so proud to have you as the Greatest American President and know you will take action daily. BUT NO MORE NUCLEAR PLEASE. NO MORE COAL. NO MORE OIL, NO MORE DRILLING AND NO MORE ANIMAL SLAUGHTER FOR REASONS THAT NEVER MAKE SENSE AND ARE STATISTICALLY INCORRECT…. Obama please don`t let the words 'Too late' now written in history; become the epitaph left by America, to be uttered by the children. Thank you… Ari |
# 122:
6:15 pm PST, Jan 21,
Name not displayed, Wisconsin
# 121:
4:29 pm PST, Jan 21,
Nathan Tyson, Georgia
Dear President Barack Obama, My name is Nathan Tyson and I am a person living with HIV, the virus which causes AIDS and I live in Cordele, Georgia, located in Central Georgia, about an hour's drive South of the city of Macon, GA via interstate I-75. Former President Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalyn Carter lives in Sumter County, Plains, GA - which is the county West of Crisp County, Cordele, GA, approximately 40 miles West of where I reside presently - if this helps, generate a mental picture of my locale? I work in a volunteer capacity for Safe Haven of Thomasville, GA - which is a small grass roots developed HIV/AIDS not for profit social service organization within the Southwest Georgia region as an HIV/AIDS Educator and though if you'd asked me 10 years ago if I envisioned myself in this social service field? - I assure you, my answer might've been a bit different at the time. I became more involved in HIV/AIDS Advocacy because overtime, even though medical advances continued in HIV medicine and our quality of life experiences continued to improve - the Stigma of HIV prevailed, in some ways, it grew stronger and the divisions amongst the HIV Negative people of our society within the United States of America and those that are living with HIV/AIDS deepened considerably. Consequently, a younger generation of youth has begun to look upon HIV as a proverbial "cake walk", thru life due to these recent medical advances in HIV medicine and again, the numbers of our nation's youth and it's seniors contracting HIV has began to escalate and grow at alarming numbers in our society once again - this is when I had my epiphany moment at age 35 (or mid life crisis, whichever it was), and realized I could no-longer take my blessings I was afforded living with HIV for granted. I had to "get" involved - too much was at stake now... the Stigma of HIV and the Ignorance surrounding it was still with us and looking the other way or pretending this didn't affect me directly wasn't going to make the problems go away. The thing is, we each have a responsibility to be honest with ourselves first and foremost and then to the people we choose to love as well, especially those combatting a life threatening, terminal ilness like HIV, the virus which causes AIDS! We each have an imperative to try to live our lives with as much passion and dignity as we can -- anything less than this is a life not lived well and who truly wants to be remembered for that?! I ask you President Obama, to reach out to our nation's HIV/AIDS communities, to ask our top medical brass within the National Institutes of Health to work harder on a cure for HIV/AIDS and to eliminate red tape which may possibly be hampering their ability to further testing for an HIV/AIDS vaccine clinical trials program in our country! I've lived with HIV for the past 17 years and am now 42 years old, I tested HIV+, when I was only 25 years old and I've endured many hardships along the way, from housing discrimination in Greenville, South Carolina in December of 1995, to employment discrimination in Atlanta, Georgia in February of 1997, to medical apathy in my hometown of Cordele, GA with Crisp Regional Hospital and it's staff since day-1, of testing HIV+ in May of 1992. These discriminatorial practices I am sorry to tell you, "still" goes on - these people are unscrupulous and will find ways of violating the Americans with Diabilities Act(A.D.A.), even though people like myself living with HIV/AIDS are within a protected non-discrimination class under the A.D.A.! We as a nation need to heal many wounds -- one of which is the Stigma we keep generating towards those living with HIV/AIDS in the United States of America! It is now 2009, it has been 25 years since former President Ronald Reagan said the word "AIDS", on national television in 1984, and yet today, HIV and AIDS continues to be words for shame, fear, intimidation, discrimination, and hostile intentions from housing sectors, employment venues, and medical facilities throughout our nation. I am only one person and one voice on this issue, but there are many like me... All you have to do is consult your National Director for AIDS and you will discover that my words are true, kind sir. Our nation needs a new, more relevant National AIDS Policy - Abstinence Alone, isn't enough of a message to send to our citizens - both our youth, our adults and our seniors. We need something more relevant, more tactile and in the same breath, compassionate for those like myself living each day and breath in the moment, ever-thankful for our many blessings and hopeful for a brighter tomorrow than the today we find ourselves living within on this journey with HIV. It is my dream of living long enough to see the cure for HIV made real for ALL of the people of our planet -- What a glorious day that will be for us all to share with tearful eyes and jubiliant smiles!
Dear President Barack Obama, My name is Nathan Tyson and I am a person living with HIV, the virus which causes AIDS and I live in Cordele, Georgia, located in Central Georgia, about an hour's drive South of the city of Macon, GA via interstate I-75. Former President Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalyn Carter lives in Sumter County, Plains, GA - which is the county West of Crisp County, Cordele, GA, approximately 40 miles West of where I reside presently - if this helps, generate a mental picture of my locale? I work in a volunteer capacity for Safe Haven of Thomasville, GA - which is a small grass roots developed HIV/AIDS not for profit social service organization within the Southwest Georgia region as an HIV/AIDS Educator and though if you'd asked me 10 years ago if I envisioned myself in this social service field? - I assure you, my answer might've been a bit different at the time. I became more involved in HIV/AIDS Advocacy because overtime, even though medical advances continued in HIV medicine and our quality of life experiences continued to improve - the Stigma of HIV prevailed, in some ways, it grew stronger and the divisions amongst the HIV Negative people of our society within the United States of America and those that are living with HIV/AIDS deepened considerably. Consequently, a younger generation of youth has begun to look upon HIV as a proverbial "cake walk", thru life due to these recent medical advances in HIV medicine and again, the numbers of our nation's youth and it's seniors contracting HIV has began to escalate and grow at alarming numbers in our society once again - this is when I had my epiphany moment at age 35 (or mid life crisis, whichever it was), and realized I could no-longer take my blessings I was afforded living with HIV for granted. I had to "get" involved - too much was at stake now... the Stigma of HIV and the Ignorance surrounding it was still with us and looking the other way or pretending this didn't affect me directly wasn't going to make the problems go away. The thing is, we each have a responsibility to be honest with ourselves first and foremost and then to the people we choose to love as well, especially those combatting a life threatening, terminal ilness like HIV, the virus which causes AIDS! We each have an imperative to try to live our lives with as much passion and dignity as we can -- anything less than this is a life not lived well and who truly wants to be remembered for that?! I ask you President Obama, to reach out to our nation's HIV/AIDS communities, to ask our top medical brass within the National Institutes of Health to work harder on a cure for HIV/AIDS and to eliminate red tape which may possibly be hampering their ability to further testing for an HIV/AIDS vaccine clinical trials program in our country! I've lived with HIV for the past 17 years and am now 42 years old, I tested HIV+, when I was only 25 years old and I've endured many hardships along the way, from housing discrimination in Greenville, South Carolina in December of 1995, to employment discrimination in Atlanta, Georgia in February of 1997, to medical apathy in my hometown of Cordele, GA with Crisp Regional Hospital and it's staff since day-1, of testing HIV+ in May of 1992. These discriminatorial practices I am sorry to tell you, "still" goes on - these people are unscrupulous and will find ways of violating the Americans with Diabilities Act(A.D.A.), even though people like myself living with HIV/AIDS are within a protected non-discrimination class under the A.D.A.! We as a nation need to heal many wounds -- one of which is the Stigma we keep generating towards those living with HIV/AIDS in the United States of America! It is now 2009, it has been 25 years since former President Ronald Reagan said the word "AIDS", on national television in 1984, and yet today, HIV and AIDS continues to be words for shame, fear, intimidation, discrimination, and hostile intentions from housing sectors, employment venues, and medical facilities throughout our nation. I am only one person and one voice on this issue, but there are many like me... All you have to do is consult your National Director for AIDS and you will discover that my words are true, kind sir. Our nation needs a new, more relevant National AIDS Policy - Abstinence Alone, isn't enough of a message to send to our citizens - both our youth, our adults and our seniors. We need something more relevant, more tactile and in the same breath, compassionate for those like myself living each day and breath in the moment, ever-thankful for our many blessings and hopeful for a brighter tomorrow than the today we find ourselves living within on this journey with HIV. It is my dream of living long enough to see the cure for HIV made real for ALL of the people of our planet -- What a glorious day that will be for us all to share with tearful eyes and jubiliant smiles!
# 120:
10:48 am PST, Jan 21,
Brittany Lane, Nevada
# 119:
7:41 am PST, Jan 21,
Dawn Bolin, Ohio
# 118:
5:53 am PST, Jan 21,
Guenther ALBRECHT, Austria
# 117:
8:03 pm PST, Jan 20,
Crystal M, Wisconsin
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# 116:
2:20 pm PST, Jan 20,
Christine Rios, Washington
Yes We Can!
Yes We Can!
# 114:
6:17 pm PST, Jan 19,
Eternal Optimist, Australia
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# 113:
10:34 am PST, Jan 19,
ANA MARIA OBRIST, Chile
# 112:
10:03 am PST, Jan 19,
Ann Sumpter, Tennessee
# 111:
8:33 am PST, Jan 19,
Jet Barrett, United Kingdom
# 110:
3:45 am PST, Jan 19,
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# 109:
8:42 pm PST, Jan 18,
Christina Maniaci, Ohio
# 108:
6:49 pm PST, Jan 18,
William N. Howald, Washington
# 107:
6:13 pm PST, Jan 18,
Kent Bob Huzen, New Zealand
Dear Mr. President our whole world is looking at you and we believe that you can make a difference.Please make America proud for us. May God bless you. Kind regards Bob
Dear Mr. President our whole world is looking at you and we believe that you can make a difference.Please make America proud for us. May God bless you. Kind regards Bob
# 106:
5:20 pm PST, Jan 18,
David Rutherford, Massachusetts
# 105:
3:04 pm PST, Jan 18,
Thomas Jones, New York
# 104:
1:59 pm PST, Jan 18,
Jerusalem BreinsAmnesty, Ohio
Tomorrow "WE" celebrate Martin Luther King's B-Day and a reminder of his echoing voice...LET FREEDOM RING! Let's remember what MLK says about "I Have A Dream," for the past to change the future.
Tomorrow "WE" celebrate Martin Luther King's B-Day and a reminder of his echoing voice...LET FREEDOM RING! Let's remember what MLK says about "I Have A Dream," for the past to change the future.
# 103:
1:05 pm PST, Jan 18,
Phyllis Dannemiller, Ohio
# 102:
12:17 pm PST, Jan 18,
Arlette Scharer, Switzerland
# 101:
10:02 am PST, Jan 18,
Scott Lilly, Ohio
