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Re: [xmca] A magic moment
Ageliki
That came through today to me. It *was* odd to see him apparently make a
mistake.
Thanks
Carol
2009/1/21 Ageliki Nicolopoulou <agn3@lehigh.edu>
> A slight correction about the "endearing moment." It was actually the
> child of justice who made a mistake and gave Obama the words in the wrong
> order. So Obama stopped at the word previously omitted (or put later on),
> smiled (what seemed to most people that he could not remember), then the
> chief of justice gave the words in the right order! --Ageliki
>
> Carol Macdonald wrote:
>
> Carol Macdonald says:
>>
>> What I found interesting was the poetic nature of his speech--"not this...
>> but this" and no sign of any notes. It was most endearing when the chief
>> justice gave him chunks that were too large in his oath and he got a bit
>> lost. For heaven's sake, when you get married they give you bite size
>> chunks
>> to follow!! A guy at church last night wondered why we are only able to
>> raise up black leaders in the last two decades. Well I think they had to
>> fight from the bottom up, and have the dignity not to berate us for our
>> despicable behaviour in the past. Instead they give *us* dignity... .
>>
>>
>> 2009/1/21 Mary van der Riet <VanDerRiet@ukzn.ac.za>
>>
>>
>>
>>> Indeed - the whole world is/was watching
>>> Nelson Mandela referred to him as: new hope for the world
>>>
>>> Mary
>>>
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>>>
>>>> Andy Blunden <ablunden@mira.net> 2009/01/20 12:07 PM >>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> Likewise in Australia. There is an Obama Party being held in
>>> our street as I write and the TV covergae goes all night
>>> tonight. Everyone seems to have projected their own hopes
>>> and aspirations on to this guy, worldwide.
>>>
>>> Andy
>>>
>>> Beatrice Ligorio wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Mike I just want to add that this event was a great emotion for Europe
>>>>
>>>>
>>> too.
>>>
>>>
>>>> We are all watching America as a new hope for global change. So much
>>>> expectations are coming from this new American president and his new way
>>>> of leading a powerful country, so influencial on the rest of the world.
>>>> The wave got till the old continent :-)
>>>>
>>>> Bea
>>>>
>>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Duvall, Emily" <emily@uidaho.edu>
>>>> To: <mcole@weber.ucsd.edu>; "eXtended Mind, Culture,Activity"
>>>> <xmca@weber.ucsd.edu>
>>>> Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 2:11 AM
>>>> Subject: RE: [xmca] A magic moment
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thank you Mike.
>>>> Good luck to us all.
>>>> ~em
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu [mailto:xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu]
>>>> On Behalf Of Mike Cole
>>>> Sent: Monday, January 19, 2009 6:01 PM
>>>> To: eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity
>>>> Cc: communication@ucsd.edu; Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition
>>>> Internal List
>>>> Subject: [xmca] A magic moment
>>>>
>>>> Dear Xmca-ers--
>>>>
>>>> Tonight is a magic moment. In the Los Angeles Times this morning there
>>>> was
>>>> an
>>>> editorial "cartoon" that had a picture of the Calendar with Martin
>>>> Luther
>>>> King, on
>>>> January 19th, pointing to the future-- of January 20th, when, Humanity
>>>> willing, when
>>>> an African-American will become president of the United States.
>>>>
>>>> I feel unbelievably luck to be alive, present, and, in my small
>>>> peripheral
>>>> way, a participant
>>>> in such an event. The site of Pete Seeger and Bruce Springsteen singing
>>>> Arlo
>>>> Guthrie's hymn
>>>> to the promise of this troubled country with its checkered history in
>>>> front
>>>> of Lincoln's statue
>>>> yesterday was a sight I NEVER expected to live to see. When I was a
>>>> child,
>>>> my family's anti-
>>>> racism and belief in social justice produced some very hard times. When
>>>> I
>>>> went to graduate
>>>> school in Indiana and picketed Woolworth's literally dogged by the
>>>> police,
>>>> my New York liberal
>>>> friends thought it was so obvious and unnecessary they couldn't be
>>>> bothered.
>>>> When I returned
>>>> from the USSR in 1963 and did not know enough to turn south from New
>>>> York to
>>>> be present in
>>>> Washington for MLK's speech at the Lincoln memorial, but had to hear it
>>>> while driving west on the
>>>> Pennsylvania turnpike, we felt the lost opportunity sorely.
>>>>
>>>> All events, long past.
>>>>
>>>> LCHC holds this truth to be self evident: All persons are created equal.
>>>> We
>>>> are rendered unequal
>>>> by the environment into which we are born, an environment that, in the
>>>> general ideological-theoretical
>>>> assumptions of xmca, is not forced upon human beings locked into an iron
>>>> cage, but is, with proper
>>>> respect and humility, constructed and (may our grand children hope)
>>>> preserved by the actions we take
>>>> now. today. tomorrow. and the days following.
>>>>
>>>> Gotta turn off the TV. The trivia level is almost more than I can bear.
>>>> Better to turn to friends coming to
>>>> celebrate and pray for the future, and to listen to Pete Seeger leading
>>>> the
>>>> nation in us thought that,
>>>> just maybe, we can overcome.
>>>>
>>>> Bon nuit
>>>> bueno noche
>>>> spokoini nochi
>>>> and lots of good luck. We all need it.
>>>> mike
>>>>
>>>> (the 50's guy)
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