WE HAVE A RESPONSIBILITY TO OTHERS WHO ARE LESS WELL OFF - TED KENNEDY

This is a tribute to the man Ted Kennedy.
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Bear with the annoying music at the beginning. You might want to mute it at least until 28 seconds in.

I am learning more and more how Ted Kennedy lived his life. He is the kind of United States citizen that I want the world to know. This is how to use our voices.  This is what freedom of speech should rise up and give to the world. One voice is important.

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TodaysNetworkNews: 27 August 2009 - Human Rights First: At the 2008 annual dinner, Human Rights First honored Senator Kennedy for his unwavering and courageous leadership in advancing human rights at home and abroad.

"As we mourn his death, we would like to share this tribute to his life and work." said Human Rights First spokesperson.

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Click on this post's title to find a website with gems about Ted Kennedy, including pictures.

PASSION WITH PURPOSE, VOICE USED FOR VULNERABLE ~ U.S. MA SENATOR TED KENNEDY LIVED OUT HIS LIFE IN SERVICE

I, like Senator Ted Kennedy,
am proud to be a liberal

Jack, Bobby and Teddy
Three Kennedy Brothers

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Ted Kennedy delivering the closing part of the eulogy
at the funeral of his brother Bobby,
using excerpts from Bobby's famous speech to
the students of a South African university in 1966.
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Health Care for All. A Right Not a Privilege

December 9, 1978 | Memphis, Tennesse

"One of the most shameful things about modern America is that in our unbelievably rich land,
the quality of health care available to many of our people is unbelievably poor, and the cost is unbelievably high."

To read the speech:
Ted Kennedy's Own Words ~ 1978_Health_Care

Teddy on Jack's Shoulders

Teddy and Dad
Pictures are from www.tedkennedy.org

The True Meaning of Life

We are visitors on this planet.

We are here for ninety or one hundred years

at the very most.

During that period,

we must try to do something good,

something useful, with our lives.

If you contribute to other people’s happiness,

You will find the true goal, the true meaning of life.

H.H. the 14th Dalai Lama

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Tribute to Senator Ted Kennedy from the 2008 Democratic National Convention

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A Season for Hope
Physicians for Human Rights honored Senator Edward M. Kennedy with an award for his work on the Right to Health.
www.PhysiciansForHumanRights.org
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Ted Kennedy's Speech on Hate Crimes

Click on this post's title to go to a wonderful website in memory and in hope for Edward Moore Kennedy.

Ted Kennedy - in His Own Words

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Cape Cod

LIBERTY AND JUSTICE

FOR ALL

WHAT A LEGACY

DON'T UNDERESTIMATE OBAMACANS ~ MY BROTHER IS AN EXAMPLE

Barack and Michelle Obama in Chicago February 5, 2008

Barack Obamam outside the Shoesmith Elementary School
where he voted in Chicago, Illinois

North Dakota Caucus

I have heard Republicans say that they are considering voting for Barack Obama. I am the only Democrat in my family of Republicans. From Indiana, living in New England, for the first time in my life, I have been volunteering for Barack Obama. I cannot stand Hillary Clinton. I cannot imagine voting for Hillary Clinton. I get a sick physical reaction just seeing her or hearing her talk.

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Barack's Super Tuesday Speech

My brother called me tonight from Maui, Hawaii and wanted to know what I thought of the Super Tuesday returns. He knows I am a supporter for Barack Obama. He cannot stand Hillary Clinton. But then he is a Republican. But here is the surprise ~ he said he would for the first time in his life vote for a Democratic Presidential candidate in November if Barack Obama is the Democratic candidate.

I just heard a political TV pundit say the "old way of thinking about politics" statement, that the states that Barack Obama won tonight would not go for a Democrat come November. How does he know that? This year is like no other. These pundits can't think outside the box.

I have immersed myself in these pundit shows this year. And some of these pundits are getting on my nerves. They are wearing on me and I really get offended that they think their opinions are so almighty important. Hillary is certainly on a raw nerve for me.

There is no way that I can vote for Hillary without feeling depressed. All the wind in my sails will be deflated if she is the candidate that moves into November.

Underestimating other people like me who can't stand Hillary is an oversight. We have the young people energized. We have have Republicans willing to vote for Barack Obama, the Obamacans. These are reasons these pundits who say that certain states will go Republican over voting for Barack Obama may be talking without getting outside the traditional, old tired box.

February 5, 2008
Super Tuesday

Barack Obama has won thirteen states -- a clear majority of the Super Tuesday states...

Alaska...

Missouri...

Colorado...

Idaho...

Minnesota...

Connecticut...

North Dakota...

Utah...

Kansas...

Alabama...

Delware...

Illinois...

Georgia...

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YES. WE CAN.

That is what Barack makes me feel.
Hillary does not make me feel this way.
I love Barack Obama for my Presidential candidate.
And Hillary makes me so very sad.

VOTE OBAMA FOR AMERICA

FIRED UP FOR OBAMA

"WE ARE THE ONES WE'VE BEEN WAITING FOR,

WE ARE THE CHANGE WE SEEK...

WE ARE THE HOPE OF THE FUTURE"

Barack Obama

February 5, 2008


Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, arrive onstage at Obama's Super Tuesday presidential primary night rally in Chicago. (Tribune photo by Nuccio DiNuzzo / February 5, 2008)

Sen. Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, celebrate at the primary night rally in the Hyatt Regency Chicago. (Tribune photo by Zbigniew Bzdak / February 5, 2008)

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Fired Up, Ready to Go

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Fired Up Ready to Go

Sen. Barack Obama and wife Michelle vote at their precinct at Shoesmith Elementary School on Chicago's south side. (Tribune photo by Zbigniew Bzdak / February 5, 2008)

Sen. Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, work the crowd at Obama's Super Tuesday primary night rally in the Hyatt Regency Chicago. (Tribune photo by Zbigniew Bzdak / February 5, 2008)

Sarah Obama, grandmother of Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.), sits in her living room in the village of Kogelo, Kenya, on Tuesday. She will be listening to the results of the Super Tuesday primaries on the radio because she doesn't have a television. (AP photo by Ben Curtis / February 5, 2008)

Brenda Tolbert, 52, of Skokie, and Lynne Schwartz, 60, of Ann Arbor, Mich., cheer the early voting returns at the Super Tuesday primary night rally for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama at the Hyatt Regency Chicago. (Tribune photo by Zbigniew Bzdak / February 5, 2008) I didn’t copy this picture.

Gloria Trujillo casts a ballot in the Illinois primary at a polling place located in the Su Nueva Laundromat on Tuesday in Chicago, Illinois. Voters in Illinois and 23 other states are voting today for their party's presidential candidate. (Getty photo by Scott Olson / February 5, 2008)

Lilia Ornelas finishes voting at Ralph's Marine Sales & Service in the 4100 block of West Lawrence Avenue in Chicago on Tuesday morning. (Tribune photo by Wes Pope / February 5, 2008)

Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama is the center of attention as he chats with neighbors at his polling place in the Shoesmith Elementary School on Chicago's South Side. (Tribune photo by Zbigniew Bzdak / February 5, 2008)

A customer in a Tokyo electronics shop watches voting results from the United States' Super Tuesday presidential primaries. (AP photo by Katsumi Kasahara / February 6, 2008)

A young Barack Obama supporter handing out flyers.

Maureen Ferry of St. Louis (from left), Beth Dunlap of Orange, Calif., Karrie McLaughlin of Parker, Colo., and Marcy Levy of New York wait at a hotel in Jakarta, Indonesia, to vote in the U.S. presidential primary. Hundreds of thousands of Democrats living overseas started voting Tuesday, with the first ballots cast at the stroke of midnight in Indonesia, where candidate Barack Obama lived as a child. (AP photo by Dita Alangkara / February 4, 2008)
BARACK OBAMA won in Indonesia.


An Indian television journalist applies makeup outside a voting center of the Democrats Abroad India in New Delhi on Tuesday. Americans living overseas started lining up in hotels and coffee shops to vote for Democratic candidates while others cast ballots online for the first time ever. (AP photo by Mustafa Quraishi / February 5, 2008)

Yes. We. Can.
The Song

VOTE OBAMA FOR AMERICA

YOU MAY SAY THAT I'M A DREAMER ... I'M NOT THE ONLY ONE ~ VOTE FOR OBAMA ~ KEEP HOPE ALIVE

Tonight I found Meemo had left me questions about Barack Obama and the rumors at zimbio.com in my posting WHO'S TRUTHFUL AND WHO'S NOT ~ OBAMA OR CLINTON?

Since I am aware that there are a lot of rumors, undercutting, undermining and deceptive tactics against Barack Obama on the internet and by Hillary Clinton's campaign, I thought I would include how I answered this unknown person to me, here also.

I noticed that just in the last few days that there was a new Youtube about Barack Obama that is outright wrong. It is easy to smear. It is easy to talk in sound bites and hope that the "power of suggestion" will keep people from voting for Barack Obama. And even though people make their judgments based on lies, it still is a lost vote for the person I believe is the only one that is on the right track and stands with right ~ Barack Obama. By the time you need to correct lies, the vote is often over and the falsehoods' have done what they were intended to do. Even if apologies are said after.

All pictures are from outside the Kodak Theatre, January 31, 2008, where the first Democratic debate was when just Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton were in the CNN sponsored debate.

When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.

Martin Luther King Jr.

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Comments

MEEMO said...
Feb-1-08 3:44pm

I AM A CHRISTIAN FIRST AND A REPUBLICAN SECOND. I LOVE AND ADORE PRESIDENT BUSH. THE REPUBLICAN PARTY LOOKING LIKE THEY MAY CHOOSE JOHN MCCAIN, HAS LEFT ME WITH A GREAT DILEMA. I CANNOT AND WILL NOT BE VOTING FOR JOHN MCCAIN..I FEEL IT IS MY AMERICAN DUTY TO VOICE MY OPINION IN OUR UPCOMING ELECTIONS. I DO KNOW THAT I WILL NOT BE VOTING FOR HILLARY AND BILL. THAT LEAVES ME BARACK OBAMA, SO HERE ARE FEW QUESTIONS I NEED ANSWERED. FIRST, IS IT TRUE OR FALSE THAT HE WILL NOT PLACE HIS HAND OVER HIS HEART DURING THE PLEDGE. SECOND, IS HE A JESUS CHRIST BELIEVING CHRSTIAN. I FEEL SOME OF THE RUMORS ABOUT HIM HAVE BEEN STARTED BY NONE OTHER THAN HILLARY AND BILL. IF THAT IS TRUE I KNOW THEY ARE LIES. I WOULD GREATLY APPRECIATE IF SOMEONE WITH MORE KNOWLEDGE ABOUT THIS MAN COULD GIVE SOME DIRECT ANSWERS....THANK YOU,SUSIE CUNNINGHAM CRANE,TX

ilovemylife said...
Feb-1-08 9:44pm

Meemo,

Barack Obama is a Christian, pledges the U.S. flag with the appropriate honor, and has never been a Muslim.

Here are sources:
Senator Barack Obama has addressed this rumor about pledging allegiance to the flag, swearing into office with his hand on the Bible and his Christianity: at the link below. At the 2:05 minute mark is where Barack addresses these rumors and his truth.

and here is an article about it at TimesOnline which is an honorable news source from Great Britain.

Here is the part of the text from Times Online that addresses your questions:

Barack Obama was directly confronted on prime time television last night over allegations swirling around the internet that he is a secret Muslim who worships the Koran, during a Democratic presidential debate in Las Vegas.

Mr Obama, who was raised as a Christian by his white mother despite his Kenyan father being Muslim, has been dogged by smears and innuendo for months that he is in fact an Islamist trying to enter the Oval office by stealth.

"Let's make clear what the facts are: I am a Christian. I have been sworn in with a Bible. I pledge allegiance [to the American flag] and lead the pledge of allegiance sometimes in the United States Senate when I'm presiding."

Mr Obama is a member of Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ and is an actively practising Christian. But opponents, particularly on the Republican side, delight in reminding people that his middle name is Hussein, taken from his father, a Harvard educated economist who left the family when Mr Obama was two.

And last but not least here is a video link that addresses the truth about Barack and his Kindergarten school. The poster titles it
CNN Debunks False Obama 'Madrassa' Smear

CNN Debunks False Smear about Barack Obama and a Madrassa School

And here is a page that introduces you to Barack Obama:


And here is Barack talking about: Religion and Government.
(This is the same as the embed above.)

I hope this helps you decide. Don't hesitate to ask if you have any more questions.

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...You may say that I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one...... I hope some day you'll join us and the world will live as one...

Imagine....
Sung by Eva Cassidy, now deceased. She was from Washington, D.C.

VOTE OBAMA FOR PRESIDENT

The ONLY DREAM Ticket for me is with Barack Obama as President. I get a physical response with a sick feeling, imagining only the choice of Hillary Clinton and John Mc Cain. I am one of the Barack Obama supporters that Barack is referring to, when he says that he has some supporters, who won't cross over and vote for Hillary. I am that person. It won't matter that I am encouraged to do this for the sake of the Democratic party. I know too much about Hillary. I cannot vote for her because she lies. I do not see her as a person of integrity and truth.

I am white, female, Hillary's peer.
Bachelor of Science
Masters of Music


The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Martin Luther King Jr., Strength to Love, 1963

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
Martin Luther King Jr.