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Random Hopes

Hopes from an older person.

Random Hopes 

o I hope that our nation will understand death not like an eleven year old playing a video game but like someone who is facing their own mortality. 

o I hope that my community, the LGBTQ, is given full citizenship. 

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o I hope our community if allowed full membership in all the faith communities. 
 We are everywhere after all. I believe in this President we have a real ally.

o I hope he can find enough white males that are not threatened by all of the diversity that is and always has been America. 
 The blood of all colors runs red when it is spilt for or in our nation and you can’t tell which is which as it runs together in a theatre or a battlefield or a place of worship.

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o I hope we all can agree that regardless of whether we believe that life begins at conception living begins at birth.

o I hope that I die with a job. 
 It made me feel whole.
 It makes anyone feel whole.

o I hope that all of us looking for work find it.

o I hope that those of us who need to be retrained will find a way to be retrained.
 We need to realize that educating ourselves can never stop.

o I hope people understand that the arts are as important to our nation as creating wealth. 
 It is as important as Wall Street, State Street and Main Street. It’s where we  it's where we learn to think critically and find our true expression

o I hope I die an American. 
 I do not understand how I could be as fortunate as is our President to be born an American.

o I hope that people will look at the President again and realize that the only nationality that he could be is American. 
 His story is America.

o I hope that people will see that Mitt Romney’s story is not uniquely American. 
 Those stories are a dime a million. Rich people begetting rich people is a not a new story and it certainly isn’t uniquely American. It’s as old civilization itself. Rich people have always had a head start in the world since it began. 
 But a lower middle class kid coming all the way from that to be President why that’s just a plain old miracle. A miracle only found in America.

o I hope we embrace the miracle that is Barack Hussein Obama because that’s what he is and he is as American as Jazz. 
 A fusion of so many feelings and colors and rhythms and quiet dignity that can suddenly flash and throw you against the wall when afterward all you can ask is WTF?

o I hope for a lot I know but mostly…

o I hope to hear President Obama take the oath of office of President again in January 2013.
 I will no longer have to hope. 

o I will know then that the country will have finally changed for good. 
 There will be no turning back. 

o It will be different but oh in the end it’s going to be all good.

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