Comments on: Why I didn't listen to Obama's speech

By: Meggg (:

Meggg (: — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 20:22:36 +0000

well said , and again it is up to us . Because i am 15 and nobody will tell me what to do , besides my parents . He has NO controll in my life , he is not even apart of it . So why should i listen to him , just because he is our ” leader ” our ” president ” – it has nothing to do with me , well atleast not right now .

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By: Kurt

Kurt — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 23:00:52 +0000

Wow, Esra’a, you went all over the place in this tome. I had no idea what I was to respond with until the last paragraph of sentences.

You just need to be hopeful about what YOU as a person can achieve and give back to your country. And if you can’t do that, you can’t expect anyone else to. This is our responsibility.

Good concluding thoughts. If the government of the nation you reside in is conducive to working class people, and you can create a business employing ten, a hundred, a thousand or more people and supplying regular paychecks to the employees, why you’re a pretty good person in the community. If more people thought how to create jobs and give steady paychecks to people, this would go a long way to solving much of the worlds problems, everywhere.

Esra’a, do you have a Twitter account? I’m k24anson. Follow me …?

By: Elizabeth (Israel)

Elizabeth (Israel) — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 23:41:49 +0000

Finally got a chance to read this, since the site has been down forever. Well worth the wait.

By: GR

GR — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 04:30:59 +0000

It is amazing how many times the old “divide and conquer” tactic has worked.
US leadership has completely failed to live up to promises to America – Our new president is reverting back to Bush policies more and more every day.
Don’t you people know anything about American deception and political rhetoric !
Different faces yes, but same old path. Wake up the new “Gitmo” is in Afghanistan and we now
limit ourselves to exposure by outsourcing harsh interrogations.
I love my country and our people, being a traditionalist I still believe that America should not interfere with your affairs. We certainly shouldn’t be starting civil wars like in Pakistan. I heard our leader taking about retaliation, but I hardly think that the millions of refugees caused by our meddling should be punished.
Most Americans voted for change (end of war), instead we are escalating troop levels and are being told that we should be prepared for lasting war for at-least 4-8 more years. Amazingly war protesters in America have stopped protesting, they to have been flam-boozeled by our new leadership.
This should be a sounding alarm, what is our “new purpose” in the Mid-East and will everyone be forced to adopt the “American way” before we will stop ?

Thank you for You Post.

By: elinor(Iran)

elinor(Iran) — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 19:30:51 +0000

Hi dear Nissim
It is always good to read what you post. Let me tell you that the motto of change has spread every where,even in the current ellections of Iran, you hear some potential winners of the campaign talk about change and I see that the word is being printed and handed out to people on the streets, the desire for change is burning in the hearts of people who truely look forward to that and I feel it is an encompassing and exponential desire, which we all hope would spread and finally mould into substantial frames and models that would truely serve people considering their dignity, their indiiduality, their needs as human beings and as individuals who form masses of current and dynamic cultures and traditions and religions, in essence we all need a change in one direction: crairy, truthfulness and reviving human vlaues. The rest will follow, Amen

By: Nissim Dahan (Israel/USA)

Nissim Dahan (Israel/USA) — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 15:09:29 +0000

Elinor, I couldn’t agree with you more.

The change we seek, not only in the Middle East, but in the world as a whole, is so vast, that we will need the help of anyone who is willing to help, including President Obama.

The problems we face are so all-encompassing, that to solve them we will need nothing less than a realignment of some very basic aspects of human nature. So, for example, if some people are greedy, we will have to sell them on the idea of sharing, on giving everyone on earth a place at the table, a stake in his or her future. If some people are power-hungry, we will have to sell them on empowering the man on the street. Give the man on the street a sense of hope, and you will have turned the corner on world peace. Nothing more is needed, and nothing less will suffice. If some people want to consume the environment until nothing is left, we will have to sell them on sustaining the environment so that we all have a world we can live in.

The list goes on and on. But the basic point is that human nature, as presently constituted, and many of the models that have been put in place in both the West and the East, will have to be re-looked at, and revised, so as to be made more consistent with a vision of hope, a vision of peace, prosperity, and freedom for all.

The United States prides itself on perfecting a better union. It is time to take that up one notch and to perfect a better world, and a better sense of who we are as human beings.

By: elinor(Iran)

elinor(Iran) — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 14:41:26 +0000

Dear Esra’a,
Some people are influential, Obama is as well, his tone did appeal to some people who otherwise were much compelled by the Western World. Not speaking about this latest of the speeches, the one before Nowrooz made people whop celebrated Nowrooz feel good. Obama’s speeches are delivered exactl when the candidates for presidency my country ( Iran) are delivering speeches and debating and we do compare these speeches. Obama sounds more honest, more in favor of real change, and more reasonalbe than what we hear in these debates, that my uncle told me on the phone.
The fact that a black Ameircan, highly educated and charming is elected by Americans to lead a vast country of 52 states speaks a lot, and vast democracies are inpiring for countries that are in the transitionla phase of absolute dictarorship to a more fitting state that would include more of the will and power of the people of the countires.
If we want to think about the mistakes in the name of democracy or people, or what had been just or unjust, we are faced with a very vast criterion of picking what or who? We are all faulty, and we should all join forced and efforts to make this world a better place. Esra’a, I agree with you when you say the change has to come from within. In our souls we should have this peace that we attribute to the pretty name of Middle East.
The change that you have called for with this forum is the one that bulds the ground for the interaction of people of the Middle East as human beings who are not necessarily opposed to one another and for me that is very positive and I am very proud of you. Amen to a better Middle East and Better world

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By: Esra'a (Bahrain)

Esra'a (Bahrain) — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 20:42:39 +0000

Dear svend, it’s pretty unfortunate. The attacks against Islam and Muslims is now a typical reaction to anything Obama-related, even if he wasn’t addressing the “Muslim World” so to speak. There were a few other extremely hateful comments here that were so inciteful and disturbing, such hatred is not welcome here as it adds nothing to further a dialogue.

I used to think that we have a responsibility to sit down and refute every single attack against Muslims or Islam, but these are bigots whose opinions we can never change no matter what facts we provide. Look at the Jihad Watch crowd and what they’re equating the Obama speech with, and how violent they are in their hatred of Muslims.

It’s quite scary but this is not the kind of crowd that has any interest to what others like us would think or say, they’d attack no matter what.