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All these have been lessened.
And he's opposed nuclear proliferation and other forces that endanger the whole earth.
I'm aligned with those who hope and believe that because Obama's of the Whole Earth generation that he's attuned to this existential moment. Obama grew up with the Earth as ubiquitous icon. He grew up electronically connected and therefore exposed to the promise of a more inter-connected world. He spent time at elite universities but also on the streets driving broken down cars. He took a magical mystery tour as he sought to understand his own mythic family, his own identity. Along the way, he forged a new politics.
His message of peace, hope and community springs from this journey, this seeking, this essence that is Barack Hussein Obama. At last he can proclaim his full name. It's part of a message that recognizes the dignity of others and a world community we must work to save, lest it fall into the abyss that yawns inside each human heart.
His challenges are legion, and the jury is out as his first year in office winds down. The Noble committee just raised the stakes.
Obama as peacemaker? He'd better be. Else we are lost.
Don Williams is a prize-winning columnist, short story writer and the founding editor and publisher of New Millennium Writings, an annual anthology of literary stories, essays and poems. His awards include a National Endowment for the Humanities Michigan Journalism Fellowship, a Golden Presscard Award and the Malcolm Law Journalism Prize. He just finished a novel, "Oracle of the Orchid Lounge," set in his native Tennessee. Publishers or agents may inquire via email. His book of selected journalism, "Heroes, Sheroes and Zeroes, the Best Writings About People" by Don Williams, is due a second printing.For more information, email donwilliams7@charter.net. Or visit the NMW website at www.NewMillenniumWritings.com. In 2007, he gave up his weeklycolumn at the Knoxville News-Sentinel rather than see it cut back to every-other-week by editors whoendorsed Bush-Cheney.To support continuation of his column with a modest donation, visit https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=8466358
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