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October 11, 2009
Raining on the Obama Parade
By Eugene Elander
The Republican National Committee chairman was petty, spiteful, and malicious in his remarks upon the awarding of this year's Nobel peace prize to President Barack Obama.
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The Republican National Committee chairman can be counted upon to lose no opportunity to rain on President Obama's parade. Take, for a recent example, the awarding of this year's Nobel Peace Medal to Barack Obama. The Nobel Committee's statement in making the award made clear that it was given in recognition of our new President's new style of diplomacy, which is open, multilateral, and profoundly different from the stone age style which preceded his term for the previous eight years. Nobody, least of all Barack Obama himself, claimed he had yet earned the Nobel distinction, but it does constitute the "audacity of hope."Author's Biography
Eugene Elander has been a progressive social and political activist for decades. As an author, he won the Young Poets Award at 16 from the Dayton Poets Guild for his poem, The Vision. He was chosen Poet Laureate of Pownal, Vermont for his poem Pownal People. His three new verses for America the Beautiful:September 11, 2001 were widely acclaimed and read into the Congressional Record by U.S. Senator Chris Dodd.
Dr. Elander has authored four volumes of poetry: The Right Click, The World Click, Journeyings, and Philosophy over Fika, all written from 2004 to now, in the U.S. and Sweden -- as well as two published novels: The Goat of God, and Turning the Tides, both available via Signalman Publishing on Amazon.com in Kindle and electronic pdf editions. A self-help book titled Empowerment:Taking Charge of your Life was recently completed and is available via Amazon.com KDP (Kindle Direct Publishing.
Dr. Elander is a freelance columnist who published a newspaper for ten years in New London, CT. He is an economist and college lecturer, and has been an agency executive director, emergency management consultant, investigator; and former animal control officer, deputy code enforcement and health officer for Farmington, New Hampshire. He and his wife Birgit, who co-authored The World Click, divide their time between Georgia and her homeland, Gotland, Sweden.
Several other books are underway, including a sequel to The Goat of God, and a public version of his doctoral dissertation on Cooperatism, a new economic system he developed which includes all stakeholders (workers, consumers, and the public as well as stockholders) in crucial decision making. Dr. Elander has been a member of the Stonepile Writers group in Georgia and the Poetry Society of New Hampshire. He is president of his own Elander Press.