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John Mayer Blogs About 'Hope'
Posted on Thu Oct 30, 2008 08:10 AM PDT
John Mayer is expressing his hope for the future and why he's supporting Barack Obama for president in a blog on The Huffington Post website.
John writes that as a person in his early twenties in the time following 9/11, hope and optimism were hard to come by:
- The social and political narrative of the last eight years, if you're a young adult, has been "you are the first generation of the second half of the rest of human existence." That's a huge psychological undertaking, and I believe it's one that will someday be diagnosed on a massive scale as having led to a kind of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. (Something has to explain away our premature obsession with 1980s nostalgia.) My generation has come to know itself as the generation that should have seen the good days, my, were they spectacular, now take off your shoes and place them on the belt.
John contends that Obama's message of 'hope' is more than just a political catch phrase, but that it is the encouragement America's youth needs to get out and do something, and not just sit around, 'waiting for the world to change.'
- To those who question whether hope is a tangible product worth building a campaign around, I'd say take a look at despair and how powerful that has been in reshaping how people think and live. I believe the definition of the "hope" that Barack Obama enthuses operates on the unspoken thesis that there has to be a polar opposite to the despair of 9/11. Because if we accept that there's not, the will to live becomes forever altered. To adults who will vote for him, Barack Obama represents a return to prosperity. To the youth, he represents an introduction to it.
Well put John! Do you agree?
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Comments
It is said he is dating friends on a sports dating site ==mysportsdate.com= it's the real place where hot cougars and milfs hang out with sexy young men!! My friends told me so, gonna check it out!!
Gooble Gooble.
The drugs have eaten his brain.
This guy is such as idiot!
He's right. Everyone needs hope and it
is in pretty short supply right now.
What a moron! He has NO idea what he's talking about! Obama would be the absolute worst thing for America. Obama's campaign is being funded by Middle Eastern leaders. What do you think that means!!! B."Hussein" Obama was not even born in the U.S! He lets babies die that come out alive after an attempted abortion!!! EVIL, that's what B.O. is !! People wake up please!!! McCain is not the best candidate, but he's better than B.O.!!
John get a clue idiot. Everyone knows Barack Obama will not be the next pres. He is a joke. WAKE UP!!!
IDIOT! what hope does Obama have for the future?? all the celebs support obama and they can cant say why, they just follow eachother, they like him cause he reminds them of themselves, a celebrity, good actor, full of crap.John Mayer doesnt say why obama would be good for the country. NOONE HAS YET! they just talk about HOPE! hope for what? bread lines? Well at least the celebs money will go to me! they make the most and will be taxed the most for their income to be given to spread around!
IDIOT! what hope does Obama have for the future?? all the celebs support obama and they can cant say why, they just follow eachother, they like him cause he reminds them of themselves, a celebrity, good actor, full of crap.John Mayer doesnt say why obama would be good for the country. NOONE HAS YET! they just talk about HOPE! hope for what? bread lines? Well at least the celebs money will go to me! they make the most and will be taxed the most for their income to be given to spread around!
John get a clue idiot. Everyone knows Barack Obama will not be the next pres. He is a joke. WAKE UP!!!
"Hope for prosperity." Is John Mayer poor? I guess the Fairness Doctrine is the hope you're looking for. No more talk radio if it doesn't agree with the government's views. Freedom of Speech, your First Amendment right, watch your rights start to disappear one by one if BO gets elected. BTW, President Ronald Reagan vetoed the Fairness Doctrine. He saw it for what it really is. We all want change for the better, but bigger government with more power isn't the answer. Also, BO wants to rewrite parts of the Constitution. Beware, Americans!
People like Obama use Hope because they can't talk about a record of leading and they can't really talk about their policy because then people would know that Obama wants to change what has made America great for the last 200 years from a competitive, entrepreneurial, upwardly mobile state into a welfare state with social protective programs. What this implies, undeniably, is that the United States would move away from running with the high GDP, high-growth nations rising today as economic and political powers and move over to retire with the low-growth economies we displaced -- old Europe. And to the youth who think to vote for Obama France, Germany, Italy age 18 to 29 unemployment rates has been for the last decade 22% to 30 % while America's has been 9% to 11%, when someone is promising you the world the bill usually comes in ways you don't think about until it's to late.
pretentious jackass
Barack Obama stands for nothing or no one but himself. I guess that's why he's THE choice of idiot celebrities everywhere!
John Mayer makes a fool of himself yet one more time.
STATE RUN DNC CELEBRITY STRIKES AGAIN. John Mayer and many other super rich celebrities support Socialism & Barack Obama , but they will Not have too spread their wealth around.
Celebrites are like zombies. They just repeat each other. The words "Change" and "Hope" have been used in campaigns for years. Nothing new here. Obama knows he can brainwash the young people. The young suckers believe him.
Awww, too bad bitter little Repugnican'ts! Your nasty, angry, vicious, war mongering McCainiac is Going To LOSE this Tuesday! Talk all the shit and lies you want, Obama is going to win and you know it! I love seeing you fools in a panic! Love It!!!!
Are you kidding me... this d bag has no idea who obama is and the only message of hope that he has ever said was off of a script!
No wonder he's voting for Hussein, all that dribble reads just like the carefully crafted words Obama reads off teleprompters every day. Poetic tap dancing written by professinal speech writers that inspire motivation despite telling you absolutely nothing of any substance.
Uhhh, John...9/11 was finishing the job that was started during the last Democrat Presidents watch. The terrorist first bombed the World Trade Centers in 1993 and were able to return in 2001 because Clinton didn't set up any type of Homeland Security to prevent them finishing the job.