Any donor who PayPals me at least $15 will get a 93-page PDF, with 71 Obama related photos, plus 14 articles dating back to 2010. You can read my takes on Bob Dylan and Obama, for example, or Obama's war that somehow wasn't a war against Libya. You can gasp at the Obama gas station in Detroit, and Obama as bounded Palestinian terrorist in New York City. (If you donate $20 or more, I'll send you both the Obama and Occupy PDFs.)
Some sample pages from OBAMA:
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"Those who would transform a nation or the world cannot do so by breeding and captaining discontent or by demonstrating the reasonableness and desirability of the intended changes or by coercing people into a new way of life. They must know how to kindle and fan an extravagant hope. It matters not whether it be hope of a heavenly kingdom, of heaven on earth, of plunder and untold riches, of fabulous achievement or world dominion. If the Communists win Europe and a large part of the world, it will not be because they know how to stir up discontent or how to infect people with hatred, but because they know how to preach hope"
"When hopes and dreams are loose in the streets, it is well for the timid to lock doors, shutter windows and lie low until the wrath has passed. For there is often a monstrous incongruity between the hopes, however noble and tender, and the action which follows them. It is as if ivied maidens and garlanded youths were to herald the four horsemen of the apocalypse."
The above two excerpts are from Eric Hoffer's "The True Believer," and I find them very unnerving given the society we live in. Obama's first election campaign of hope struck such resonance with people that many were proud to vote for him. Given his skin colour, it was a perfect election campaign. You simply could not have done better. Even Edward Snowden thought he would do something. Of course, the rest is history.
What's stranger though is his re-election. Although things seemed very polarized (and I use the word "seemed" because despite all the so-called polarizations in the country, people were still united in their lack of access to a stable economic situation, good education, good healthcare, and basically a lot of other things that matter more), Obama continued enjoying a large amount of popularity, and was also touted as the "lesser evil".
I have Linh's book and I like it. It's a very valuable record of how different people viewed Obama, from those who thought he could do no wrong, to those who would, with hidden racist tones, vilify him, and to those who just saw him as no different from his predecessor. In addition to the pictures, Linh's articles at the end are great as commentary on Obama, the reactions he produced in people, and his track record as president.
It's a very valuable PDF.
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