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Troubled by a continuum of conflict, with an apparent variety of causes, dominating our existence I asked why? The answer is a question of meaning I present in a poem, a precis and an essay each aptly titled "The Last Why". All other writings are derivatives. I welcome comments and much appreciate sharing. Thank you. Doug.E.Barr

    

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Monday
Nov032008

BARACK OBAMA: fighting for change

"Change never comes without a fight"
Is something new Barack has said,
Which makes me think despite his skill
His new ideas might be dead.

The fight for change is nothing new.
It is what we have always done.
So if this time we fight for change
The change we need will not be won.

If we must fight to change the view
Of someone who can't see our way,
We will again still 'kill' that one;
And be as far from a new day.

It makes no sense to fight against
The governed systems that we find
For they are just created from
'Philosophies' that make us blind.

Real change requires we rid ourselves
Of theories with which we make traps.
So bridges we no longer build.
Instead we merely close the gaps.

To make this change we only need
A knowledge of biology
Where we will find our meaning in
Becoming what we each can be.

Thus notwithstanding rhetoric
And leadership that's overblown,
The changes we make without fights
Are changes we make on our own.

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Reader Comments (8)

I dont get it if you are going for obama or not.

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I am "going for" a change in the direction of humanity to the one that is diametrically opposite our present heading toward self-destruction. What is Obama "going for"? Doug.E.Barr

March 16, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterUnknown

I LOVED IT GOD BLESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!111

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Thanks. Doug.E.Barr

April 6, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterKatlin

what is a matter with you everyone sholud have voted for obama and everyone should be on his side even you this is something you dont want to miss change is here and it is going to happen

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By Obama "it is going to happen." but I am not as certain as you are we "don't want to miss change..." Doug.E.Barr

May 5, 2009 | Unregistered Commenterdemetri

he is ruining this country cant you see, passing a law that lets people kill unborn babies a health plan that lets the goverment control our health...........

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This is pure Pope poop. President Obama alone is not ruining your country. America and by influence the world is being destroyed by the majority of people including your president who even after 233 years still do not "…hold these truths to be self-evident, that (though) all men (and women) are created (with unique capacities), they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are (equal) Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. Doug.E.Barr

November 22, 2009 | Unregistered Commenterfrankie

This crap should stay where it belongs, in the GARBAGE. president Obama is the best thing this country could ask for. Although you have your head so far up your ass that you can't even see that the past president is why our economy and health care suck. Obama is just trying to fix a mess that was made long before he took office. It's going to take time., so be patient, A CHANGE is coming.

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I don't have to wait to see whose head is where. Doug.E.Barr

April 29, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterTia

O'bama said we would get change. We got it but certainly NOT the kind this country needed. We need change now more than ever. I think it will come, with the 2012 elections.

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Perhaps you will change your president. If so, that will be the only change and not the change which is needed. Doug.E.Barr

August 18, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterRuby Adams

O'bama hasn't fixed the problems he inherited as he said he would.

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People create problems. Only people can solve the problems they create. The president is irrelevant. Doug.E.Barr

August 18, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterRuby Adams

Hello My name is Artemis okay so are you for or agenist him

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To be for or against Obama is to choose sides in the conflict. I prefer to spend my time trying to make peace. Doug.E.Barr

October 1, 2010 | Unregistered Commenterm

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