Re: [ALOCHONA] Re: Dr. dipu Moni - picked by Hasina or Sonia, Monmohon, pranab

Just to respond to your other question, Dr. Omar, I don't know Dr. Moni either. Never heard of her before, and frankly, I have very little faith in our foreign ministry. Hopefully, going forward, we will learn a great deal about who she is and what she represents.

 

good luck to us all.

 

Cyrus

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From: maqsud omaba <maqsudo@hotmail.com>
To: alochona@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 8:06:01 AM
Subject: RE: [ALOCHONA] Re: Dr. dipu Moni - picked by Hasina or Sonia, Monmohon, pranab

Re: cyrus
---------

You are good in distorting what others say!

did i say, what you have mentioned?

I have mentioned few encouraging points about dr. Dipu moni, not ONLY about her husband.

Is it not useful to have an educated, wise, experienced partner at home...with whom you might have useful
chat sometimes? Husband is not a positive factor...for our foreign policy...that is the way, you HAVE LEARNT
to distort other people's statements.

Do you remember the most un-sophisticated, un-impressive, shallow FM of AL in the last century?
Remember...his quality of english?
Is Dr. Moni.....not much better than him?
Do you know Dr. Moni?
Anything sad/bad...we should learn about her...FROM YOU.

By the way, I dont know her.

Best wishes.

Khoda hafez.

dr. maqsud omar

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To: alochona@yahoogroup s.com
From: thoughtocrat@ yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 23:04:09 -0800
Subject: Re: [ALOCHONA] Re: Dr. dipu Moni - picked by Hasina or Sonia, Monmohon, pranab

Dr. Omar...let me understand this clearly, if I may. You believe that Dr. Moni's well-qualified husband is actually big positive factor when it comes to our foreign policy? What does he has anything to do with the foreign policies of the new goverment?

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From: maqsud omaba <maqsudo@hotmail. com>
To: alochona@yahoogroup s.com
Sent: Monday, January 19, 2009 8:12:00 PM
Subject: RE: [ALOCHONA] Re: Dr. dipu Moni - picked by Hasina or Sonia, Monmohon, pranab

look at dipu mani's CV--- quite impressive.

she talks well, both in Bengali + english, with a good accent.
She answers to Q of pressmen, carefully, cautiously, taking time.
She doesn't present herself as movie actress, neither wastes public money...to fix her hair,before meeting the  press!!!

Why she is not a good choice?
Lets give her 6 months, then we can re-assess.

She has a well-qualified husband, that is a big big positive factor.

Not like hasina, advised + influenced by " oversmart "...Rehana!!

Best wishes.

khoda hafez.

dr. maqsud omar

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> To: alochona@yahoogroup s.com
> From: ezajur.rahman@ q8.com
> Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2009 11:33:41 +0000
> Subject: [ALOCHONA] Re: Dr. dipu Moni - picked by Hasina or Sonia, Monmohon, pranab
>
> Dear Mahathir
>
> You know full well that a photo of Dipu Moni standing next to the
> Indian PM does not make her an Indian stooge. Just as photo of Khaleda standing next to a Saudi King does not make her part of his harem. Right?
>
> I don't think Dipu Moni was the best chice for FM - because an FM
> represents the gravitas and stature of a nation. I would have
> preferred someone a lot older who would be able to match the lions
> who become FMs in neighbouring nations. Its nothing personal against
> Dipu Moni - she's too young for the role.
>
> But it would be churlish to condemn her so early. Especially given
> the calibre of our recent FMs. If we compare her to her predecessors
> she is a breath of fresh air - though perhaps not fresh enough. Still
> lets wait and see. Lets give here a chance. Why not?
>
> I suspect she is being groomed for something bigger (?) in the medium
> term. Her selection - as with other selections - was also a slap in
> the face to the AL Central Committee (and that makes me so happy!).
> As I compare her to her predecessors I can only wish her well and
> pray that she proves her critics wrong.
>
> I understand her husband - Barrister Tawfiq - is a brilliant man. Forgive me if I am wrong about that information. Perhaps he will help out.
>
> Leave Dipu alone for now and watch. Far easier to lynch our new Home
> Minister Shahara Khatun.. what the heck is with that choice man!!!!!).
>
> Oh dear!
>
> Ezajur Rahman
> Kuwait
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> --- In alochona@yahoogroup s.com, mahathir of bd
> <wouldbemahathirofbd @...> wrote:
> >
> >  
> >  
> > Visit the link, http://dipumoni. com/. see the photos and then you
> will be confused.
> >  
> >  who has really picked  Dr. Dipu moni as foreign minister? hasina
> or Sonia , Monmohon or Pranab?
> >
> >
> >  
> >
> >
> > মন�ত�রীসভায় বেয়াই র
> াজাকার। � লজ�জা কার?
> হাসিনার,�কে খোন�দকারের না
> সেক�টর কমান�ডার ফোরামের?
> >
> > --- On Tue, 1/13/09, Musfique Prodhan <chena_kew@.. .> wrote:
> >
> > From: Musfique Prodhan <chena_kew@.. .>
> > Subject: [notun_bangladesh] New Home and Foreign Minister serving
> India;s cause?
> > To: "Amra Bangladesi" <amra-bangladesi@ yahoogroups. com>, "Bangla
> Zindabad" <Bangladesh-Zindabad @yahoogroups. com>, "notun Bangladesh"
> <notun_bangladesh@ yahoogroups. com>, "dahuk dahuk"
> <dahuk@yahoogroups. com>
> > Date: Tuesday, January 13, 2009, 1:24 AM
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Dear Members
> >  
> > hopefully all are doing fine. Here is another debate, concerning
> the appointment of home and foreign ministers, which seems to serve
> India's cause, specialy the later. Please enjoy the video, and feel
> free to comment.
> >  
> > Part 1
> > http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=BFSFD29DoxQ&feature=related
> >  
> > Part2
> >  
> > http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=7vdqS8g5rQQ
> >  
> >  
> > With Thanks
> >  
> > Musfique.
> >  
> >  
> >
>
>
>
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Re: [ALOCHONA] Info needed

Thank you. Much appreciated.

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To: alochona@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 9:09:15 AM
Subject: Re: [ALOCHONA] Info needed

I received this attachment regarding doing business in BD.  The seminar was in the last Sunday.  You can contact those people mentioned in the flier.  Good luck. --- On Mon, 1/19/09, Cyrus <thoughtocrat@ yahoo.com> wrote: From: Cyrus <thoughtocrat@ yahoo.com> Subject: [ALOCHONA] Info needed To: alochona@yahoogroup s.com Date: Monday, January 19, 2009, 9:54 AM Can anyone post information on business incorporation in BD? What does a foreign entity need to do to start new ventures in BD? Where can I get those forms and where to submit them? Any thoughts?   Cyrus

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Re: [ALOCHONA] Re: Dr. dipu Moni - picked by Hasina or Sonia, Monmohon, pranab

I wasn't actually distorting your statement. I think you are misunderstanding my intentions. I was just trying to understand what you meant by your statement. Thanks for the clarification.

 

Sincerely,

Cyrus

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From: maqsud omaba <maqsudo@hotmail.com>
To: alochona@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 8:06:01 AM
Subject: RE: [ALOCHONA] Re: Dr. dipu Moni - picked by Hasina or Sonia, Monmohon, pranab

Re: cyrus
---------

You are good in distorting what others say!

did i say, what you have mentioned?

I have mentioned few encouraging points about dr. Dipu moni, not ONLY about her husband.

Is it not useful to have an educated, wise, experienced partner at home...with whom you might have useful
chat sometimes? Husband is not a positive factor...for our foreign policy...that is the way, you HAVE LEARNT
to distort other people's statements.

Do you remember the most un-sophisticated, un-impressive, shallow FM of AL in the last century?
Remember...his quality of english?
Is Dr. Moni.....not much better than him?
Do you know Dr. Moni?
Anything sad/bad...we should learn about her...FROM YOU.

By the way, I dont know her.

Best wishes.

Khoda hafez.

dr. maqsud omar

---

To: alochona@yahoogroup s.com
From: thoughtocrat@ yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 23:04:09 -0800
Subject: Re: [ALOCHONA] Re: Dr. dipu Moni - picked by Hasina or Sonia, Monmohon, pranab

Dr. Omar...let me understand this clearly, if I may. You believe that Dr. Moni's well-qualified husband is actually big positive factor when it comes to our foreign policy? What does he has anything to do with the foreign policies of the new goverment?

---

From: maqsud omaba <maqsudo@hotmail. com>
To: alochona@yahoogroup s.com
Sent: Monday, January 19, 2009 8:12:00 PM
Subject: RE: [ALOCHONA] Re: Dr. dipu Moni - picked by Hasina or Sonia, Monmohon, pranab

look at dipu mani's CV--- quite impressive.

she talks well, both in Bengali + english, with a good accent.
She answers to Q of pressmen, carefully, cautiously, taking time.
She doesn't present herself as movie actress, neither wastes public money...to fix her hair,before meeting the  press!!!

Why she is not a good choice?
Lets give her 6 months, then we can re-assess.

She has a well-qualified husband, that is a big big positive factor.

Not like hasina, advised + influenced by " oversmart "...Rehana!!

Best wishes.

khoda hafez.

dr. maqsud omar

============ ========= ========= ========= ========= ========= ========= ===

> To: alochona@yahoogroup s.com
> From: ezajur.rahman@ q8.com
> Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2009 11:33:41 +0000
> Subject: [ALOCHONA] Re: Dr. dipu Moni - picked by Hasina or Sonia, Monmohon, pranab
>
> Dear Mahathir
>
> You know full well that a photo of Dipu Moni standing next to the
> Indian PM does not make her an Indian stooge. Just as photo of Khaleda standing next to a Saudi King does not make her part of his harem. Right?
>
> I don't think Dipu Moni was the best chice for FM - because an FM
> represents the gravitas and stature of a nation. I would have
> preferred someone a lot older who would be able to match the lions
> who become FMs in neighbouring nations. Its nothing personal against
> Dipu Moni - she's too young for the role.
>
> But it would be churlish to condemn her so early. Especially given
> the calibre of our recent FMs. If we compare her to her predecessors
> she is a breath of fresh air - though perhaps not fresh enough. Still
> lets wait and see. Lets give here a chance. Why not?
>
> I suspect she is being groomed for something bigger (?) in the medium
> term. Her selection - as with other selections - was also a slap in
> the face to the AL Central Committee (and that makes me so happy!).
> As I compare her to her predecessors I can only wish her well and
> pray that she proves her critics wrong.
>
> I understand her husband - Barrister Tawfiq - is a brilliant man. Forgive me if I am wrong about that information. Perhaps he will help out.
>
> Leave Dipu alone for now and watch. Far easier to lynch our new Home
> Minister Shahara Khatun.. what the heck is with that choice man!!!!!).
>
> Oh dear!
>
> Ezajur Rahman
> Kuwait
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> --- In alochona@yahoogroup s.com, mahathir of bd
> <wouldbemahathirofbd @...> wrote:
> >
> >  
> >  
> > Visit the link, http://dipumoni. com/. see the photos and then you
> will be confused.
> >  
> >  who has really picked  Dr. Dipu moni as foreign minister? hasina
> or Sonia , Monmohon or Pranab?
> >
> >
> >  
> >
> >
> > মন�ত�রীসভায় বেয়াই র
> াজাকার। � লজ�জা কার?
> হাসিনার,�কে খোন�দকারের না
> সেক�টর কমান�ডার ফোরামের?
> >
> > --- On Tue, 1/13/09, Musfique Prodhan <chena_kew@.. .> wrote:
> >
> > From: Musfique Prodhan <chena_kew@.. .>
> > Subject: [notun_bangladesh] New Home and Foreign Minister serving
> India;s cause?
> > To: "Amra Bangladesi" <amra-bangladesi@ yahoogroups. com>, "Bangla
> Zindabad" <Bangladesh-Zindabad @yahoogroups. com>, "notun Bangladesh"
> <notun_bangladesh@ yahoogroups. com>, "dahuk dahuk"
> <dahuk@yahoogroups. com>
> > Date: Tuesday, January 13, 2009, 1:24 AM
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Dear Members
> >  
> > hopefully all are doing fine. Here is another debate, concerning
> the appointment of home and foreign ministers, which seems to serve
> India's cause, specialy the later. Please enjoy the video, and feel
> free to comment.
> >  
> > Part 1
> > http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=BFSFD29DoxQ&feature=related
> >  
> > Part2
> >  
> > http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=7vdqS8g5rQQ
> >  
> >  
> > With Thanks
> >  
> > Musfique.
> >  
> >  
> >
>
>
>
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[mukto-mona] Bush's legacy of failed policies

Would any aspiring president dare to emulate Bush's legacy?

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RE: [ALOCHONA] Prince Joy getting ready!!

read..if you r keen!!!



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[ALOCHONA] Full text of Obama's speech

 

Full text of Obama's speech

This is the full text of President Obama's inauguration speech:

Tuesday, 20 January 2009

 

My fellow citizens: I stand here today humbled by the task before us, grateful for the trust you have bestowed, mindful of the sacrifices borne by our ancestors. I thank President Bush for his service to our nation, as well as the generosity and co-operation he has shown throughout this transition.

 

Forty-four Americans have now taken the presidential oath. The words have been spoken during rising tides of prosperity and the still waters of peace. Yet, every so often the oath is taken amidst gathering clouds and raging storms. At these moments, America has carried on not simply because of the skill or vision of those in high office, but because We the People have remained faithful to the ideals of our forbearers, and true to our founding documents.

 

So it has been. So it must be with this generation of Americans.

 

That we are in the midst of crisis is now well understood. Our nation is at war, against a far-reaching network of violence and hatred. Our economy is badly weakened, a consequence of greed and irresponsibility on the part of some, but also our collective failure to make hard choices and prepare the nation for a new age. Homes have been lost; jobs shed; businesses shuttered. Our health care is too costly; our schools fail too many; and each day brings further evidence that the ways we use energy strengthen our adversaries and threaten our planet.

 

These are the indicators of crisis, subject to data and statistics. Less measurable but no less profound is a sapping of confidence across our land - a nagging fear that America's decline is inevitable, and that the next generation must lower its sights.

 

Today I say to you that the challenges we face are real. They are serious and they are many. They will not be met easily or in a short span of time. But know this, America - they will be met.

 

On this day, we gather because we have chosen hope over fear, unity of purpose over conflict and discord.

 

On this day, we come to proclaim an end to the petty grievances and false promises, the recriminations and worn out dogmas, that for far too long have strangled our politics.

 

We remain a young nation, but in the words of Scripture, the time has come to set aside childish things. The time has come to reaffirm our enduring spirit; to choose our better history; to carry forward that precious gift, that noble idea, passed on from generation to generation: the God-given promise that all are equal, all are free, and all deserve a chance to pursue their full measure of happiness.

 

In reaffirming the greatness of our nation, we understand that greatness is never a given. It must be earned. Our journey has never been one of short-cuts or settling for less. It has not been the path for the faint-hearted - for those who prefer leisure over work, or seek only the pleasures of riches and fame. Rather, it has been the risk-takers, the doers, the makers of things - some celebrated but more often men and women obscure in their labour, who have carried us up the long, rugged path towards prosperity and freedom.

 

For us, they packed up their few worldly possessions and travelled across oceans in search of a new life.

 

For us, they toiled in sweatshops and settled the West; endured the lash of the whip and ploughed the hard earth.

 

For us, they fought and died, in places like Concord and Gettysburg; Normandy and Khe Sahn.

 

Time and again these men and women struggled and sacrificed and worked till their hands were raw so that we might live a better life. They saw America as bigger than the sum of our individual ambitions; greater than all the differences of birth or wealth or faction.

 

This is the journey we continue today. We remain the most prosperous, powerful nation on Earth. Our workers are no less productive than when this crisis began. Our minds are no less inventive, our goods and services no less needed than they were last week or last month or last year. Our capacity remains undiminished. But our time of standing pat, of protecting narrow interests and putting off unpleasant decisions - that time has surely passed. Starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of remaking America.

 

For everywhere we look, there is work to be done. The state of the economy calls for action, bold and swift, and we will act - not only to create new jobs, but to lay a new foundation for growth. We will build the roads and bridges, the electric grids and digital lines that feed our commerce and bind us together. We will restore science to its rightful place, and wield technology's wonders to raise health care's quality and lower its cost. We will harness the sun and the winds and the soil to fuel our cars and run our factories. And we will transform our schools and colleges and universities to meet the demands of a new age. All this we can do. And all this we will do.

 

Now, there are some who question the scale of our ambitions - who suggest that our system cannot tolerate too many big plans. Their memories are short. For they have forgotten what this country has already done; what free men and women can achieve when imagination is joined to common purpose, and necessity to courage.

 

What the cynics fail to understand is that the ground has shifted beneath them - that the stale political arguments that have consumed us for so long no longer apply. The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether it works - whether it helps families find jobs at a decent wage, care they can afford, a retirement that is dignified. Where the answer is yes, we intend to move forward. Where the answer is no, programs will end. And those of us who manage the public's dollars will be held to account - to spend wisely, reform bad habits, and do our business in the light of day - because only then can we restore the vital trust between a people and their government.

 

Nor is the question before us whether the market is a force for good or ill. Its power to generate wealth and expand freedom is unmatched, but this crisis has reminded us that without a watchful eye, the market can spin out of control - and that a nation cannot prosper long when it favours only the prosperous. The success of our economy has always depended not just on the size of our Gross Domestic Product, but on the reach of our prosperity; on our ability to extend opportunity to every willing heart - not out of charity, but because it is the surest route to our common good.

 

As for our common defence, we reject as false the choice between our safety and our ideals. Our Founding Fathers, faced with perils we can scarcely imagine, drafted a charter to assure the rule of law and the rights of man, a charter expanded by the blood of generations. Those ideals still light the world, and we will not give them up for expedience's sake. And so to all other peoples and governments who are watching today, from the grandest capitals to the small village where my father was born: know that America is a friend of each nation and every man, woman, and child who seeks a future of peace and dignity, and that we are ready to lead once more.

 

Recall that earlier generations faced down fascism and communism not just with missiles and tanks, but with sturdy alliances and enduring convictions. They understood that our power alone cannot protect us, nor does it entitle us to do as we please. Instead, they knew that our power grows through its prudent use; our security emanates from the justness of our cause, the force of our example, the tempering qualities of humility and restraint.

 

We are the keepers of this legacy. Guided by these principles once more, we can meet those new threats that demand even greater effort - even greater cooperation and understanding between nations. We will begin to responsibly leave Iraq to its people, and forge a hard-earned peace in Afghanistan. With old friends and former foes, we will work tirelessly to lessen the nuclear threat, and roll back the spectre of a warming planet. We will not apologise for our way of life, nor will we waver in its defense, and for those who seek to advance their aims by inducing terror and slaughtering innocents, we say to you now that our spirit is stronger and cannot be broken; you cannot outlast us, and we will defeat you.

 

For we know that our patchwork heritage is a strength, not a weakness. We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus - and non-believers. We are shaped by every language and culture, drawn from every end of this Earth; and because we have tasted the bitter swill of civil war and segregation, and emerged from that dark chapter stronger and more united, we cannot help but believe that the old hatreds shall someday pass; that the lines of tribe shall soon dissolve; that as the world grows smaller, our common humanity shall reveal itself; and that America must play its role in ushering in a new era of peace.

 

To the Muslim world, we seek a new way forward, based on mutual interest and mutual respect. To those leaders around the globe who seek to sow conflict, or blame their society's ills on the West - know that your people will judge you on what you can build, not what you destroy. To those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent, know that you are on the wrong side of history; but that we will extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist.

 

To the people of poor nations, we pledge to work alongside you to make your farms flourish and let clean waters flow; to nourish starved bodies and feed hungry minds. And to those nations like ours that enjoy relative plenty, we say we can no longer afford indifference to suffering outside our borders; nor can we consume the world's resources without regard to effect. For the world has changed, and we must change with it.

 

As we consider the road that unfolds before us, we remember with humble gratitude those brave Americans who, at this very hour, patrol far-off deserts and distant mountains. They have something to tell us today, just as the fallen heroes who lie in Arlington whisper through the ages. We honor them not only because they are guardians of our liberty, but because they embody the spirit of service; a willingness to find meaning in something greater than themselves. And yet, at this moment - a moment that will define a generation - it is precisely this spirit that must inhabit us all.

 

For as much as government can do and must do, it is ultimately the faith and determination of the American people upon which this nation relies. It is the kindness to take in a stranger when the levees break, the selflessness of workers who would rather cut their hours than see a friend lose their job which sees us through our darkest hours. It is the fire-fighter's courage to storm a stairway filled with smoke, but also a parent's willingness to nurture a child, that finally decides our fate.

 

Our challenges may be new. The instruments with which we meet them may be new. But those values upon which our success depends - hard work and honesty, courage and fair play, tolerance and curiosity, loyalty and patriotism - these things are old. These things are true. They have been the quiet force of progress throughout our history. What is demanded then is a return to these truths. What is required of us now is a new era of responsibility - a recognition, on the part of every American, that we have duties to ourselves, our nation, and the world, duties that we do not grudgingly accept but rather seize gladly, firm in the knowledge that there is nothing so satisfying to the spirit, so defining of our character, than giving our all to a difficult task.

 

This is the price and the promise of citizenship.

 

This is the source of our confidence - the knowledge that God calls on us to shape an uncertain destiny.

 

This is the meaning of our liberty and our creed - why men and women and children of every race and every faith can join in celebration across this magnificent mall, and why a man whose father less than sixty years ago might not have been served at a local restaurant can now stand before you to take a most sacred oath.

 

So let us mark this day with remembrance, of who we are and how far we have travelled. In the year of America's birth, in the coldest of months, a small band of patriots huddled by dying campfires on the shores of an icy river. The capital was abandoned. The enemy was advancing. The snow was stained with blood. At a moment when the outcome of our revolution was most in doubt, the father of our nation ordered these words be read to the people: "Let it be told to the future world...that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive...that the city and the country, alarmed at one common danger, came forth to meet [it]."

 

America. In the face of our common dangers, in this winter of our hardship, let us remember these timeless words. With hope and virtue, let us brave once more the icy currents, and endure what storms may come. Let it be said by our children's children that when we were tested we refused to let this journey end, that we did not turn back nor did we falter; and with eyes fixed on the horizon and God's grace upon us, we carried forth that great gift of freedom and delivered it safely to future generations.

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[ALOCHONA] Barack Obama - Reading & Power Of Books

i am always dumbfounded on how to respond when I am asked in social settings, (often by well-meaning friends) how I find time to read given the heavy demands of life, work and raising children. As though you must be shirking your responsibilities or you are a man of means & leisure. Or you are both. I offer no apologies for my life long love of reading and books in genera. l elated beyond words that reading & the love of books is back in vogue in the White House. 

Below the legendary book reviewer of the New York Times, Michiko Kakutani writes about Barrack Obama & his love of books and intellectual curiosity.

Robin

From Books, New President Found Voice

By MICHIKO KAKUTANI

NEW YORK TIMES

WASHINGTON — In college, as he was getting involved in protests against the apartheid government in South Africa, Barack Obama noticed, he has written, "that people had begun to listen to my opinions." Words, the young Mr. Obama realized, had the power "to transform": "with the right words everything could change -— South Africa, the lives of ghetto kids just a few miles away, my own tenuous place in the world."

Much has been made of Mr. Obama's eloquence — his ability to use words in his speeches to persuade and uplift and inspire. But his appreciation of the magic of language and his ardent love of reading have not only endowed him with a rare ability to communicate his ideas to millions of Americans while contextualizing complex ideas about race and religion, they have also shaped his sense of who he is and his apprehension of the world.

Mr. Obama's first book, "Dreams From My Father" (which surely stands as the most evocative, lyrical and candid autobiography written by a future president), suggests that throughout his life he has turned to books as a way of acquiring insights and information from others — as a means of breaking out of the bubble of self-hood and, more recently, the bubble of power and fame. He recalls that he read James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison, Langston Hughes, Richard Wright and W. E. B. Du Bois when he was an adolescent in an effort to come to terms with his racial identity and that later, during an ascetic phase in college, he immersed himself in the works of thinkers like Nietzsche and St. Augustine in a spiritual-intellectual search to figure out what he truly believed.

As a boy growing up in Indonesia, Mr. Obama learned about the American civil rights movement through books his mother gave him. Later, as a fledgling community organizer in Chicago, he found inspiration in "Parting the Waters," the first installment of Taylor Branch's multivolume biography of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

More recently, books have supplied Mr. Obama with some concrete ideas about governance: it's been widely reported that "Team of Rivals," Doris Kearns Goodwin's book about Abraham Lincoln's decision to include former opponents in his cabinet, informed Mr. Obama's decision to name his chief Democratic rival, Hillary Rodham Clinton, as Secretary of State. In other cases, books about F. D. R.'s first hundred days in office and Steve Coll's "Ghost Wars," about Afghanistan and the C.I.A., have provided useful background material on some of the myriad challenges Mr. Obama will face upon taking office.

Mr. Obama tends to take a magpie approach to reading — ruminating upon writers' ideas and picking and choosing those that flesh out his vision of the world or open promising new avenues of inquiry.

His predecessor, George W. Bush, in contrast, tended to race through books in competitions with Karl Rove (who recently boasted that he beat the president by reading 110 books to Mr. Bush's 95 in 2006), or passionately embrace an author's thesis as an idée fixe. Mr. Bush and many of his aides favored prescriptive books — Natan Sharansky's "Case for Democracy," which pressed the case for promoting democracy around the world, say, or Eliot A. Cohen's "Supreme Command," which argued that political strategy should drive military strategy. Mr. Obama, on the other hand, has tended to look to non-ideological histories and philosophical works that address complex problems without any easy solutions, like Reinhold Niebuhr's writings, which emphasize the ambivalent nature of human beings and the dangers of willful innocence and infallibility.

What's more, Mr. Obama's love of fiction and poetry — Shakespeare's plays, Herman Melville's "Moby-Dick" and Marilynne Robinson's "Gilead" are mentioned on his Facebook page, along with the Bible, Lincoln's collected writings and Emerson's "Self Reliance" — has not only given him a heightened awareness of language. It has also imbued him with a tragic sense of history and a sense of the ambiguities of the human condition quite unlike the Manichean view of the world so often invoked by Mr. Bush.

Mr. Obama has said that he wrote "very bad poetry" in college and his biographer David Mendell suggests that he once "harbored some thoughts of writing fiction as an avocation." For that matter, "Dreams From My Father" evinces an instinctive storytelling talent (which would later serve the author well on the campaign trail) and that odd combination of empathy and detachment gifted novelists possess. In that memoir, Mr. Obama seamlessly managed to convey points of view different from his own (a harbinger, perhaps, of his promises to bridge partisan divides and his ability to channel voters' hopes and dreams) while conjuring the many places he lived during his peripatetic childhood. He is at once the solitary outsider who learns to stop pressing his nose to the glass and the coolly omniscient observer providing us with a choral view of his past.

As Baldwin once observed, language is both "a political instrument, means, and proof of power," and "the most vivid and crucial key to identity: it reveals the private identity, and connects one with, or divorces one from, the larger, public, or communal identity."

For Mr. Obama, whose improbable life story many voters regard as the embodiment of the American Dream, identity and the relationship between the personal and the public remain crucial issues. Indeed, "Dreams From My Father," written before he entered politics, was both a searching bildungsroman and an autobiographical quest to understand his roots — a quest in which he cast himself as both a Telemachus in search of his father and an Odysseus in search of a home.

Like "Dreams From My Father," many of the novels Mr. Obama reportedly admires deal with the question of identity: Toni Morrison's "Song of Solomon" concerns a man's efforts to discover his origins and come to terms with his roots; Doris Lessing's "Golden Notebook" recounts a woman's struggles to articulate her own sense of self; and Ellison's "Invisible Man" grapples with the difficulty of self-definition in a race-conscious America and the possibility of transcendence. The poems of Elizabeth Alexander, whom Mr. Obama chose as his inaugural poet, probe the intersection between the private and the political, time present and time past, while the verse of Derek Walcott (a copy of whose collected poems was recently glimpsed in Mr. Obama's hands) explores what it means to be a "divided child," caught on the margins of different cultures, dislocated and rootless perhaps, but free to invent a new self.

This notion of self-creation is a deeply American one — a founding principle of this country, and a trope addressed by such classic works as "The Great Gatsby" — and it seems to exert a strong hold on Mr. Obama's imagination.

In a 2005 essay in Time magazine, he wrote of the humble beginnings that he and Lincoln shared, adding that the 16th president reminded him of "a larger, fundamental element of American life — the enduring belief that we can constantly remake ourselves to fit our larger dreams."

Though some critics have taken Mr. Obama to task for self-consciously italicizing parallels between himself and Lincoln, there are in fact a host of uncanny correspondences between these two former Illinois state legislators who had short stints in Congress under their belts before coming to national prominence with speeches showcasing their eloquence: two cool, self-contained men, who managed to stay calm and graceful under pressure; two stoics embracing the virtues of moderation and balance; two relatively new politicians who were initially criticized for their lack of experience and for questioning an invasion of a country that, in Lincoln's words, was "in no way molesting, or menacing the U.S."

As Fred Kaplan's illuminating new biography ("Lincoln: The Biography of a Writer") makes clear, Lincoln, like Mr. Obama, was a lifelong lover of books, indelibly shaped by his reading — most notably, in his case, the Bible and Shakespeare — which honed his poetic sense of language and his philosophical view of the world. Both men employ a densely allusive prose, richly embedded with the fruit of their reading, and both use language as a tool by which to explore and define themselves. Eventually in Lincoln's case, Mr. Kaplan notes, "the tool, the toolmaker, and the tool user became inseparably one. He became what his language made him."

The incandescent power of Lincoln's language, its resonance and rhythmic cadences, as well as his ability to shift gears between the magisterial and the down-to-earth, has been a model for Mr. Obama — who has said he frequently rereads Lincoln for inspiration — and so, too, have been the uses to which Lincoln put his superior language skills: to goad Americans to complete the unfinished work of the founders, and to galvanize a nation reeling from hard times with a new vision of reconciliation and hope.

A Reading List That Shaped a President

Some of President-elect Barack Obama's favored reading matter as mentioned in this article:

• The Bible
• "Parting the Waters," Taylor Branch
• "Self-Reliance," Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Gandhi's autobiography
• "Team of Rivals," Doris Kearns Goodwin
• "The Golden Notebook," Doris Lessing
• Lincoln's collected writings
• "Moby-Dick," Herman Melville
• "Song of Solomon," Toni Morrison
• Works of Reinhold Niebuhr
• "Gilead," Marilynne Robinson
• Shakespeare's tragedies

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[mukto-mona] Key monets in presidential inaugurations: Washington to Obama

Key Moments in Presidential Inaugurations: Washington to Obama

 

Compiled by Jahed Ahmed

 

 

• In 1789, George Washington became the first and only president of the United States elected unanimously by the Electoral College. On March 4, 1793, Washington delivered the shortest address in inaugural history at just 133 words.

 

George Washington, 1793

 

• During president Andrew Jackson's inauguration in 1829, the White House became so crowded that Jackson had to be rescued by his friends when well-wishers pinned him against a wall. The crowd departed only when Jackson's steward placed large tubs of whiskey punch on the lawn.
• In 1865, at the inauguration of Abraham Lincoln's second term as the president, African Americans participated in the Inaugural parade for the first time.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

      Abraham Lincoln & Andrew Jackson 1865

 

• At the same time in 1865, following a bout of typhoid, Vice President Andrew Johnson consumed a few drinks before the inaugural ceremonies in an effort to feel better. But by the time Johnson delivered his speech, he was intoxicated and incoherent. One senator called Johnson's performance "the most unfortunate thing that has occurred in our history."
• In 1917, at the inauguration ceremony before his second term, president Woodrow Wilson's inauguration was the first time the first lady accompanied the president to and from the Capitol and the first time women participated in the Inaugural parade.
• President Harry S. Truman's inaugural speech in 1949 was the first televised Inauguration ceremony in history.
• In 1961, at 43, John F. Kennedy was the second-youngest president-elect in U.S. history and the first Catholic to become elected President. Robert Frost was the first poet invited to speak during an inauguration ceremony. When Frost reached the podium, he was blinded by the sun's glare and unable to read his prepared remarks. In vain, Vice President Lyndon Johnson attempted to shield Frost's eyes with his top hat. As a last resort, Frost recited a poem from memory and dedicated it to "the president-elect, Mr. John Finley." Pictured here is Kennedy chatting with Frost in the green room of the White House.

 

JFK with poet Robert Frost

 

• In 1969, Richard Nixon became the 37th president of the United States and was greeted with less than warm feelings from the crowds. Protestors threw smoke bombs, sticks and stones at the presidential limo on its way to the Capitol Building. Four years later, anti-Vietnam sentiment drove 25,000 to 100,000 protestors to line the parade route, forcing troops to be stationed every 10 feet along the roads
• President Jimmy Carter's inauguration was truly green. Instead of driving down Pennsylvania Avenue, the new first family opted for a 40-minute stroll from the Capitol Building to its new residence. His inauguration is also the first to have accessible viewing for those with disabilities.
• As the 40^th president, Ronald Reagan's two inaugurations took place during record temperatures. His first, held in 55-degree temperatures, was the warmest inauguration. It was the complete opposite in 1985, when temperatures hovered around 7 degrees.
• When George Bush Sr. took office in 1989; it was 200 years after Washington became the first president. Bush used the same Bible that Washington had famously kissed after taking the Oath of Office.
•  The inauguration for Clinton's second term, in 1997, was first Inaugural ceremony broadcast live on the Internet.

 

 

Inaugural ceremony of George W. Bush in 2001

 

• During Bush's inaugural oath in 2001, he was interrupted by two protestors who managed to get around the security checkpoints. When they stripped naked 20 yards away from Bush, the words "No Mandate" and "Hail to the Thief" could be seen written across their bodies.

 

Today Barack Obama will be sworn in as America's 44^th president on Lincoln's bible of 1865 and then take part in a luncheon that has a menu featuring some of Lincoln's favorite dishes.
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01.20.2009

New York

 

Source: http://abcnews.go.com/

 

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