Obama Song Official Video - Micahel Franti and Spearhead

This song, along with the video completely and rather perfectly, captures the evening of spontaneous street celebrations which broke out in neighborhoods across America.

People engaged in conversation with ease and sincerity, they danced together, smiled all evening, and the elation was electricity - a silent lightening. Happy to have been part of celebrating such a decision we made together. It is something I will carry with me - recognizing this as a historic moment I was part of and influenced is something to share with generations to come.

To know that people around the globe were as happy for our country as we were that evening, and are now...it's beautiful and says much about Obama.

: : Angie Seegers : :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jd9xU8cw1JE

www.nytimesconversations.com - Official Launch was Yesterday!

What more can I say than it is great to be at the helm and involved in any way with the team that I have enjoyed dearly over 10 years.

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First Round of Guest for the Official Launch December 9, 2008
PADMA LAKSHMI : : ACTRESS/AUTHOR/HOST OF "TOP CHEF"
ERIC RIPERT : : MASTER CHEF : :
LYNN REDGRAVE : : ACTRESS : :
JUSTIN TUCK : : NEW YORK GIANTS DEFENSIVE END : :
ISAAC MIZRAHI : : FASHION DESIGNER : :
BEN STEIN : : ACTOR/AUTHOR : :
CYNTHIA NIXON : : ACTRESS : :
JOHN LEGUIZAMO : : ACTOR : :
BEBE NEUWIRTH : : ACTRESS : :
KENNETH COLE : : FASHION DESIGNER : :
MEHMET OZ : : SURGEON/AUTHOR
JOHN CAMERON MITCHELL : : ACTOR/DIRECTOR

Gross National Product -R.F.K. 1968

"If we believe that we, as Americans, are bound together by a common concern for each other, then an urgent national priority is upon us. We must begin to end the disgrace of this other America. And this is one of the great tasks of leadership for us, as individuals and citizens this year.

But even if we act to erase material poverty, there is another greater task, it is to confront the poverty of satisfaction - purpose and dignity - that afflicts us all. Too much and for too long, we seemed to have surrendered personal excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things.

Our Gross National Product, now, is over $800 billion dollars a year, but that Gross National Product - if we judge the United States of America by that - that Gross National Product counts air pollution and cigarette advertising, and ambulances to clear our highways of carnage. It counts special locks for our doors and the jails for the people who break them. It counts the destruction of the redwood and the loss of our natural wonder in chaotic sprawl. It counts napalm and counts nuclear warheads and armored cars for the police to fight the riots in our cities. It counts Whitman's rifle and Speck's knife, and the television programs which glorify violence in order to sell toys to our children.

Yet the gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education or the joy of their play. It does not include the beauty of our poetry or the strength of our marriages, the intelligence of our public debate or the integrity of our public officials. It measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our learning, neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country, it measures everything in short, except that which makes life worthwhile. And it can tell us everything about America except why we are proud that we are Americans." R.F.K - 1968