Tears of a Clown... Obama... Afghanistan... Motherhood... You Tube Videos

My reasons for the following You Tube video choices may not be discernable to anyone other than me... but things have been complex (to say the least) lately... and sometimes I just go where my heart leads me...

["Smokey Robinson & The Miracles-The Tears Of A Clown"; as submitted to You Tube by lee57 on August 09, 2007; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2kxlZDOHeQ]

"An extract from the preface to Barack Obama's first book "Dreams from my Father", in which he pays tribute to his mother Ann Dunham. Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barac...

["Obama's Tribute to his Mother [ Audiobook CD ]"; as submitted to You Tube by MrObama on February 15, 2008; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRYh3Ae-DoQ]

"NBC Nightly News covers Barack Obama's mother, talking with the Senator about his childhood and the legacy of his mother in his life today...

["NBC News: Ann Dunham"; as submitted to You Tube by BarackObamadotcom on March 28, 2008; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7An5LPXjOa4]

I'm a mother...

I love my children with all my heart...

And I have loved... in a sense of speaking... President Obama, in an almost paterally proud way... as well.

That said, I hope President Obama asks himself what his mother would think of his current policy in regard to Afghanistan...

Because we surely do not need another Vietnam - we do not need more coffins - we do not need more dead soldiers or civilians on either side...

And I think, in this instance, President Obama (with all due respect and an acknowlegment of my own relative naivete) can do better.

Peace, Love, Equality and Humane Justice,

NS