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brown says

You made some good points there. I did a search on the topic and found most peo­ple will agree with your blog.

Andy says

Regard­less of a per­sons nation­al­ity skin colour or racial type/group we are all broth­ers and sis­ters. There is genetic evi­dence that we are all descended from one african female liv­ing about 150,000 years ago — thats right ALL of us every sin­gle human being on the planet.
As I myself am ‘white eng­lish’ and my part­ner is ‘black afro-caribbean’ we took our stance for total racial equal­ity more than forty years ago! We per­son­ally (and our now grown chil­dren) fiercely object and protest any racially based dis­tinc­tions we encounter any­where. There is no need for gov­ern­ments or employ­ers to cat­e­gorise peo­ple by race nation­al­ity colour or cur­rent social/community stand­ing.
To our knowl­edge our kids have british caribbean scot welsh and ger­man ances­try, and prob­a­bly french as well.
We cheered the amer­i­can elec­tion results and regard it as the US finally com­ing of age!
I urge every­one to reply to racial enquiries on forms as ‘human’ and to reli­gious ones as ‘I am God what do you mean?’ Such things are nobody’s busi­ness but your own, the tax man or your employer do not have any legit­i­mate rea­son to demand such infor­ma­tion from you.
Why is this rel­e­vant to Obama? Because our small influ­ence on the world has helped bring about this over­due advance for humanity.

Patricia says

Love him or hate him, Obama is the evo­lu­tion­ary leap we have all been wait­ing for. Whether he planned it or not, he is the essence of cohe­sive­ness. There could be no bet­ter per­son to unite this coun­try, just by being who he is, a blend of black and white, vel­vet and steel. Not only does he per­son­ify Lincoln’s val­ues, he is fin­ish­ing what Lin­coln started and was aborted from accom­plish­ing. We must set our inten­tion to keep O’bama’s safety at the top of our med­i­ta­tion and prayer lists. We will not have this oppor­tu­nity for growth and achieve­ment com­ing around again any time soon. No more “the good die young” or kow­tow­ing to some shadow gov­ern­ment who never has our best inter­ests in mind.

JOHN BUOYE says

Hmm­mmh­hhh!

Sounds like a gross fab­ri­ca­tion to me!

Seems like you just can’t believe any­thing that’s printed in the New York Times anymore!

The media (i.e., liberal-leaning) will invent just about any­thing to make it seem like Obama (a politi­cian who has accom­plished noth­ing mean­ing­ful yet, except get elected to an office) is some sort of Saviour.

I think what is more sig­nif­i­cant to stu­dents might be the role-modeling of their par­ents, rather than what­ever Obama does or doesn’t do/say.

It all seems like a hunk of phooey to me.

Gloria M. says

Hi Burt.,
That’s a great arti­cle.
Wish he’d do that great with other things in this
trou­bled world of ours.
Oh, by the way how do I email you burt per­son­ally.?
Had some ques­tions…
thanks and God Bless you and America.

mshari says

Most impor­tantly if we believe that change needs to hap­pen, let us focus on just that. Join the mind group con­scious that is form­ing the power pack of energy that will main­tain him (Pres. Obama) in this posi­tion do so. Let us con­sciously cre­ate a com­mon vibra­tional “power pack” for his ben­e­fit and uti­mately for us all, and change WILL hap­pen IT MUST
for the group mind dic­tates. We may see him stum­ble make some mis­steps, but thats all right we do have the power to re-create and change yes even our Phys­i­cal real­ity as a nation, a peo­ple, cit­i­zens of this dimen­sion. Here what I do feel about Mr. Obama, is his sin­cer­ity to try do the right thing, hold the right kinda of agen­das and poli­cies! Abol­ish polar­ity as a the sta­tus quo. The whole world must face change. He has changed the way our gov­ern­ment will for­ever be run. The Obama effect is strong because as a first it has all of our atten­tion, we are gen­er­at­ing energy of some kind towards this Pres­i­dency so why not make it a pos­i­tive one so that change can really begin to hap­pen. See Beyond the man and look at the symbols…

don wood says

Part of this “effect” I believe is what Rup­pert Shel­drake called the mor­phic res­o­nance field. A type of col­lec­tive con­scious­ness that res­onates specif­i­cally to every species. It sub­tely affects the sub­con­sious thru its vibra­tional fre­qun­cies. You can read about Sheldrake’s research into this in many of his books.

Phil says

I am pleased that there has been a mea­sur­able pos­i­tive effect from Pres­i­dent OBama on blacks tak­ing tests. He has def­i­nitely proven to be a charis­matic leader. My con­cern is what his longer term effect will be, not sim­ply to blacks, but to all Amer­i­cans. To call his effect “the Obama effect” means it is not talk­ing about role mod­el­ing and pos­i­tive influ­ence from impor­tant peo­ple in some one,s lives, as that has has been an accepted real­ity of life. But specif­i­cally on how peo­ple react as a result of Barak Obama’s influence.

The elec­tion was orches­trated with a biased news media, and bought with hun­dreds of mil­lions of dol­lars. Hon­esty was never seri­ously chal­lenged. Pres­i­dent Obama has been reported to be the most polar­iz­ing pres­i­dent we have ever had in this coun­try, and his actions and bud­get are lead­ing us to a debt that our grand­chil­dren will be bur­ried under. I won­der if any­body will be doing a study on “the Obama effect” in a year or two.

Lawrence Miller says

I believe I under­stand the Obama Effect. Peo­ple who feel they are some­how not as smart, good or wor­thy as another group of peo­ple need a role model of what they con­sider their own kind. Thus when one of (them) becomes the pres­i­dent of the USA they begin to feel dif­fer­ently about them­selves. They begin to feel like they are wor­thy, smart and capa­ble. They always were. They just needed proof. To them Obama becom­ming pres­i­dent was proof.

S. Welsh says

Let’s face it. Obama got where he is only because the press gave him favourable reviews, while McCain was shown as a crusty old man.

He is and was a media cre­ation (all smoke and mir­rors). He lost me when I saw that piece on Youtube when he lost the teleprompter. He sounded really clued out. You would imag­ine that if he was as smart and won­der­ful as he is por­trayed in the media, he would have been able to hold his own with­out the teleprompter. I was most defin­tely not impressed. It is all a farce.

ANDRE says

Man­i­fest­ing Ideals instead of Love first is what most of the meta­phys­i­cal minded are up to at the moment.

So our hopes and wants are exter­nal things still; The busi­ness and polit­i­cal world is fol­low­ing that same route.

Change starts in you when you cease look­ing out­side your­self for all the answers espe­cially LOVE and acceptance.

Stop the mad­ness and go inwards to find the real you, (PRACTICE not seek­ing exter­nally) find love in your­self, for­give all oth­ers because they have just as much pain from this false search out­side of them­selves as you do.

Then for­give YOU and grow love for all other things within the cre­ation as yourself.

Go inside your­self with­out your thoughts,When they turn up sim­ply watch them with­out any judg­ment of those thoughts so they pass away and leave the real you stand­ing there in your birth right of divine peace and love. Then give thanks for it,share it around and that process is what brings abun­dance to you.

Share your love and this peace with your part­ners and family,friends, then it moves out onto the streets, com­mu­ni­ties and out from there into the world.
Real change has never worked the other way around yet in all of his­tory; why will it now all of a sud­den just through some change in government?

Any­one who says the real answer to every­thing is over here or to be found over there within this group or that group or in this action or in that action or through this man or that man is lying to you, reli­gion and pol­i­tics included.

The king­dom of heaven is first found within.

John says

Con­grat­u­la­tions Burt for your insight in set­ting up this post. For those who feel that you are now a facist because of the sub­ject mat­ter at the top which they do not like, and they tend to go along with the notion of lies served up to them daily by the likes of FOX News liars such as Han­nity, Beck, O’Reilly and oth­ers like Can­tor, Michelle “out of her mind” Bach­mann who needs a col­lar choke that this man will take your guns there­fore they must buy up all the ammo and bul­let proof vests in sight before this hap­pens just send light to them that they may stop being a part of the herd like men­tal­ity to be against some­thing or some­one with­out the actual facts.

Obama has said dur­ing his cam­paign in front of many audi­ences that the notion that he wants to take guns away from legal gun own­ers is false. He, as a con­sti­tu­tional pro­fes­sor also said besides it couldn’t be done even if some­one wanted to because of the right to bear arms. His con­cern is with the weapons get­ting into the hands of crim­i­nals, under­age chil­dren, etc. Unfor­tu­nately, the right wing party has lied to its con­stituency because it did not have a good enough plan to move the coun­try for­ward, so what do you do to guar­an­tee that your sup­port­ers will not leave and go to the other side? You lie on and about the agenda of the other side.

It’s one thing to have dif­fer­ent ide­olo­gies and there­fore from time to time debate one another and ques­tion the opin­ions and posi­tions. I do not con­sider that a prej­u­dice act. I con­sider that a healthy dis­cus­sion that hope­fully will come to an ami­ca­ble con­clu­sion for the good of all.

Now what becomes bla­tant racism and prej­u­dice is when inspite of what Obama has said, and he has stuck to many of his cam­paign pledges in his very short time in office as well as done more before his first 100 days than Bush did in all 8 years, the Repub­li­cans have decided to out and out con­tinue the bla­tant lies about this man. Com­mu­nity Ser­vice is not a bad thing, but to many of the Repub­li­can lead­ers and many in the party it seems to be. Michelle Bach­mann stand­ing on the House floor spew­ing her lies say­ing, Obama is going to put your chil­dren in camps and brain­wash them into Com­mu­nity Ser­vice. He wants to take your guns. Another lie. Take from the rich and give to the poor. Another lie. We all have been pay­ing taxes for as long as I can remem­ber, now you have igno­ra­mouses stat­ing just because this African Amer­i­can dare be the Pres­i­dent, that he’s tak­ing their hard earn money and giv­ing it to the lazy, don’t want to do noth­ings, as opposed to for the last 8 years we all have paid into a war that was started on the premise of lies. Oh, but that’s okay. That’s what taxes go for period no mat­ter who is in the White House. Which shows me, it’s about race and hate and igno­rance and age old lies between the races. What’s wrong with mak­ing sure all Amer­i­cans have decent Health Care. Ask your­selves Repub­li­cans, Right Wingers, Con­ser­v­a­tives. How much would you be up in arms if this coun­try was mostly cau­casian? Just a ques­tion. You want to blame all of this on one man which is ter­ri­bly unfair. Both Polit­i­cal Par­ties are to blame along with the dereg­u­la­tion of the Finan­cial Sys­tem by Repub­li­cans which include Fan­nie Mae and Fred­die Mac, and of course a war that bil­lions of our tax­pay­ing dol­lars are still being spent on that was based on lies. This is not the fault of poor blacks who received sub­prime mort­gages. It has been doc­u­mented that many Blacks with excel­lent credit were given these mort­gages as well which Deriv­a­tive Traders tied them all together and sold them for mega, mega bucks. Many RIGHT WINGERS talk about him rais­ing taxes, and cut­ting out the small busi­nesses. This is what I’m talk­ing about. The LIES.

Many of us who still have jobs, have seen an increase in our pay­checks thanks to the Obama administration.

Many of those com­plain­ing that he wants to raise taxes are mid­dle to lower mid­dle class and below who will ben­e­fit more from this man’s plan than what the Repub­li­cans want to and have done for the last 8 years.

Peo­ple out of work is not Obama’s fault. Blame it on the BIG BUSINESSES(Corporations) in this coun­try that did not have an alle­giance to the cit­i­zens of this coun­try, and many of them went over­seas and hired Indi­ans for tech­ni­cal help desk posi­tions, and China which left many Amer­i­cans where? That’s right. Say it with me,“OUT IN THE COLD.” Thanks Great Repub­li­cans who care more about big busi­ness and less gov­ern­ment. The prob­lem is big busi­ness doesn’t seem to care about its people.

You talk about Gov­ern­ment has no place in reg­u­lat­ing busi­nesses espe­cially in the fir­ing of GM’s CEO. Why do we as Amer­i­cans have a gov­ern­ment then? What is it sup­pose to be for if not to help get us through this cri­sis at this time.

Do we take the advice of the Repub­li­cans, and sit and do noth­ing and wait for the mar­kets to come around while peo­ple are steadily los­ing jobs. What would that accom­plish? Let’s say for exam­ple: If we did that; Just let the mar­kets crash and do noth­ing. Then by some mir­a­cle the mar­kets come around, then what. The cor­po­ra­tions who were get­ting huge tax breaks from the Repub­li­can party for 8 years would still go out­side this coun­try to hire and where again does that leave Americans.

My wish to many of these right wing Repub­li­cans would be to just be hon­est with your­self. You say you love Amer­ica, but clearly can’t stand Amer­i­cans. Oh, I’m sorry, I mean those who don’t look like you, and think as you do.

God bless America

Ronnie says

We have come a long way baby. I think it is won­der­ful that we could and did elect a Black per­son to the high­est polit­i­cal office in our country.

If the ser­vey is cor­rect, this is a great thing. But lets look a lit­tle deeper. Their have been many black peo­ple that achieved much greater things than Obama. So is this uplift­ing caused by Obama or the media rep­re­sen­ta­tion of Obama. Sym­bols have only the power that we give them and we have cre­ated Obama as a sym­bol of great power for some.

If this is so and this has inspired some to achieve, what will hap­pen when the truth comes to light. Obama is very care­ful about his words. He uses a teleprompter at all times and has trou­ble if it messes up. We have seen the biggest power grab from gov­ern­ment in our his­tory. We are start­ing to see our per­sonal lib­er­ties start to go away and I am see­ing peo­ple applaud what is hap­pen­ing. So when Obama’s legacy is poverty and hunger what will the Obama effect be?

When the smoke clears I will be here to HELP. TO HEAL. TO TEACH. AND TO EMPOWER. For those that are not caught up in the cur­rent lunacy. I sug­gest you pre­pair your­self to do the same.

ANDRE says

Won­der­ful! lets all hold hands and skip off into the New world order sun­set together!

while some inno­cents get kid­napped off of Euro­pean streets, tor­tured for months on end in Pol­ish camps by USA offi­cials and then locked down with­out trial in your secret mil­i­tary bases.

Hun­dreds of thou­sands homeless,thousands dieing.

* Banks given the money instead.

“ohh thats what we want too some more power and some more money!”

He is not fool­ing me or about 8% of oth­ers in here by the looks of it.

You can tell who peo­ple are only by their deeds and by who sur­rounds them; like attracts like.

Many here need to look a bit closer at whos behind your new hero,who trained him up; They are the ones behind the com­pa­nies who he has just helped out with bil­lions $ before your dying street people.

These are also the ones who will once again tell you God is out­side of you and you must go through them, their way to seek him! Put your money and your faith in the jar on the way out please.

False Reli­gion and false Gov­ern­ments; Re read Rev­e­la­tions again but not the way ‘they’ have taught you to read.

Also the belief that we are the cre­ative forces all learn­ing about the old secret cre­ative tools and gifts of man­i­fes­ta­tion is just fine its a decent thing in the right hearts;

But held above your own love, that of the Cre­ator God or your fel­low man is also going to become extremely blind­ing to you in the very near future.

If you sell those out, you sell you out! Even Burt and all his past on wis­dom wont be able to buy you back out of the sec­ond dimen­sional ener­gies about to be released by the greed for anti life energy that is out­weigh­ing the love within us.

Please take care of your­selves and each other.

Yetty says

Sim­ple! Every one wants to be great.Obama sig­ni­fies hope not only to African Amer­i­cans but to other oppressed and despaired peo­ple all over the world.His elec­tion as the pres­i­dent is a man­i­fes­ta­tion of the word “pos­si­bilty”. If Obama could be elected a pres­i­dent of United States despite his back­ground, then there is hope for the African Amer­i­can child/youth(evidently with hard work).And so they have a model to look up to. More so they can not afford to let him down by doing poorly since he belongs to this race and rep­re­sents them.I wish Obama and the peo­ple of United states the best.Peace to the world.

Ryan says

Thanks for your pos­i­tive per­cep­tion Burt.

Hon­estly I can tell you that I feel ashamed when I see another per­son inspire me to achieve higher things, because I should have done it myself. I feel that my imag­i­na­tion should be end­less and belive to be man­i­festable no mat­ter what.

EX: If I were to see every­body else walk­ing on water, then learn how to do it(knowing it was a dream 5 months ago)I would be ashamed at myself for not even try­ing before I saw any­body. I would feel less of a person.

I really think that people(especially those lit­tle African kids)are start­ing to take their lim­its off. Hope­fully they get the mes­sage and know they could also walk on water before they see other peo­ple do it, is all I am saying(Or even cure eye­sight naturally).

I think hav­ing laws and a president(big lead­ers) is bad because this means that theirs alot of peo­ple not evolved or devel­oped. We shouldnt need peo­ple with guns(police) or a big boss to make us peace­full. We wouldnt have this war if we stopped let­ing the president/Government rep­re­sent us. If we would start to think glob­ally and get out their and show for­eign peope that we are all the same, things would be alot better.

BUT NO, WE REFUSE TO THINK FOR OURSELVES, COLOR INSIDE THE LINES, AND CONFORM WITH IDEAS THAT ARE OUTDATED.

Burt Gold­man has a right to do this E-mail even though their is a war going on and we let some­one rep­re­sent all of our unique people.

I am enlight­en­ing 1 per­son at a time just like Burt.

Thanks Burt for your Optimism.

JWatterson says

Thanks Burt another great lesson.

Lasmono Abdulrify Dyar says

Dear fel­lows, it’s obvi­ous that at a cer­tain time we’ve to say “enough is enough” to stop vio­lence, cru­el­ties, mis-understandings/perceptions, etc.etc.etc. which have full bad influ­ences of nuances so to say. I am from the Indone­sian arch­i­pel­ago, who since 1980 has been involved in the devel­op­ment of the Human Brain through the inven­tion of , the sci­ence of tomoeeow, Today as has been researched by the founder, DR. Jose Silva.

“Vibra­tion Bub­bles” abound as has been put for­ward in Ger­als O’ Donnell’s tele­sem­i­nar some weeks ago.

Those ‘bub­bles’ has made the world shape as it IS at this very moment. I know exactly before Bar­rack Obama has been nom­i­nated as the 44th Pres­i­dent of the United States of Amer­ica, will have a much dif­fer­ent atti­tude as the pres­i­dents before him. He’s like JFK.

All peo­ple in every walk of life and nation­al­ity has been awaken and has sup­port him to make his ideas of a ‘United’ world soci­ety fac­tual. This then will evolve of the idea of a <World Par­adise” Silva has dreamed of. The it will be not an “Illu­sion” any­more but a per­fect reality.

We all could help him trough chnge our inti­mate behav­iour in bal­anc­ing the “Objec­tive” and “Sub­jec­tive” dimen­sion in us to func­tion at the “proper and psositve” pefor­mance we all are long­ing for, isn’t it???

It depends indeed on our behav­iour that should be with his. Only through the right con­trolled emdi­ta­tion per­for­mance, said bal­ance will occur.

SO BE IT !!!

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Mick says

Hey Burt, I too would like you to take me off your email. You def­i­nitely lost cred­i­bil­ity with me. Obama is destroy­ing this coun­try and the future of gen­er­a­tions. I live in New York and expe­ri­ence 9/11. But thanks to you and your lib­eral views and your friends. We are not safe.

Rosie says

Hi Burt,

I under­stand what you are try­ing to point out. Prob­a­bly the chil­dren are hav­ing more pos­i­tive feed­back at home and that is hav­ing an effect on them.

I wish that hap­pens to all, that we search for the pos­i­tive thoughts and elim­i­nate the not so pos­i­tive, so things get bet­ter for every­body

This does not mean that we are going to be naive either — just irra­di­ate that pos­i­tive state so the ones we are around, can feel that pos­i­tive atti­tude mak­ing things for all.

Harold says

I might add that their lead­ers are quite artic­u­late. Mas­ter manip­u­la­tors, as a mat­ter of fact, although some are just fooled also.

Harold says

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/23/education/23gap.html may be a bet­ter link with the Times arti­cle. Inci­den­tally, Rupert Mur­dock bought the Times. I don’t know how much con­trol he has, but he’s the Aus­tralian that owns Fox.
Peo­ple want to know why this change of power is so heated. I think it’s because this time it really is a change of power from the old guard and some of them are patho­log­i­cal. They have duped the nation for a long time and the con is up. The whole world is wak­ing up. It’s believ­able that at some time we would take the lead­er­ship in that too. You might look at: Ponerol­ogy, the gen­e­sis of evil if you want to know. http://www.ponerology.com/evil_2b.html
Author­i­tar­ian peo­ple, oddly enough, fol­low lead­ers, like a few ex mil­i­tary, peo­ple used to tak­ing orders rather than think­ing for them­selves. You’ll notice that the neg­a­tive com­menters aren’t too artic­u­late. They are being duped by some sociopaths who got in power in our gov­ern­ment. It doesn’t mat­ter much what hap­pens nest. We are in a new day and you can’t turn back his­tory or an idea who’s time has come.

William says

Well, you can call this the “Obama Effect”. But in real­ity Bob Proc­tor and oth­ers have known and spo­ken about this for years and years.

What hap­pens is, when a leader is in charge that you like. Say for instance back in the war­ring states era for China. There was this one fam­ily called the Wu family.

Almost all of China was cor­rupt at the time, in one form or another. Most of the other main king­doms (like in the book Romance of the Three King­doms) claimed lies to draw peo­ple in to fight for their ends.

All of the other king­doms, except for a few sparse ones like the Wu kingdom/family were actu­ally families.

They had cousins, every­one in their fam­ily actu­ally was related to them. They had a con­nec­tion to the rest of the peo­ple in their “king­dom” but didn’t desire to con­trol them.

So when peo­ple saw the Wu really didn’t do cor­rupt things like take their farms because the gov­ern­ment needed it. Or like, force peo­ple to work in the mil­i­tary. Make peo­ple kill oth­ers. Cause oth­ers to be forced to train to go off and fight some other bat­tle etc. Many peo­ple started to LIKE the Wu a lot.

So in the end the Wu, in the war­ring states era became the one force the rest were fight­ing against. Secretly all the oth­ers had pacts to, in the end, con­quer the Wu because they were too pow­er­ful of a force, if they fought the Wu alone they wouldn’t stand a chance.

So the Wu were defeated one day when one of the other king­doms feigned a dra­matic act, they bought an impor­tant fig­ure from the one king­dom (That ended up over­pow­er­ing the Wu) . They made it look like the Wu stabbed them in the back. Then every­thing fell apart.

What hap­pens in this amaz­ing con­cept I call “lead­er­ship mag­natism” is, when peo­ple like a leader they in turn believe every­thing will work out.

Not because they log­i­cally put the pieces together, because they see the guy or lady they like mak­ing decisions.

Same thing hap­pened with Bush when he was in office but on the other side.

With the “Obama Effect” what hap­pens is all the peo­ple who are not from “cho­sen” or rich fam­i­lies. Basi­cally that do not have a secure future with a career (their only secure career is the mil­i­tary or Ameri­corps) see that some­one who has been through the mud of neg­a­tive liv­ing that actu­ally suc­ceeded in wash­ing the mud off is con­tin­u­ing to grow. To grow and finally over­come the issues that have stopped pro­gres­sion in his own family.

Lots of peo­ple who were in tough times in the last 10 years can eas­ily relate to that, aka the mass majority.

So on the flip side, with Bush, what hap­pened was tons of peo­ple who do have secure lives and fam­i­lies. That can eas­ily get into any col­lege or in any job they want. Their pri­or­i­ties are very dif­fer­ent. They know what a stock or bond even looks like. They have sav­ings, not just like 300 dol­lars in case you need food and your union isn’t pro­duc­ing work. They have thou­sands of dol­lars actu­ally put away.

Their fam­i­lies were suc­cess­ful so they are look­ing for a secure way to make their suc­cesses, either more suc­cess­ful or to just fin­ish up and become per­ma­nently finan­cially secure.

The other half to them are out of sight, out of mind, for cry­ing out loud they pay some­one to pay atten­tion to that stuff!

Noth­ing wrong with that on the sur­face because if you have reached a level of suc­cess like that, then you should have choices and options.

So while Bush was in office, those fam­i­lies and peo­ple were very suc­cess­ful because of the “lead­er­ship mag­natism” con­cept. Every­thing they did worked out great for them. Their invest­ments paid off, they got some toys, they had a won­der­ful time!

Heck they could play a videogame if they never had before and be good at it. One per­son named Bill Gates made the XBOX. It was sub par at the time, it had the com­po­nents of some­thing called an IBM 386. So what he did was give fancy names to every­thing involved and even found a way to charge for a free ser­vice (online gaming).

In the end HE WAS SUCCESSFUL! Very suc­cess­ful actu­ally, he even made a sequel to the sys­tem. All his con­cepts, ideas and things worked out. Why?

Some might look at the tiny details and say “unt uhhhh it was because of this tiny detail here or that one there”.

No… the proof is in the results only.

Sta­tis­tics explain exactly what I am saying.

There were set groups of peo­ple that had EXACTLY the same suc­cess rates. And if you can look at it, the com­mon denom­i­na­tor was “Lead­er­ship Magnatism”.

So now, here we are in the true 21st cen­tury! Now a new leader has this amaz­ing con­cept aid­ing him.

It’s helped me already in every sin­gle aspect of my life. I have no trou­ble los­ing weight, buy­ing stuff, suc­ceed­ing (even if I fail, some­thing mag­i­cally hap­pens and I fig­ure out a way to move for­ward regardless!).

It’s lol funny too, to see the peo­ple who can’t grasp this just make up ran­dom excuses.

Like Rush Lim­baugh, he is the most extreme example.

Noth­ing against him, (though lots of peo­ple do have things against him). Because I do see what is hap­pen­ing I just hope one day he can become aware of the facts and suc­ceed. Instead of cre­ate a fairy tale (aka more excuses) and not suc­ceed because of fight­ing against the grain.

I wish though, I would have fig­ured it out decades ago because I could have suc­ceeded dur­ing the tough times.

It’s kind of cooky though because it’s almost more then you can just “become aware” to use. It’s like a sub­con­scious trig­ger that causes some to win and some to lose .

The bot­tom line is this: If you come to real­ize the mind cre­ates all, then you will notice that there are never any lim­its that you your self do not impose.

Peace

Wayne says

The Coun­try has been ready for real lead­er­ship for 8 years. It‘s really won­der­ful to have a Pres­i­dent capa­ble of speak­ing in coher­ent sen­tences instead of Word Salad.

Jeffrey says

The study is too small to draw any con­clu­sions.
The ‘Obama Effect’ ???
We are headed for war…

Mary says

It is inter­est­ing and amaz­ing how noth­ing really changed except our (or their) per­cep­tion about how things are viewed, and what real­ity is in the present time. This shift would not have hap­pened if we had a dif­fer­ent, or should I say more of the same, kind of pres­i­dent. This shift has occurred world-wide, I’m sure. And not in just the intel­lec­tual areas. Why does no one acknowl­edge that Pres­i­dent Obama is also half white? We are proud of his world alter­ing achieve­ments as well. We also hope he makes pos­i­tive his­tor­i­cal changes in many dif­fer­ent areas, not just in inte­gra­tion. This just shows us that we all have much yet to learn and obsta­cles to overcome.

Thanks Burt for shar­ing this with us!

Gil says

It’s called the “100th Mon­key Effect”. I just think that in the case of the Black Soci­ety in Amer­ica, the Tiger Woods accom­plish­ments, the Con­doleezza Rice’s accom­plish­ments and ALL so many other Black people’s accom­plish­ments World Wide meant noth­ing much until Obama. But the truth was that all those accom­plish­ments were build­ing up and Obama’s elec­tion just tips the bal­ance one last time more and the 100th Mon­key Effect hap­pened. Sud­denly after black peo­ple in Amer­ica have been feel­ing 2nd class Cit­i­zens for ever sud­denly we are finally all equal. It was about time.
Have I seen the effect ?… the effect is all around us. Sud­denly black peo­ple have made it.
The effect on our future is that finally I will be able to stop apol­o­giz­ing for being white and now black peo­ple do not have an excuse to be less than what God orig­i­nally wanted them to be. Every­thing they wish by per­sonal effort.

Mary Watkins says

I did not intend that my last name be pub­lished.
Please change it.

Mary Watkins says

The “Obama Effect” elicited quite a lot of com­men­tary. Some­thing tells me it was prob­a­bly a good thing yet another part of me cringes. There needs to be a bal­ance. Too much adu­la­tion of a human being is a dan­ger­ous thing both for the adored and those who are ador­ing. I also feel greatly dis­ap­pointed to read some of the neg­a­tive mes­sages which are obvi­ously, to me any­way, com­ing from peo­ple who are very closed and fear­ful of Black peo­ple. I know some Blacks have and do act out their resent­ment and hos­til­ity– and this is done basi­cally out of igno­race and very deep pain. I am old enough to have a mem­ory of the days when Blacks were all con­sid­ered infe­rior, 2nd class, and of unde­sir­able char­ac­ter. Many White peo­ple can­not imag­ine being a mem­ber of a minor­ity group which has been his­tor­i­cally shamed, berated, rediculed and treated as if less than human just because of their RACE. Unfor­tu­nately this kind of his­tory in poor, strug­gling, angry, une­d­u­cated com­mu­ni­ties where few if any Whites live con­tributes to hos­tile and stu­pid behav­ior when­ever they encounter Whites– par­tic­u­larly if they sense that White peo­ple are sus­pi­cious of them or afraid of them. These are the peo­ple who have not dis­cov­ered or come to believe that they pos­sess, i.e. any spe­cial tal­ents, or worth as human beings and live in an envi­ron­ment of igno­rance, poverty, and vio­lence where no one is much appre­ci­ated or respected. I would say that some under­stand­ing of this would help to avoid blam­ing Black peo­ple as a whole for the actions of some because most Black peo­ple are good hard work­ing Amer­i­cans who take pride in them­selves as good cit­i­zens of their com­mu­ni­ties and as cit­i­zens of the United States. Peo­ple have to remem­ber that all the African Amer­i­cans in this coun­try who have expe­ri­enced mis­treat­ment, dis­re­spect, embar­rass­ment, and cru­elty of all kinds just because of their race have not died off. There are still mil­lions of them who are still very much alive, most of whom have been will­ing to for­give, move on, and up as it has been pos­si­ble for them to do so.
I sup­pose we need this dia­logue and it has been help­ful for me to write about it but I guess I was a lit­tle naive in think­ing the posts on the sub­ject would all be pos­i­tive and insight­ful. Actu­ally most were good– but it is clear we still have a lot of work to do.
Mean­while, I am root­ing for Obama and the abil­ity of peo­ple to come together and work for the com­mon good!!

jimmy says

Hey MEB. Sorry to be a spoil sport, but in real­ity, there is no ‘fair’ or ‘unfair’, every­thing just ‘is’. Human beings put their own spin on whether some­thing is ‘good’ or ‘bad’. And each one of us is cre­at­ing our own real­ity in every sec­ond of every minute of every day. How­ever, with the help of the media, among other things, we have learned that it’s eas­ier to go through lifes’ lit­tle prob­lems if we can blame some­one or some­thing ‘out there’ for our sit­u­a­tion. The great­est thing that any­one can do for them­selves is to start tak­ing respon­si­bil­ity for your own sit­u­a­tion, cir­cum­stances, all of it. If you take respon­si­bil­ity, that means that what­ever it is in your life that sucks right now, you cre­ated it. And if you cre­ated it, and you don’t like it, it also means that you have the power to cre­ate every­thing dif­fer­ently than the way that it is now. If some­body else did it, then you’re a vic­tim, at the mercy of forces out­side your­self over which you have ZERO con­trol. I don’t know about you, but as for me, I’d lots rather feel like I’m in con­trol, even if it means admit­ting that I’ve made some pretty bone-headed deci­sions in the past. At least they were MY mis­takes, and I’m not blam­ing luck, or fate, or karma, or ‘them’ or whatever.

John says

Reply to Helen Lawrie: In your post to write:

Does he think with a coloured mind or one that is focused on human­ity and cre­at­ing a bet­ter world for his chil­dren to grow up in? Would he have not both­ered work­ing all those hours and ded­i­cat­ing his efforts to become Pres­i­dent if he was white? Would he have thought to him­self, “I don’t stand a chance against a white woman?” I doubt it. I would think that he didn’t even begin to con­sider his colour­ing until it became a media dri­ven issue.

My response: I agree that think­ing about his colour prior to run­ning had noth­ing to do with his deci­sion to run, but as he stated, it was more of a deci­sion to see a bet­ter Amer­ica for his chil­dren and all chil­dren. Under­stand he was a sit­ting US Sen­a­tor before run­ning for President.

As for African-Americans now tak­ing it to mean that they can treat whites dif­fer­ently, con­sider this. They did not become a dif­fer­ent per­son overnight. You know what they say, ‘You give an a**hole a mil­lion dol­lars and in the morn­ing he’ll be an a**hole with a mil­lion dol­lars’. He won’t change, he’ll sim­ply act more of what he is.

My response:

In my opin­ion, one shows a nar­row­ness of think­ing when one makes a blan­keted state­ment con­cern­ing many unique indi­vid­u­als in one race. Basi­cally say­ing we all think alike, behave alike, etc. Not all African Amer­i­cans are or started act­ing dis­re­spect­ful towards oth­ers based on the win of the first African Amer­i­can Pres­i­dent, and we cer­tainly are not ALL ASSH&&&&! Mak­ing such a state­ment as the one above shows just how prej­u­dice, and any many ways why SOME African Amer­i­cans do show bla­tant dis­re­spect towards oth­ers of dif­fer­ent racial back­grounds. Per­son­ally, I don’t see much inter­ac­tion among human beings PERIOD! espe­cially in larger cities. Peo­ple walk passed one another every day, and rarely acknowl­edge each other of the same race and other races, so for such a state­ment to be made about dis­re­spect­ing the cau­casians because African Amer­i­cans finally after one hun­dred so years, got to see some­one lead­ing this coun­try who looks like them to show they too have bril­liance amongst their peo­ple, I get that. You see, Cau­casians have never had to endure a smidgeon of what his­tor­i­cally African Amer­i­cans had to in this coun­try and around the world. Agree or dis­agree, I care not!

Maybe Obama did some Quan­tum Jump­ing and fig­ured how to win the elec­tion by tak­ing on the mind­set of a white man.

My response to the above state­ment: Pretty much a prej­u­dice state­ment that is say­ing that African Amer­i­cans don’t have the capac­ity as cau­casians to think about lead­ing a nation, pro­tect­ing its peo­ple, etc. A lit­tle his­tory les­son here: We, mean­ing African Amer­i­cans in this coun­try and around the world are the descen­dants of African Kings and Queens who ruled great dynasty in Africa. We can thank the bru­tal­ity and hor­rific acts of Slav­ery for tak­ing us from our home­land against our will, strip­ping our fore­fa­thers of the mem­o­ries of that great­ness. The fact that there has been many accom­plish­ments by us includ­ing the build­ing on our backs of this nation for free with no pay or rights as humans in this coun­try as seen in the con­sti­tu­tion, it’s a won­der that we can func­tion at all today with clear­ness of mind. For those who will debate me until the cows come home, that’s fine with me. I sug­gest to go to the library and read about the his­tory of this coun­try.
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My response:

First, what is a coloured mind? As an African Amer­i­can, I’ve never heard of a coloured mind. Very inter­est­ing. Does it mean, it is infe­rior to other cul­tures or what? In the com­mu­nity I grew up in, I was sur­rounded by very bright, pro­fes­sional African Amer­i­cans. Teach­ers, Engi­neers, Pres­i­dent of one of the largest Black owned Insur­ance Com­pany lived in my neigh­bor­hood and many other very intel­li­gent indi­vid­u­als who also worked in blue col­lar posi­tions, but never the less were com­mit­ted, intel­li­gent, hon­est and lov­ing peo­ple. Because of the stereo­typ­i­cal images that the Main Stream Media puts out here and unfor­tu­nately there are those in the black com­mu­nity who have know loy­alty accept for the almighty dol­lar, go on the tele­vi­sion shows, or radio shows and spew igno­rant garbage or show their bod­ies in a dis­re­spect­ful light so when you have more neg­a­tive images than pos­i­tive ones about a race of peo­ple, it’s eas­ier to put the whole race in a box and say those peo­ple or All African Amer­i­cans which of course is com­pletely false are less than.

Not all African Amer­i­cans started treat­ing cau­casians dif­fer­ently after Obama won. I for one cer­tainly didn’t. Was I proud? Of course I was and still am.I have a respect for human­ity which includes myself, so I do not make a habit of dis­re­spect­ing any per­son. I believe, as many African Amer­i­cans I know believe, to treat oth­ers as you would care to be treated. Also note this; Not all African Amer­i­cans voted for Obama, and not all African Amer­i­cans are Democ­rats. Some are Inde­pen­dents and Repub­li­cans. How about those cook­ies. See we don’t have herd men­tal­ity. As far as Obama not con­sid­er­ing his her­itage (race)until the media brought it up, that’s not true. This man knows he is an African Amer­i­can inspite of the fact that his mother was a cau­casian and he was pri­mar­ily raised by his mother’s par­ents who were of course cau­casian. Soci­ety saw him and sees him as an African Amer­i­can. It didn’t take the media who basi­cally pum­meled him daily dur­ing the cam­paign despite the scream­ing of totally bias­ness from the right wingers who basi­cally feel he didn’t deserve any air­time let alone be in the run­ning for the pres­i­dency, and they are show­ing their prej­u­dices very strongly, and I may add have every right. That’s what makes this AMERICA. He knows who he is. This fal­lacy going around that he’s half white is ridicu­lous. Those of us who know biol­ogy under­stand his eth­nic­ity. One last word here; He cares for this coun­try, its peo­ple and the world. It’s really sad that he’s being lied about by the main­stream media, and the right wing media(Fox News). Just because he’s of a dif­fer­ent skin color, doesn’t make him less capa­ble of lead­ing this coun­try, less patri­otic or less loyal than Bush or Clin­ton, or any of the for­mer Pres­i­dents who pre­ceded him all of whom were cau­casian? It’s CRAZY THINKING, and RACISM plain and sim­ple. And of course this ridicu­lous label­ing of Social­ism is also a joke!

Good Day!

a'Ali-Salaam says

Per­haps My Response to the Above Maybe Found of Inter­est.
The nature of what we are dis­cussing has been accu­rately demon­strated through other com­ments with analo­gies to ath­letic or other record break­ing achieve­ments. I would like to offer some words that may be intrin­sic to this phe­nom­ena we are now call­ing the ‘Obama Effect.’

We live within uni­verses of poten­tial­ity or poten­tial. Then based on a myr­iad on events and cir­cum­stances within life expe­ri­ence poten­tial­ity is shaped into pos­si­bil­i­ties. Finally, our per­cep­tions of the expe­ri­ence on a micro and macro social lev­els as well as per­sonal become the intrin­sic fac­tor in deter­min­ing our prob­a­bil­i­ties. What is most prob­a­ble to hap­pen is fore­shad­owed by ones view of the expe­ri­ence in which they resonate.

His­tory is full of the records and some­times leg­end of per­son­al­i­ties who tran­scend to meet the col­lec­tive need of human­ity. Records of the lives of such per­son­al­i­ties polit­i­cal, social or reli­gious indi­cate an advance­ment of ideals or new par­a­digms. Presently there are many indi­ca­tors that Pres­i­dent Obama is sym­bol­i­cally an inspi­ra­tional per­son­al­ity whose effect may advance the species poten­tial to greater pos­si­bil­i­ties and per­haps more pro­found probabilities.

Barak Hus­sain Obama in name, in the con­text of this his­toric moments and in per­son­al­ity appears to be such an indi­vid­ual at the dawn of the New Mil­len­nium. His­tory will mea­sure the Obama Effect far more than soci­o­log­i­cal stud­ies. One thing is clear by shar­ing the uni­ver­sal mes­sage of hope; Pres­i­dent Obama from the precipice of per­ceived pow­er­ful lead­er­ship that is the Amer­i­can Pres­i­dency has plucked the chords of humanity’s heart. A chord that res­onates bey­ound nation, race, tribe or creed.

a’Ali-Salaam, author of “Becom­ing Human; Being Human”

a'Ali-Salaam says

Per­haps My Response to the Above Maybe Found of Interest.

The nature of what we are dis­cussing has been accu­rately demon­strated through other com­ments with analo­gies to ath­letic or other record break­ing achieve­ments. I would like to offer some words that may be intrin­sic to this phe­nom­ena we are now call­ing the ‘Obama Effect.’

We live within uni­verses of poten­tial­ity or poten­tial. Then based on a myr­iad on events and cir­cum­stances within life expe­ri­ence poten­tial­ity is shaped into pos­si­bil­i­ties. Finally, our per­cep­tions of the expe­ri­ence on a micro and macro social lev­els as well as per­sonal become the intrin­sic fac­tor in deter­min­ing our prob­a­bil­i­ties. What is most prob­a­ble to hap­pen is fore­shad­owed by ones view of the expe­ri­ence in which they resonate.

His­tory is full of the records and some­times leg­end of per­son­al­i­ties who tran­scend to meet the col­lec­tive need of human­ity. Records of the lives of such per­son­al­i­ties polit­i­cal, social or reli­gious indi­cate an advance­ment of ideals or new par­a­digms. Presently there are many indi­ca­tors that Pres­i­dent Obama is sym­bol­i­cally an inspi­ra­tional per­son­al­ity whose effect may advance the species poten­tial to greater pos­si­bil­i­ties and per­haps more pro­found probabilities.

Barak Hus­sain Obama in name, in the con­text of this his­toric moments and in per­son­al­ity appears to be such an indi­vid­ual at the dawn of the New Mil­len­nium. His­tory will mea­sure the Obama Effect far more than soci­o­log­i­cal stud­ies. One thing is clear by shar­ing the uni­ver­sal mes­sage of hope; Pres­i­dent Obama from the precipice of per­ceived pow­er­ful lead­er­ship that is the Amer­i­can Pres­i­dency has plucked the chords of humanity’s heart. A chord that res­onates bey­ound nation, race, tribe or creed.

a’Ali-Salaam, author of “Becom­ing Human; Being Human”

MEB says

Thanks Burt.

The Obama Effect is inspir­ing. There are many ele­ments at play I feel. The inspi­ra­tion for me is to delve deep within myself and know that what I want to achieve, I can with effort. Time is another factor.

Many peo­ple had faith in him enough to vote for him. It took a change of heart for many to get beyond per­haps pre­con­ceived notions of the past about peo­ple of color to bring this to pass. A very diverse group of peo­ple did this. It wasn’t just peo­ple of color who needed to see this change in the Amer­i­can way of think­ing. The world needed to see this and added to the eupho­ria of it happening.

It isn’t just about being handed some­thing that isn’t deserved, it is also about priv­i­lege and those with it don’t rec­og­nize that all peo­ple don’t have it to the same degree. It is by inten­tional slights that cause this to hap­pen. Nev­er­the­less one should not give up on their fel­low men to change for the good. Many peo­ple who came before this pres­i­dent had much less to offer but because of their priv­i­lege, they were per­ceived as hav­ing enough to run the coun­try effec­tive but they proved that they could not in some instances.

This per­son has demon­strated great poten­tial in the face of great odds and suc­ceeded in achiev­ing a goal that many before him could not regard­less of hard work, and earnest effort. Yes it encour­ages oth­ers to see this and then catch the spirit from within them­selves and do the same with their lives as well. Many have to over­come great odds in order to suc­ceed. It can be done.

Regard­less of outer trap­pings, this per­son inspires us to be a bet­ter kind of per­son. One of hope and prov­ing that one person’s accom­plish­ments helps us all and real­ize too that we can each make a dif­fer­ence. Each indi­vid­ual as well should do their best regard­less of age, race, eth­nic­ity and the like, to make a dif­fer­ence for good.

What will you do to con­tinue the inspi­ra­tional flow?

Make the effort each day is what I say. Peo­ple who voted for can­di­dates that didn’t win in pre­vi­ous elec­tions but voted for this pres­i­dent are proud to have won this time around. Peo­ple who voted for the can­di­dates that lost this time around are smart­ing over the loss and really add neg­a­tiv­ity to the pos­si­bil­i­ties that this per­son may bring to bear great things for this coun­try, the world, and every per­son on the planet. The loos­ing team doesn’t want to see this and there­fore the neg­a­tive speak becomes a part of the lex­i­con. Some have come right out and spoke their envy…“I hope he fails” they’ve said. It doesn’t mat­ter that this will make us all fail. Those with great finan­cial reserves dur­ing these hard times can lead oth­ers of this mind­set to cut off their noses to spite their own faces by wish­ing for fail­ure over suc­cess. Per­haps the desire to have the pres­i­dent fail will make some feel less able to bring their par­tic­u­lar mind think to the fore or allow their party to win back the lead­er­ship role in the next election.

For decades the hate­ful things done to minor­ity folk hasn’t been fair or a demon­stra­tion of our great­est human­ity. It has been done to a peo­ple by those who feel right­eously entitled.

I say, we each should work to cause a pos­i­tive Obama effect with our own lives. It is time for this to come to pass.

Burt, thank you for guid­ing our thoughts in this fash­ion. I know this isn’t the track on which you wanted this dis­cus­sion to run.

“Just Talkin”

Michael says

You have to be kid­ding me.

I can­not believe that sup­pos­edly intel­li­gent peo­ple are vom­it­ing all over them­selves over Barak Obama, and an NYT arti­cle — the most biased, left wing rag that ever existed. Whose sole pur­pose is to con­tin­u­ally jus­tify to the stu­pid vot­ing pub­lic why they made the right choice in elect­ing Barack Obama Camaro,the new pres­i­dent of GM.…give me a break. BTW, how do you guys like being on the hook for car war­ranties and car pay­ment guar­an­tees? Do you enjoy pay­ing for other people’s cars?

This gov­ern­ment, his gov­ern­ment, is so far out of bounds with the con­sti­tu­tion it isn’t even funny. It amazes me that those that hated GWB so much for his sup­posed con­sti­tu­tional fouls are actu­ally prais­ing a man that in 2 months times has made it legal for the gov­ern­ment to fire peo­ple in pub­lic com­pa­nies, take over banks, hire a fraud and a tax cheat for the head of the trea­sury while he imposes his dimwit­ted “stim­u­less” bill and higher taxes on the nation and tril­lion dol­lar deficits as far as the eye can see with his BS health care, global warm­ing car­bon tax and every­thing else the far left is using to push this coun­try over the brink.

Now he humil­i­ates Amer­ica on his lat­est trip, bows to some Saudi oil sheik, runs down Amer­ica to appease his social­ist bud­dies in Europe, and actu­ally enter­tains the idea of a one world cur­rency and giv­ing up the sov­er­eignty of our nation.

In addi­tion, he wishes to destroy America’s defenses and get rid of nuclear weapons while ter­ror­ists are seek­ing to get them so they can kill us. Oh, for­got, aren’t any terrorists…Obama declared them girlscouts…they’ll all be out sell­ing cook­ies now instead of bomb­ing peo­ple and maim­ing them.

You peo­ple live in la-la land.…keep drink­ing the koolaid.

World Peace…ROFL.…more like we’re headed for a sec­ond civil war…the absolute slime that inhab­its con­gress won’t pro­tect our bor­ders, won’t round up ILLEGAL ALIENS and send them home where they belong, Mex­i­can drug gangs run ram­pant in all Amer­i­can Cities and you fools want to sit around the camp­fire, hold hands and sing Kumbaya.

Sud­denly, it’s patri­otic to pay taxes and vol­un­tar­ily give up every­thing you’ve worked for to the lazy and irre­spon­si­ble. Last I remem­ber, we went to war with the great­est empire in the world over a 2 cent tax on tea, but sud­denly it’s OK for our own gov­ern­ment to rob us and go to war with their own citizenry.

Sud­denly it’s OK for the gov­ern­ment to waste untold bil­lions on crack­pot UNSCIENTIFIC polit­i­cally dri­ven global warm­ing schemes to tax you even more. I hope you enjoy pay­ing $3,000 more a year on your elec­tric bill for his phony car­bon tax plan while at the same time we head into a cool­ing period where you need even more heat.

He refuses to drill for our own oil because he has an agenda to push peo­ple into tin cans with wheels that run on bat­ter­ies or veg­etable oil.

I am dis­mayed that in your enthu­si­asm to see “world peace” you freely give up your com­mon sense. World Peace will NEVER hap­pen as long as gov­ern­ment reigns…they are too cor­rupt to per­mit it.

We now have a gov­ern­ment that feels it can do any­thing it desires. Take away pri­vate prop­erty, con­trol pri­vate busi­ness, destroy the value of our cur­rency and give our sov­er­eignty to another body. And it’s fools like all of you that per­mit it to happen.

Maybe you’ll see the light when it takes a wheel­bar­row of our worth­less cur­rency to buy a loaf of bread.

Unbelievable.….…I’m outta here and off this list of Burt Gold­dig­ger forever.…good luck to all, just keep your heads in the sand, it will all be ok…lol

Cathy says

I don’t see that this Pres­i­dent is any more spe­cial than any­one else. He talks a good talk, and can read a teleprompter really well, but I don’t see him as a great leader. He took an oath to pro­tect this coun­try and fol­low the Con­sti­tu­tion. When I first heard him speak last year, I thought that I could vote for him. But after a month, my intu­ition told me that he was not some­one to be trusted. Since being in office, he has already bro­ken many promises, which tells me that he is just like all other politi­cians and will lie to win peo­ple over to get elected. He IS a Social­ist by what he pro­poses for this coun­try. Peo­ple.… read our CONSTITUTION! You all have been fooled. He’s only a puppet.

Dennis Sullivan says

Hey Cariaga
I don’t feel to bad about your insult,coming from some­body who talk about AZTANOS.I think maybe in your world there are elves and gob­lins and so fourth. I’ll let you back to your fan­tasy world. I also think your not play­ing with a full deck.

Den­nis Sul­li­van
An unen­light­ened one

S. Welsh says

Very good com­ment from Hellen. Women would not be tak­ing to the streets and treat­ing men badly if Hilary had won. Let’s all respect each other. Obama, after all, is not 100% black. One half of him is white, so he belongs to every­body. Black peo­ple alone can­not claim him as their own, he also belongs to the white race, and most impor­tantly, to the human race. Peo­ple will always think racially and unless whites can accept the black in Obama and the blacks can accept the white in Obama to see that he rep­re­sents and embod­ies the very best in both races — we are in more trou­ble than we realize.

David says

The only thing new here is the names: recy­cled his­tory with updated PR spin. Iden­ti­fi­ca­tion with a strong role model has always had an empow­er­ing effect. I per­son­ally chose not to iden­tify with a polit­i­cal puppet.

Kathleen says

Con­sider, the rich­est woman in Amer­ica is black, Oprah and the pres­i­dent is black. There are no more excuses.

John says

In response to Karen’s post:

So you are say­ing not even in a sub­tle fash­ion that you deserve as a cau­casian the utmost respect from non-whites if I under­stand you, so the fact that they don’t bow as you walk pass, you con­sider that an insult and they are act­ing above their sta­tion in life. Now Karen, how equal­ity like of you to have such an atti­tude. You owe any human being of any hue the utmost respect because they are as you are, A HUMAN BEING. I would hope you get this as feed­back to an inner prejudice.

Sara says

I hope that peo­ple will real­ize that the all debate was not about pol­i­tics but about uncon­scious and con­scious hap­pen­ing!!!
Burt we are with you!!
hop­ing that always pos­i­tive future hap­pen­ing will bring more peo­ple to shine!! finally

thanks!!

Hellen Lawrie says

Got to admit that for a ‘well­ness and enlight­en­ment’ site, there seems to be a lot said about Mr Obama and some of it very neg­a­tive. What hap­pened to all the lessons that everyone’s been tak­ing on get­ting their life in order and pro­gress­ing to a higher level of con­scious­ness? I’m won­der­ing if Mr Obama takes a look at him­self in the mir­ror each morn­ing as says, “You is one fine look­ing black dude,” or “You made it kiddo! You went for the prize and you got it.” Does he think with a coloured mind or one that is focused on human­ity and cre­at­ing a bet­ter world for his chil­dren to grow up in? Would he have not both­ered work­ing all those hours and ded­i­cat­ing his efforts to become Pres­i­dent if he was white? Would he have thought to him­self, “I don’t stand a chance against a white woman?” I doubt it. I would think that he didn’t even begin to con­sider his colour­ing until it became a media dri­ven issue.

As for African-Americans now tak­ing it to mean that they can treat whites dif­fer­ently, con­sider this. They did not become a dif­fer­ent per­son overnight. You know what they say, ‘You give an a**hole a mil­lion dol­lars and in the morn­ing he’ll be an a**hole with a mil­lion dol­lars’. He won’t change, he’ll sim­ply act more of what he is. I’m sure if Hilary had got up there and taken the prize (if she hadn’t pulled out), there wouldn’t be women all over Amer­ica sud­denly tak­ing to the streets and treat­ing men dif­fer­ently because they’ve got one of their sis­ters in the White House.

Maybe Obama did some Quan­tum Jump­ing and fig­ured how to win the elec­tion by tak­ing on the mind­set of a white man.

And as for influ­enc­ing oth­ers, we always seem to look for some­one to look up to, to lead us, to immi­tate and inspire us, so why is that there is such a back­lash over the fact that it is now Obama that has become that per­son? Mr King did a great job, but that’s his­tory and you can’t keep inspir­ing peo­ple for long enough once you are gone. We all need liv­ing exam­ples to live up to, espe­cially the young.

I didn’t vote for him. I’m an Aus­tralian and I would have to say that racial prej­u­dice will always find its way into people’s heart. We need some­one to blame for every­thing. Here it’s always the immi­grants tak­ing our jobs, or the Abo­rig­i­nals get­ting too many Gov­ern­ment hand­outs, or the Lebanese get­ting away with rape, or the Alba­ni­ans bring their mafia atti­tude into the coun­try, or the US bikie gangs recruit­ing Australian’s, or.…

What­ever! Get over it peo­ple. Think not what your Pres­i­dent can do for you, but what you can do for yourself.

Live life, don’t spend all of yours analysing the motives behind oth­ers’ lives. Get into your happy zone and imag­ine your­self a bet­ter world and then cre­ate it.

Thanks Mate

Patricia says

Obama was ‘cho­sen’ to be where he is. The Amer­i­cans have
Been duped for years, think­ing that they really have any­thing to do with
Who gets in the White­house. It’s a ‘smoke and mir­rors’ event.
The pow­ers that be, needed to get the focus off of them, keep the gen­eral pop­u­lace ‘dumbed’ down. In comes our man. Looks who he was run­ning against.
Ridicu­lous! Obama was clearly the per­fect can­di­date.
He’s not entirely White or Black, so he can mix it up with either camp. He’s clean, hon­est, speaks well and He’s not been ‘tainted’ by dirty pol­i­tics on his way up.

I believe that has and will con­tinue to bring a hope and a light to the pop­u­la­tion. He is the cat­a­lyst for the change.
The black com­mu­nity in gen­eral has been espe­cially inspired by his elec­tion. They have been fol­low­ing his cam­paign and using him as an exam­ple for them­selves to become bet­ter peo­ple and bet­ter cit­i­zens. If this is what spurs them on, then it’s a good thing.
What both­ers me is, the atti­tude between races doesn’t really ever go away. I still see big gaps that will only change when all our mind­set changes.
The ego loves chaos. Chaos keeps our ‘minds’ away from what we really need to do and that is to focus on ‘wak­ing up’. We are on the brink of great change for the human race.
We need to teach, heal and pray for each other so that we can all rise up to our poten­tial, not walk around like a lot of ‘dumb’ sheep exactly what those in power want us to be. They are of a vibra­tion of greed, power and sup­pres­sion of peo­ple and have been work­ing on their own plan for ‘one world gov­ern­ment’ for many many years. We need more peo­ple pray­ing and focussing on ‘good­ness’ to pre­vail. For love to prevail.

That is what we really are. If we really knew and believed the truth of this, we would have ascended long ago. This is what Jesus was really try­ing to teach us. Not the garbage the ‘orga­nized’ reli­gions out there are feed­ing us for a cou­ple thou­sand years!

Love is the high­est emotion/vibration, it is the essence of our source, cre­ator.
When we sur­ren­der to it, for­give­ness fol­lows, all dual­ism falls away and we are reunited with our God.

Phil D'Angelo says

. Since you know that I made a post­ing why have’t you posted my comments?

jimmy says

Burt. Since there are no vic­tims, or acci­dents in this per­fect Uni­verse, that means that you’re man­i­fest­ing all these posts. Pos­i­tive and neg­a­tive. So change your vibra­tion, and make ‘em all positive!

Hose 'B' says

Hey Burt. Some­thing to pon­der. Since there are no acci­dents, or vic­tims in the uni­verse, that means that you’ve man­i­fested every one of these posts. Pos­i­tive AND neg­a­tive. Ya think?

nadia says

From red­ing the posts, I see that some peo­ple are using their intel­li­gence, which gives me hope for the future of our coun­try. While oth­ers will always unques­tion­ingly fol­low what­ever the dumb­ing down media tells them.

Carli says

I’m really dis­ap­pointed in how so many peo­ple are using this post as a polit­i­cal plat­form to throw spears at each other, rather than mak­ing an attempt to see the wis­dom in it. A post like this in which there is a polit­i­cal fig­ure as a pivot does not auto­mat­i­cally mean that it’s try­ing to push any agenda or point of view on the reader.

I see Burt’s point clearly. I voted for Obama but do not com­pletely agree with some of the plans he’s offer­ing. How­ever, this post is not about pol­i­tics, it’s about one spe­cific issue about how just one inci­dent has very likely touched the lives of many young­sters. When we stop and SEE what we’re only look­ing at, we’ll get much more ben­e­fit from it.

Thank you Burt for all you do. You are one of the great forces that Life has given us to improve on this cos­mic ball called Earth.
Blessings.

Ardee says

I am a Siva Grad­u­ate and I voted Obama…

To all includ­ing Burt: Get your­selves in a frame of mind to stop being deceived.

The ‘Obama Decep­tion’ is pretty strong med­i­cine and per­haps not the best place to start, espe­cially for those who whole­heart­edly believe in the cur­rent White House res­i­dent. For those who wish to gen­tly awaken to the Truth, watch this inter­view from Bill Moy­ers’ Jour­nal. He speaks with Bill Black, an econ­o­mist, who wrote a book: ‘The Best Way To Rob A Bank Is To Own One’.

Here’s the link: http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/04032009/watch.html (If you have to just cut and paste into your URL line and click enter)

The jour­ney of a thou­sand miles begins with the first step…

Dr. Erika says

Well.…it’s very inter­est­ing to see all the mixed reviews of this email that Burt sent out. I, per­son­ally, believe and have been teach­ing my clients and stu­dents that we are 100% respon­si­ble for cre­at­ing or allow­ing our lives. Our God given right is free­dom and choice of every­thing we have. Whether it be a car we buy, organic food we choose to eat,vitamins we take to keep healthy, and what type (if any) of med­ical insur­ance we have for our­selves and fam­ily. Peo­ple should take per­sonal respon­si­bil­ity for their lives and NO one else should do that for them. Let no one else, whether it be the gov­ern­ment or any­one else dicatate to you what is best for you. Only YOU know what is best for you. For instance, if you don’t have much income, then find a way to make more, (where there is a will, there is a way!)We are all cre­ated equal; with that abil­ity to fig­ure it out!If you are unhealthy, then cre­ate a bet­ter lifestyle and qual­ity of life. Peo­ple should be rewarded for their efforts NOT for their inep­ti­tude and peo­ple should be able to pos­sess their fruits of their labor instead of it being taken away. Every­one has that capa­bil­ity inside them­selves to cre­ate what­ever life they choose. NOT just some of us!! This coun­try was founded on per­sonal free­dom and inde­pen­dence. Let’s all reflect on our founders and their orig­i­nal ideas. The gov­ern­ment was never intended to pro­vide for us from cra­dle to grave. Unfor­tu­nately peo­ple have for­got­ten the lessons of His­tory and what they can accom­plish for them­selves when tak­ing respon­si­bil­ity for them­selves. Let’s learn, keep pos­i­tive, have faith and focus on how each one of us can improve our­selves and teach oth­ers to do the same.! You are wel­come to fol­low my blog http://www.erikaduffy.blogspot.com

Larry says

why not half the bat­tle is believing,this may be what Obama believed was his real­ity so there­fore he has cre­ated it for him­self and the rest of us are merely here to enjoy his suc­cess ‚I do not even espe­cially like him but I am happy for him and do not mind being part of his reality

aide gonzalez says

Obama is the begin­ning of a new era, of har­mony, and love
that all. God bless you Mr President.

Marc Sullivan says

It is like this: Blacks liked to say that white folk kept them down all through out my life. The fact was and is to this day, it is all very per­sonal. No one can “keep you down” with­out you allow­ing them to. When a black man became a judge on the supreme court, few (com­par­a­tively speak­ing) tried harder. When Black men and women became lead­ers of cor­po­ra­tions (Oprah Win­frey as the best exam­ple) again, few would strive harder. The num­bers of black impov­er­shed fam­i­lies swelled in the cities.
Now! Now we have SEEN what a black man can do in this soci­ety and all of the myths of “The white devil keeps us down” have been shat­tered! No one can fall on those words as an excuse again and be taken seriously!

I say “Never Again” can any­one allow some­one to fall to that old excuse when we have proof that any­one can do any­thing in this nation!

God Bless America!

Land of the Free and Home of the Brave!

But the trick is, be brave enough to make the effort! The free­dom is already there, just be brave enough to defeat all the neg­a­tive thoughts that would smack you back down. As I said, it is all per­sonal. The one defeat­ing you is you and your self esteem and fears.

We can all rise above those and become more.

Now and Forever

jimmy says

I always thought that the orig­i­nal ver­sion of that old saw was, “If you’re gonna talk the talk, you gotta walk the walk.” It has always annoyed me when peo­ple say, “Walk the talk”, or vice versa. How do you walk that which is referred to as talk? Or talk what’s known as walk? Just curious.

pretyyk says

I did not read all the writ­ings yet b/.c I was dis­turbed by the very neg­a­tive one by a woman who is angry at black peo­ple whom she accuses of using the fact that thier is a black Pres­i­dent to put down whitres! I want to address her and her freind’s reac­tion that blacks are tar­get­ing white peo­ple b/c of Obama.
I know that as we think so we attract. I would like to invite them to look into her own anger and heal that. She will stop sub­con­sciously invit­ing so-called “blacks with atti­tudes” who vic­tim­ize her b/c there is a black pres­i­dent. Also I bet her freind has the same issues b/c we often find freinds who share our core beliefs. So I ask them to let the higer power heal them from the pain of anger and they will stop attract­ing black peo­ple with an atti­tude.
Sim­i­larly, I did an exper­i­ment with women who were angry at men. They kep t attract­ing abu­sive men. When they learn to for­give they attracted com­pa­sion­ate men.
Now as far as the Obama affect I think its true for many peo­ple who need role mod­els. As a per­son from the Car­ribean I did not grow up with the same mind­set that I was infe­rior b/c I am black. I always felt equal to whites. I was not bom­barded with bad things about being black. My mom experieced racism for the first time when she came here.
It was shock­ing to her. She faught for civil rights and taught me to love myself even my black­ness. I was told by my mom that I was not infe­rior and soci­ety in Amerca was hurt by slav­ery and oppres­sion due to socioe­con­mic rea­sons. How­ever, I should try to be my best b.c despit that there are more opporuni­ties here than where I’m from. I grew up think­ing my life may be harder b/c I’m black ‚but, I will make it. I think she­did the best she could and now I want to get rid of the idea that my lfe will be harder and make things come eas­ier to me. As I write this its heal­ing me b/c I real­ize my core belief in strug­gling is from my well-meaning dear mom!
Any­way, in my coun­try I saw pow­er­ful black peo­ple all the time. Due to my mom, I ignored what I saw on TV as racist stereo­types and cre­ated my own image b/c my mom put another pic­ture in my mind. How­ever, I do belive that if an Africain Amer­cain born child grows up see­ing only neg­a­tive images of them­selves on TV and the arents have not bro­ken out of tht mind­set, it is not sur­pris­ing if he/she becomes what he/she sees.
This is true espe­cially if the par­ents do not instill that despite racism a black per­son can be what­ever he/she wants even the Pres­i­dent. I admit that I did not think thier would be a black pres­i­dent. I admit that for me I had a lim­ited belief that I could rise high ‚but, not as high due to race. So as an adult too see Obama its great. Its also great to see how he treats his wife b/c I see so many neg­a­tive images of black men that has affected how I view get­ting mar­ried. When I think of a happy mar­riage with a black man I think if the Oba­mas not the abu­sive black men or those who hate them­selves that I see in the media at times.
I do think Obama influ­enced blacks who sub­con­sciously said; why bother to study b/c the white racist soci­ety will always keep me down. That mind­set is self deaf­eat­ing and makes one pow­er­less. To see a per­son who did not beielve in that story and who rose up to be Pres­i­dent is inspir­ing for every­body not just blacks. How­ever for some blacks it raises the bar b/c they no longer have the excuse of racism. The most they can say is; I will have some racism and/or other obstacles,but, like Obama if I push through, I will still be vic­to­rios and achieve my dreams!

Realityman says

I posted a com­ment here yes­ter­day and now it is gone. So here it is again. Obama is a cruel hoax. He works for Wall St. He is con­trolled by the rul­ing scum­bag elite bankers who are try­ing to instill a world gov­ern­ment under fas­cist rule. Let his record speak for itself.

- Obama said he would bring back the troops imme­di­ately.
” Pres­i­dent Obama ordered his first major deploy­ment of U.S. com­bat troops Tues­day, autho­riz­ing 17,000 addi­tional sol­diers and Marines for Afghanistan“
Los Ange­les Times
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-afghan-troops18-2009feb18,0,1590275.story

- He pledged that he wouldn’t raise taxes.
He is rais­ing taxes.

- He promised to never sign a bill with­out giv­ing the tax­pay­ers at least 5 days to look it over.
Promise broken.

- Make Gov­ern­ment Open and Trans­par­ent
– Make it “Impos­si­ble” for Con­gress­men to slip in Pork Bar­rel Projects
– Meet­ings where laws are writ­ten will be more open to the pub­lic
– No more secrecy
– We will put every pork bar­rel project online

All of these promises have already been broken.

He has now signed HR1388 ‘the give act’ manda­tory com­mu­nity ser­vice for all ages. (same as the Hitler youth corps)

There is so much more that is hap­pen­ing than you will ever know if you depend on cor­po­rate con­trolled main­stream media for your information.

I know most of you want to see the good side of things and bring love and peace into this world. You want to man­i­fest your desires. But so do the cor­rupt crim­i­nals who run our gov­ern­ment and are try­ing to enslave you. They, how­ever, are work­ing a lot harder than you are to achieve their goals. The only way to stop them is by not being a bunch of igno­rant sheeple lis­ten­ing to the lies of these cor­rupt offi­cials who care not for your well­be­ing but only for their greedy desires.

Watch this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAaQNACwaLw

Go to infowas.com and start learn­ing the truth. The only power they have is the power we give them.

Donna says

I have never been so dis­ap­pointed after read­ing this site. First, Obama is half white not a true black American..Second, A lot of Amer­i­cans need not vote for him and the Obama Affect has been very very neg­a­tive on us..I would not model after him or his coun­ter­parts! I think he is the biggest dis­grace to Amer­ica. I have never been prej­u­dice in my life and it has noth­ing to do with the color of his skin. The old say­ing goes “If you want to really know what a per­son is, just look at their friends’! Take a good look at his friends. All corrupt..don’t pay thier taxes and for abortion..How can any­one feel any­thing pos­i­tive about him. He is arro­gant and is held up as a God. And yes, the blacks atti­tude did change after the elec­tion. I had my encounter the day after the elec­tion and it was bad. Slav­ery was a long time ago and they need to get over it..They have been given every­thing and noth­ing seems to be enough. They need to remem­ber that their own peo­ple sold them. They are the ones who went into the tribes and picked out the best of them..Need to go back and read his­tory. Should be mad at your own kind..They sold you for money..Get over it and get a life..

josi says

YES BURT I AGREE…OBAMA IN MY OPINION HAS A “TALK YOUR WALK OR WALK YOUR TALK” WAY ABOUT HIM THAT I SEE AS IMPRESSIVE..“EFFORTS” SHOWN AN THE “WAVE OF GOOD” FEELINGS TO COME…YOU CAN FEEL A RELIEF THAT HE IS AT LEAST SHOWING HIS BEST AN NOT JUST A SHOWY DISPLAY OF WORDS!!!…JOSI***

Margaret says

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I really appre­ci­ate your help with this matter.

Many thanks in advance,

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margaretahiggins@gmail.com

Angelia says

I have seen the Obama Effect on the black com­mu­nity in sev­eral states in this once great coun­try but I am find­ing that this effect is wan­ing. It is sig­nif­i­cant that we now have a black pres­i­dent how­ever his poli­cies are prov­ing to prob­lem­atic for the future of our children.

In our pres­i­dents vision of the future of this coun­try, there will be no con­se­quences for bad mis­takes. If you buy a home that you can not afford, the gov­ern­ment will save you. Of course the real­ity is that your neigh­bors who pay their mort­gages will now have to pay the mort­gages of those who defaulted on theirs. As a child I was taught that you can’t take from one to give to another. To add insult to injury, the gov­ern­ment fails to fire those politi­cians who had a hand in cre­at­ing this cat­a­stro­phe in the first place.

If the com­pany you built is not suc­cess­ful, the gov­ern­ment will give you money and run the com­pany for you. The gov­ern­ment will bur­den you with strict rules and reg­u­la­tions that will impede your abil­ity to turn your com­pany around. If the gov­ern­ment doesn’t like the way you run your com­pany then it can fire you and hire some­one else to run it for you. It just goes to show that if you take their money you have to take their crap too.

If you don’t have a job, the gov­ern­ment will take money from hard work­ing peo­ple and re-distribute it to those who can’t be both­ered to put forth the effort to make their lives bet­ter. If you don’t have an edu­ca­tion, no prob­lem. The gov­ern­ment will pay for it on the backs of those who have worked hard all their life to try to build a future for their own children.

Don’t have health insur­ance? The gov­ern­ment will save you. This is the only coun­try I have ever heard of that con­sid­ers an adult aged 30 as a child. With the new SCHIP pro­gram, now peo­ple don’t have to be respon­si­ble for their own health con­cerns until they reach age 31. This pro­gram counts on the taxes gained from peo­ple who smoke. While they con­demn those who smoke on the basis of health con­cerns, they are will­ing to tax it even more to pay for the pro­gram. Guess what? When peo­ple who do smoke start quit­ting, then where are they going to get those tax dol­lars? It’s going to come from all of us.

For those of us who are respon­si­ble and sac­ri­ficed in order to take care of our chil­dren and now fac­ing the pos­si­bil­ity of rationed health care. Only heaven knows what will and won’t be allowed under the Health Care being proposed.

Get­ting ready to retire? Due to past inter­ven­tion in the open mar­ket, all that you have sac­ri­ficed and put away as a respon­si­ble look to the future is now gone thanks to the gov­ern­ment inter­ven­tion. Those who have paid into the Social Secu­rity sys­tem by law will be in trou­ble too. Got a 401K? Now the new admin­is­tra­tion wants to pay back what you lost before every­thing hit the fan and then con­fis­cate the funds and dole it out to you in the form of a Social Secu­rity check.

How safe do you feel now? The gov­ern­ment is seek­ing to con­trol those who have guns. You will no longer have the abil­ity to pro­tect your­self in your own home. Will our coun­try as a whole feel safe? I don’t think so. All that has kept us safe in this coun­try is now being parred down. Didn’t we learn any­thing from the Clin­ton admin­is­tra­tion? We can’t even secure our own bor­ders and politi­cians state that it’s Un-American to do so.

Prayer except when done in church is no longer tol­er­ated and yet it’s OK if you’re a Mus­lim. A dis­cus­sion with my sons revealed that as long as there are tests in school there will always be prayer.

Pres­i­dent Obama was a Con­sti­tu­tional Law instruc­tor. It seems appar­ent that he has for­got­ten what that doc­u­ment stands for. He has man­aged to stomp all over it know­ing it will take years to right the wrongs he and his admin­is­tra­tion have done.

Going Green? This is the most irre­spon­si­ble excuse to tax and spend (Cap and Trade) for this coun­try. It is arro­gant to believe that peo­ple can influ­ence the weather. If that were true, farm­ers and ranch­ers would have done it many gen­er­a­tions ago. All this in spite of the facts that this is a fab­ri­cated lie and many sci­en­tists all over the globe can prove it.

The gov­ern­ment is now against energy pro­duc­tion in this coun­try. They do noth­ing and yet the gov­ern­ment receives tril­lions of tax dol­lars by just lift­ing a pen to write the new tax laws. We in this coun­try can not develop our own nat­ural resources. Tell me what’s wrong with this picture?

The Obama effect is scary to me and the future of my grand­chil­dren. They will find that if your are suc­cess­ful the gov­ern­ment will pun­ish you for your accom­plish­ments by tax­ing you into obliv­ion. You will no longer be able to stand on your own two feet. The incen­tive to become great will be gone. This irre­spon­si­ble life style is run by an ever grow­ing gov­ern­ment who have never run a busi­ness or made a pay­roll. When the gov­ern­ment runs our of money, they pick up a pen and write new tax laws instead of doing what we all must do and that is to live within our means. If this con­tin­ues, our coun­try will col­lapse, mar­tial law will pre­vail and then maybe we can start all over.

Phil D'Angelo says

Burt! What is your agenda?
OBama is a role model for those in soci­ety that are weak in spirit as well as in mind. Those who can’t see or have not stud­ied world his­tory and the effect of Fas­cism that was promi­nent in the early to mid 1900’s and is rear­ing its ugly head again in the per­son of Obama and the mind­less lib­eral left­ist Con­gress lead by Pelosi and Reid.

The Amer­ica arro­gance that Obama so pro­fusely apol­o­gized for to the Social­ist elite in Europe is the very rea­son that the World has pros­pered. Amer­i­cans have fought the wars while the rest of the world hud­dled in the cor­ner recit­ing Social­ist mantras. Amer­ica set a new stan­dard of achieve­ment, pushed tech­nol­ogy that has per­mit­ted the world to com­mu­ni­cate and to trade goods and ser­vices. Amer­ica devel­oped man­age­ment mod­els that are used world wide and taught the rest of the world to dream and to believe that all things are pos­si­ble. This is what Lib­er­als and Social­ist call arrogance.

Just look at the past 100 years of social and eco­nomic decay in Rus­sia. Read and study Russ­ian his­tory or visit Rus­sia as I have and you will see that the Marx­ist social­ist agenda sup­ported by the Lib­eral Left did not and will never work. Peo­ple forced under strong Gov­ern­ment con­trol stop par­tic­i­pat­ing, Stop think­ing, Stop want­ing and Stop com­mu­ni­cat­ing and Start expect­ing Gov­ern­ment to solve all their prob­lems. Trash on Russ­ian streets is past by because no one will bother to pick it up because the Gov­ern­ment is respon­si­ble not the individual.

Peo­ple have to real­ize that every­thing is in a con­stant state of change and that they are 100% respon­si­ble for the lives they live. No excuses, no com­plain­ing about what is not fair; just get up and do what needs to be done and stop expect­ing some­one else to solve your prob­lems. That is the Amer­i­can way that at least 52% of the Amer­i­can vot­ers many have for­got­ten, never knew or are inca­pable of understanding.

Our cur­rent Celebrity Gov­ern­ment must be strongly chal­lenged by “We the Peo­ple” to be bal­anced and min­i­mized to per­mit the glow of indi­vid­ual achieve­ment to light the way to future group achieve­ments. We need a 2nd Amer­i­can Rev­o­lu­tion of thinkers, achiev­ers and com­mon peo­ple of pur­pose to come for­ward and demand a shift to less Gov­ern­ment and more per­sonal respon­si­bil­ity. Con­gress which con­sist largely of multi-term self serving-autocrats must be replaced with two term lim­ited qual­i­fied cit­i­zens who have a proven back­ground in social, tech­ni­cal and busi­ness affairs. The Press must be neu­tral­ized. No left press and No right press. “The news just the news” not slanted and not pre-digested and the Amer­i­can Cit­i­zens deter­mine what is impor­tant and valid not the non­sen­si­cal talk­ing heads.

Finally, con­sider that every­one is cre­ated equal at the moment of their birth. The fol­low­ing moments of their lives are all up to them to learn from their fail­ure and to revel in their success.

Cecilia says

Hi Burt.
I hope you are not tak­ing this kind non­sense some of this
peo­ple are say­ing. We learn from our elders. How are we going to teach our chil­dren and grand chil­dren to respect
oth­ers. One thing we always do is we jump into things with­out think­ing or answer­ing. What do all of this peo­ple think you are ask­ing. I hope peo­ple will be kind to others.

Gary A. Smith says

Obama effect? What a load of malarkey. One could hypoth­e­size a “Indi­ana Jones” effect a few months after an Indi­ana Jones movie hit the street and have the same chance of mak­ing a valid con­clu­sion as this “research” did.

In the world of edu­ca­tion, it takes years, not months, to mea­sure trends which pos­i­tively cor­re­late with a spe­cific cause. Attribut­ing increased aca­d­e­mic suc­cess of black stu­dents to the “Obama effect” is just plain ludi­crous at this early juncture.

The so-called researchers (really just “observers” in my mind) should repeat their study again after two years and four years (gee, just like the Iowa Basics… coin­ci­dence?) to prop­erly deter­mine if there really is such an effect.

Mean­while, I won’t hold my breath.

Shauntel says

Per­sonal respon­si­bil­ity is the first thought that comes to mind in read­ing the arti­cle, and most of the responses.

Being an AMERICAN (of african decent; a fact that shouldn’t mat­ter because I am Human FIRST); who has been on the receiv­ing end of dis­crim­i­na­tion from my own demo­graphic, as well as oth­ers. I find that the only per­son who is really in charge of my future is ME. I always have the CHOICE to suc­cumb, or to release. ALWAYS! It’s just a mat­ter of how ded­i­cated I am to my Life’s Pur­pose. In that, I have always innately over­stood that any­thing is pos­si­ble. ANYTHING!

I find it very dis­heart­en­ing that in the midst of Global Warm­ing, and many other world wide cri­sis, the focus is still in a place where WE are hold­ing our­selves back as the HUMAN RACE.

Regard­less of who’s (racial demo­graphic) test scores are higher or lower. When are we gonna focus on the fact that nowa­days a good (worldly com­pet­i­tive) edu­ca­tion has to be pur­chased from a pri­vate insti­tu­tion that cost more than the gen­eral pub­lic can dream of afford­ing? I have a child in a school that is pop­u­lated with chil­dren from all racial back rounds, and the school is not doing it’s part. As his par­ents we do more at home to edu­cate him then school does and intends to. Which goes back to whole per­sonal respon­si­bil­ity thing.

Which leads me to the debt issue, in a coun­try where it is abnor­mal not to posses a credit card. It doesn’t mat­ter whom the pres­i­dent is, we as a coun­try built the debt pre­ced­ing this term; together. Our real­ity (both imme­di­ate past and future) is one that is an effect of all of our care­less liv­ing. For instance, when OUR rep­re­sen­ta­tives where vot­ing to spend money on friv­o­lous projects that did not invest in any­thing of impor­tance into our com­mu­ni­ties or our future, how many of US where there at the town hall meet­ings to voice your opin­ion? Again, Per­sonal Responsibility.

Yes, I know hav­ing a pos­i­tive role model does help, even in time where the only role model some of us have is the per­son star­ing back at us from the mir­ror. I see not what any­one else can do for me; but what I can do for MYSELF and OTHERS. My sur­round­ings reflect that which my heart Radiates.

Amer­ica reflects that which the peo­ple of her hills, high­ways, plains, moun­tains, cities and coun­try sides radi­ate from their beings. Know­ingly and unknowingly.

As a coun­try Amer­ica, has a lot of grow­ing to do. As do we all. To me; if WE were to stop the sin­gu­lar clas­si­fi­ca­tion of race, I think that all this bick­er­ing could cease, and we could focus on the more rel­e­vant issues like with the Jet Streams shift­ing lat­i­tude, and the sea­sons merg­ing or shift­ing. Which is caus­ing a tran­si­tional period where our crops are pro­duc­ing lower num­bers with each approach­ing season?

I don’t know; but to me when I read the quote from Bud­dah, ” Any change you want to see in the world you must first make within your­self.” I real­ized that until each and every­one of US owns up to our part in the ways of the world, with­out judge­ment and mal­ice. OUR future as PEOPLE will remain uncertain.

Peace,

Shauntel

jimmy says

You go, Patrick! Tell it like it is, brother!

Leila says

(third time lucky)

I so like that test cited in the arti­cle where stu­dents were either asked or not asked their race before tak­ing a test and the results were con­clu­sive. I think it is unde­ni­able that people’s feel­ings con­tribute enor­mously to the results they achieve in life. If I feel bad, if I feel patron­ized or if I feel expected to fail it’s likely that I will. How do white pres­i­dents feel about their black pop­u­la­tion? How does any pres­i­dent feel about their poorer con­stituents. Can a pres­i­dent or his advi­sors be near per­fect in their per­cep­tion of dif­fer­ent mem­bers of their com­mu­nity or must it always be who do I have to please to stay in power?

Patrick says

Burt,

Like sev­eral oth­ers who have posted, I am dis­ap­pointed in your Obama Effect post. Your fol­low up email has done noth­ing to allay that dis­ap­point­ment, in fact it gives the impres­sion of some­one attempt­ing to dis­tance them­selves from what they have said.

If you didn’t think Obama was spe­cial you wouldn’t have used such a fal­la­cious ref­er­ence as that in the NYT to make a point, unless you qual­i­fied it with a clear state­ment that you saw through the decep­tion of Obama.

I have been slightly put off by the numer­ous mar­ket­ing emails sent out for your prod­ucts recently, all kinds of cutesy ones about your pub­lisher being unhappy with the deals you’re doing etc, they don’t have the ring of truth, just a ploy to get peo­ple to buy quickly. I’m finally going to remove myself from your mail­ing list, as I really believe you have lit­tle to offer that isn’t avail­able else­where, even if ‘Quan­tum Jump­ing’ has a sexy zing to it, it’s just more clever mar­ket­ing of the same old thing, a way to make even more money for some­one who pro­fesses to be con­cerned about teach­ing wis­dom to oth­ers

Katharine says

Have you ever noticed when you get to “really know” some­one from a dif­fer­ent race the color of their skin disappears?

This elec­tion was not about race but the best can­di­date for the job and in my opin­ion nei­ther can­di­date was right for the posi­tion of Pres­i­dent of the United States. Obama is destroy­ing this coun­try as we know it and our Country’s core val­ues are shift­ing. We didn’t become the United State of Amer­ica the coun­try EVERYONE wants to live in because we were weak. We became the num­ber one coun­try by hav­ing strong lead­er­ship with core val­ues not sub­ject to the whims of big busi­ness. The Bible teaches us to be debt free and love one another. We are now more debt ever imag­in­able and there is hatred among the masses. I don’t care about the color of your skin as long as you hold up the core val­ues of God, Fam­ily and your neighbors.

Let the lenders fail — they made a lot of bad deci­sions. Let the auto mak­ers fail — they made bad deci­sions. Let Wall Street fail — they made bad deci­sions. When I’ve made bad deci­sions — I’ve failed and got­ten up a bet­ter and stronger per­son, they will too. New busi­ness prac­tices will emerge that are stronger and bet­ter. Let the small busi­ness flour­ish and not be taxed to death. Let the peo­ple and the local com­mu­ni­ties make deci­sions. If you have less Gov­ern­ment inter­fer­ence the more the peo­ple of the United States will grow strong again.

Let’s get back to basics… fam­i­lies need to take care of their own and not depend on Gov­ern­ment assis­tance and the col­lec­tion of mas­sive taxes by those who do work. Church’s must take care of their parish­ioners in times of need. Com­mu­ni­ties must take care of the residents.

The Fed­eral Gov­ern­ment should be tak­ing care of the big­ger pic­ture our National Secu­rity, pro­tect our bor­ders and stave off terrorism.

chris says

Obama Effect,Why call it that,is it not a nat­u­rally occur­ring
effect ‚When peo­ple look up to some­one, as a role model or for what ever reason,doesent this hap­pens.
They do this because they them­selves fell inad­e­quate.
So why give Obama the credit????
I dont think we ought to find things to attribute to Obama or any­one else unless they truly deserve it.and clearly he does not.
As far as he being African Amer­i­can That sim­ply is not true .Is it not true he is just a white as he is Black which by def­i­n­i­tion is called a Mulatto.
Why is it that because peo­ple desire some­thing so bad that they dis­tort the real facts.
On a more pos­i­tive note I com­mend him for get­ting where is ‚even though it was by deceit of the Amer­i­can public,but none the less he got there.
Peo­ple will even­tu­ally see that, all of thier con­sti­tu­tional rights will be taken away,and they will work harder for less and they will have to give to oth­ers that dont work,and WHEN this hap­pens and it will because, thats what he believes , Then you can applaud him for he truly would have caused it.( the social­ism of the USA)That can truly be caused the Obama effect
THE FUTURE WITH HIS Beliefs,along with the col­lec­tive con­scious­ness of lem­mings will insure this .
Be your own person,take respon­si­bil­ity for yourself,stand up for what is good,give to oth­ers that deserve it,and above all love your­self along with others.and see the effect that has.
Blessings

steve says

What a joke. Teleprompter man who is noth­ing but a marx­ist sad­dling our chil­dren and grand­chil­dren with mas­sive debt being looked upon as Deity.

Baah, baah..( in case you’ve for­got­ten that’s the bleet­ing sound of sheep ).

gary says

My spirit moans with the thought of how much this man has sad­dled our chil­dren, our grand­chil­dren with debt. Young peo­ple who voted for him, wake up!! It is your future that is going to be spent pay­ing for spend­ing today! Obama has placed a mill­stone around your neck and you don’t even see it!
Change we can believe in? Did any­one have a clue just how much change he has in mind?

Jan says

I can’t say that I am for or against Obama. I don’t have any choice but to deal with what ever/however he chooses to run this coun­try because no one in almost 100 years has paid much atten­tion to the Con­sti­tu­tion. What I am aware of, is that when ever any­one grasps that their way of being in the world is open to change, change is now pos­si­ble. As some­one who works with inner city peo­ple, it is good to see hope (even if only a lit­tle) where there has been none before. I think that the belief that change is pos­si­ble, makes change pos­si­ble. Namaste

Andrea says

Obama is not pos­i­tive nor is the effect. He is dan­ger­ous. Why is he bow­ing to a Saudi monarch at the G-20 sum­mit? No pres­i­dent does this. It is a sign of submission.No head of state bows to another. They shake hands. He also want Europe to accept Turkey into the E.U.. This is death for Europe. They already have too many wel­fare Turks beg­ging in the street. I know. My fam­ily lives there and I travel there fre­quently and have been approached numer­ous times by them. Things are always chang­ing. Some changes are bad. Change to socialism/communism,ask my cousin who escaped Poland. Take me off your list. Andrea

Nancy says

Obama is pos­i­tive. He says, “We CAN!”

Amer­i­cans were SO READY for some­one who wasn’t try­ing to make us afraid.

Lis­ten, we know from the Law of Attrac­tion, that if we are think­ing “ter­ror­ism” and “vio­lence” and “dis­as­ter” that is what we’re going to get.

Obama is talk­ing “jobs” and “repair Amer­ica” and “work­ing together” again.

Isn’t that a good mes­sage? I don’t under­stand why so many peo­ple seem to be afraid of this?

This is pos­i­tive mod­el­ing as Burt men­tioned. Obama grew up in Hawaii, where it is beau­ti­ful. His expec­ta­tion is for life to be beau­ti­ful. Let’s ALL join him in that.… So far, it’s only 60% of Americans.

Kenneth says

Hi Burt
Although I appre­ci­ate your effort and aim, the fact remains, some peo­ple and things never change. Not that they can­not, they are sat­is­fied with being just who and what they are.

Keep up the inpsir­a­tion, so, those who seek com­plete­ness, can find it through your teaching.

I remain
Kenneth

Leila says

Recently I’ve been read­ing about peo­ple who suc­ceeded mag­nif­i­cently in life despite fail­ing mis­er­ably at school. This has been a big boost to me as I didn’t real­ize it was pos­si­ble. It seems to me that edu­ca­tors would do well to con­sider a per­sons feel­ings about whether they suc­ceed at some­thing or not into account. Objec­tive cri­te­ria can be worth­less to a stu­dent if they them­selves don’t have a sense of success.

I think the study show­ing that a student’s feel­ings about stat­ing their race before a test can effect their clar­ity of thought is very significant.

Anne says

Peo­ple need role mod­els, pure and sim­ple and now this has manifested.

Anne

Harold says

Another point, not chang­ing fast enough is now thought to the rea­son for aging. Not chang­ing isn’t much of an option.

Harold says

It’s good to know the sci­ence. They are find­ing that the sub­con­scious is a tiger on the back of a mon­key, our con­scious mind being the mon­key. If you can get that and that it is much more pow­er­ful than the con­scious mind and that we can access that power, a mil­lion times faster than con­scious think­ing, then I’m sure you will want to learn to use that genius within. You can’t be neg­a­tive or closed minded. Anger and fear are ene­mies of thought so drop­ping neg­a­tive jud­men­tal, bias words has to be your key tool.
Basi­cally it processes vast amounts of infor­ma­tion, but you have to get it out and block­ing thoughts is what blocks it’s out put. Besides, intu­ition goes through your cen­ter for com­pas­sion in the front cen­ter of the brain, so thinkgs that gurus have always said, like love, grat­i­tude, thanks­full­ness, for­give­ness, the gole­den rule, love you neigh­ber are all things that open the door to the whole brain think­ing. There you have it.

Jeanette' says

I appre­ci­ate Shelley’s post­ing as she actu­ally has read the arti­cle. If the premise is true, good. Unfor­tu­nately, Obama is the wrong leader of our coun­try which is a Repub­lic. He is trained in polit­i­cal phi­los­o­phy which is counter to our Con­sti­tu­tion, has even said our Con­sti­tu­tion is not appro­pri­ate — appro­pri­ate for his plan for the United States of Amer­ica. He is imma­ture, incom­pe­tent for this chal­lenge, break­ing many of his cam­paign promises in first 70 days (good rea­son for this and fits his plan), push­ing rad­i­cal agen­das, has aligned him­self with uneth­i­cal and un-American per­sons and shows con­tempt for this coun­try. The leader of our coun­try should be proud of the pos­i­tive aspects and not den­i­grate us. The U.S. has given more, effected more for the World’s down­trod­den and oppressed than most other coun­tries and Obama is empha­siz­ing our fail­ings. He is dimin­ish­ing our Sov­er­eignty in many of his actions. He has young peo­ple pledg­ing their alle­giance to him, the man, rather than to Amer­ica. Do some of you refuse to see where he is lead­ing us? If your best friends and asso­ciates were law break­ers, anti-American (while liv­ing the blessed Amer­i­can lifestyle), anti-Constitution, would you expect to become the leader of Amer­ica? Well, he is a charis­matic speaker who promised change and the change we are get­ting is not — I promise you — what you will be happy to have. If you study His­tory, you will be informed. But many of you do not know your His­tory or your cur­rent events globally.

Now, I have been color blind since I was born. I dearly loved the first black man I ever met, a mis­sion­ary from West Sierra Leone, Africa, who stayed in our home. I do not dis­crim­i­nate — ever — on race or color. There have been many great black women and men to emu­late. I applaud that we have come to the point of elect­ing a black man and the fact that he is mixed race does not alter that. But he is the wrong man for Amer­ica. I sin­cerely believe he is not qual­i­fied on grounds of cit­i­zen­ship to serve as our Pres­i­dent. Why would he spend more than one mil­lion dol­lars to keep his cit­i­zen­ship and birth and Uni­ver­sity records from the cit­i­zens? No, this man is lead­ing us into a Total­i­tar­ian exis­tence. I pray he will be unsuc­cess­ful to move us there. I pray he will mature, stop the path he is on and real­ize he is in the great­est coun­try on earth and be thank­ful. He has mes­mer­ized too many and very pow­er­ful money peo­ple and the media pro­moted his rise to lead­er­ship with­out the voter’s becom­ing deeply informed as to his agenda.

Pray for peace, work for peace, pro­mote love for every­one. Do not be deceived, but pray for the deceiver. Be vig­i­lant. Be thank­ful. Your quest for knowl­edge and wis­dom begins in love and ends in love. The man of the hour is Masuro Emoto, who’s research is mov­ing toward World Peace. His research will change the world for good, not for greed and con­trol in hands of the elit­ists. I am a grate­ful Amer­i­can. I wish you all love and light and joy everyday.

sharad says

obama is not pure black. His mum is white. So he is col­ored. The whites can take credit for his genes that got him to the top seat !

Jyonkwai says

Well , it is com­mon knowl­edge ( out side the U.S. any­way ) that Obama’s elec­tion was an exam­ple of the best pos­si­ble media con­trol, with phe­nom­e­nal amounts of rel­e­vant infor­ma­tion cove­niently buried before the elec­tion, and pro­fes­sional mar­ket­ing tech­niques enforced with NLP. Too late for cry­ing over spilt milk.

Yes it is a pos­i­tive thing if grades have improved, or more impor­tantly, the feel­ings of self worth of these chil­dren. I just hope that some­one imparts to these chil­dren that the most impor­tant thing is not to see a ‘suc­cess­ful’ per­son­al­ity and then try to dupli­cate it, but to see the true value and poten­tial in one’s own self, and strive towards a bet­ter future for themselves.

Peace.

joe says

Please stop using a polit­i­cal fig­ure, esp one who is destroy­ing and bank­rupt­ing our coun­try. we are being social­ized and left unpro­tected as a coun­try. He has yet to prove his cit­i­zen­ship and refuses to pro­duce an actual birth cer­tifi­cate. i will no longer pur­chase any­thing from you if this continues.besides if he passes health­care the seniors of this coun­try have to “under­stand ill­ness comes with old age and is a waste of money” as he says.…

Vivian Mario Gunter says

How about a new ver­sion of the 4 minute mile? Once that bar­rier was bro­ken the stan­dard is now set at 3 min­utes plus. So imag­ine when some­one comes along and does the mile in an his­tor­i­cal 2 min­utes!!! Now you’ll say that’s impos­si­ble, no one has done it before.…until Obama changed it.….as in quan­tum leap. Cer­tainly he is a great leader. He’ll need to keep his energy level high to sus­tain the result.…for the next five years of his pres­i­den­tial tenure. Cheers!

Shelley says

And to some of the skep­tics, I only want to address one point at this time. The study was with adults, not school chil­dren. If you read the arti­cle, please note that it said the par­tic­i­pants ranged from 18–63.

I believe the point was that the change this elec­tion brought with it, allowed some who felt dis­en­fran­chised, to access their own knowl­edge base more effec­tively, as the shadow of doubt was removed by their change in perception.

The arti­cle also stated that more stud­ies would be required.

I find it fas­ci­nat­ing that some who claim oth­ers are being some­how bam­boz­zled, have not them­selves taken the time to check their facts before they have closed their minds and opened their mouths (so to speak). I hope they can find a way to quiet their fears so they can be open to the pos­si­bil­i­ties that life has to offer to those open to them.

And I for­got to say, Thank you, Burt for your works and post­ing such a fine con­ver­sa­tion starter.

tony says

Hi, Every­one all over the world focuses on Pres­i­dent Obana as the per­son who sin­gle hand­edly changed his­tory — I think, it is THE AMERICAN PEOPLE who joined with Obama and together changed his­tory. Kudos to all Amer­i­cans. It is this com­ing together of all peo­ple that paved the way for all those who ‘feel’ dif­fer­ent to open their eyes and see that they can ‘make’ a dif­fer­ence — once they change the way they feel. Not sure if I’ve con­veyed prop­erly what I mean but its the best! Pos­i­tive thoughts and energy to all, or (as they say in Star Wars) The Force be With you

Rao says

Self-imposed lim­i­ta­tions or infe­ri­or­ity com­plex / less con­fi­dence as a com­mu­nity or group in what­ever one does and in any field trig­gers block­ages to progress at sub-conscious level. This changes into real­ity at phys­i­cal level

Now in this case, hav­ing got immense boost from no other than the Pres­i­dent is show­ing the mir­a­cle. So be con­fi­dent that one can change or replace any neg­a­tive thoughts or lim­i­ta­tions by strong pos­i­tive think­ing which will shift the very basic human– cpn­scious­ness as a whole.

Rao says

Self-imposed lim­i­ta­tions or infe­ri­or­ity com­plex / less con­fi­dence as a com­mu­nity or group in what­ever one does and in any field trig­gers block­ages to progress at sub-conscious level.

Now in this case, hav­ing got immense boost from no other than the Pres­i­dent is show­ing the mir­a­cle. So be con­fi­dent that one can change or replace any neg­a­tive thoughts or lim­i­ta­tions by strong pos­i­tive think­ing which will shift the very basic human– cpn­scious­ness as a whole.

Rao says

Self-imposed lim­i­ta­tions or infe­ri­or­ity com­plex / less con­fi­dence as a com­mu­nity or group in what­ever one does in any field trig­gers block­ages to progress at sub-conscious level.

Now in this case, hav­ing got immense boost from no other than the Pres­i­dent is show­ing the mir­a­cle. So be con­fi­dent that one can change or replace any neg­a­tive thoughts or lim­i­ta­tions by strong pos­i­tive think­ing which will shift the very basic human– cpn­scious­ness as a whole.

Rao says

Self-imposed lim­i­ta­tions or infe­ri­or­ity com­plex / less con­fi­dence as a com­mu­nity or group in what­ever one does in any field trig­gers block­ages to progress at sub-conscious level.

Now in this case ‚hav­ing got immense boost from no other than the Pres­i­dent is show­ing the mir­a­cle. So be con­fi­dent that one can change or replace any neg­a­tive thoughts or lim­i­ta­tions by strong pos­i­tive think­ing which will shift the very basic human– cpn­scious­ness as a whole.

Rao says

Self-imposed lim­i­ta­tions or infe­ri­or­ity com­plex / less con­fi­dence as a com­mu­nity or group in what­ever one does in any field trig­gers block­ages to progress at sub-conscious level.

Now in this case ‚hav­ing got immense boost from no other than the Pres­i­dent is show­ing the mir­a­cle. So be con­fi­dent that one can change or replace any neg­a­tive thoughts or lim­i­ta­tions by strong pos­i­tive think­ing which will shift the very basi­hu­man– cpn­scious­ness as a whole.

Rao says

Self-imposed lim­i­ta­tions or infe­ri­or­ity com­plex / less con­fi­dence as a com­mu­nity or group in what­ever one does in any field trig­gers block­ages to progress at sub-conscious level for any human being.

Now in this case ‚hav­ing got immense boost from no other than the Pres­i­dent is show­ing the mir­a­cle. So be con­fi­dent that one can change or replace any neg­a­tive thoughts or lim­i­ta­tions by strong pos­i­tive think­ing will shift the very basic mass cpnsciousness.

CARIAGA says

SI SE PUEDE!MEXI-CANS!BUY BOOKS NOT GUNS!BUILD YOUR MIND WITH BOOKS,DON’T DESTROY IT W/ DRUGS!I’LL STEAL YOUR JOB!

CARIAGA says

OBAMA MY BUTT! YES WE CAN ‚.…..WAS FIRST SAID 5–6 YRS AGO! BY MEXI-CANS! WITH OUT US LARGEST “MINORITY” IN NORTH AMERICA, OBAMA WOULD NOT BE IN WASHINGTON! REMEMBER MEXI-CANS ARE THE PEOPLE THAT THE BLACK SAY.…THEY STOLE MY JOB! EVEN “WHITES” SAY “MEXICANS” STOLE THE JOBS AND REAL ESTATE AND ALL THE CHEVY AND FORD TRUCKS,PURCHASE OPPS!IF OBAMA ISN’T CAREFUL,WE’LL STEAL HIS JOB TOO!COUNT YOUR BLESSINGS FOOL! JERRY WAXMAN AND.…YOU ALL…NEED TO GO READ THE »>100TH MONKEY EFFECT! I’M SURE OBAMA READ IT AFTER I DID! AS I WAS 10 YRS AHEAD OF HIM IN SCHOOL AND ACCOMPLISHED MORE THE HE WITH OUT “THE 100TH MONKEY EFFECT” ESCAPING ME!
SORRY TO DISAPPOINT YOU DENNIS SULLIVAN, BUT “THE 100 MONKEY EFFECT” IS MUST READING FOR YOU UNENLIGHTENED,SORRY MENTALITY.…..TO ALL OF YOU .…..
FIND LINKS TO “QUANTUM JUMPING”! AND THE LEADERSHIP OF
“JOSE SILVA’S ULTRA MIND SYSTEM”!
MY SIGNATURE QUOTE.…“HOW CAN I SOAR AMONG EAGLES,IF I’M HANGING WITH A BUNCH OF TURKEYS”!
SO NOW PLEASE EXCUSE ME AN ALLOW ME TO APPLY THE ABBREVIATED…“N” WORD. IF YOUR ENVIROMENT IS LOADED WITH “N”, WELL THEN YOU AREN’T READING “DOCTOR” WILLIAN COSBY’S BOOK.…“COME ON PEOPLE! WHO WERE YOUR LEADERS?
WHERE ARE YOU HANGING? SURELY NOT THE CENTRAL LIBRARY ‚DOWN TOWN LOS ANGELES! I DON’T RECALL SEEING YOU THERE!
WE THE LEADERS OF THE WORLD PAID ATTENTION IN CLASS, IN SCHOOL. HOW MANY OF YOU WENT BEHIND BARS.…YOUR FAULT NOT OBAMA’S I DIDN’T WAIT FOR OBAMA TO “FREE” ME! ANY OF YOU EVER READ CESAR CHAVEZ? FORTY YEARS BEFORE OBAMA!HIS PEOPLE CENTURIES BEFORE BLACKS, BEFORE GREEKS,BEFORE.…
EGYPTIANS, WAY THE HELL BEFORE WHITEMEN,EVEN KNEW THE WORLD WAS ROUND! AZTLANOS,WAY BEFORE HISPANIC-LATINOS!
READ AND LEARN! SET YOURSELF FREE!
ONCE YOU OPEN A MANS MIND WITH A BOOK,YOU’LL NEVER CLOSE IT!
PLEASE ALLOW ME TO APOLOGIZE TO THE FEW,VERY FEW I HOPE THAT WERE OFFENDED …DUE TO THEIR OWN EMPTY HEADEDNESS.
I’M SURE OUR FIRST FAMILY IN WASHINGTON ARE ENLIGHTENED ENOUGH TO …YAY ME. GOD BLESS YOU. MY FELLOW “IDIOT AMERICANS”! GOD BLESS AMERICA!
ONE FOR ALL ‚ALL FOR ONE! WE LEAVE.… NOBODY.…BEHIND!

Shelley says

I see the Obama Effect as a true sign of the power of Hope. Mil­lions of dis­en­fran­chised feel, at last, a part of the fold. There is still much work to be done, but it’s a start. It is not only the skin color of the pres­i­dent that makes his place so pow­er­ful, but his ideals and the foun­da­tion of what he has brought to the table, namely hope, and an empow­er­ing mes­sage that each of us can con­tribute to the world in a pos­i­tive way, to bring nec­es­sary change even to the least of us.

I live in a com­mu­nity that is very hes­i­tant to the idea(s) of change. And for a moment in time many closet “hopists” shed their beliefs that things will always be the same to embrace the idea that they could not only see some­thing believed to be mirac­u­lous but also par­tic­i­pate in cre­at­ing the mir­a­cle. Sadly many fell back into their com­fort zone of mis­ery (mostly white, both lib­eral and con­ser­v­a­tive, from those I’ve spo­ken with in my com­mu­nity). It is my hope to find a way for them to feel included in this world chang­ing time, as well. One step at a time, I suppose.

Rebecca says

I have seen both pos­i­tive and neg­a­tive. Mostly positive.

How­ever, I have heard of some neg­a­tive things, as in some peo­ple hav­ing an atti­tude. One of the dee­jays on the local radio sta­tion in Austin said that he was accosted at a stop light by sev­eral black men, and one of them said, “Obama’s the pres­i­dent now, so we can do what­ever we want to do”. I’m, like, so, since Obama is pres­i­dent, it’s okay to act like igno­rant jerks? I thought Obama would have a more pos­i­tive impact. I’m sure Obama would be appalled if he knew of this sort of behavior.

I’ve noticed mostly pos­i­tive things, though.

And, I have often thought of Con­doleeza Rice, Colin Pow­ell, and so many oth­ers long before Obama even came on the scene as being great role mod­els. Hey, even in the media, we have Mor­gan Free­man as a black pres­i­dent in Deep Impact, and also he has played God in two movies. I know they are just movies, but how is that for a pos­i­tive role model? God is por­trayed by a black man? They never have had God por­trayed by a woman, to my knowl­edge. That’s another hur­dle peo­ple need to overcome.

My first thought when Obama was elected pres­i­dent was that finally, after a long time, we finally have class back in the white house. He and the first lady strike me as a class act. I was never a fan of the Bush admin, and quite frankly, felt a very evil pres­ence through­out that admin­is­tra­tion, to the point I couldn’t stom­ach watch­ing Bush or Ashcroft or Cheney or Rums­feld speak. I’ve never expe­ri­enced any­thing like it before, with any prior pres­i­dent since I’ve been an adult. And, many peo­ple, includ­ing pub­lic per­son­ages, have admit­ted the same thing about the Bush admin.

I am also aware that there are things going on behind the scenes, and that pres­i­dents are picked ahead of time by the pow­ers that be. Obama was as well. There are times when I think he is won­der­ful, and other times, I’m not sure how much of an agenda he might have. I hope for the pos­i­tive, though, but I’ve just been exposed to a lot of mate­r­ial that says that pres­i­dents are picked, many times long before the pub­lic even knows they are alive. There’s a lot of stuff going on behind the scenes, and if peo­ple think that our gov­ern­ment loves us and is watch­ing out for our best inter­ests, they need to think again. There is a dark cabal that actu­ally runs the world behind the scenes. Things are just not as sim­ple as the con­trolled media and the pow­ers that be would like the gen­eral pub­lic to think.

There is a part of me that likes to think that Obama will bring a lot of good to Amer­ica and the world, and that he will not go along with TPTB’s plans. I pre­fer to think pos­i­tively in this respect, but I have heard of the movie The Obama Decep­tion, and other things, and I’m not so sure that Obama is so squeaky clean as peo­ple would like to think. Right now, I am tak­ing a wait and see attitude.

Even so, I believe that Obama being pres­i­dent is obvi­ously a very pos­i­tive role model for many peo­ple. As a woman, I think that if we EVER got a woman in the white house as pres­i­dent, that per­haps women would feel that we were finally given a chance to do what only men have done since the begin­ning of Amer­i­can his­tory. I don’t know why we haven’t had a woman pres­i­dent yet. Jeez, even in extremely chau­vin­is­tic coun­tries, there have been female prime min­is­ters … Indira Ghandi, Golda Meir, Mar­garet Thatcher (my Mom met her and loved her), the beau­ti­ful woman, Benazir Bhutto, as well, in Pak­istan, as some examples.

I’ve always thought that it shouldn’t be about race or gen­der, as to who should be in the white house. It should be about who is the best PERSON for the job … period.

Sorry to ram­ble on, but all of these things have been going through my mind since Obama was elected. Many of us are jaded as to politi­cians in gen­eral, and I think many of us are tak­ing a wait and see attitude.

I also like to be informed as to what is going on behind the scenes, and although much of it is unpleas­ant to know about, I’d rather know and make my own deci­sions based on a well-rounded back­ground of knowl­edge, rather than just hope that every­thing is airy-fairy won­der­ful from a new age per­spec­tive (and I am very meta­phys­i­cally inclined). I guess the best thing to do is to be informed, and to do our own research and make up our own minds.

Think for our­selves and ques­tion author­ity, no mat­ter who that may be.

Joyce says

Hi Burt
I believe we have the Obama Effect because he has tapped into a sense that he under­stands what so many peo­ple in this coun­try strive to achieve, The Amer­i­can Dream of pros­per­ity. With the finan­cial crunch many have lost their bear­ings, peo­ple who felt secure in their retire­ment years now live with the prospect of work­ing until they die or can no longer work. Pres­i­dent Obama has a pres­ence sel­dom seen in a polit­i­can. His other big draw for me is that he appears to be rea­son­ably hon­est for a polit­i­can. The study does bear fur­ther research with a larger study base but is encour­ag­ing. I believe our future is what we make of it. Pres­i­dent Obama ran on a plat­form for change and that we do have to some degree. One per­son can only do so much then the rest of us have to do are part. Only his­tory can tell of the true impact of Mr. Obama being elected Pres­i­dent. Our chil­dren deserve the very best and I think because Mr. Obama has young chil­dren he is going to do his best to make the lives of chil­dren in gen­eral bet­ter through edu­ca­tion and hope­fully a secure and for­ward mov­ing country.

Millie says

Not only Pres­i­dent Obama, But the First Lady Michelle as well. Girls and women alike aspire to be more like her. Isn’t Amer­ica great?!

Judy B says

You’re kid­ding right? The kool aid is flow­ing free. Obama is our first mulatto pres­i­dent. He is half black con­ve­niently not ever men­tioned. That aside, the guy is tak­ing our coun­try down the path of social­ism. You want to see our future? Look at Europe. He’s run­ning the Amer­i­can Auto indus­try so he can keep his union vot­ers happy. He’ll soon be run­ning our money, our health care, and food pro­duc­tion. He has allowed North Korea to launch a mis­sile
and wants to dis­arm all of the peace­ful nations while the rogues have nuclear arms. He will dis­arm the cit­i­zenry so that only the crim­i­nals and ter­ror­ists will have guns.
Get your heads out of the sand. I don’t care what race this man is, he is a dis­as­ter. You might take notice when the gov­ern­ment decides who gets med­ical treat­ment and who is expendible. Stop read­ing the NYT and get infor­ma­tion from other sources besides the demo­c­rat arm in the media. He’s bow­ing down to the Saudi roy­alty. What the hell is that? We are all los­ing our shirts and he is hav­ing cock­tail par­ties every Wednes­day nite at the White House. His wife has a new out­fit for every dif­fer­ent per­son she meets. She has worn at least 3 a day on this trip and he’s telling us ‘we’ have to sac­ri­fice. What do you mean ‘we’ Kimosabe. He spent 190 mil­lion dol­lars on his inau­gural party. Are you peo­ple blind? Why wasn’t every one all starry eyed when Clarence Thomas became the first black Supreme Court Jus­tice, or Con­doleeza Rice, the first black woman to be Sec­re­tary of State or Colin Pow­ell, the first black Sec­re­tary of State. Oh that’s right, they didn’t wear the lefty stripes and they had to be min­i­mized. In Jus­tice Thomas’s case they tried to destroy him. Where were you all then????? I’m done get­ting emails from this site. When you mix pol­i­tics w/ spir­i­tu­al­ity, I’m done. I’m inter­ested in enlight­en­ment not brain washing.

Kell says

I think the end result is fantastic!.…As for the com­ments on Black peo­ple hav­ing an atti­tude and being rude…
Well, theere are peo­ple of every color who are going on RUDE OVERDRIVE!
My opin­ion is because we as a planet…our vibra­tions are being sum­moned to rise…
some peo­ple can­not han­dle this excess energy…
we need to have com­pas­sion for peo­ple who are not aware yet!

Sheri says

This is an exam­ple of “see­ing is believ­ing”. If you can see IT, you can believe IT, then you can become IT. Does not mat­ter what that “It” is. Peo­ple typ­i­cally fol­low bet­ter by exam­ple. I would haz­ard a guess that cau­casian chil­dren may be doing bet­ter as well, now that they see that they live in a coun­try where any­thing can hap­pen, if only you believe.

Debra Moore says

When I asked my lit­tle 8-yr old great-niece what she learned today at school as I vis­ited, she said “Math”, I said thats just great and asked her if she knew her mul­ti­pli­ca­tion table, she said she knew her +s and –s, and was work­ing on her mul­ti­pli­ca­tion. She is a child that has been labelled as “spe­cial” how­ever, she knows that Obama is black, his wife is black, and most impor­tantly to her, their kids are black, and they are smart, she can be smart too!

skip says

Peo­ple may be real­iz­ing because of our pres­i­dent get­ting elected that we are all chil­dren of God the Divine Father&Mother we as a nation will grow from this real­iza­tion Peace&Love Skip

Cecilia says

Thank you Burt.God bless you for send­ing me
Obama effect. I hope every one in Amer­ica will
appre­ci­ate every­thing he is doing for his coun­try.
I pray that every­thing you are teach­ing all of
us we will learn from you.

Katrina says

Burt, I prob­a­bly shouldn’t be, but I am shocked at the level of par­ti­san­ship & fear spewed by some com­men­tors on this site. I guess I expect more from those who would be attracted to your work. I must remem­ber that we are all on dif­fer­ent paths to the top of the moun­tain … but man, is it dif­fi­cult at times. Thanks, for all you do!

Anna says

I am bi-racial and for peo­ple that have a racist view­point towards what the pres­i­dent stands for are work­ing from a per­spec­tive of igno­rance. Bi-racial peo­ple are the most under­stand­ing and the most sen­si­tive because we got it from both ways white and black and I can say that from the heart.

Palei says

Amen and God bless you all !!!

You reap what you sow..What goes around comes around…If you real­ize what this really means you have learned a great secret and you will see it’s not a secret any­more. My teacher is Jesus and I am sure all great reli­gions have a teacher…And if you see what that teacher says and not what you are read­ing or what man is say­ing he or she is saying…and if that teacher is say­ing truth you will find out they all are say­ing the same thing.

PS. The Father within doeth the works…

Thank you Bert and
Thank You Sis­ters and Brothers…Agape Love…Palei

Mary says

Ok… Obama wants your kids and to tax us for it. He is advo­cat­ing more failed forced pub­lic edu­ca­tion for our Pre-K kids. Look up John Tay­lor Gatto and well edu­ca­tion teacher who researched where our educ­tion sys­tem came from and it’s all about con­trol con­trol con­trol. For those who believe that he will have some sort of pos­i­tive effect on the planet? I am not sure where you are com­ing from. The Obama admin­is­tra­tion will deliver the last nails in the cof­fin that the Bush Admin­is­tra­tions (all three of them) set up.

Joe says

New York Times — Obama — Truth? Not in this lifetime.

Amaz­ing how obamaphiles crave to be reassured.

BC says

Dear Burt,
These are indeed unusual times for most of us and bring chal­lenges that many of us never imag­ined we would face. They seem to bring out the best in us and the worst in us (to para­phrase Charles Dickens…“they were the best of times, they were the worst of times…”)
Your ques­tion has gen­er­ated the entire range of reac­tions, from the learned responses of polit­i­cal debate to the learn-ed responses of indi­vud­u­als view­ing how this all fits in to our jour­ney upward along the higher path. I enjoyed read­ing about the 100th Mon­key on the inter­net after it was men­tioned. Are we head­ing towards group quan­tum jump­ing?
Maybe enlight­en­ment is only achieved when all sen­tient beings have achieved it, not one by one. Your mis­sion to help us along that higher path becomes you! Thank you.

Sue says

Obama effect? This could just as likely have been the Jack effect or Jill effect or what­ever name you want to put in there. It all boils down to what one believes about them­selves. To me, this “Obama effect” shows how exter­nally focused we all are, regard­less of race, color or creed and have bought into the belief sys­tems of what we should be-can and can’t achieve. What kind of a world would it be if we all looked within and truly believed in and appre­ci­ated everyone’s infi­nite capabilities?

Claudette says

There is no “Obama” effect. He was elected because of shrewd, calac­u­lat­ing, orga­nized peo­ple who planed exatly how to get him elect4ed for what they wanted. It’s noth­ing but pol­i­tics. He isn’t a smart man with pro­found ideas like our fore­fa­thers had. He’s rid­ing the tide and spends enough of our money in fuel for Air­force One that could feed the­home­less for count­less onths or pay for the health care sys­tem he wants that won’t help any­one. Why the Obama sub­ject is even con­nect­ed­with you, Burt, is beyond me. I am very sur­prised you would put him into a cat­e­gory with great peo­ple work­ing mir­a­cles. Obama was taught and coached on how to speak about noth­ing to attract crowds. Time mag­a­zine has never impressed me, either. I am very sur­prised you would pro­mote Obama on your website.

Katrina says

Pres­i­dent Obama is a cat­a­lyst for our belief in higher pos­si­bil­ity. Even amidst all the fer­vor, he seems to real­ize that this is not about him but about us. For the first time in my life, I’m deeply proud of my country.

chris says

When somthing goods hap­pens. Amen to that!

joe says

I stand cor­rected. I have not been cen­sored. I apol­o­gize. Please, please peo­ple, become informed as to what is hap­pen­ing. Our free­dom is very much in peril. I would expect peo­ple who are sup­posed to be enlight­ened or seek­ing to be enlight­ened to be a lit­tle bet­ter informed. Get away from the main­stream media a lit­tle. They have been increas­ingly left­ist biased for at least 40 years.
I sim­ply can’t believe we elected this judas to office.

Margaret says

The rea­son for this I think is because African-American peo­ple have long believed that no mat­ter how good they are they would not suceed because of their her­itage (not because they are stu­pid) so they did not bother try­ing, but Obama’s elec­tion would have instilled hope in them besides all the other under dogs not only in Amer­ica but all over the world, that “Yes you can” but you need to try and per­sist and most of all believe to even­tu­ally suceed.

Melanie says

Hey Burt! I think the Pres­i­dent is a “man­i­fester.” I guess we’ll see when North Car­olina Tar Heels win the col­lege bas­ket­ball cham­pi­onship tonight!

nadia says

Enough already! Is he the Mes­sa­iah? My head is split­ting from hear­ing so much adu­la­tion. This is a les­son in his­tory. That is how saints were made. One says some­thing, and it snow­balls. Where are your brains?

Faron says

Black,White, Yel­low, Green Or Blue. Male,Female. None of these things should make you bet­ter than any­one else.I try not to judge based on color of skin or male female. If your strong peo­ple will fol­low weather your good or bad. Exam­ple, Hitler or the Dali Lama.I have to tell you I,am from Canada and we have thou­sands of our chil­dren fight­ing for the free­dom of ALL the peo­ple of Afganas­t­ian. The presi­dant of that coun­try has just passed a law to allow the legal rap­ing of there woman. Please tell me why Obama is not scream­ing about this nor is the US media cov­er­ing this.Hot topic in my country.Please will some­one with com­mon sense help turn this crazy world around.We have Female troops as well as a lot of our doc­tors are female as well. Thanks for allow­ing me to leave an opin­ion. Peace

Bill Henderson says

Obama to me is a human being who can and will make a dif­fer­ence through­out the world. In our home we were taught that every liv­ing soul was just as impor­tant as the other. There was no race,colour,size,etc., just peo­ple who deserve the best life has to offer. There is too much talk about dif­fer­ence and not enough sbout all of us being God’s chil­dren. Obama under­stands that and he will help every­one he comes in con­tact with. The USA is our neigh­bour and we are just excited about this Pres­i­dent as they are. Keep the love com­ing.
Bill

joe says

Well, well, guess I’ve been cen­sored. So much for dis­agree­ing with the mes­siah obama.

jerry says

Well…
I’ll say this, for all intents and pur­poses, Obama is set in place,by an elite group, to fur­ther their plans. To the naked eye, he is the appease­ment for so many woes,on so many lev­els. The African Americans,finally get to stand tall…as equals. The psy­cho­log­i­cal factor…black president,so all blacks must be on their best behav­ior and do their best,as well as, all ethnicities.There is some­thing more to it.On a global level…America once detested,is now to be loved again,in time.I under­stand, that my post will not nec­es­sar­ily be accepted.I will tell you this,under his charm and charisma,lies his intent.If Obama had not been elected, the u.s.a., would have been thrown into chaos,that would have led to a police state.All rights and free­doms, stripped from its citizens,under the guise of forgein threats.Then, the rest of the world would fol­low, this to curb all neg­a­tive aspects…but the ulti­mate out­come for us all…enslavement. Obama will appease all neg­a­tives in the world…and move towards the idea of oneness,but beware,he has bud­dies in/of the same cir­cle of his predessor.I per­son­ally, would like noth­ing more that to live in a world of love, peace, and joy! How­ever, we have alot of suf­fer­ing to go through before that is attained. Obama is the catalyst,we will get there all at once,rather than through coer­cion. We will gladly renounce, than it be forced upon us,had he not won the election.Just, as this sup­posed global cri­sis, cre­ated by the inven­tors of the money sys­tem. If I make claims that are outlandish,look at pres­i­dent Woodrow letters,the Boston Tea Party real rea­sons for revolting.Also,in Europe in the past. The same play­ers that run everything,have done all the ills and woes, that the poor folk had/have to live through.So, in clos­ing, Obama is part of the same network…a pup­pet for the elite. What is seen,is that, peo­ple all over the world are in need of change from the cor­rup­tion. And because of his skin colour(Obama)looks like the white dove bring­ing the olive branch(hope for all). Beware all, beware all,beware all, beware all!
I am truly sorry for rain­ing on the parade…TIME WILL TELL,the truth will sur­face. If I have offended, I apologize…there are to many ambigu­ous things about!
The truth will prevail…I hope.We will only bet­ter our­selves, when we loose all neg­a­tive effects…greed,indifference,complacency,lust,despondency,distraughtness,etc…
Feces will have to hit the fan,first! Since,we are short on concession,compassion,and compromise.This for our imme­di­ate neighbour…let alone peo­ple we don’t know, or care about.So for­give me all…this is what I see,and feel.I hope and pray that I am wrong!!!

Tony B.Tokutake says

When one think “I need” he is say­ing, uncon­sciouly: “I am lack­ing”.
If I state: !I can”, every­thing cecames pos­si­ble.
What we thing cor­rectly, became man­i­fested into existence.

Bill says

Hah…This coun­try is in for a rude awakening.….Obama was put into office by 92% black votes, rep­re­sent­ing about 15% of the elec­torate, and a huge per­cent­age of youth that have no idea in the world what is going on. Look what a democ­rac­tic con­trolled con­gress has already pushed on this country…the biggest eco­nomic mess in a hun­dred years because of social engi­neer­ing. O has also con­vinced me not to proud of being an American…his speech in Europe was appalling..I am mean, divi­sive, deri­sive and arrogant.

celia says

I believe we are all Gods chil­drens.. And Mr. Pres­i­dent Obama is doing all he can to make sure we are equally treated as God wants His beau­ti­ful cre­ations to live and enjoy this beau­ti­ful world!

What ever good he’s doing, every­one should help out. The great effect is effecting.!

Janie says

Black kids can finally realy believe the statement“you can be what­ever you want to be” because they now have proof that they can see and touch.

Roberta says

Well, I didn’t read the arti­cle. I did read most of the com­ments. My oppin­ion is the “race card” no longer can be used as an excuse for “every­thing and any­thing” There is now a rea­son for “per­sonal account­abil­ity” we have judges,lawyers,teachers,police offi­cers, bankers,advisors,politians (of every office) movie stars tv stars lead­ers of char­i­ta­ble org. pro­fes­sors and experts who are called into court to testify,sports play­ers co-workers,neighbors etc,
THE PRESIDENT is extremly vis­able. Oprah is vis­ably Mon­tel P-diddy lawarance tay­lor jus­tice thomas con­doleca rice so many may­ors gov­er­nors bot­tom line is WORK TO ACHEIVE!!! like every­one else has. NOTHING IS FREE. I heard that black pris­on­ers actu­ally believed they would be set free once Obama took office talk about sence of entitlement.

Rafiel Leonard says

I pur­chased the pro­gram last year, and received the links to play each les­son. My com­puter crashed and I lost the link and I would like for you to resend it to me please…

Tamara says

This just proves that we, as human beings, regard­less of skin color or back­ground, can achieve what we want once we dis­cover our poten­tial. A role model can help us in that way, espe­cially when we are chil­dren, but in real­ity we all can suc­ceed at any­thing. It’s just a mat­ter of focus, deter­mi­na­tion and passion.

Mae Jenkins says

There many peo­ple already liv­ing the change.
There are many gange bangers mak­ing a change, Obama are
pla­ce­ing it in their hands BUT it“s up to the peo­ple
to reach out for themselves.

Mae

Nina says

I think it is because he is nei­ther black or white -
But a beau­ti­ful mix of both…and just a spe­cial per­son
And he is only HUMAN !!!

rudy says

Obama is a fuckin’ socialist/globalist.…I don’t give a damn what he does as long as he keeps his power elite con­trol away from me.….

sita says

I do believe it is too early to know if he Obama is hav­ing this great effect. But black peo­ple are cer­tainly giv­ing atti­tude, not only to white peo­ple but to Asians as well. They are now “in your face”.Quite sad.

Kal Nath says

the achieve­ment gap between white and African-American stu­dents sig­nif­i­cantly decreased imme­di­ately after Pres­i­dent Obama’s nom­i­na­tion accep­tance speech, and just after his elec­tion vic­tory.
—————————
Impos­si­ble. Per­haps what is being referred to is a shift in –per­cep­tion– of pos­si­bil­i­ties … what peo­ple believe they can accom­plish. To believe that the dis­par­i­ties and iniq­ui­ties of Amer­ica can change OVERNIGHT is ridicu­lous. As a “man of color” I still “catch it” from race-motivated peo­ple on a reg­u­lar basis. Cer­tainly Obama’s accom­plish­ment, or America’s accom­plish­ment in elect­ing him, is note­wor­thy and sym­bolic of social evo­lu­tion in Amer­ica. It is not, how­ever, a sign that Amer­ica has changed enough to elim­i­nate the gaps per­pe­trated by per­sist­ing human igno­rance, bias, and hatred. For real, I have a white neigh­bor who “snarls”, another who spits, when they see me! … and on more than one occa­sion I have been passed over or left out in favor of some­one who was less edu­cated, less expe­ri­enced, less com­pe­tent than I … but was Cau­casian. Amer­ica is evolv­ing, of course, but it’s a delu­sion to think that this “result” can be inter­preted as any­thing other than per­ceived pos­si­bil­i­ties. Imme­di­ately after elec­tion? Noth­ing could change that way, let’s be real.

gary says

hey burt///this is a good thing AND it appears to be more in the psycho-sociological dimen­sion rather than purely metaphysical–although it does sig­nify an effect in the world of causation—I choose to acknowl­edge the out­pic­tur­ing of the TRUTH of BEING express­ing as UNIVERSAL ENCOURAGEMENT AND DIVINE INTELLIGENCE

Richard Curtis says

Yes. My vision was ful­filled. I am trust­ing that the uni­verse will improve on this for all humanity.

Suzanne Royer says

The Obama effect is basi­cally about sucess. I am sure suc­cess for Obama is not how far he got, but the dis­tance he trav­elled from where he startred and suc­cess to me is hav­ing peace of mind, not being jeal­ous of any­body, again any­body being con­tent. The most suc­cess­ful HUMAN being I know was my Father and he never had any­thing finan­cially. See, MONEY does not always bring suc­cess. PEACE OF MIND DOES.
My favorite say­ing is — I am out to change the world and it begins with ME!!
Suzanne Royer

Mary says

Hey Kenetic… I like the music on MySpace

Phil says

First of all I am a bit skep­ti­cal of the empir­i­cal author­ity of one arti­cle in the New York Times. Sec­ondly and this is vastly more sig­nif­i­cant, If these chil­dren had good role mod­els in their homes and were aware of all the forces for good in this nation of all races and gen­ders this would not even be of any sig­nif­i­cance other than a point of his­tory. I under­stand that you are attempt­ing to show a les­son on the power of con­nect­ed­ness Burt but if every­one under­stood and were taught that we are all heirs to much more when we con­nect with the pow­ers of heaven and rise above tem­po­ral quag­mires like social and eco­nomic hatred and anger all our tal­ents will be man­i­fested and mag­ni­fied in mul­ti­ples big­ger than Obama’s Bud­get. Phil

corina says

My son is in the white minor­ity at his school. the Obama fever is finally gone. I have seen more reverse racism in the last year then at any other time. I do believe in role mod­els but Obama is full of talk. Let’s see how things will be 3 years from now. In the mean­time I hope he role mod­els how not te be racist to white children.

George says

Its means they were capa­ble all along and can no longer blame whitey.

Kenetic says

Way to early to tell. Sorry. When the gang bangers start sign­ing up for trade school I’ll bow down to Obama. Hold­ing a few kids on one’s lap does not trans­late into CHANGE.

Mary says

Well here is a thought… the Obama media will work to sell the idea that things are bet­ter since he has been in office… his admin­is­tra­tion cer­tainly use scare tac­tics to sell these unbe­liev­able stim­u­lus pack­ages. Ok so the gov­ern­ment is say­ing that ille­gal immi­gra­tion is down since they have spent bil­lions of our tax dol­lars on a fence between the US & Mex­i­can bor­der… well that is sim­ply not so because the truth is that the human traf­fick­ers are just as busy as ever escort­ing ille­gals across the bor­der and the fence is not stop­ping any­body. Do we believe the media or cre­ate the real­ity that we want to see?

Ed Feely says

I don’t care who or what as long as they are a ben­e­fit to Amer­ica. When you feel use­less it’s hard to do your best. Every­one needs an inspiration.

Linda Yap says

Hi Margo and Charleyn,

Our earth planet is blessed with your light and energy of loving-kindness. Your words are gen­tle, gen­uine and gen­er­ous, your spir­its lov­ing and self­less. I aspire to con­nect with “light” beings and if you feel the same, I would be most pleased.
Have a blessed day. Linda Yap

Carol says

There is a lot of nievete in most of these responses. To many the “Obama Effect” can be saying:“If you are at the right time and the right place with plenty of agenda mak­ers behind you…you don’t have to have the expe­ri­ence or even the smarts to pull it off”. good going Carl you nailed it.

Katie says

I feel that what hap­pened is the race card does not work any­more. I live in Detroit, MI and the city coun­cil pres­i­dent plays it all the time and now peo­ple are call­ing her divi­sive rather than help­ful. It does not work any­more. She is play­i­ung the old record that all Detroi­ters are see­ing through.

Mary says

Well all I can say is that in prepa­ra­tion for what is to come in 2010 (I’ve got­ten infor­ma­tion from other remote view­ers and other sources and it’s called the North Amer­i­can Union… very bad news for the United States) I am buy­ing Burt’s pro­gram because boy howdy I’m gonna need it.

DiAnne says

We are all ener­get­i­cally inter­twined on this planet. Any promi­nent per­son dis­play­ing pos­i­tive actions can be echoed by those who have believed they couldn’t achieve until they see it happening.

I believe it would be very inter­est­ing to see what the shift in the per­cep­tions of the teach­ers of ‘black’ stu­dents has been as well. Could they way they now look at their stu­dents have any­thing to do with the new numbers?

Tarja says

After read­ing through all the com­ments I agree 100% with Toni. I am a lady MD from Finland/Europe, white but with a soul of all pos­si­ble col­ors. Watch­ing Obama speak I see him as spir­i­tu­ally royal, a born leader, under­stand­ing, com­pas­sion­ate and charis­matic. He has been endowed with the spe­cial gifts to help the world be a bet­ter place from east to west and north to south. Bless him and his work. Thank you, Burt, for send­ing this report.

Mary says

To: Jackie from Ont, Canada

I read your post and the only thing that I can say is that you are not pay­ing atten­tion. The Obama “Change” is not the change we need and so many Amer­i­can­ized Brits are cry­ing fowl on this one… they don’t want to see this move­ment toward social­ism… that is why they left Brit­tan and came here.

Mary says

Well I don’t see how he is influ­enc­ing chil­dren any more than Con­doleezza Rice could. She is a real Black Amer­i­can Super Hero. Obama says one thing and does another. He says, “You can’t pay your mort­gage? I’ve got a fix for that.” You made a bad deci­sion? I’ll take away your con­se­quences.” Is that how we want our chil­dren of any race to grow up? I want self suf­fi­cient, con­fi­dent chil­dren that can hold their own and not to have to depend on the gov­ern­ment to tell them when and how and to be sit­ting by the mail­box wait­ing for their gov­ern­ment check. Why don’t we take a look at Condoleezza’s story?

Ruth says

The Obama Effect is very real — but it’s alive and well in ALL of us. When you BELIEVE your per­ceived lim­its have changed — THEY HAVE CHANGED. It also works in the con­verse. If you BELIEVE you have lim­ited abil­ity — you do have a lim­ited ability.

When we go to work on chang­ing our beliefs and then ener­gize our new ones with pas­sion as Obama has done — our whole world changes. He is not the first to do so and through aware­ness like this WE CAN ALL BE WORLD CHANGERS!

Paul says

Just the first stages of humanity’s awak­en­ing. Mans thoughts still need to be changed as an elder had put it. Amer­ica will con­tinue to see mas­sive down turns in econ­omy and the world will encounter mas­sive sit downs and strikes. Earths grate les­son to show its is alive and well like its chil­dren. The North Amer­i­can Indian knew days like this were com­ing. Some are tunely aware. The whole of human­ity must change the way it thinks. Energy goes some­where, like the black holes it will cre­ate new life. We encour­age all to see the state of evo­lu­tion of the mind grow­ing bet­ter and bet­ter every day. Change the way you think before it becomes to late there is an exis­tence beyond our own phys­i­cal being.

maryann moon says

With­out a doubt, Obama is the world’s answer to a FERVENT prayer for CHANGE. It was
so pow­er­ful„ this prayer, that the one who came as the answer to that prayer
is much more than he seems. He is capa­ble of cre­at­ing the impos­si­ble, because
he KNOWS that the Spirit that sent him, that goes with him, makes him and all around him so much than they seem. . With God all things are pos­si­ble. Peace lives at
the heart of Obama. That alone will get him any­where. To say YES WE CAN is a
state­ment to the Uni­verse of great belief. And even peace on Earth is surely on the horizon.

Kat says

wow..i woke up this morn­ing and opened an email from a man I trusted. I joined this site to leave the ten­sion of the OMAMA mania. Burt you totally dis­ap­point me. I guess you have become another per­son who gets shiv­ers up their leg from this man like the media. Please take me off you mail­ing list!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Toni says

Hi,

I agree with what most (not all!)people say above, and would add that I see the Obama Effect is really a man­i­fes­ta­tion of The Hun­dredth Mon­key Effect — in that, as cer­tain beliefs and under­stand­ings emerge, take hold, and grad­u­ally increase their expo­sure, there comes a time when a quan­tum leap occurs quite sud­denly –and every­thing changes for the major­ity, whether they appre­hend it or not.

This is because of the chang­ing con­scious­ness of human­ity (and other creatures)and that con­scious­ness is a real, and very pow­er­ful energy.

This is sci­ence, not just ‘meta­physics’; the intrigu­ing power of ‘memes’- many of the exam­ples men­tioned above show aware­ness of this phenomena.

Try Dr. Lyall Watson’s ‘Life­tide’ as a mind-blowing sci­en­tific explo­ration of this mas­sive force (con­scious­ness). The phe­nom­ena of the Japan­ese mon­keys is men­tioned in this book too.

This is why the effect on the stu­dents may have appeared ‘instan­ta­neous’ –the work of a quan­tum leap in uni­ver­sal con­scious­ness –and race consciousness.

I’m not say­ing that the study was/was not sci­en­tif­i­cally con­ducted, but I do know that media usu­ally hypes up cer­tain angles which may not be the main/real results of a good study..

But as an edu­ca­tor, I do know that rais­ing the bar, and high expec­ta­tions, are heav­ily influ­en­tial on any person’s achieve­ment. Dra­mat­i­cally, even.

I read Obama’s first book before I had any appre­ci­a­tion of him in pol­i­tics (I’m not Amer­i­can) but if any­one wants to under­stand the per­son, READ IT!

He may look half-black, but his guid­ing force was his white Mum, and white grand­par­ents, set in multi-cultural, multi-racial sur­rounds– a fas­ci­nat­ing story…

He is a spe­cial stepping-stone in human his­tory, and it’s truly fit­ting he is nei­ther here nor there, yet with con­nec­tions to almost every con­ti­nent on earth. He is black and white, and brown.

We don’t want another insu­lar, fear­ful per­son­al­ity dri­ving the most pow­er­ful nation on earth.

As the man­i­fes­ta­tion of a par­tic­u­lar Hun­dredth Mon­key Effect, Obama must have there­fore rid­den on the tide of the hard work of ALL the peo­ple who came before him, who made “HIM” pos­si­ble (= a quan­tum leap — seem­ingly out of the blue, yet really hav­ing resulted from a slow-growing human con­scious­ness reach­ing a crit­i­cal thresh­old level of awak­en­ing and desire, burst­ing forth suddenly).

This is NOT pol­i­tics! This is human power (not only Obama’s)..You can get reli­gious if you like, but, it’s really human spir­i­tual, men­tal, and heart power as a group (global) con­cious­ness (or unconsciousness!)

..And yes you can com­pare with Hitler’s Ger­many, or with any surges of dis­torted beliefs– They start with a seed and feed on a grow­ing accep­tance by the gen­eral pop­u­lace, flamed by personalities..

But the worst of these are/were based on manip­u­lat­ing base desires and fears, self-interest, and incit­ing the ‘need’ to con­trol others.

Obama is hardly in that cat­e­gory.
READ HIS BOOKS! Espe­cially those who say he has no credentials.

I live in a part of the world where most peo­ple are honey, mocha, or coffee-coloured, or milk-tea, or milk-chocolate with all sorts of fab­rics and flavours in their ances­tries. Obama is one of us. (I hap­pen to be ‘mixed-white’ a long way from my roots!)

Obama is not instru­men­tal in man­i­fest­ing only an Amer­i­can phe­nom­ena, oth­er­wise the rest of the world wouldn’t have been so unprece­dent­edly, emo­tion­ally, involved!

This is a GLOBAL 100th Mon­key Effect, and deeply significant.

THAT IS WHY BURT IS BRINGING IT UP IN THIS SITE!!

Why do you think Burt is work­ing towards a cer­tain num­ber of awak­ened people?

Read about the 100th Mon­key Effect and you’ll know.

Teresa says

Obama has broke the curse. The curse of “slav­ery” and “not good enough” were genet­i­cally inprinted on the “black people’s” DNA. Now the curse has lift, it lit­ter­ally lift the spir­its of black peo­ple not only in the United the States, but also around the world. He is the smy­bol of “equal­lity”; he is indeed a leader of our time who will take earth evolv­ing beyond 2012. We are the Chil­dren of God (all races col­ors and all liv­ing things), Amem!!!

BC says

Such inter­est­ing com­ments,
For me the Obama effect is a bless­ing for the world. For those of us in the world it is an exam­ple of our own power and inner strenth. Each of us can and should cre­ate the phe­nom­e­nal results of this effect in ourselves.

Joseph K. Brady-Amoon says

If you think you can, You Can!
Now let us see if Pres­i­dent Obama achieves any last­ing good in his per­for­mance as all of our Pres­i­dent.
I see har­mo­nious indi­vid­ual vol­un­tary coop­er­a­tion (free­dom) as the great­est good. Unfor­tu­nately Obabma’s fas­cism social­ism leads to coer­cion instead.
Be well.

Zaccurus says

It is impos­si­ble for Obama to save the world, coun­try, or any­thing for that mat­ter other then Obama.. It is like think­ing that a new car is gunna fill that gap in your life mak­ing you unhappy.. it doesn’t work like that.. I believe this coun­try can change, I believe the world can change.. but it is up to every indi­vid­ual to be the change.. not Obama.

if this effect is real.. it proves some­thing far greater then a mans effect on oth­ers by exam­ple.. it proves that all knowl­edge is there for us, and with the right mind set, you can access it all. these kids who one month don’t know the answers and the next month do with­out any extra active learn­ing shows us that despite years of being told, and believ­ing that they are lack­ing some­how, or not as smart, once that belief is replaced with an Idea of intel­li­gence and achieve­ment.. they achieve and some­how know the answers.

Laura Gabrels says

I am delighted to read of this, which I agree can be called the “Roger Ban­nis­ter effect” as well as the “Obama effect” — and I also think that sta­tis­ti­cally it is not a large enough sam­ple to speak YET with the cer­tainty that is claimed. Whether it is the NY Times writer or some­one else, I love the con­sid­er­a­tion of this — I am so relieved and delighted that Obama is our pres­i­dent and that he is con­tin­u­ing to model the spirit, thought and behav­ior that is an inspi­ra­tion to us all. AND at the same time, I wish peo­ple would use stud­ies like this eth­i­cally, that is, not by mak­ing assump­tive leaps that are inap­pro­pri­ate to the data — to me, this story is just as pow­er­ful seen as a pos­si­bil­ity rather a fact, and to me would have more of the power behind it then. We all know that sta­tis­tics can be used to “prove” any­thing if read­ers aren’t trained to under­stand the details behind the stats.

By the way, Burt — I really like what you have done that I’ve read or heard so far, except for a few places where I do hope you pay atten­tion to how your cred­i­bil­ity can fall (at least with me) when/if you make these leaps — there’s a place in one of your MP3 record­ings where you men­tion some­thing as hav­ing been stud­ied and then speak of hav­ing estab­lished your point as fact. I feel less trust­ing when I read some­thing claim­ing stud­ies back it up, but not cit­ing sources so one could read the orig­i­nal for one­self. At least this is an exam­ple where you cite the NY Times ref­er­ence and some­one trained can read from it that the sam­ple is too small for the claims. I think we are oblig­ated to present info as absolutely truth­fully as pos­si­ble — even when it is won­der­ful news (to me), just not YET able to be claimed as doc­u­mented fact.

Along these lines, I’ve seen online offers to get some­thing down­loaded for free, then the fine print clar­i­fies that you have it free for a cer­tain bit of time. If you don’t take a next step, you will be charged for it after some des­ig­nated time period. I do think it is impor­tant to read the fine print. I think peo­ple who cre­ate, or pro­duce, info, have a right to be paid for their work. But there is so much out there now, it seems espe­cially impor­tant that we don’t leave space for mis­in­ter­pre­ta­tion, which hap­pens eas­ily enough already. The pow­er­ful new info that peo­ple such as you, Burt, are shar­ing on the inter­net (and else­where) is pow­er­ful enough to stand on its own. Please don’t take a chance on dilut­ing its power by giv­ing any­one (who dis­agrees) the oppor­tu­nity to strike it down on a tech­ni­cal­ity, such as claim­ing some­thing is more proven than can YET be really said.
Okay, thanks for the oppor­tu­nity to say all that!

Anu says

Just wanted to add my voice to those who point out that the evi­dence here is slim, because of the small sam­ple size of blacks in the study. It’s pos­si­ble that this is a real effect, and it does make sense as many have pointed out — but the enthu­si­as­tic con­clu­sion is pre­ma­ture and unwar­ranted. Please look at your own fer­vent desire to believe this “Obama effect,” because it fits with your view of how things should be.

Georgine Schell says

And stalked by Mrs.Ronald Reagan

Georgine Schell says

I am too busy get­ting ter­ror­ized by the mafia of Plaque­m­ines Parish and the White­house to notice.

Camile says

This test demon­strates the impor­tance of self esteem when using tests to eval­u­ate “intel­li­gence”. Per­haps the answer for all those with lower test marks, is not sim­ply “work­ing harder”, but “feel­ing bet­ter”.
If a per­son is not per­form­ing up to the desired stan­dard, test­ing and pos­si­bly cre­at­ing neg­a­tive feel­ings, is counter pro­duc­tive.
When a per­son feels good about who they are, where they come from, it shows in every­thing they do.
The answer there­fore, to neg­a­tive per­sonal results, must not be let­ting those results define who we are, which cre­ates fur­ther neg­a­tiv­ity.
When we see neg­a­tiv­ity in any form, it is an indi­ca­tor that pro­found accep­tance is required, and true poten­tial will be dis­cov­ered.
All peo­ple are capa­ble of great things.
Barack Obama, through his appar­ent — pro­found accep­tance of him­self, has and is dis­cov­er­ing his poten­tial, which is indeed great, and a great thing to wit­ness.
The great­ness that lies within us all, rec­og­nizes that light and remem­bers its’ pres­ence within us.
That is the act of inspir­ing and being inspired.

Camile

Jaya says

I cldnt access the arti­cle but I am not sur­prised that there will be an Obama rip­ple for a long time now. Infact it may please you to know that its effects reaches us in the third world coun­tries too. The vic­tory of a black pres­i­dent in an age where suru­vi­val of the fittest is more acute than ever, it has brought a wave of hope to the chil­dren of lesser gods. Back in India too we are greatly moti­vated by Obama’s pres­ence in the White House and see it as quan­tum leap in the aspi­ra­tion of a com­mon man to be any­thing that he wants to be if he hopes and dreams and believes in him­self. Tks for this post Burt. You are spread­ing a lot of pos­i­tive aware­ness all the time…I call that The Burt rip­ple. Keep it up!

Michael says

Sorry to burst your bub­ble, but Obama did not do this. The people’s belief in them­selves did this.

In a very short time you will all soon dis­cover that Obama is a worse pres­i­dent than Bush was. You must watch the Obama Decep­tion film. It lays out the true story of who Obama is and what is has already done to harm us and how he plans to con­tinue to harm us.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAaQNACwaLw&feature=related

Obama has esca­lated the wars world wide. Obama has sup­ported the theft of our money along with the Illu­mi­nati bankers. Obama goal, with his Elite Pup­pet Master’s guid­ance is to take this coun­try down completely!

Save your­self now and watch this film!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAaQNACwaLw&feature=related

Knowl­edge is power, Igno­rance is stupid!

Best Wishes All.
Michael

Rex Nichols says

The answer is sim­ple if you do a lit­tle research. They sim­ply changed the tests to make them eas­ier for selected schools and or groups. The grade scores made it appear that a mir­a­cle had occured and that Obama had some­thing to do with it. He did. Read the above. Sheeech!

Gina says

Very simple…the energy and belief asso­ci­ated with three words…“YES WE CAN!”

Sue says

Hello All,

My respect for all in this post. In the momen­tum is the moment. The Time is Now.

I took time to read this for it was some­thing I have not seen much feed­back from other sites that are assist­ing oth­ers to expand. Interesting…

All my Love, Com­pas­sion and Bal­ance to each Heart!

Beverly Neal-Clinton says

I must con­fess that I am over­whelmed by the response. Stud­ies have shown and proved that it behooves the child to see some­one who looks like, dis­plays some fea­ture, qual­ity, char­ac­ter­is­tic or visual upon which they can relate, the chances of that child attain­ing that goal or nearly impos­si­ble. Amer­ica is a melt­ing pot and that is why Pres­i­dent Obama is truly an exam­ple of who you can be only in America.

As to the com­ments left from those who state that African-Americans seem to be hos­tile, indig­nant and have an “atti­tute”, I am just amazed. I am still sur­prised that when­ever an African Amer­i­can shows pride, glee, unre­strained joy that it is viewed as being “uppity”.

In rela­tion to the slav­ery thing, I would sug­gest that review any of Tim Wise’s infor­ma­tion. Here’s a good place to start…

http://www.opednews.com/articles/This-is-Your-Nation-on-Whi-by-Tim-Wise-080916–307.html

Here to stay and thank you, Burt, for being just being you!

kim says

Obama Effect? I don’t buy it . It is too early maybe next year if the results aren’t skewed and are actu­ally objec­tive, than I will believe it. The com­mu­nity I am in has not seen an increase in the bet­ter attrib­utes but have actu­ally wors­ened . I hear noth­ing but how much free money “they” will be given as well as an “atti­tude”. Rud­ness, bel­lig­er­ance, threat­en­ing increase in crime, sense of enti­tle­ment. I have seen all this esca­late rather than seen the more stel­lar attrib­utes come for­ward. I live and work in an urban env­ior­ment and take the bus, it has not been pleasent. BTW, my fam­ily has always been blue col­lar work­ers and we have been Given, nothing.

Liliana says

Pow­er­ful thoughts and opin­ions elo­quently man­i­fested in this forum.
I agree with many of the views expressed here. It is a fact that United States had in the past and has at the present time many lead­ers from mixed back­grounds that hold a posi­tion of influ­ence and power; Mr. Obama has risen above his own. Politi­cians have some­thing in com­mon, “Big Egos”, power thirsty, I really believe that this is what dri­ves them to pol­i­tics. If this moti­va­tion is directed towards the well being of this coun­try, it will make a dif­fer­ence, if not it will make a big­ger hole where we will all suc­cumb.
We have a say­ing in my coun­try roughly trans­lated “Hell is paved with good inten­tions” Hope­fully is more than good inten­tions what dri­ves Mr. Obama and his team. We have to keep in mind that he alone can­not accom­plish his endeavor, we all have a respon­si­bil­ity to do our part or it will be futile, it would amount to rhetoric dis­ap­pear­ing with the wind.

Lil­iana

Joe Acosta says

When a per­son rises in con­scious­ness it cre­ates a vibra­tion of truth that has a sub­con­scious effect on other people!

As more and more peo­ple man­age his/her vibra­tion with focused atten­tion on things that are noble and of good report, we rise in con­scious­ness and evolve emo­tion­ally into a newer spir­i­tual dimension.

That is what Jesus CHrist did when he walked the earth and said the things that I have done you too will do and greater!

Joe Acosta
Light Bearer

Michael says

yea, hey, I read the other day that Obama can walk on water, that may have been from the gray whore NYT also.

Obama is NOT a mes­siah, he’s noth­ing but a tool and how you peo­ple can believe in this guy and his pol­i­tics makes you all look like fools. He has just indebted this nation to the hilt and tacked $132,000 of debt on EVERY Amer­i­can family…you peo­ple are nuts, I will be remov­ing myself from this list — oh yeah, be sure and buy a GM car from the new Pres­i­dent of GM…mr. obama.…he’ll be your banker soon also…fools

Andrew says

We are for the most part in this day and age a cul­ture that needs solid evi­dence in the form of sci­en­tific stud­ies. It may very well be a pos­i­tive note now but you can­not come to any con­clu­sion until this man’s term of office is con­cluded. Attain­ing the office of pres­i­dency is a lofty goal. How will these same chil­dren feel a year from now or at the end of term. Let us not be rash in com­mend­ing, after all look what has not been able to accom­plished in the short time he has been in office.
Amre­ica, the hand­writ­ing is on the wall.…awake.

Joe says

Hi Burt, love your mate­r­ial and what you do, but what is it about sup­pos­edly intel­li­gent peo­ple that they can­not rec­og­nize a coun­try tak­ing a quan­tum leap toward social­ism and slav­ery. Obama has always had an affin­ity for marxism/socialism. The infor­ma­tion is there, just not reported by the left wing media. Being black means noth­ing except to those who see it as an oppor­tu­nity to elect a marx­ist because he is black.
Seems as though the “inva­sion of the body snatch­ers” has come true. By elect­ing a marx­ist to pres­i­dent, Amer­i­cans are no longer the respon­si­ble indi­vid­u­als and free­dom lovers they once were. Must be aliens in those bod­ies. Sorry Burt, as much as I like your mate­r­ial I could never again use mate­r­ial by a per­son that is blinded by a smooth talk­ing con man that has pulled off the biggest con in history.

Karen says

Yes, there is a dif­fer­ence. Peo­ple for­get that Obama is only 1/2 Black — the other half is White. He is capa­ble of relat­ing to each “clan” should he choose to do so, and if the pub­lic will let him.

The dif­fer­ence I have noticed is in the Pagent world. All the crowns are going to women of color: His­panic, Asian, Fil­ipino, and African. Not a blue-eyed blonde, not a green-eyed red­head, not a brown-eyed white woman among any of the con­test win­ners so far. The Miss USA con­test this year should be a spec­tac­u­lar con­test of mediocre tal­ents but with beau­ti­ful, col­or­ful women grac­ing the stage.

The other dif­fer­ence is in the atti­tude I see when out in the gen­eral pub­lic — a lack of respect­ful treat­ment by non-whites towards whites that wasn’t there last year.

It’s all prob­a­bly just “grow­ing pains” as we con­tin­u­ally explore this world and our par­tic­u­lar place within it. Every­thing is as good as you make it, so make your world the very best one it can be!

Patrick says

Burt,

I don’t know you well enough through your writ­ing, to know if you were being sar­cas­tic with this quote in your email, but I’m hop­ing so:

But guess what? I have proof. Proof from The New York Times, no less, that Pres­i­dent Obama has caused some­thing incred­i­ble to happen.

… because as we surely all know the NYT is hardly a bas­tion of truth!!!

Why do you think the Obama Effect hap­pened? … did it hap­pen even …

Have you per­son­ally observed any cases of the Obama Effect? … as in peo­ple los­ing the abil­ity to think and act ratio­nally? Only from what I’ve read, as I’m not in the USA …

What do you think this means for our future? … highly irrel­e­vant, what is more potent is the harm that Obama will unleash as his term pro­gresses, unless those who care­lessly voted him into power wake up to what is going on …

Role mod­els can be pow­er­ful that’s pretty obvi­ous if one makes even just a half-hearted attempt to look at the sub­ject. The ques­tion is what role is being emu­lated. Obama has man­aged to appar­ently seduce a vast num­ber of peo­ple to sup­port him, with vac­u­ous words and promises, so that now he is free to do pretty much what­ever he wishes.

So, does this mean that even more peo­ple will now believe that they can lie and deceive to achieve lofty heights? Quite pos­si­bly, as the mes­sage is clear enough, for­get integrity and truth, just have a way with words, rehearse your man­ner­isms so that they are sec­ond nature and then you too can fool most peo­ple into giv­ing you what you want. A sad exam­ple to set and one that is now another step towards the fall of the USA. I’m not a US cit­i­zen and have no axe to grind in respect of which can­di­date was elected, but it is fairly clear that the major can­di­dates were all morally bank­rupt

The whole ‘Obama is the first black pres­i­dent’ is so full of wind that it is dif­fi­cult to see how any­one, black or white, could take this seri­ously. It’s time to wake up to real­ity and as I said at the begin­ning, I hope you were jok­ing, because it says a lot about the truth of what you are teach­ing … be inter­est­ing to see.

Patrick

Largo of Sweden says

Thanks Burt,
for this mes­sage…
I remem­ber back in novem­ber..
the very sec­ond it was announced at MSNBC elec­tion cov­er­age online…
That OBAMA was the NEW Pres­i­dent of US…
I Felt a strange phe­nom­ena in all my being…
it was an elec­tri­fy­ing expe­ri­ence…
as a JOLT Of Excite­ment mov­ing through my Being­ness…
and it was INSTANTLY!!!

I was Very Surprised…this was a Feel­ing I’ve NEVER Expe­ri­enced before!

The Day after I called some friends …and Lo and Behold…they have had Sim­i­lar Experience…Everyone of them!!

An INSTANT surge of some Energy Mov­ing through their beingness…

Now I under­stand it’s the Energy of CHANGE…
A NEW WORLD Is Dawning…

Largo
Sweden

rxeno says

Well, the schools didn’t change in three months so it must be that the stu­dents show­ing increase were inspired to attain higher results, and beleiv­ing that they could.… did.
Just prov­ing your con­stant drum­ming.…. believe and achieve.
Just one more step in homog­e­niz­ing the world population.

Linda says

I believe it is the focus of the black peo­ple on their dream that has been so intense for so long. Obama’s elec­tion helped them to feel bet­ter about their dream and in their abil­ity to feel bet­ter about it they can achieve it. The chil­dren are always bet­ter con­nected and thus it is eas­ier for them to achieve it so quickly. It is my dream and the dream of many oth­ers that the black teens and adults line up with it too!!!!

Ria says

Hey Burt,

i think it sim­ply means that, peo­ple around the world have started notic­ing the per­for­mance of afro-americans. It is far too early to prophe­cize it as a “Miracle”.

Also, why is it that you have to cre­ate a polar­i­sa­tion effect to high­light your point?

The sim­ple fact is, peo­ple around the world have to take pride that, irre­spec­tive of the ori­gins, today accom­plish­ment and suc­cess is based on hard work and skill…this is the mes­sage that needs to go to the chil­dren, period.

Sin­cere request Burt, pl do not cre­ate mir­a­cles where there aren’t any…

Ria

Doug says

The sta­tis­tics used to mea­sure this “jump” in test scores was too small a sam­ple size to assume wide­spread test score improve­ments. The arti­cle said, “In total, 472 Amer­i­cans — 84 blacks and 388 whites — took the exam.” Only 84 blacks were cited in the sample.

It doesn’t mean the effect is not true, it just means the sam­ple size was too small to make these broad assump­tions. Addi­tional test­ing is needed to see if black test scores do improve across the nation.

dr benson ubadinanwa anyaibe says

same to read i wrote before

judith jones says

Please do not send me any more e-mail

Laura says

Hello Burt,

What a thought pro­vok­ing sub­ject. It is won­der­ful to see such open dia­logue between one another. In view­ing the posts, one can see just how open some of our hearts really are towards a mutu­ally respectable coun­try and world. There are some of us here who are still grow­ing and evolv­ing too which is just fine. I have a few com­ments on a cou­ple of posts.

Jeanie Crevis­ton: I truly am try­ing to under­stand your stance on the actions and reac­tions of some African Amer­i­cans in your com­mu­nity. If you were not born as an African Amer­i­can, then it is very hard for you to under­stand slav­ery. Let’s say you come from the Jew­ish per­sua­sion, and your fam­ily kept alive the his­tory of the atroc­i­ties done to the Jews, and as you grew up, you were still expe­ri­enc­ing the prej­u­dice and unfair­ness sys­tem­at­i­cally put in place to keep a cer­tain race of peo­ple in a cer­tain con­di­tion, but you had to go on with your life or just decide to leave this planet. How would you feel to see one of your own at the head of a coun­try that his­tor­i­cally at its foun­da­tion did bru­tal, hor­rific acts on inno­cent peo­ple brought to a place against their own will, and basi­cally built a nation on their backs? I think you would be proud, have a feel­ing if just tem­porar­ily, of supremacy because inspite of what stereo­typ­i­cally has been shown of your peo­ple, you know that your peo­ple are bril­liant, decent peo­ple and now the world gets to see an exam­ple of that. Now I per­son­ally don’t advo­cate doing harm to those who have mis­treated me or my kind, but that’s clearly not the opin­ion of all African Amer­i­cans and other peo­ple of color. If you have been shown mis­treat­ment after the elec­tion by peo­ple of color, then I think that’s wrong. You may want to look at your own atti­tudes which based on your post­ing shows your nar­row opin­ion pre-Obama elec­tion of African Amer­i­cans even though you claim to have a few friends. Respect is earned from both sides of the coin. If you have a pre­as­sump­tion of some­one, they will surely mir­ror all of your fears and assump­tions right back at you. Most African Amer­i­cans are self-respecting, hard work­ing, love their fam­i­lies, and this coun­try just as the many immi­grants who vol­un­tariy migrated to Amer­ica do. As with other cul­tures, there are those in every race, who feel the need to be a vic­tim, but that’s not the whole African Amer­i­can race. The atti­tude that African Amer­i­cans want so much for free is totally unfair and untrue. Obama couldn’t have won with­out large sup­port of cau­casians as well as African Amreri­cans and other cul­tures. So yes Jeanie, RESPECT is earned from both sides.
Andy you posted that African Amer­i­cans walk around with a chip on their shoul­ders, and because of this way of think­ing they see more chips which trans­lates to more neg­a­tive feed­back and road­blocks. You’re cor­rect in my hum­ble opin­ion. I would like to sug­gest to you an exer­cise. Try get­ting some true his­tory of the African Amer­i­can expe­ri­ence from slav­ery to now. Then step into the shoes of an African Amer­i­can that you think has a chip to see their side. This may not give you more insight, but then again it may.

Thanks again Burt for such a provoca­tive sub­ject to elab­o­rate on!

dr benson ubadinanwa anyaibe says

dear bussi­ness parth­n­ers in amer­ica and other nations i will love to let you all know that i love the mail sent to me today and will love to let you know that my love for bar­rack obama and oth­ers parth­n­ers and elites moth­ers and fathers and affil­i­ates mem­bers over the plan­ets and in the plan­ets i will love to hear and see that my project and dream homes and inves­ti­ments branches are estab­lished and that my loverly wife flo­rence who now in spain with my beloved child solomon aku­ru­ulo who i want to see and hear that those things which i demanded my parth­n­ers to give my wife in spain ali­cante on refugge politice based on what you all are see­ing today and neg­li­gency of the right of the igbo per­son­al­ity like dr ben­son ubad­i­nanwa anyaibe from umuo­for aka­bor in imo state which i demanded con­stant light in nige­ria and imo inter­na­tional air­port and anyaibe nnadrinwa auto car plant in imo state and ben­flor air­ways inter­na­tion­als and inter­na­tional chil­dren cen­tre for black and white homes and the estab­lish­ments of my bussi­ness empire homes and staff quart­ters and women cen­tre for black white familes where sem­i­nars will be hold in nige­ria with the name of the cen­tre ben­flore white­black lead­ers of tomor­row home for unity and love and progress and pschother­apy cen­tre which based on research and other resons will be based in imo state at umuo­for aka­bor where the land has been located and branches at edo states and other state too although i love the progress my parth­n­ers has shown to me on this year but let the sup­ply of the cars i demanded for me to use on this year withh cash which i have given them bank account to be used to remit this money to assist fam­ily and put homes to other this month with other things like rais­ing ben­son bank inter­na­tion­als not the gov­er­ments try­ing to con­vert my dreams and desires as their pri­vate prop­erty after the leave the office i have a great visions for my comu­nity my states my coun­try my euro­peans my amer­i­cans that why i put obama bar­rack to acom­plish this goal my visions for the world nations since child child with fam­ily should not be taken for neg­li­gency based on trib­al­ism in nige­ria abuja by housas and yorubas and some igbo non vision thinkers who never think of oth­ers dear mem­bers is i that planned for this unity rain­ing today only bush fail to let you all know this with oth­ers leav­ing me in alge­ria for suf­fer why resourses and energy and flows and lights i feels the pain still sur­port­ing my uni­verse as a great zion­ist igbo visioner inno­va­tor and dreamer who loves peace cre­at­ing thnol­ogy and auto pro­to­types and oth­ers sys­terms still no changes untill bar­rack obama came to power i know i will get all my wants start­ing now while am at tama­ras­set of alge­ria with pain and with­out house to sleep leav­ing under rain and sun which all sees it through my com­mu­ni­ca­tions even at the rock i com­mu­ni­cate with any objects and still cre­at­ing cars designs sys­terms pul­ing it to them is it right for the nations to neglect such dig­in­ity in the world to be dup­ings me and loathing me and my brain while my twins is no where to be found and wife in exile with child libya should pro­vide hus­sein ben­jamin my twins and nige­ria and alge­ria and my parth­n­ers all with my rights both videos firms and oth­errs sys­terms well some are pri­vare but not to many and gods GODTHE GREAT TO WHOM SEND ME ON EARTH FOR REDENTIONS AND IF NOT great dan­ger could have hap­pen why do they delay my rights since years till we invented inter­nets where i can reach my lost white and black broth­ers and sis­ters i play for this rea­sons yours in love dr ben­son u anyaibe .

Francis says

If the leader is from my own clan it is nat­ural that I get a boost to be some­one very important.

Nancy says

To Mikelo who thinks that democ­rats make gov­ern­ment bigger,

http://angrybear.blogspot.com/2007/06/comparing-presidents-size-of-government.html

it’s just not so. This is a myth. Clin­ton reduced gov­ern­ment employ­ees more than any of the last 7 admin­is­tra­tions. GW Bush was 4th and Rea­gan was a lit­tle bet­ter than he at num­ber 3.

Thank you for your patience,
Nancy

carl says

Per­haps the gap wasn’t that big in the first place. Blacks have had and con­tinue to have more oppor­tu­nity in the USA than any other nation in the his­tory of the world.
I stopped trust­ing the New York Times long ago. They are more inter­ested in social indoc­tri­na­tion and spread­ing the word of a sin­gle polit­i­cal party than the hon­est dis­sem­i­na­tion of news.
There is noth­ing mag­i­cal about Mr. Obama. He is just a man. No more and no less than the rest of us.
Being elected Pres­i­dent of the United States has pre­sented him with his first real job, and he has no other accom­plish­ments on his resume, his great­ness is yet to be determined.

Linc2010 says

I think it is great that this is hap­pen­ing in our country!

Another topic: Thank you for the tech­nique of using the tip of your tonque on the roof of your mouth to not smell smoke from sec­ond hand smoke. It works every time!

Nancy says

Oh, and I almost for­got, let’s also send heal­ing to those who are so afraid of change and peo­ple with dif­fer­ent color or dif­fer­ent beliefs that they want to send sol­diers to kill them.…

Thank you,
Nancy

Nancy says

And, I almost for­got, that we have to send heal­ing and light to Obama and his fam­ily. There have already been 9 arrests in 9 dif­fer­ent states of con­spir­a­tors plan­ning to assas­si­nate him.… Please send him strength. There are still too many big­ots in Amer­ica who see him as a threat. Unfor­tu­nately, they have enough money and influ­ence to effect the media as well.

He is more con­ser­v­a­tive than Eisen­hower, and still he is being called com­mu­nist or social­ist. We are the only coun­try in the west­ern world that will let a fam­ily go bank­rupt and loose their home because some­one is sick and needs hos­pi­tal­iza­tion or expen­sive med­ica­tion. What is wrong with our hearts?

Burt, please help peo­ple find their love and com­pas­sion for each other and for mother earth.

Thank you,
Nancy

Andrea says

I never have been or will be a sup­porter of a socialist/communist. He is scary and too many peo­ple look to him as a God. When a man can fire the CEO of a com­pany and take money away we are in trou­ble. Just another Chavez and the sheeple don’t know it. My fam­ily remem­bers Hitler. The sim­i­lar­i­ties are scary.Why does any­one need some­one else to tell them they can make it? I thought this was a meta­phys­i­cal site. Andrea

Nancy says

It’s like the Roger Ban­nis­ter effect for peo­ple of color. The day he was elected the world of pos­si­bil­i­ties opened up for them.

And, for the rest of us, the pos­si­bil­ity of peace and pros­per­ity returned. It was a bleak, dark time for the last 8 years for most of the world.

We love you Burt. Keep the dream alive for us!

Mikelo says

The funny thing about human nature is, some­times we know it’s pos­si­ble to do some­thing, but we need some­one to tell us that we can. There’s so many things in my life that I didn’t do, but some­thing hap­pened to “give per­mis­sion” that I could do it, and I did do it. Black now have per­mis­sion to suc­ceed, because there’s one in the White House (for the record, he is only half-black, but that seems to get overlooked)

Of course, this can be a prob­lem for the black peo­ple in our coun­try who have used their increased mela­tonin as an excuse to do noth­ing. There’s a black man in the high­est office in the nation, and he got there with­out Affir­ma­tive Action or any other such assis­tance. He got there on his own merit. The bar has been raised and there’s a lot to live up to now.

Of course, my com­ments here don’t account for the fine men that suc­ceeded with­out Obama to inspire them. Those guys I look up to.

I per­son­ally think Obama is a bad choice for pres­i­dent. His love of gun con­trol and taxes and big­ger gov­ern­ment makes him a bad choice, but this study shows the one bright spot in these prob­lems: account­abil­ity for the black man.

(BTW, one per­son aid ear­lier that they’ve expe­ri­ence get­ting an “atti­tude” from black peo­ple, like cut­ting in line, being rude, etc. It’s not an iso­lated inci­dent. My part­ner has expe­ri­enced the same thing, and so has his mother. Some peo­ple need to grow up)

charleyn says

Many times through the years a ‘higher power’ has placed sig­nif­i­cant peo­ple on this earth to teach, to be an exam­ple, and for many other rea­sons. I think Obama is one of those cho­sen ones. I am a white 75 year old woman and I am so pleased to have Obama and his fam­ily in the White House, I smile to imag­ine his lit­tle girls and he and his wife roam­ing in won­der­ment in that house. I just know he wants the best for this coun­try, and because he is half black and half white he will he will not have prej­u­dice against either group. Of course he will be a won­der­ful exam­ple for all.

Katharine says

It’s all about educ­tion, integrity and your belief systems.

I believe any­one from any socio-economic back­ground can achieve any­thing. I don’t believe in the “Obama Effect” as such because that would limit ones beliefs. We have had influ­en­tial Black peo­ple, Asian and Mex­i­cans etc. in lead­er­ship posi­tions for many, many years. It has never been that Black peo­ple weren’t accepted it’s just that no one truly qual­i­fied ran for Pres­i­dent before now. When Obama ran peo­ple liked his cre­den­tials and beliefs. So go to school, get an edu­ca­tion and achieve your dreams, race does not play a role when you’re well edu­cated or edu­cated in a trade skill.

Any­one can achieve any­thing and be accepted by hard work, integrity and hav­ing a dream.

Robert says

Belief unset­tles bound­aries… “If you don’t go within, you will go without…”…and what about “the mus­tard seed?”

“If you think you can, or if you think you can’t, you’re absolutely right,” Henry Ford

guillermo says

This tells me that African Amer­i­can kids over­looked the polit­i­cal lead­er­ship of bril­lant peo­ple like Collin Pow­ell and Con­doleeza Rice, and payed aten­tion to the phony teleprompter guy.
Let’s hope he can live to the chal­lenge and not dis­ap­point these kids.

Jackie says

Hi Bert, Pres­i­dent Obama is what we needed, for your coun­try as well as mine. I do believe he was sent by God, to relieve us from the dis­as­ter our world has come to. It’s about time we begin see­ing our­selves as energy beings,& related together with­out any color inter­fer­ences, after­all we are all chil­dren of God!!!!The pres­i­dent is a won­der­ful man, with many insights to what is nec­es­sary for our coun­tries to heal & love one another,& I do believe he will achieve this, with all of our help!!!We must all stand as ONE, & be United in all things,so we can achieve what God has brought us here for, Love & Unity!!!! I say put down the bor­ders that seper­ate us, & begin act­ing like the broth­ers, & sis­ters that we are!!!! Mr Pres­i­dent, I am behind you all the way,& together we shall strive!!!!! I send much love & bless­ings to all spir­its of this planet!!!! Jackie from Ont, Canada

Robert Vincent Blake says

I would love to read the New York Time arti­cle regard­ing this won­der­fully pos­i­tive effect Pres­i­dent Obama has had on African Amer­i­can youths. How­ever the link is appar­ently bro­ken. Please adjust the link.

Patti says

He is a time that has come. His whole cam­paign mantra “Yes, we can” was the inspi­ra­tion that was nec­es­sary to have so many wake up. The fact that he appeared to have ‘miraculously’floated through the last two years and then right on to the pres­i­dency is what has spurred the coun­try on. I unfor­tu­nately have a ‘con­spir­a­tors’ heart. I believe he’s a pup­pet just as the one pre­vi­ous was. They aren’t really run­ning the coun­try. It’s the Roth­schilds and the Rock­e­fellers etc. The big money. A lot of peo­ple don’t know it was their money ‘fil­tered’ down that paid for his cam­paign. That is the sad real­ity of it all. You know the song by the Who, the “new boss, same as the old boss”. Well, this time we shouldn’t be fooled again!
Regard­less, of who is pup­peteer­ing who, Obama has made a pos­i­tive impact all over the world, the pow­ers that be saw that and decided to put a “peace keeper” in the white house.

Harrison says

“… the achieve­ment gap between white and African-American stu­dents sig­nif­i­cantly decreased imme­di­ately after Pres­i­dent Obama’s nom­i­na­tion accep­tance speech, and just after his elec­tion victory.”

Give me a break.

Keith says

I have not read any arti­cles relat­ing to such, but I have felt the shift in being more open minded, a will­ing­ness to change. Pres­i­dent O’Bama inspires me in that he speaks of nations pulling together. Col­lab­o­rat­ing together to address issues which are uni­ver­sal. He has cre­ated within each of us who desires it, an appeal to con­sider the possibilities.

Bruce says

“He is just like me and if he can do it I can do it.”

jimmy says

It’s just another exam­ple of what hap­pened when Roger Ban­is­ter broke the four minute mile. Up to that point it was said that no human being could run a mile in under four min­utes, but after he broke the four minute bar­rier, just in a short while, more and more started being able to do it. Peo­ple lis­ten to, and believe what ‘they’ say about every­thing from health to the econ­omy, espe­cially if the media talks con­stantly about it (what­ever ‘it’ may be). When some­one has a desire to do, or be, or have some­thing, and they let that desire become an obses­sion (not mean­ing ‘obses­sion’ in a neg­a­tive way), and think about doing, or hav­ing that thing on a reg­u­lar basis, then what­ever it is will become their real­ity. Up ’til Obama, there doesn’t seem to have been any­one inter­ested in talk­ing about pos­i­tive role mod­els for black youth. Now that has changed. If a per­son can see even the small­est ray of hope on the hori­zon, then lots of times that’s all they need to let their great­ness shine forth.

Ruth says

I’m glad to see that Obama being pres­i­dent is hav­ing a good effect on black school chil­dren. This is obvi­ously some­thing that the world has needed for a long time — and I agree with the com­ment above that Ire­land needs her own “Obama” as do many other places.
I’ve also come across a lot of sus­pi­cion about Obama in the Amer­i­can press. I think a lot is on his shoul­ders because he has more of a need to prove him­self a good pres­i­dent than his pre­de­ces­sors had.

JOHN OBIDI says

THE OBAMA EFFECT HAS COME TO STAY. IT IS SIMPLE PSYCHOLOGY RE-ECHOED VEHEMENTLY IN OUR TIME. THERE IS NO DOUBT THAT OBAMA HAS INSPIRED A WHOLE GENERATION ON EARTH. THIS ALONE IS ENOUGH TO UPGRADE ANY HUMAN BEING ALIVE TODAY. OBAMA DID FOR POLITICS WHAT HAWKING HAS DONE FOR SCIENCE. BOTH HAVE RISEN ABOVE CRIPPLING CIRCUMSTANCES TO BE THE SUPERNOVAS OF INSPIRATION. THE SLATE OF THE UNIVERSE CAN NEVER BE THE SAME AGAIN.

Carol says

First, let me say up front that I was and am a huge Obama sup­porter. I walk around with a lighter spirit every day now that he is our pres­i­dent. Any­way, I agree with much of what has already been said here; Obama’s elec­tion broad­ened aware­ness of and belief in what is pos­si­ble. I can cer­tainly under­stand how that would have an impact on the kids’ belief in their own abil­ity to excel. It also prob­a­bly sim­ply makes them feel more like the full-fledged cit­i­zens they are. As a woman, I have felt a greater sense of inclu­sive­ness and empow­er­ment as women have gained higher pro­files in our society.

margo says

Hi Burt I love what each one above has said, espe­cially Andy. I could not open the arti­cle, but I am delighted. It is not a mat­ter of skin color. It is a mat­ter of cul­ture and what we breathe in and out about our­selves. Thank God Obama is another sym­bol of truth that what we want to be and work towards God will give us. God loves each and every one of us. It is we who fail to believe that because we more eas­ily believe the lies that we are told by each other some­times. For all that how­ever we are a won­der­ful cre­ation and I am so grate­ful we are awak­en­ing to our own great­ness. For white peo­ple too this is growth and a chal­lenge to be our best. I am so glad and grate­ful for all that makes Obama the per­son he is. May God con­tinue to bless him and each of us

lincoln ong says

so true.…

Marcus says

There is alot of hope put in Obama the man. It is true He stands on the shoul­ders of giants like Fredrick Dou­glas, Wash­ing­ton Carver, Dr King, even Mal­com X.

The great thing with Obama’s elec­tion has already been pointed out, that the blacks of Amer­ica can no longer blame white soci­ety for their lack of achieve­ment. When a black man can rise to the top then why can’t they? They must be think­ing. And that is a good thing.

But as in all of these ‘stud­ies’ espe­cially those put out by a far left news­pa­per as the NY Times, I’m sure I’m not get­ting the full story. Cer­tainly not a bal­anced story.

I say it’s too early to make such judge­ments about Obama. Slightly half of Amer­ica didn’t vote for him. That means nearly half is already against him. The longer he stays in office the more peo­ple (his sup­port­ers) he will dis­ap­point when cam­paign promises go unkept.
He harped on what the Repub­li­cans did in office and their over­spend­ing and the first thing he does as Pres­i­dent is pro­pose the great­est finan­cial tax bur­den to lay on the Amer­i­can peo­ple ever!

This ‘Obama’ effect may back­fire if as a Pres­i­dent he fails to pull off any of his poli­cies and plunge Amer­ica into the despair that Jimmy Carter sent us into in ‘79. Our first black Pres­i­dent may give a ‘black eye’ to future hope­fuls. And that would be a bad thing.
My hope is that he does well but I say, wait and see.

Oh, and by the way, I’m an Amer­i­can African!

Vickie says

Whether or not Mr. Obama does all the things that might be attrib­uted to him, the point is just due to his exis­tence he has inspired untold num­bers of peo­ple to wake up, and become more, do more, be more and have more of the life they came here to have. The soul has no color or reli­geon but speaks to whomever will lis­ten, be they will­ing to search for their own truth. Mr. Obama was respond­ing to his own call­ing, and will for­ever be a marker in Amer­i­can history.

vimala says

I live far away from the United States.I am so happy to believe the gap between the whites and the blacks is nar­row­ing. Obama sure is set­ting an example,the rest of the world needs to imi­tate espe­cially dur­ing this cru­cial time where sep­a­ratism has gone to the extremes, there is no more space left on the outside,the only way is to con­verge, come closer, go inwards and unite! Obvi­ously the blacks see their kind in lead­er­ship, eas­ier to relate, eas­ier to fol­low, hence there will be an upward curve in their devel­op­ment. It is a nat­ural out­come the world deserves in the future.

The Hidden Self says

If some­one can achieve suc­cess, oth­ers can do it too.

Yes, We Can.

This is the mind­set we must have.

The “Yes, We Can” atti­tude is an Elixir and it has been show­ered all over the world.

May be, this is the Obama Effect.

Obama Efect = Yes, We Can

Gary says

The Obama effect is very real. I am a white man from Zim­babwe and had been on his side from the start for one very impor­tant rea­son. Obama is a pri­mar­ily a human being, not black, not white, not coloured, not asian. Like the rest of us he is a human. He is inter­ested in all peo­ple irrel­e­vant of colour or creed. He never takes sides on racial issues but encour­ages all, like JFK, to adopt the approach of what can I do for my coun­try .… So while many blacks will get a great boost using Obama as an exam­ple, I believe all peo­ple will improve them­selves based on the moti­va­tion his prin­ci­ples cre­ate. He gives hope to the planet. The only mes­sage I would like to pass on is the fol­low­ing. Affir­ma­tive Action in most cases has been a curse and Obama has shown that those who strive to suc­ceed do not need it. Many peo­ple who qual­ify for affir­ma­tive ben­e­fits unfor­tu­nately think of it as a right and not a priv­i­lege. When they start to realise it as a priv­i­lege and take advan­tage of it, they too will soar. If we mod­ify two well known bib­li­cal phrases we get: “Affir­ma­tive Action helps those who help them­selves”, as opposed to “Affir­ma­tive Action will pro­vide”. Under­stand­ing this dif­fer­ence is essen­tial for uplift­ment, and is the major prob­lem in Africa at the moment, where there is too much expec­ta­tion and not enough appreciation.

William says

We are all stand­ing on the shoul­ders of Mar­tin Luther King. I look back on Dr. King with grat­i­tude, and for­ward with Barack Obama with great hope. Once more Amer­ica has found a man to rise to the occa­sion in a time of great need.

Andy says

Maybe it’s some­thing far more sim­ple — maybe black peo­ple have realised that since a black man can get into the White House there’s no excuse for them accept­ing vic­tim sta­tus any­more.
When you walk around with a chip on your shoul­der you see more chips.
If peo­ple felt more con­fi­dent about tests then it proves that the only thing stop­ping them achiev­ing any­thing wasn’t the colour of their skin, but their per­cep­tion of other people’s per­cep­tion of the colour of their skin. Com­pli­cated?
If you think you have a ‘dis­abil­ity’ that stops you achiev­ing, you will play to that and use it as an excuse. When it is removed you have noth­ing to hide behind. Now they don’t. Now they can reach for the moon and maybe grab a few stars on the way as mem­bers of the human race. As should we all and bug­ger pre­con­ceived ideas.

Liam says

The Obama Effect is basi­cally about lead­ing by exam­ple, show­ing peo­ple that some­thing can be done has a much big­ger impact than just being told that some­thing can be done.

The Obama Effect is both good and bad, it just depends on who is lead­ing us and who is ‘show­ing’ us (not ‘telling’ us) how to do things right.

Ron Daack says

I believe that that this is one of the grat­est things that hap­pened to our coun­try and the world also. It just goes to prove that each and everone of us has the poten­tial to achieve what­ever we desire regard­less of race,color or creed.

I an thank­full that this has hap­pened and also that we can all take this as an inspi­ra­tion for the whole world.

Ron Daack

Dennis Sullivan says

I think the study was a joke,just another case of suck­ing up to Obama. If the study results was pre­sented next year then I might believe. There’s no way in my mind that it could hap­pen that fast.

Mike says

The elec­tion of Obama is the great­est thing that could have hap­pened to re-awaken, and per­haps inspire, an Amer­ica grown old, arro­gant and cyn­i­cal about the rest of the world.

Jerry Waxman says

A cou­ple of questions:

When the achieve­ment gap decreased, could that mean that white stu­dents achieved less than before? I hope not, and I think not.

Mar­tin Luther King’s achieve­ments were far more sig­nif­i­cant than Obama’s, and every year there is a hol­i­day in which stu­dents, black and white, are reminded of his achieve­ments. Is there some­thing about Obama that makes him a more effec­tive role model than Mar­tin Luther King?

Okay, I have to admit that when I see a report like this, I am very scep­ti­cal of its valid­ity, and its value. As an edu­ca­tor I want all stu­dents to achieve to the max­i­mum of their poten­tial. And there should be no achieve­ment gap between the races.

In real­ity, there is an achieve­ment gap, and it is excit­ing that there is today a role model who inspires black stu­dents to work toward their poten­tials more than they did before.

But there is some­thing that is not reported here. It would be inter­est­ing to see com­par­isons of over­all stu­dent achieve­ments pre-Obama and post-Obama Inau­gu­ra­tion. My gut feel­ing is that they all rise. Obama, the man — with­out regard to skin color — is an inspi­ra­tion and role model for all stu­dents of all col­ors. And for me, too.

Johnny says

Obama is far from my home.

Carla says

I reckon that because soci­ety has been telling black peo­ple they are sec­ond class cit­i­zens for years they began to believe it and now that a black man has become pres­i­dent it has opened a door in the minds of young coloured peo­ple to rise above the oppres­sion that their cul­ture has enforced upon them and reach and achieve their goals.
( sorry if this seems very for­ward but I am a straight talk­ing kinda girl)
Being Irish, my cul­ture has faced sim­il­iar tri­als in the past as we were seen as sec­ond class up until very recently. To be hon­est I reckon Ire­land needs her own “Obama” to help us realise our poten­tial.
What Obama means for our future? Well I think that a new day dawned when he was elected because it forced a lot of old ways of think­ing redun­dant, and that in my opin­ion is what has amer­ica breath­ing new life right now. Since he was elected Amer­ica has realised the strength of being a multi-cultural soci­ety and util­is­ing it for the good of the peo­ple. I just hope that other coun­tries espe­cially mine fol­low suit, and the world becomes a bet­ter and more united place to live.

Jeanie Creviston says

I have noticed that the blacks in my com­mu­nity have an atti­tute. That just because there is a black pres. it gives them rights to treat the white peo­ple like less than human. I have almost been ran over by a cart, cut in front of in line and almost hit by a car! Not one kind word to say I’m sorry or excuse me…I didn’t see you…nothing but rude­ness! My other white friend said she notice the same thing on the other side of town. I thought this would fian­lly make them get over that slav­ery hur­dle! The way I see it they still want more for free!My fam­ily never had slaves! I don’t owe any­one any­thing. Get out and get a job like the rest of us! respect is earned! I don’t care what color you are. I have black, asian,muslim and a few white friends!

Pedro says

Surely this has to do with res­o­nance and entrain­ment.
The group con­scious­ness has lifted those per­sons involved to a higher level. This is very com­mon in Heal­ing and am think­ing this may be similar.

Phil says

As a vis­i­tor from Europe (and a believer in auto-suggestion tech­niques and more meta­phys­i­cal approaches to the brain) I find this infor­ma­tion inter­est­ing but not sur­pris­ing. There is so much that can be achieved through moti­va­tion (in this case pos­i­tive role mod­els) and I am so sad that nearly all of our indus­try lead­ers and man­agers (includ­ing my own boss) sim­ply can’t see this rela­tion­ship. Do good and you will get it back three times.

We in Europe hope that a new era in the con­nec­tion between us and the United States is rising.

Thank you by the way for shar­ing this information.

James says

This is caused by Aware­ness — it is sim­ply labeled as the Obama effect in this case as what has changed is the aware­ness of what is possible.

James

vincent dalton says

Phe­nom­e­nal!
So uplift­ing and refresh­ing!
Please ben­e­fit your
“Native Amer­i­can People!”

Paulo says

My take on this is sim­i­lar to shayne’s, if a human acheives some­thing oth­ers will do it even bet­ter in lesser time than he did. It reminds me the story of the guy that beat the 100 m less than 10 sec. It took ages for some­one to do it but after that first break it took only a few weeks/months for that record to be bro­ken again and again. We need pio­neers to shows us that is pos­si­ble it needs only 1 to do it so oth­ers can believe it is pos­si­ble and also do it. Most of us think if that guy can achieve that why can’t I. We are all human so of course I can achieve that and then we do it! this is THE SECRET

Sharon says

Yes, I agree with that. Espe­cially if that per­son is sim­il­iar to your own economic/social/demographic. In this way it makes it eas­ier for you to see your­self attain­ing that goal, lifestyle, or what­ever else you are work­ing on attaining.

Josh Thomas says

Well… Obama’s an influ­en­tial per­son. We often look up to the peo­ple we love and make them a model. Pre­vi­ously, peo­ple are so stuck with the beliefs that they are being ‘pressed down’ in some ways that it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Now that the lim­its are shat­tered, peo­ple are sud­denly able to see beyond what they can pre­vi­ously do.

Sort of reminds me of the story where this guy tried not to sleep for 20+ or so days. It was a world record that no one had ever bro­ken before. But after he did it, not long after the news­pa­pers pub­lished another record breaker who didn’t sleep longer than the guy before. So on and so forth.

The ceil­ing was just lifted

shayne says

If we asso­ciate our­self with some­one and they attain some­thing that we would also like to attain then we are more likely to believe that we can attain that goal or a sim­il­iar goal as well. We have seen itr hap­pen there­fore we believe that it is possible.Believe that it can hap­pen and then see it happen!

robyn says

There is no link to this arti­cle “The Obama Effect”

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