[Vision2020] First Major Party Openly Gay Candidate for President

[Joe Campbell]

ODE TO FRANCISCO SALINAS

The air becomes serene
and is clothed in beauty and strange radiance,
Salinas, when there sounds
the incomparable music
governed by your skilled hand.

At that heavenly sound
my soul, that is sunk in forgetfulness,
recovers its judgement
and the lost memory
of its first, exalted origin.

And as it knows itself,
it improves its fate and thought;
it disdains the gold
that the blind multitude worships,
and perishable, deceitful beauty.

It traverses the ether
until it reaches the highest sphere,
and there it hears another mode
of imperishable
music, the first, the source of all.

It sees how the Great Master,
playing this immense cither,
with skilled movement
produces the sacred sound
by wich this eternal temple is sustained.

And as it is composed
of concordant numbers, it emits
a consonant response,
and from their vying
is mingled the sweetest harmony.

Here the soul steers
through a sea of sweetness, and at last
sinks so deep within,
that it hears or feels
no strange or rare event.

O blessed trance!
O death that gives life! O sweet oblivion!
Could I but remain in your repose
without being restored
ever to these low and abject senses!

To this bliss i call you
glory of Apollo's sacred choir,
friends whom I love
beyond all treasure,
since all visible things are sorrowful tears.

Oh, may your music, Salinas,
sound everlastingly in my ears;
hearing it, my senses
awaken to God's goodness,
and to all else remain oblivious.


On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 6:49 PM, Francisco Salinas <
brownbuffalo35 at hotmail.com> wrote:

> adults reef qo
> Sent from my LG phone
>
> Tom Hansen <thansen at moscow.com> wrote:
>
> >Courtesy of CBS News at:
> >
> >http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20046352-503544.html
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> >Openly gay Republican Fred Karger announces 2012 presidential run
> >
> >Barely hours after filing his intent with the FEC to run for the 2012
> >Republican nomination for president, Fred Karger stopped by Washington
> >Unplugged to formally announce his decision.
> >
> >Speaking with CBS News congressional correspondent Nancy Cordes Karger
> >said, "I've filed to run for President of the United States." (watch
> >above)
> >
> >Explaining what brought him to this moment Karger said, "It was the
> >culmination of a lifetime of political work. It was a very exciting
> >moment."
> >
> >This is the first time Karger has run for political office, but he has
> >been a behind-the-scenes player for 35 years -- serving as an advisor to
> >Presidents Ford, Reagan and George H. W. Bush.
> >
> >Karger says he's an "outsider" but has "political experience."
> >
> >He is also the first openly gay presidential candidate. Cordes asked when
> >so many of his fellow Republicans are opposed to gay rights and same-sex
> >marriage why he would chose to run as a candidate of that same party.
> >
> >"Being a gay Republicans is kind of an oxymoron," he said, "I have been a
> >fighter in my party, I have always been on the more moderate side but I'm
> >also a prot?g? of Lee Atwater. We need to open up this party and that's
> >one of my reasons for running. The party should not be dominated by one
> >faction or another. It should be open to all."
> >
> >Karger also added, "I want to be a different kind of Republican. The kind
> >of Republican I grew up with. I consider myself to be Progressive. The
> >last Progressive Republican president was over 100 years ago; Theodore
> >Roosevelt."
> >
> >Karger also weighed in with his thoughts on his potential opponents in the
> >GOP race, taking particular aim at Newt Gingrich.
> >
> >"He's yesterday's news... and he's living in the past. I think we need
> >some new, fresh leadership," he said.
> >
> >Karger also had some choice words for President Obama when it came to his
> >leadership skills. As he told Cordes, "The guy's been a disappointment.
> >He's not a happy guy, he needs Zoloft. He's just not optimistic."
> >
> >Karger is still a long-shot and although he's thrown his hat in the ring,
> >many of his would-be opponents have the instant name recognition that he
> >lacks, but he remains optimistic.
> >
> >In speaking about his hopes to take part in the Republican presidential
> >debates he said, "If I can get in one or more of these presidential
> >debates, I will make history."
> >
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> >
> >Seeya round town, Moscow.
> >
> >Tom Hansen
> >Moscow, Idaho
> >
> >"The Pessimist complains about the wind, the Optimist expects it to change
> >and the Realist adjusts his sails."
> >
> >- Unknown
> >
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