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First World Progress
In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of.
In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.
- Confucius
This photo was taken on July 12, 2008 using a Canon PowerShot G5.
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dakini, Rita Crane Photography, sasharappaport, Testadurasenzapaura, and 71 other people added this photo to their favorites.
KMAIR* (59 months ago | reply)
Hugs
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kJoy. (59 months ago | reply)
excellent photo. great caption, too.
dakini (59 months ago | reply)
great !
Rita Crane Photography (59 months ago | reply)
fantastic image!!
love the quote as well.
i wish for the best in november.
grace*c* (59 months ago | reply)
Let's hope things get better for many. I am one of the privileged for certain.
On a side note I was just talking about the guy who did this artwork,
Shepard Fairey.
Light Stalker (59 months ago | reply)
well seen. excellent
kudaker (59 months ago | reply)
very nice find!
Headphonaught (59 months ago | reply)
awesome pic... made more important by the confucious quote. Thanks!
nis.jensen (59 months ago | reply)
Well done, Mike! And this quote is just the best!
Doonvas (59 months ago | reply)
Cripes, Barack's become iconic rather quickly - fingers crossed he gets in! Lovely photo and brilliant quote. Thanks for this.
The Dafinator (59 months ago | reply)
this is so strong!
NyYankee (59 months ago | reply)
:-)
jmven (59 months ago | reply)
soooo cool
fake_plastic_earth (59 months ago | reply)
MAN great photo great quote Mikey!
girlfactor (59 months ago | reply)
confucius was indeed a very wise man.
dirtypearl 2005-2009 [deleted] (59 months ago | reply)
moving image..
save it for a rainy day (59 months ago | reply)
great photo. great comment.
Victor Bautista (59 months ago | reply)
Big time!
miketililing (59 months ago | reply)
andaming group na in-add!
moving, indeedy.
ifou331 (away) [deleted] (59 months ago | reply)
interesting.
inklake (59 months ago | reply)
Fantastic shot. I love the message too. :)
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horizonlights (59 months ago | reply)
progress alright. but in the negative direction.
bwaydanny (59 months ago | reply)
Obama's wealthy. You think he's ashamed ?
diamonds_in_the_soles_of_her_shoes (59 months ago | reply)
Very powerful ! So much is said here !
jeridaking (59 months ago | reply)
The irony is soooo evident here. You are amazing my friend.
Dreamer7112 (59 months ago | reply)
wow.... great catch !!!
omphale44 (59 months ago | reply)
Wonderful quote....beautifully paired with this great capture.
"123faves"
pitikbulag (58 months ago | reply)
This is the perfect street photography for me.... new and brave
tsevis (57 months ago | reply)
Great photo! Go Obama!
mark sebastian (57 months ago | reply)
featured on dipdive.com!
cheeseslave (56 months ago | reply)
My favorite Obama photo ever. Truly brilliant.
Go Obama!
"Fishin" Rod (off and on) (56 months ago | reply)
Awesome pic! Thanks for your participation on our “Street Photojournalism” contest
If you haven't yet, please add this photo to:
.emong (56 months ago | reply)
very relevant to the times!.. manalo kaya ang democrats?..hmm...
shakycam (56 months ago | reply)
superb quote by Confucius!
whether this man will bring progress remains to be seen....let's hope so
but without getting into sticky territory, a great photo
Darwin Bell (56 months ago | reply)
this is fantastic
30-30-300 Group
Paul v2.0 (56 months ago | reply)
.. this shot is priceless
tsevis (55 months ago | reply)
You re invited to take a look at my Barack Obama portrait set.
Dominique Guillochon (55 months ago | reply)
Awesome photo !! very powerful message !! Great catch indeed !!
TK409 (55 months ago | reply)
I made this poster because I'm horrified at the prospect of an Obama presidency. Feel free to share it everywhere. I completely disagree with his economic policies for redistribution of my wealth. If he wants Americans to give to charity, let them keep more of their money so they can have the freedom to do so. Remember "freedom" Senator Obama? An ObamaNation is a nation where charity is enforced.
[http://flickr.com/photos/23026901@N00/298166 1052/in/set-72157603863418079/]
cheeseslave (55 months ago | reply)
Trooper TK409, that is a very nicely designed poster. Well done -- you do good work.
Unfortunately the content of the poster is very misguided -- and well, flat out wrong.
"There are lies, there are damn lies and then there is the McCain campaign.
As its opening salvo for the final week before Election Day, the GOP ticket is taking dishonesty to a stunning new level. Refusing to give up on their only remaining argument despite its questionable efficacy, McCain and Co. are renewing their claims that Barack Obama is an unrepentant socialist who wants to take your hard earned money and give it to people who don't deserve it. The only problem is, their entire premise is built around a flat-out lie.
In order to "prove" his absurd claim, and justify his faking a brand new round of outrage, McCain is quoting an old Obama interview which supposedly advocates government redistribution of wealth.
Here's the problem, though: quoted in its entirety (which obviously one can't do when one is, you know, lying), Obama actually made the conservative argument that government should not be in the business of redistributing wealth. So there you have it. Obama and McCain are actually in agreement.
McCain knows this full well, of course, but his now widely discredited team managed to find an interview where Obama used the English words "redistribution" and "wealth" and, no matter the context, is trying to cast it in such a way that it proves that Obama is a socialist. Except that it doesn't. And he isn't.
For those of us who care about the truth, here are the cold, hard facts:
Barack Obama does not want the government to redistribute wealth; he wants to reallocate tax burden. Period. How does he do this? He asks the wealthiest Americans, in a time of two outrageously expensive wars and fearsome financial crisis, to "sacrifice" by paying taxes at the same rate they did on January 20, 2001, the day George W. Bush took office. He achieves this simply by letting Bush's tax cuts expire - the very same tax cuts McCain opposed on principle before he lost his moral compass. Almost everyone else gets a tax cut. That's the whole, evil plan.
Clearly, this has nothing to do with wealth redistribution, it simply asks those who have the most to pay what was previously their fair share under the robust Clinton economy, while easing the burden on those Americans who have been getting shafted for years. If that's socialism, then count me in.
The good news is, no truly undecided voter believes that Obama is a socialist - if they did, they wouldn't be undecided. By all rights, McCain should be hammering Obama on issues that are already part of the conventional wisdom about him and this isn't one of them. Americans have met Barack Obama, have listened to him in the debates on the stump, and, whether they are completely sold on him or not, they believe him to be a reasonable, thoughtful man with a steady hand and good judgement.
Average Americans in droves are thinking critically: if Obama is so clearly a socialist, then why have thirty plus newspapers switched their endorsements from Bush to Barack? Why is his candidacy supported by prominent, principled conservatives such as Ken Adelman, Charles Fried, Christopher Buckley, Colin Powell and the editorial board of the deeply conservative Chicago Tribune? How about the uber-wealthy Warren Buffet? Any one of these distinguished people or bodies would relish the opportunity to knock down a wealth-pilfering socialist.
Unfortunately, Bernie Sanders isn't running for president. Anyone silly enough to buy into the Obama as Socialist nonsense is already firmly entrenched in McCain's column. To think that the rest of us would become convinced in the eleventh hour by an easily disprovable out of context quotation shows an amazing desperation and lack of understanding about the current climate. If this is what passes for an October Surprise - "we found a partial quote we can manipulate!" - McCain's electoral goose is cooked.
What's truly amazing is that the McCain people thought that this might work despite the fact that we are a) living in the Internet Age where obvious lies can quickly be debunked and b) that they are running against an on-the-ball Obama rapid response team that is leaving no bald faced lie un-dissected. Further, much to McCain's detriment, his dissembling fits into what has become the dominant narrative of his campaign: that he has run one of the most loathsome campaigns in American history and has dishonestly smeared Obama over and over again. One more myth publicly debunked is simply another nail in McCain's political coffin and Americans are now primed to believe that he is full of it.
The McCain crowd seems to believe that if they simply cast the election as if it were a series of children's books ("Joe The Plumber", "Bob The Boat Builder", and now, disgustingly, "Barack The Redistributor"), that frightened independents will flee Obama in droves. The only problem is, the American people aren't children and they are largely repulsed by McCain-Palin's condescension. Obama's stated priorities are hardly the stuff of "Goosebumps" and we all realize that now is the time for reasoned, grown-up discourse and not silly name calling; nobody wants to be caught in the wake of a Swift Boat when their family's future is on the line.
McCain fundamentally misunderstands what Americans need right now in a leader. If he were embodying a rage that already existed, he might be well on his way to the White House. But it's not his job to manufacture rage that doesn't exist. Much to his chagrin, this election is not a referendum on scary government intervention; it is a referendum on rampant greed and de-regulation. No reasonable, middle income voter is going to believe that John McCain is the right candidate to mend that which his own party's entire philosophical underpinning has wrought -- and the economic equivalent of a prey-on-your-fears Orange Alert is hardly going to turn the tide.
John McCain has had the breathtaking temerity to claim that he always "100% tells the truth" despite a veritable laundry list to the contrary.
Now I'm not naive and I understand that politics is bare-knuckled and dirty, especially in the last week of a dying campaign. But outright lies still must be loudly repudiated and certainly not rewarded. When Obama "goes negative" he simply takes something demonstrably provable (McCain's pro-Bush voting record, say) and casts it in a negative light - unpleasant, maybe, but fair enough. The McCain-Palin camp, however, takes something completely untrue (Obama is a socialist who wants to control what is yours) and, since it has no basis in fact, tries to make it sound true by flat out lying. The former tactic is arguably "negative"; the latter is downright dishonorable.
There is one silver lining, of course. I truly believe that the reason Obama is solidifying his lead in state after newly purple state is because the American voter knows that if you have to lie in order to make your case... then you clearly don't have a case to make.
- Adam Carl (posted on Facebook)
tsevis (55 months ago | reply)
In one week, we can choose hope over fear, unity over division, the promise of change over the power of the status quo.
In one week, we can come together as one nation, and one people, and once more choose our better history.
Barack Obama
The Closing Argument – October 27, 2008
miketililing (55 months ago | reply)
away kayo nang away, puro naman kayo mangmang!
suminget?
paved!
millan p. rible (55 months ago | reply)
paved din ako!
jbwutx (55 months ago | reply)
This is great on many levels.
photomiky_ (54 months ago | reply)
great ! I shot the same frame (without the person - not the same)
maplemama (54 months ago | reply)
Through your generous cc2.0license, I've included this lovely image in a holiday video that I created for the Third Annual Blogger Christmahanukwanzaakah Online Holiday Concert.
www.citizenofthemonth.com/2008/12/23/third-an nual-blogger...
The video and attribution can be viewed here:
flickr.com/photos/mrsmaple/3129871703/
Best wishes this holiday season! -Allison
micilin (52 months ago | reply)
great capture and i love the quote? is this on N7th in BK?
ginamarie2008 (50 months ago | reply)
I love it!
Ben Heine (48 months ago | reply)
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Flickr United (Post as you want - Award 3 - Invite friends), and we'd love to have this added to the group!
Great work!
Obama is an amazing person!
That's my portraits of him...
And some jokes...
www.benheine.com
Discaciate (46 months ago | reply)
A photo that tells a history...
And it its open to various interpretations.
Superb work on this one.
e_monk (39 months ago | reply)
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Stuff On Walls, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
cl!ck !t (30 months ago | reply)
perfect!