I know I am just going to be turning 24 years old this year, but for those how know me, they know I have a deep love for history and for politics. So of course I wanted to blog tonight on Robert F. Kennedy. Possibly my favorite Kennedy. It is forty years ago tonight that he was celebrating his primary win in California. It is also tonight that he was fatally wounded. Though he was shot in the morning hours of June 5th, it was tonights victory celebration that it occured at. I like to think of him as an inspirational person in very trying times. The 60's were a pivitol point in our nations history. He was the rock star then. I can't help but compare what is happeing now, and the capmpaign that we have going on to what was happeing back in 1968. Barack just secured the nomination after a close primary on June 3. RFK secured it on June 4, after a very close primary as well. Both were and are in Obama's case suppose to bring change. And they invoke a certain excitment in people. One that makes you feel like you can help change our world for the better. I think that this is also a critical time we live in. We have a war that I feel was propaganda for The Bush administraion and there quest to be oil rich. We have a struggling economy, a very bad credit crisis, our rankings in the world have fallen. And the next president will be the one appointing supreme court justices. It could be the most conservitve bench, or god willing,be balanced. We also have an enviroment in shambles. We have alot on our plate. And a change is needed. If you have not taken the time to get fimilar with Obama and McCain I think now is the time. And if you really want to be inspired I suggest you read up on RFK. He too was quite a "Rockstar."
"Few will have the greatness to bend history; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation ... It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is thus shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance."- Robert Francis Kennedy
