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Lost Hope by Petrus Boots

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2436 x 3788 pixel, 7 M image.

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Size ............................................... 2436 x 3788 pix at 7 M

Medium ........ Torn Poster, Photoshop and Tablet on a PC

Lost Hope © 2010 by Petrus H. Boots

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Facebook June 16 2010:
     Last night I listened to Obama's address and some of the inane CNN chatter which followed.  I wondered how long it would take for the talking heads to get to the "we have to change direction regarding energy" bit.  It took a while and when it was finally mentioned it was finished it off with these words, "not the right time".  I've given this some thought and you know what?  Those who say it's not the right time are right.  The right time for the US and the rest of us to move to alternative forms of energy has long past.  Man it'd be nice to hear some truth come out of all this.

Facebook Comments Following Original Post:

     Not so much that I've lost hope in Obama but lost hope that anyone will make a significant difference.  Nevertheless, I trudge on...

     After taking more shots at Obama (deserved or not) in the first segment, last night Jon Stewart echoed what I mentioned here in the second segment of The Daily Show.  I guess it goes back eight Presidents, all the way back to Nixon, that this alternative energy thing has been talked about.  That's a long time to do nothing.  I don't want to lose hope but...

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Stages of Hope
(The election of Barack Obama as a sign of the times and the effect on Hope.)

     As a sign of the times, the election of Barack Obama revived in me an all but dormant hope that sanity still lurked somewhere in the shadows of a mad world.  Through the Facebook photo album "Stages of Hope" I use and abuse the iconic Shepard Fairey Hope poster to express my own hopes as they ebb and flow.  Lately my hope in humanity's sanity has seen better days and we'll see what the future brings.  I can only hope...

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"Lost Hope" ~ Digitally Recycled Recreation originally published through the Facebook Photo Album "Stages of Hope" and also May 18, 2010 Journal entry "Watch for Children" Copyright © 2010 by Petrus H. Boots

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Just one more...

     The original Shepard Fairey Obama Hope Poster alongside the original photo for which he got in copyright trouble.  Precedent set, I use artistic license and also choose to ignore copyright law doing what I please as far as expressing my hope and the loss of it.

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