A Metaphor for Obama

Now maybe we want to treat it as metaphorical.

And I thought, what a wonderful metaphor, isn't it? An American President who has to write without smudging the ink.

The other side is planted like that by the men. Metaphorically, you turn it on the side, and you have a piece of cloth.

And I have come to find that a more appropriate metaphor for aging is a staircase the upward ascension of the human spirit, bringing us into wisdom, wholeness and authenticity.

During the last four years of his life, Arafat s public space was literally and metaphorically diminishing.

So the journey back to Saturn is really part of and is also a metaphor for a much larger human voyage to understand the interconnectedness of everything around us, and also how humans fit into that picture.

Formulating a good metaphor for Obama s second term is itself a task for intuitive creative thought that entails rethinking what he will propose in his second term.

NEW HAVEN As US President Barack Obama begins his second term, he needs a simple way to express his vision and policies for the economy a metaphor around which support for his policies might crystallize, thereby boosting his administration s political effectiveness.

This thought paved the way for the concept of a genetic program, akin to a computer program a metaphor that became almost self evident when the structure of DNA was discovered, because DNA could be visualized as a linear string of symbols, which is exactly what computers read as a program.

Of course, Putin s success over the past few years in killing off any semblance of a free press and when an ex KGB man kills off a free press, it is not just a figure of speech has helped mute open opposition.