05 November 2008
The Morning After
I slept well last night after watching President-elect Obama's speech...and seeing the reaction to his election all across the world. Dancing in Kenya, an entire Japanese village named Obama cheering, Australians, Europeans, Asians, Africans...and Middle Eastern responses in the affirmative. The dawning of a new day...a generational shift. Pragmatists over idealogues.
I've suggested in the past that we need good garbage collectors in office...The Augean Stables are filled with crap left from the current occupant. Can a person unite two rivers of change into one powerful surge, sweeping clear the perceptions and realities left by GW Bush and his neo-con/neo-liberal partners? Yes we can...is what I truly believe.
The first 100 days we need to shift gears and get behind to push...get us out of the petroleum ditch and malaise...toward a green economy. That single priority...retooling and rebuilding our infrastructure to prepare for the real 21st century needs and demands...optimistically moving forward...
All we've gotten for the 11 trillion dollars in debt that this country is in...(90% from three Republican presidents...Reagan, Bush I and Bush II)...is someone else's hangover...from the party that was charged on our credit card. I wouldn't have minded the debt, if it would have built something, improved our lot, created jobs, and gotten us away from our energy and plastic gluttony.
This is a new morning. It is a time to regain a sense of the commons in this country. Oddly enough, if you juxtapose those words you'd get 'common sense'...something we've been sadly lacking.
I wish everyone well...I know you're all watching this grand experiment, and our chosen leadership. I, for one, will remain active to keep them all accountable...for the change we can believe in...for the change we sorely need.
Peace in all your lives...and on your homesteads.
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I THOUGHT THAT OBAMA WAS TALKING ABOUT HOW HE EMBRACED REAGANS AMERICAN IDEALS. I THINK YOU WILL SEE THAT OBAMA WILL STEER A LITTLE MORE RIGHT THAN MOST OF US WOULD IMAGINE. AFTER ALL, CLINTON TRIED A TOTALLY LEFTIST PLATFORM IN HIS FIRST TERM, AND QUICKLY REALIZED HIS MISTAKE.ONE NATION UNDER GOD--INDIVISIBLE,WILL EVENTUALLY GET US ON THE RIGHT TRACK
Obama mentioned how Reagan was an agent of change...he didn't say that particular change was good. Of course, if you look at Obama's choices he is pragmatically choosing advisors, staff and cabinet members who will appease the centrists...Obama has always been a centrist. The ones who said he was marxist or socialist had been drinking a bit too much kool-aid. Obama is not antagonizing the pentagon with his choices...he is picking his battles carefully. After all, the Augean Stables which Biden alluded to, leave Obama with the Herculean tasks of cleaning up the shit that the past 8 years of the Bush administration's cronyism and shredding of the constitution have left the nation. Bush and Paulson are trying to bankrupt the nation by bailing out wall street with no attempt at buying up any of the bad paper that has been created.
One nation, pulling together...in common...with peace and justice for all (no peace without justice) will bring us all back on the right track...under god? Which one? Or is it multiples? The 'godly' have proven they are immoral...and use jingoism and religion as hammers and wedges...to divide...they have lost track of the original tenets of their own philosophies...To do unto others as we would wish others to do unto us.
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