Today is the dawn of a New America. Today is the inauguration and swearing in Barack Obama, the first African-American president in the history of this nation. It is also the end of the Bush Administration.
It is the dawn of new leadership, it is the end of state sanctioned torture, it is the beginning of the end of Gitmo, it is the beginning of climb back out of the deep, deep hole that the Bush/Cheney tag team of anger and ignorance put us in.
Today is the transfer of power from an unpopular yokel to a man with great vision who is smart enough to surround himself with smarter people than himself.
Today is one of great hope for better tomorrows for us all. But today also signals the need for all of us to throw our energy into making tomorrow better. Today is a call to duty.
Today is a day of celebration for the entire planet.
Today is a day that many people thought would never happen, ever. Today is Obama Day!
Showing posts with label obama. Show all posts
Showing posts with label obama. Show all posts
1.20.2009
12.19.2008
Obama Makes His First Bad Move
Flawless is how Barack Obama's campaign has been described. I don't think it was flawless, I think they left themselves open on many issues and didn't hit back hard enough on some of the smear attacks.
But yes, he did run an outstanding campaign.
And he has shown excellent judgment throughout. Which makes his selection of a complete douchebag like Rick Warren to give the inauguration prayer very peculiar. Warren has compared gays to pedophiles, he was a major backer of Prop 8 and is known as an inflammatory speaker bordering on hate speech.
I don't get it, many other people don't get it. Maybe Obama's trying to drive down the interest in his inauguration. Maybe he's offended by the thought of people paying $20,000 or more to attend it so he's tossing a little ugliness in it.
I don't know and, really, I don't care what his reasoning is. Rick Warren makes about as much sense to bring in as Fred Phelps.
It was bound to happen and it isn't like Warren was appointed to a cabinet position, he's just giving a prayer and then going back to his hateful little hole. But still, its tough to see a crack appearing in what has been an invincible armor.
But yes, he did run an outstanding campaign.
And he has shown excellent judgment throughout. Which makes his selection of a complete douchebag like Rick Warren to give the inauguration prayer very peculiar. Warren has compared gays to pedophiles, he was a major backer of Prop 8 and is known as an inflammatory speaker bordering on hate speech.
I don't get it, many other people don't get it. Maybe Obama's trying to drive down the interest in his inauguration. Maybe he's offended by the thought of people paying $20,000 or more to attend it so he's tossing a little ugliness in it.
I don't know and, really, I don't care what his reasoning is. Rick Warren makes about as much sense to bring in as Fred Phelps.
It was bound to happen and it isn't like Warren was appointed to a cabinet position, he's just giving a prayer and then going back to his hateful little hole. But still, its tough to see a crack appearing in what has been an invincible armor.
8.30.2008
The McCain Chronicles: VP Milfamania
After having thought about John McCain's selection of Sarah Palin for his running mate for the last day or two, I've got an idea of why he did it. Its part of his strategy to confuse and keep the Democrats counter punching. It keeps him in the driver's seat.
Sarah Palin may be hot, I can see it but she doesn't do much for me, but she's pro-life even in cases of rape and incest, pro big-oil, believes in the intellectually stunted concept of creationism and her appointment is more strategic than anything else. She has almost no political experience and is supposed to be ready to step in and take over in case the president is incapacitated? Are they serious? She's supposed to be ready for that? By what freakish stretch of qualifications could they they think she could ever step in much less be ready for it in under six months?
She is low hanging fruit for severely warped Hillary supporters who would rather directly oppose Hillary's wish to support Obama. I don't know how large a group those people are but I'm hopeful they are not numerous. How angry do you have to be to vote for the exact opposite of what you are asked to do? How short sighted and stupid do you have to be to see Sarah Palin and vote for her because she's a woman with pretty much the exact opposite worldview as Hillary Clinton? And no experience.
Sarah Palin may inject some excitement into the election but this is a near desperation move by McCain. He knows he's trailing and will only trail further and further until his efforts are completely futile. Bringing Sarah Palin on board might slow down the process but I don't think it will change the end result.
McCain loses, Obama wins, the world rejoices, America can hold its head up again and be proud of itself and can start to undo the massive harm done over the last 8 years.
Sarah Palin may be hot, I can see it but she doesn't do much for me, but she's pro-life even in cases of rape and incest, pro big-oil, believes in the intellectually stunted concept of creationism and her appointment is more strategic than anything else. She has almost no political experience and is supposed to be ready to step in and take over in case the president is incapacitated? Are they serious? She's supposed to be ready for that? By what freakish stretch of qualifications could they they think she could ever step in much less be ready for it in under six months?
She is low hanging fruit for severely warped Hillary supporters who would rather directly oppose Hillary's wish to support Obama. I don't know how large a group those people are but I'm hopeful they are not numerous. How angry do you have to be to vote for the exact opposite of what you are asked to do? How short sighted and stupid do you have to be to see Sarah Palin and vote for her because she's a woman with pretty much the exact opposite worldview as Hillary Clinton? And no experience.
Sarah Palin may inject some excitement into the election but this is a near desperation move by McCain. He knows he's trailing and will only trail further and further until his efforts are completely futile. Bringing Sarah Palin on board might slow down the process but I don't think it will change the end result.
McCain loses, Obama wins, the world rejoices, America can hold its head up again and be proud of itself and can start to undo the massive harm done over the last 8 years.
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