Can Americans Talk Like Adults?

I have been going from site to site to read peoples comments about the "post Wright" Obama situation and it is clear that the groupthink of the hour has left out any clear analysis of what actual implications the drama have. True, there has been some tempered critiques of how his judgment and calculations handling this relationship may inform the electorate either positively or negatively, but for the most part the sentiments are emotional repudiations. They are rife with assumptions and specious reasoning where we, as the audience, use the details to find a path towards our foregone conclusions.

I am an independent (i.e.. not a democrat or republican) and I too allocate my vote on a large part with emotion, what my gut tells me will work. My emotion, my research, and my analysis has led me to believe Barack Obama would be the best choice for president. It is because I inherently trust Obama that I give him the benefit of the doubt that the undecided voters hold back, and I can understand their trepidation. I am not an idealist, a white person voting for racial forgiveness, or a black person voting racial pride. I am an American who believes that it takes immense courage to change the way Washington works and that it is irrefutable that Barack Obama has that courage and has already begun to change the way that Washington works. This campaign has been the closest thing any of the 3 have had to an executive experience and organizationally, in tone, and financially he has been true the promise that he will use the presidency as a vehicle to change Washington.

Money, pandering, and fear based propaganda have corrupted our country because of the "post 9/11" thinking of the last 8 years. Whether you believe it is a performance or not, whether you trust Obama or not, he has set his agenda and all the momentum of his campaign on shifting the money engine of campaigning to small contributions of the many and away from the elite few. That alone has already been the realization of change, and I see no reason to doubt there is more to come. His campaign, regardless of whether he ultimately prevails, has tapped into the American desire to unite and solve our problems with compromise. And let us not forget both the Clinton and McCain camps have over spent or under-organized where Obama has displayed superb planning and execution of strategic road map.

All individuals who want to be President are elite and swell with a sense of un-natural ambition or they wouldn't be able to get the job nor perform the job. I accept that Obama will fight for what this country needs. I think the tit for tat distractions are drowning out the real issues. Things like the proposed gas holiday which would solve nothing should be the focus now. The country needs to debate the differences between Barack's health care plan and Hillary, we need to start articulating why a new strategy for the middle east is required, and an honest analysis of our national infrastructure is imperative. On all these fronts Barack Obama has again attempted to change Washington even though we are still only in a campaign and he has done this by trying to speak to Americans like adults. I am saddened as I read all the web sites that are discussing the Wright controversy, not because they are anti-Obama overwhelmingly, but because they are overwhelmingly demonstrative that American's are not ready to talk to each other like adults.

Lets make iraq more guamish

How is it that we have a base in Cuba? Did we invade Cuba at some point, land on an aircraft carrier, and I missed it? Perhaps we had a "Mission Accomplished" ceremony some time in the 80's when the CIA was all powerful. No, no no, the real story is more boring, the facts are just that America has got a couple of hunks of land out there and some hunks of land enjoy some privileges, little things like representation.

Now lets talk about the democratic race for president thats going to go to places like guam in the coming weeks. Those places may have no constitutional protections, but they seem to be in some spare red white and blue cot, like staying in the basement when visiting Uncle Sam's house. So Here is my crazy idea for the democrats. Make Iraq Guam then win war.

Now I realize that it takes leadership to try and sell something so ambitious, and of course, democrats don't really have any leadership. But even though this appears to be an aggressive notion at first snicker you must recall greatness is achieved aggressively. Crazier things have happened before though and tons of things could be the catalyst, for example, what if someone like Jimmy Carter went all Al Gore on us and made this his issue. Heck, I think John McCain would be the perfect candidate for that job. America can start a new tradition of the losing presidential candidate fixing one thing while the other guy runs the show.

Any way you shake it I say we allow the Iraqis some delegates and let their parliament allocate them however they see fit. It would be a good idea to choose the number as something catchy, 1 for each province or something symbolic that Iraqis will identify with. The number is unimportant because the message, the voice of that vote will not be counted in delegates.

Now I know this is a crazy out there idea, but if the democrats did this after the Iraqi's chose Obama or Clinton the general election will be no more then a coronation. John McCain will become nothing more then the next Al Gore. And most importantly America will completely pull off the unimaginable 4th quarter victory in the war on terror. The reason we will win is because of the truth, justice, and pure Patriotism in the notion that you win a person's heart and mind by first giving breath and attention to thier voice. (suggested reading, full us declaration of independence).

http://www.ushistory.org/Declaration/document/index.htm`

Re-Broadcast from another blog... because it deserves repeating

--excerpt from http://nextround.net/2008/04/04/we-dont-want-to-hear-it/ which I fully endorse

You know what we hate? (Besides being late for the lunch buffet at the strip club, of course.) We hate the loser strolling around the office on a Friday afternoon touting some lame excuse about why they aren’t going out this weekend.

We can’t stand when we hear some cream puff declaring their intentions to “take it easy” on their two days off. Some douchebag telling us that he needs to save up for next weekend. Save up? What does that even me? Save energy? C’mon. What are you, an 85 year-old man on a respirator? You need to save money? Please. Get a fucking credit card and drink yourself into insurmountable consumer debt like the rest of us.

Or, if you’re really hurting for cash, go buy a bottle of grain alcohol and smuggle a flask into your establishment of choice. Money is no excuse. You can get hammered for 5 bucks if you’re creative. Take a few tips from the homeless.

We loathe when some loser says they’re “past their prime.” Past your prime? Let’s be honest buddy. If you say things like “past your prime,” you never had a prime. Your prime consisted of dominating the library on Friday nights and occasionally grabbing pizza with the math club. Drop “past your prime” from your vocabulary.

We detest the comment “I feel like the creepy old guy at the bar.” Have you ever talked to the creepy old guy at the bar? Sure, he is super creepy, but that guy can party. He tells stories about being backstage at Def Leppard concerts. If you can’t tell stories about something awesome you did in the 80’s, you aren’t the creepy old guy. Nobody under 35 is the creepy old guy. Trust us. We spend our time in the best city in the world to party (Vegas) pretending we’re older so that unsuspecting chicks will think we have more than 400 bucks in our checking account.

Now that winter is over it’s time get out there and dominate the weekend. Go prove to the world that you still party the hardest. When someone suggests a Jager Bomb, tell them you’re taking a Bear Fight (def: a Car Bomb followed by a Jager Bomb, aptly named Bear Fight because it feels like two bears battling in your stomach).

If you aren’t violently hungover on Sunday, you didn’t bring it this weekend. We expect you to be in the fetal position, shaking, next to some chubby chick with no pants on come Sunday morning. After you rent a fork lift to get the land monster you brought home back to the zoo, we expect you to lie in bed all day chugging water and swearing you will never drink again. Ordering a pizza should be the culmination of your activities. Lifting your head off your pillow or getting a glimpse of daylight should make you seriously consider putting yourself out of your own misery.

Now, get out there. Be Cool & Tough this weekend.