"Another Chapter Should Be Added to the Bible"

never bash possibilities or intentions whether or not they seem possible.just believe they can be possible even when the seem unlikely.how many dreams originally shot down became world renown when it was said of manym "NO WAY"? nothing is ever gauranteed to happen as originally planned- but nothing is gauranteed to happen if there is no plan!

Posted by: polly | June 18, 2008 7:31 PM

The principles upon which Obama has risen to prominence, I suggest, are ones of the American voter's willingness to both change from the recognition of a continued and painful to watch incompetence, or the inability to master the elements with consistency of what Americans consider important. Whether Republican or Democratic or more critically, a party who actually demonstrates other than a competitve adversarial postion based on the idea being one from the "other team." What about Team America for the rest of us?

The elements that attracted many voters (to the extent that there were many at all)to the polls in 1972 was not the recgonition of a value difference as much as it was a rejection of what Nixon had historically stood for. Obviously, it was not an election that drew virutally any meaningful percentage of voters to the booths. In fact, it was among the lowest turnouts in in history. Be careful that that isn't a danger here.

What is attractive to voters is the quesiton and degree of acceptance that Obama has many of the elements of intelligence, sensitivity to important issues and the ability to link them to procedural action. I said the ability. The telling will be in the belief that he can and will deliver a preogerssive program in its best purpose and ascnet of electoral and congressional focused workmanship. Being elected doesn't, by itself, bestow ability.

The experience of being President can and historically, with the huge exception of this present administration, has shown the ability to learn, grow and develop a better intellect and perspective of the nation and the world in which we strive for liberty shared. That development of an improved citizen has been an absent and noticeable and substantial canyon (or void) with this present "drug store cowboy" bantam-rooster prancing President. He has the same unstable, narrow mind set and study in determined ignorance that he had when he entered the scene through a distortion of the electoral system's constitutional intent eight years ago.

If he becomes the improperly designed agenda driven idalogue shta some hold him out to be then it will benother faux pas of the election process. Generally Americans make the right choices when provided useful and correct information.

That single issue address the impropriety and malfeasance that "five second' sound bites" and editorial positions in which the news reporters become shapers and makers of the news, thereby distorting the process and information with which we make decisions. That was the single most atrocious sin of the Nixon and Bush White Houses. Their ongoing attempt (I understand the seeming attempt to "spin.") It does not answer the bell for the ethical and constitutional duty to speak, not shape, the truth and let the chips fall where they may, legally and informationally.

The concern, which is normal at this point in the election process, is not that we are at a crossroad in history. That is always the case in an election of four to years to effect mores and world staging. It is the desire to make a personally correct and beneficial decision.

As Geoge Bush I said, "It's time to give people more choice in government bu reviving the ideal of the citizen politician who comes not to stay but serve."

Obama offers the fear and expectations of the unknown. McCain offers the fear and expectations of the known. No one has experienced the challenges and skills of managing an effective presidency, at least in this election. There aren't many experiiced candidates around, ever. The voter's choices are always built on hope and trust and comfort with what they know.

We are not looking for a "guy we can drink beer with" but a person who can deliver a spirit of openness to looking at issues without limiting answers to the blinded views of singular philosophies of ignorance of world cultures. The necessity is to come to a cognition of economic realities and the passionate protection, not stretching, of the contstitutional priorities binding our national union of laws and human welfare into a naitoni and world servant of needs and governemental integrity. That is not going to happen in the one fell swoop of a single election or commercial enterprise.

But, we can all strive and demand that that comes to be. Change is possible. The question is where is the cause intitiaed and how?

We're going to survive wahtever the outcome. THe distinction is how much longer are we willing to forestall the ineveitable recognition ofour place in the welfare of Amercan privileges and our place as a participant in the world economy and respect for internal intitiaive and strength we have as Americans, regardless of what happens inside the beltway of D.C. The White House should reflect those values not the betrayal of them.

Posted by: Chris Raffi Stannatis | July 6, 2008 10:36 AM