After a long hiatus, I have returned. Much has gone on since I've been gone and there is much to discuss. However, before I get into all that, I think it would be appropriate for me to reintroduce myself, and reaquaint myself with my fellow bloggers.
So...today is election day: a referendum on Obama and the democrats. I'm a pessimist by nature, but one does not have to constantly see the glass as half-empty to admit where we're headed. I'm worried for my country. This is not to say that I'm an Obama fan-I had my reservations about him during his campaign and my complaint today is the same as it was then...his goals were/are too lofty. Flowery rhetoric is not going to save this country. Stump speeches are not going to bring the economy back to life. As far as Obama care and the desired effect of the stimulus, I'm sure that revisionist historians will treat our 44th president and his ambitious agenda kindly, as they have done to Johnson, Nixon, Carter and George Bush.
Obama's patience has been tested, and I fear what is going to happen when Republicans take over the house. Remember during the State of the Union Address when Obama was heckled, shouted out as "liar!" Actions that were considered disrespectful by most who witnessed it. I wonder if Bush or any other American president has been publicly heckled like this? What about the Rolling Stone article, in which General McChrystal criticized Obama's handling of the war? Is this not the ultimate disrespect? Regardless of how one feels about the Commander in Chief's handling of the war-the fact remains that he is the Commander in Chief, and there is a chain of command. Not to mention the fact that if the enemy senses a chink in the armour, or the fact that there is conflicting views among the top brass it undermines the war effort and puts us all at risk. Again, I don't remember Bush enduring this kind of disrespect, sure he had his share from the press but congress was never so explicitly resistent and antagonistic towards their president as this 112th congress is towards Barack Obama. I mean even his own party seems to hate him-many of them distanced themselves from him during these campaigning months-one of them telling him to "shove" his endorsement!
For as long as I've been following politics I've never seen anything like it! I refuse to introduce the r word though-just like Obama. He knows better, and so do I. After all, h
ow can such an absurd concept as the r word could be possible in post-racial America where a black man is the president?
While I have sworn to stay away from the r word, and all of its socio-political implications-others have not -like our beloved tea party who shout racist and homophobic slurs at their rallies and protests, and lets not forget their candidates,(representing the patriots) like Carl Paladino who sends porn and racist emails depicting the first lady and president as a hoe and pimp-n word included!
What about Michael Steele? Chairman of the Grand Ol' Party! To the right, he's somewhat of an Obama, first African American chair of the Republican National Committee. I'm sure the irony is not lost on him, or is it? He hasn't had such an easy time these last years has he? Stop. We aren't going there...
As I've said-this is only my intro piece. I can't wait to see what befalls us after tonight. So much to write about...I think of my poor 90 year old grandmother who I called this morning to see if she was going to vote-I asked her who she's going to vote for and received should have known better than to receive a straight forward answer. She flipped it on me; begging and pleading with me to vote democrat. "Please," she said, they're giving Obama such a hard time..."
"Oh Grandma," I said, hearing the panic in her voice. "You have no idea."
...To be continued....please stay tuned.
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