In a perfect world, Americans could find unity in diversity.
Barack Obama told last night’s debate audience that Hillary Clinton’s “Let’s get real” slogan implies his supporters are “delusional.”
Well, there’s one thing Obama keeps promising that this old gal ain’t delusional about: I am not naïve enough to think he can unite the left-wing and the right-wing in this country.
Hillary or Obama, the right will go for the jugular.
Listen to these words from the right-wing’s guru Rush Limbaugh – his response to the New York Times story about John McCain:
“The important question for John McCain today is, is he going to learn the right lesson from this, and what is the lesson? The lesson is: liberals are to be defeated. You cannot walk across the aisle with them. You cannot reach across the aisle. You cannot welcome their media members on your bus and get all cozy with them and expect eternal love from them. You are a Republican. Whether you're a conservative Republican or not, you are a Republican. At some point, the people you cozy up to, either to do legislation or to get cozy media stories, are going to turn on you. They are snakes.”
(Expand Your Mind: read what else Rush had to say – LINK)
I do not want to be bedfellows – strange or otherwise - with Limbaugh, with Sean Hannity, with Bill O’Reilly, with Ann Coulter, with Michelle Malkin or any others of their ilk.
No group hugs with neocons.
I do have my pride. Let’s get real!
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A warm welcome to the naturally curious, the politically engaged and constant learners. I am a retired newspaper editor with a fickle foe, retinitis pigmentosa, or RP. While my sense of sight is waning, my "vision" is not, and, by God, I can still see my dreams!
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4 comments:
You know, I can't really remember "before GW." I was on a roll in life, and really really loved Clinton as president. The times were good.
They have been very bad for a long time. The political reality seeps down into your life, and you lose sense of which is which. Sound like GW's reign? Yes.
I simply cannot sign on for another reign of no flexibility, of the president "knowing what's good for us", and I guess that's why I put up with a bit of a question--I imagine maybe a chance of going with the situations as they come up.
I do remember that I really liked Bill's diplomacy, his ability to think on his feet, and talk to the world. He didn't have an agenda so much as he rolled with the punches. I felt, at the time, that that had some way of explaining why things in this country went well, why welfare, a sacred cow, was re-vamped, why dealing with other countries went well. I liked the flexibility.
I don't like the question of what Obama is really thinking more than the next person. But, unfortunately, Hillary is so very sure of what she wants that it's too soon after GW.
I can't really put it better. It's too soon for more of that. I look at her, and my heart swells at the thought of her as president. I listen to her, and my heart sinks.
Obama would not have been my choice, but the very fact that he's open to diplomacy, to looking at the situation You Can't Predict Now, says . . .well at least maybe. Eowyn
Well, I just think we Democrats are extremely lucky to have two such capable and dedicated candidates when making a choice. Look at the Republican alternative – Bush III. We make our choices on our individual perceptions, but at least we have a choice.
I can remember one specific moment in the 90s, sitting in my living room and thinking that things were really going well in our world, and a sense of peace came over me. I like that feeling, and I have not experienced it one day since Bush took office.
If one has studied day to day what his administration has done to this country – the thousands (literally) of wrongs – what has happened to America is too overwhelming to try to explain to those who haven’t.
I believe there is opportunity for change, and I believe it can come about through the leadership of Hillary or Obama, but it cannot come without the full support of the American people, and I don’t see that 100 percent any time in the near future.
I had the hightest hopes in 2000 and 2004.
Until there is an all-for-one, one-for-all (E pluribus unum) attitude toward the less fortunate in our society, I truly don’t expect miracles.
All we really know for certain is that things have to be better than they’ve been.
BJ, what an absoulutely beautiful way of putting it!
You're right. In the heat of the primary debates it becomes easier and easier to become myopic, split hairs, and generally miss the big point. I think one thing of both of them: Each would dearly love to get into the Office and impress the American people with Real Change. Neither will pass changes and views onto us without consensus and backing.
This has been more miserable a political time than we realize. At least we live Here! Meaning, it will pass. E
The Nader Rager is back. Somebody fix him a sugar-tit and put that boy to bed! Jan
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