That Is Where Perfection Begins

There could not be a better statement about our country, this election, what we are called, to, what our country means, what we must do, or why I began writing this blog.

Bob Cesca has taken a wonderful song and a nearly perfect speech and crafted a masterpiece.

This is why we WORK!

This is why we VOTE!

Lie down With Dogs... Get Up With Fleas

It is absolutely astonishing, though not exactly unpredictable to watch the meltdown of Hillary Clinton's campaign while at the same time watching the kind of racist, ugly diatribe being spewed out of the mouth of someone like Geraldine Ferraro, who SHOULD know better, but obviously does not.

I am not a member of the "Obama campaign" that Ferraro accuses of attacking her, and I am not a member of the African American community that she so capriciously and stupidly attacked with her ugly racist commentary on Barack Obama. I am however, and unfortunately, used to seeing this kind of thing played out over and over and I am used to hearing people make remarks like, "I am not a racist, but..."

The problem is, there is always only one response to this sort of comment and that is simply, "YES...YOU ARE."

I have been trying for the last two days to come up with some kind of reasonably thoughtful, carefully worded response to Ms. Ferraro's idiotic remark (coupled with her even more greatly benighted response), but I am unable to find words that are better than those expressed last night by Keith Olberman.

This country suffers under an unbelievable legacy of racist horror and pain and I have lived with it and watched (from close up and from afar) for all of my life; from southern Florida, to border towns in Arizona, to liberal Northern California, to storm tossed New Orleans. Every time I think we are better... I find we are the still the same.

For me... at this time... I have had it.

There is only one choice in this election... there is only one HOPE in this time of despair.

After living through 53 years of the same old reality, I know that it is time for a CHANGE and Barack Obama is the ONLY CANDIDATE who offers that change. Beyond that we only have ugliness, power, and greed.

Y'all Know The Okie Doke?

Okay... this blog has been quiet for more than six months. I think the reason for that is that I was so completely blown away by the stupidity of the early debates that I was left speechless for quite some time. Quite frankly (per se) I also had some personal issues that arose and they have, to a certain extent, distracted me from the political and the religious issues that this blog is intended to be about.

But we're comin' down to it now, and the fact of the matter is that I am convinced that this is the most important election of my lifetime.


It is important for three reasons:

1) We are in the midst of a war that should have never been begun, and which would never have to have been begun if the very people who advocated it had not set up the son of a bitch we were fighting in the first place. That's called "blow back" and we're experiencing it in Iraq and we are about to experience it in Iran and for the same reasons.

THAT is a legacy that began the year before I was born!

2) In the midst of all of this, both John McCain and Hillary Clinton represent the same old school, status quo, corporate funded, ego driven politics that have dominated this country for my entire life.

3) There is only one man who is capable of changing things and truly making a difference in the way we operate in this country and in the world. That man is Barack Obama. Bill (who at one time I admired completely) and Hillary are doing their best to pretend like the person who can CHANGE America is Hillary... They are WRONG and they are lying.

There is one way out of this mess and the man who can lead us there is Barack Obama.