There shall be a close race...

July 4th, truly summer and in election years truly the beginning of the campaigns...shows how unimportant the VP is...because we are clearly focused on Obama. McCain is an afterthought for most voters already, simply wondering if he can manage to win even his home state, so pointless and erratic the image so far...IT WILL ALL CHANGE... the news media needs a race and it will make one, already polls are simmering deeply probing for wedges and divisions, the issues that make even the most poorly qualified candidate a standard bearer for a downtrodden mass...and not to be put out of the limelight...the Supreme Court decided there is a right to bear arms and States will have to avoid banning handguns no matter how many of us are injured in the process...more in a near future blog... Gasoline already priced beyond reason even to semi-conscious Americans, now needs rumors of scarcity , and Republican employers are chiming in, we lost thousands of jobs last month... and Reverend Wright has a new book ...SOOOOO there will be a race, and speaking of race...

Senator McCain...

Some people seem quite at home in the US Senate, it is an exclusive 100 member club, many of the nation's wealthiest and most self satisfied families are there... McCain is there and there he will stay, past November and next year too... the conservative Christians are not coming on board his ship of politics, and suddenly his campaign takes on the feeling of deck chairs, music playing, and a boat with a big hole in it.
Finding electoral votes for McCain seemed difficult from the beginning, but somehow he floated above the rest of the Republican primary entries, so McCain floats but his campaign does not do as well. Votes have the limited role of picking electors who elect the President, the illusion of popular vote was shattered in the Bush era along with many other real freedoms, but votes must come from people, enthusiasm, and effort...the calling card of the Christian Conservatives ...who want a world of war for oil ...er uh...freedom, war against terror , war against sin- whatever that might mean if not taking lives...wasn't there a commandment? hmmm, and it seems, most of all war against rights for gay people. While McCain and these war things sound like a match made in a Washington summer before a fall election [I didn't want to say Hell..so this is quite close]; it looks more and more like we will continue to have Senator McCain.

The power of Definition-- the real power in the Universe?

There is a good chance that the so-called Big Bang occurred after gravity, matter, space, and time had all been in existence, so yet in some sense it - the rapid inflation of matter and energy- is still the beginning of the universe, so something unexpected is in this definition of the Universe; the power of defining things has reared its eternal head.

In politics defining things is all the game. The person who makes his or her definition stick with the voters may win the popular vote if he or she can managed to get them counted. What will be the definition of the political universe in 2008, will Iraq be a central system of Galaxies, or barely noticed dark matter unseen but accounting for so much of the equation. Will the dark energy of gasoline prices degrade the economy to the effect of fearfulness? Indignation? Will the general ideas of change face the checkbook of tax accounting and will the corporations and upper income types feel obliged to listen and nod? or will the word "tax" suck the life from a challenge to excellence once again, a national equivalent of vacuum energy.

What of the question of race will inexperience or vagueness become the watchword for the internal struggle of some minds on the incredibly silly question of skin color?

America paid money for painted stones called pet rocks, cringed at- then loved rock and roll, accepted the world oil shortages in the 1970's, elected Reagan twice, a Bush three times, turned Rap music into the melody of Madison Avenue and advertising; and believed that Saddam brought down the towers- so I now no longer put anything beyond the power of definition.

November Rising...

Election campaigns take on the aspect of a race, where speed to a finish line determines the winner, this looks like a race between a thoroughbred and a plow horse. It is hard to remember such polarity, Reagan was an older man who took on the role of youth and hope, Humphrey and Nixon was a contrast of old smile and old frown; Gore and Bush offered a contrast but people seemed not to notice how limited and un-leaderlike was Bush, nor the patient strength of Al Gore...the fog of Clinton was the perfect cover for Bush.

Perceptions matter so much-
McCain seems blurred and ill-defined while Obama has the benefit of a sharp focus, the public has a firm idea of the man as calm in crisis- a leader. Clinton may wind up being part of the Obama success, for there has been no real suspense for months but the press was able to use the daunting Clinton reputation to sell papers and kept Obama in the role of the man who needed to show something, to answer a call...and clearly, in historic proportions, he has answered every call.

And Now...
A nation now begins the process of turning its trust and confidence to Mr. Obama, and many Republicans may stay home by November, facing reality, but also the acceptance that the fundamentally more able candidate...the swifter horse...will win the race.

Historic Days, Mr. Obama and America

Senator Obama has made many historic moments on his path to the Presidency and today marks another as he clinches the nomination of the Democratic Party. Many might remember this period for the unique achievements of a Black American which no doubt stands in history, but the next four years bear significance too; and America has drifted as if leaderless for most of the past eight years.
The economy has deep problems, and significant strength; an unpopular war lacks a cogent exit strategy that would preserve some semblance of international order in the region; and the American middle class continues to watch its base erode and jobs and careers flow away from our borders. The environment has been largely treated by denial and clouding over issues of serious concern and deepening world impact. But leadership symbolic and factual is of great importance now and in the next four years of the Obama Presidency. The hopes and prayers of millions seeking change and improvement, greater urgency in moving towards our greater potential as a nation...will continue to lift his wings .

A Nation on the Edge

Post trauma, long after the injury, the true effects are realized facing life with new limitations and so a Nation faces future in dire need of leadership and direction, and a reminder of the resilient faith that made it great from its beginning.

A nation borne on backs of misery and misfortune, some have always found great fortune and the dangling possibility of "happiness" has been our sacred touchstone. Now we face self imposed cruelty and ruin...we have ignored our face to smite the ghosts of our enemies, squandered a national treasure in Iraq misadventure; oversaw a civil war not yet ended; and allowed the American middle class - their dreams and security- to be exported to the whim of corporate bottom line.

The middle class in America in in need of careers, futures in business, leadership concerned with their well being. There is a great divide in American politics, the so-called leaders thrive as never before, friends of the leaders thrive on the profits of politically inspired wars, and the middle classes drift into insecurity and dimming prospects... Mr. Obama, if elected, you will have a difficult job, but also the prayers and best hopes of many millions.

No Democratic Loser on Super Tuesday

Obama blew away the underdog label, and has become the frontrunner for the nomination with Clinton gaining strength from the must wins in NewYork and California... rarely has a Democrat won the modern Presidency without winning both NY and Cal, Obama has shown a nationwide base of strength that has been lacking for nearly two decades...grass roots enthusiasm among young people

... Seduced by the Dark Side have they been...

this amazing contribution to the body politic makes Obama the choice here to be the nominee, positional differences and experience differs little in substance between the two[ sitting Presidents, and Vice Presidents have some claim on job expereince, all others bear a similar risk of becoming puppets of unelected puppetmasters]. The young so vital and so less likely to fall victim to Republican devices...oh like Saddam was behind 9-11... and then WMD in Iraq, and how we are all better off giving up our freedom we are supposedly fighting for...and the world environment...this is going to be an interesting election season...