Difference from Denver

Here's a little different take on Obama and the Democrats in Denver, the campaign will be more of a coronation than a contest; and the real tests await in places as disparate as the Arctic and Georgia [eastern Europe] and Atlanta, Ga. - USA and needing water. The contest in the press and media will likely look like a horse race: Obama ahead, McCain closing fast, Obama pulling away at the end. But in reality the young voters will be with Obama, allowed to be under counted in the polls until honesty[ what little there is] requires correcting the polls near the election so that the results will not show the high priced polling companies were wrong.
Fuel prices will spike if weather turns bad but the trend has been down like the US economy. Despite words from all over of good economy, most of us can see closed businesses and dimmer expectations all around us. Infrastructure in the US has some serious issues and water supplies may join bridge safety as a warning sign that some things have been neglected too long. The good news is that people have seen more than eight years of official inaction from the national government where Republicans shut down so many ideas of progress, is that they are leaving soon, but it seems not soon enough... so expectations will be low for Obama but the opportunities to contribute to the improvement of a nation...are enormous. Starting with the Internet, on to health care, rebuilding and improving infrastructure [and jobs that would have to stay in the US] ; race relations- just stop pitting black-white-Hispanic against each other - It may not be a rising tide, but when the waters have been flat and shrinking for so long- and we are not allowed in the Yacht club - even a little wind blown wave is welcome.

Biden Our Time

Senator Biden has always seemed many things to me, as a politician, he emerged as a leader willing to stand for things that money- interests opposed...the hallmark of leadership in the Unites States now and historically... and he has learned to withstand the harsh winds that blow in Washington politics, the ones that tend to put into one's face...you are not worthy... until the people with money say that you are worthy....

Obama -Biden is not a dream ticket, it has no woman, no southern white man, no one with executive experience, not enough experience to convince anyone that they could handle a crisis. Well too bad.. we are already in a crisis [ oil, a contrived war to create another oil power, an economy that does not value the American dream, American worker, the American family] and this ...Obama-Biden is the team that will win.

Now, there will be someone to answer the phone at Three AM more inportant someone to try to use government between Nine and Five to analyze and solve public problems...

the Bush people were leaderless and engaged in sham government...alternately blaming the people, hiding the truth, hiding their own inability...but ALWAYS USING GOVERNMENT TO CHANNEL PROFITS TO PRIVATE SECTOR FRIENDS AND POLITICAL ALLIES by peace or war made no differance...at this they have excelled.

And it is this narrow partisan drive to arrange government so as to funnel monies that will be lost. Lost in transition to a more open government; this will be missed for the next four years, and hopefully...much...much longer.

The Dead Sea Strolls

There is something wrong with a picture of the coasts of the US, covered with areas of dead water...hypoxia waters ...fancy words for not enough air for fish to breathe... and the solution is to blow bubbles... yes someone has thought of aerating the Chesapeake Bay or the the Mississippi Delta, seems a big storm or two...like Katrina and the one that came soon after solved it there...stirred up the waters to a normal balance for a while...but heavy rains also produce more runoffs from fertilizers and the cars we drive... and speaking of agriculture... now we have to drive the food we grow too, ethanol from corn, oil as the base for the fertilizers ...hmmm...then there is this whole tendency to hide the truth, the big storms won't save us, and are not supposed to... not from automobile exhaust and exhausted soils with too much fertilizer, and fertilzer runs into streams, rivers to the seas; and what about the price of food, going even higher if we deplete seafood and fish by using overpriced fossil fuel to fertilize land to make fuel... because fossil fuels are too pricey...hmmm. You know, this would all be really funny; if it weren't happening...yesterday....

Soft news day....

Yes, it will be said SENATOR McCain has more experience and more time has been available to observe his character and ability; that is also the biggest problem with McCain...time has not been an ally - when simple questions turn into looooong pauses without answer, like that thing about health care equity: Viagra "yes", birth control pills for women "no" ...and the answer was...................[well this is a blog i can't possibly pause as long as he did, I will lose all my clicks and wind up with a non profit blog simply here for the use of space]...speaking of cyberspace, it is so important these days, even more so since gasoline prices threaten to empty our highways and strip malls on major traffic areas will be stripped of vendors; the economy has some structural weakness now that we have abandoned economic policy completely to the greed of oil companies; so Internet access and free navigation of the web takes on a fundamental role like freedom to travel. Companies seek to control more and more of the net activity, and Republicans wish to help...web discrimination, pay for better treatment than those who don't pay, how simply "Republican"; kind of like let's run a war with public money and pay two hundred billion in profits to people who would not be caught in a uniform, nor their families, nor their children, children's children...war industry owners and stockholders - mandarins of a puny day [ I like that word "mandarin" for fat-cat rich people], many wealthy people work for peace and brotherhood, one hopes, prays, may God continue to Bless them...

Oh, Zimbabawe...

The Bush doctrine established a rule of international law, that we, alone, have a right to attack anyone we wish...[ an oversimplification, I know...we have to invent phony self defense first; then attack- formalities must be observed] the Obama doctrine will have to be more precise, it will have to be moral, legal and make sense...and contribute to world peace [ oh the burdens of being a caring soul]. Findings and conclusions are ample on records of governments, the public and press. A failed republic, a blatant denial of legal voting rights to a majority of its citizns to change form or leadership of government .

Zimbabwe might take most of a day; perhaps an intense afternoon of phone calls. Western leaders would have to agree on incentives for Mugabe's red carpet exit, and terms for succession until free elections under UN supervision; food and economic relief parameters; broadly the tens of billions to be apportioned from the wealthy nations of the west and middle east...most of a day, perhaps...because the problems in Zimbabwe are difficult, life threatening...but the resolve to make change, comes in a moment of leadership...something not much seen in the U.S. since that sinkhole opened up in Florida and swallowed democracy...

right to bear arms

The founding fathers had not seen my fellow Americans driving cars, sixty mph on the next man or woman's bumper, teenagers with beer or marijuana, behind the wheel; middle aged men in pickup trucks and slow reflexes, with beer and amphetamines, behind the wheel; soccer moms with multitasked lists for their multitask lists, on the cell phone, behind the wheel; and of course: can you say ROAD RAGE...sooo if they act this way with their cars, a State licensed but dangerous instrumentality, why should I trust them with handguns [as an idea i would describe it in two words: IN SANE]. Yet, the wise justices of our Supreme Court ( and this is only a name has nothing to do with how good they are) had enacted just such a thing, but before I get into it, next blog, maybe... back to the founding fathers. They passed the Second Amendment after the Revolution and to give rights to the men who fought the war; something they had neglected to do...the right to vote for example was limited to men who owned property or wealth of certain types or amounts, most of those fellows who shivered and starved at Valley Forge didn't qualify to vote, imagine a democracy where the citizens don't get to vote for their President...oooops... Florida... Bush Brothers...[that could be a movie sort of like the James Gang]...oh well...the right to bear arms, the militia.. if they had wanted every one to have a right to own a gun, couldn't they have just ...said so...Every man has a right from God to own a gun...they didn't; soooo wonder why the US Supreme Court finally found an individual freedom that they liked... they didn't much care for speech, or privacy, or all those freedoms lost to the WAR BY tERROR ... OK ...NEXT TOPIC ...the new right to bear arms, or how much is that armor in the window?

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...