defending the better choice for president

My friend Darius wisely commented on the negativity of my few recent posts. Now that the intense anger and upset has passed with what I deem to be a Republican strategy built on nothing more than personal attacks on the Obamas and those that support and surround them, let me clarify my choice for President for him and others concerned about me losing track of myself and my values.

I am voting for Barack Obama because I believe he works his hardest to listen to the American people (not a contrived and imagined individual identity named "Joe the plumber" or "Joe six-pack" that serves as a political tool) and that he understands that peace and prosperity both domestic and international are achieved through communication and reaching spaces of mutual understanding not warmongering, deceit or strategy. The Cold War has been over for some time and it's time that our leaders articulate that reality in how they address issues facing Americans.

I wonder why it is any of us feel that a President must know everything or have a plan for everything? As he cannot know the future, a good President is someone who is willing to acknowledge that something is not working, listen to and surround himself by those more educated than him and then elicit from them solutions given ever-changing realities. Our President needs to be a great organizational manager in this day and age far more so than a commander in chief and that will only become increasingly true as global economic interdependence and constantly improving channels of communication only bring us all closer. It's a small world after all..... start singing it along with the folks at Disney. Barack Obama will sing that song with a group of diverse people and enjoy himself while doing it before McCain would ever consider it. Is that a good judgment to make my predicate my election choice on? Yes I can.

Truthfully, these debates are farcical to me and I feel like they should be to you too if you believe in the American values we continue to preach but can't seem to practice. The debates simply break down to an honest man named Barack, his strong partner Michelle, their family and those that surround them in any and all political parties in this country defending our "self-evident" American values in the face of despicable personal attacks by those bent on distorting the truth for personal gain and propping up the few powerful lobbies in this country that sell us all out and down river. As the McCain ticket has not advanced a single shred of a constructive plan to alleviate the last eight years of Cheney-W., what exactly does it mean for Barack Obama to be inexperienced? Why do we fear inexperience anyway when trusting the Bush and Cheney families has led us to fear certain "foreigners", our great values and even ourselves possibly more than any point in the history of our country? This election is not only a referendum on Barack Obama, it is a referendum on whether we believe in ourselves to be better Americans. If you feel like Barack Obama is inexperienced, then stop criticising him and get your ass down to DC and help him out. He's certainly ready to listen far more than anyone else running for President. I'll put my money on that. :)

Project One World (POW)

We have to change the way we treat each other. It's not simply "yes we can" but it takes something far greater. It takes redefining our notions of identity, our perception of conflict as not something external but entirely internal. Conflict is just this huge bound up bundle of perception sticks.

Don't we yet have consensus that we could be feeding each other instead of killing each other? Can we achieve the "end of history"? What does that look like to the fat cats on Wall Street, the "green" men who chase the almighty dollar instead of self-reflect about the damage that they do to us all, how their greed causes our grievances? Again, we must change the way we treat each other if we are to evolve to a better epoch of history.

a little addendum, the strategery (see SNL) of mccain (like W. before him)

I've watched ten minutes of the debate. Palin sorely lacks information or knowledge of anything in the nation or world. It's obvious. I take back my assumption about Biden from earlier, she won't unravel entirely here. Biden, in order to avoid triggering being an insensitive and domineering male, which McCain hopes to play on with the poster child that is Sarah Palin, is hopefully smart enough to speak only to the cameras when he engages her on facts and not even look at her in order not to trigger basic upset among females in our nation and expose her lack of qualifications for office. If he engages her directly, he would be wise to do so with the Socratic method (see American law school) with an empathetic voice.

This is a chess game now on 2 October 2008 but after the election, it will be a landslide and an exposure of "strategery" of the Republican party that will be larger than Watergate. This is the end of the Republican Party. The new opposition party in American politics? I'm sure Nadar is coaching them now. :)

palin unravels, media distortion till november, obama in a landslide

This is an urgent post as the debate is about to start! I'm calling it now (and please read my below post as to what is happening in our country and our world. In a good way for all human beings across the world it is inevitable that we will all communicate better and ring in a greater global peace). So how does tonight affect that change? Simple. Sarah Palin will unravel for women everywhere. We will know she is not educated enough to lead a country on millions of issues I doubt she has ever thought about. She is a strategic pawn to elicit the values that McCain and his cohort abide by, those encapsulated on the cover of Glamour magazine, not the real women of the world who are hard working and well educated. (stop by the School of International and Public Affairs at SIPA if you doubt this, you're invited as they say in Ghana, come see me and I'll introduce you to them!). The media will hardly reflect the change though. They are interested in what serves them. What serves them? Profit. A close election. Up to the last minute they'll tell that story until you know what happens? The Obama family wins in a landslide.

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