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  • From: EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Lift not thy Hands
  • Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2008 13:20:48 -0400



Marie McHarry wrote:

I still don't understand why you've taken against him so vigorously.
I'm in the middle of reading his second book, and while he sometimes
seems to see things from the idiots' view too well for my comfort,
he's reasonable.

Speaking for myself here, it is not that I am against O-man personally, to me, it is just simply amazing how many people see him as different-better different. I see him as the same old thing, just wrapped up with a different bow. The man himself claims that he is different, that he is the change we all seek, and it just surprises me that so many people seemingly naively believe this, like the president has any real power to change anything, or like somehow Obama is going to magically make both parties stop playing pork barrel compromise games and have everyone play fair, sing John Lennon songs on the Hill, and become retro hippies touting peace, love, and harmony... It's not going to happen. It will status quo on the Hill-they'll have huge fights and we still won't have a decent health care plan, and Obama will be on TV from the Oval Office telling us not to look at the outcome of such and such political vote, but to look at the big picture-that we had a discussion and a vote. That's weak comfort for me, from someone who has made some pretty big promises of hope and change.




I find it interesting, from a sort of anthropology/sociology point of
view that you and Lynda now share the same political view. I'm sure
there's meaning in that. I wish I knew what it is.


I have to admit that I, too, find myself in bed with strange bedfellows...
The only connection we all seem to have is a connection with Southern values(and don't ask me the difference because I couldn't tell you-it's definitely more than just saying we are skeptical and somewhat conservative-and it most certainly is not a religion thing. I lived in Greenville SC in 1988 and voted for Jessie Jackson in that election, so I am most certainly not opposed to a black president with a 'hopeful' message). Lynda may live in NoCal, but her nanny and childhood influence was from GA.
From the few posts they've made, I think we can slide over and make room in bed for Drew and Warren, too, as they don't seem to be under the Obama spell either. They also reside in the South. If I am wrong about that, sorry...just my impression.

Bev
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BevanRon of EarthNSky Farm NW Georgia USDA Zone 7
34.498N 85.076W Bev is Earth, Ron is Sky





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