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On Jun 6, 2008, at 4:23 PM, Clansgian AT wmconnect.com wrote:
> Just look at the sidebar headlines today:  Unemployment highest in  
> 22 years,
> record house foreclosures, stock market down 400 pts, corn and wheat  
> at new
> record highs, oil hit a record high of a few pennies below $140 a  
> barrel.
>
> These are deadly serious times and no candidate for the presidency is
> addressing ANY of the major issues involved in any meaningful way.   
> And then you want
> to pour us a glass of cholesterol free Obama orange juice?
>
> If political discussions are on the table on this list, then expect  
> to have
> items politique taken apart.  If they are unwise or misinformed,  
> expect that to
> be said.  If they fall through the cracks to the earnestly  
> ludicrous, expect
> that to be said as well.
>
> And if someone is so attached to a political point of view or  
> devotion to a
> political icon that they cannot separate themselves from the  
> critique of the
> candidate's goings on, there's nothing I can do about that.
>
>
> James


Yes. Yes. Yes. I agree. The world is going to hell in a handbasket. I  
agree absolutely.  I agree that most politicians are scumbuckets and  
voting for one is much the same as voting for any other.  I agree the  
times are deadly serious.

What I do care about is that more young people are involved in his  
campaign than at any other time in history, because they have not yet  
been jaded. I DO care that the foreign press is showing this guy off  
as a voice of change and that other countries are believing it. I do  
care that the general sheople see this guy as a change for good and  
that my neighbours and friends care about getting this guy elected  
because they want to live up to the hopes and dreams of the people of  
this country. It's not HIM, it's the idea of him.

Yes, that's optimism. Because I already know what you know, James, I  
am already THERE with you. But once we get there, then what? NOW what?  
I can take my ball home to the homestead and tuck myself in and keep  
myself laughing at morons from above the fray or I can keep doing  
*something*. I am watching the people around me thinking they can  
elect this guy and get change. They are expecting and I hope go on to  
hold him responsible in a way they haven't before, because they  
haven't been invested before. What else is going to make anything  
better than many many people becoming invested? He is attractive and  
accessible and most of his record isn't any more heinous than anybody  
else. So why not?

Now we dealt the hand we are played, and like it or not it's McCain or  
Obama. Not voting, not trying, that's not me. I choose to try.

James...you can't ask someone if they can be quoted as an example of a  
fool and not expect them to see it as a shot, eh?



Celia