Man Was I Wrong

Late reaction, late reading, and late updating. My last post was talking about Obama's "ensured defeat" and he won. Don't I look dumb? But you can't always be right. Obama ran a really well put together campaign and beat out McCain. McCain lost because of Palin, though I have nothing against the woman. McCain's way of choosing her was so blatantly political that it was a wasted gesture and in fact detrimental.

Also the economy really tumbled. Start this recession about three months later and I believe McCain would be sitting in that office right now. Either way Obama is in office now, and best of luck.

But this has been hacked to death, so moving on to catch myself up with myself. Obama has done a great job of modernizing the Office of President. His approach on Afghanistan, letting Pakistan know that we will not allow borders to defeat us as they did in Vietnam, was spot on. I believe that he has good intentions and unlike some idiots, I do not hope that he fails.

Why in the world you would hope for someone to fail when their failure is basically going to ensure the destruction of your way of life is beyond me. It seems that this is the kind of idiocy that has come from the republicans often recently. They mus still be reeling from their defeat after an unbelievable head start. Sadly this is the same kind of failure hoping that Democrats had the last 8 years. When will they see that their internal bickering, fillibustering, partisan deadlock crap is the reason why our growth as Number One not only stalled but took a nosedive?

What makes me laugh harder than anything else is this:

The average American will talk about the bloodshed between Shi'a, Sunnah, and Kurd as if they are so far above it. We are not. We tell them to find national unity, but where is ours? No, we don't kill each other over it (very often), but how far? Our first presidents feared the growth of political parties for this very reason.

The economy is in rough shape, boy howdy. And yet no one has really been punished for it. Everyone was in on it, so no one really knows what to do. Way to go.

This has been short, but I will be back much sooner this time. Much of it was stating the obvious, but after reading old posts I decided I either had to start from scratch, or bridge myself over. I also needed a little warm up, as you can no doubt tell. In fact, this message is more for myself than anyone else, because by the time traffic jumps up again like it was before, I hopefully will have this post buried far behind others.

A preview of what is coming:

• The story of the story that changed my life
• Talking about A Trillion Dollars
• Random news

While I'm trying to say I'm back, what I'm really saying is I'm here. It has been more than three years since I have posted regularly, this is the new beginning.

Rambling

Tonight I watched a video of Sen. Joe Biden that was featured on CNN. He ended with the words "God bless America, and may he protect our troops."

It seems every political speech has to end with a similar afterthought. I don't doubt that Sen. Biden believes that, or hopes that. But why did he say it? He said it purely for the political malarkey. Just to try and tap that one religious or patriotic voter, to make the voter think "Oh he cares about the troops!"

It is disgusting, and while I have deeply believed that Obama will lose this campaign, his selection on Vice President has only confirmed his defeat. Biden was his opponet just months earlier, and I dare one reporter to pose him this question. "Do you still believe that you would make a better president than Sen. Obama?"

Of the three options, yes/no/no comment, all of them have implications to the future. Were he to answer yes, then it undermines Obama. To answer no undermines himself. Not answering at all will lead the reader to draw their own conclusions, and they will conclude whatever helps them with what they want to believe.

I have a lot of respect for the general cleanliness of this campaign, and for both candidates. That these two men are running proves one thing: In general, Americans are not looking for a partisan candidate, to continue the partisan hacking that has paralyzed this country for 40 years. They want someone who is genuinely interested in reaching across the nation for real solutions to the absolutely terrifying problems looming in our future. 12 years, give me 12 years.