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Re: keeler post# 5111

Monday, 02/25/2008 10:26:29 PM

Monday, February 25, 2008 10:26:29 PM

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The only hope for the little Bush is the Truman hope. Truman DID go out of office almost as low in the mind of Americans as GWB so BF has a bush to hold onto. However, HST was the ultimate middle class president and ultimately, his values were America's values and America came to greatly admire him and his steadfastness. Of course, Bush is not exactly a middle class American.

Bush's problem is that EVERYBODY including his Republican successor is willing to say that his strategy and execution of his foreign policy is flawed, and the lack of any domestic policy beyond reducing taxes in the face of the biggest war time deficits in history cannot bode well for his future reputation.

I've followed American politics for over 50 years. I remember Truman speaking on Television. I campaigned for Adlai as a teenager. Keeler is right! Obama's charisma is a combination of something intangible he exudes like Jack Nicholson, and a reflection of a generational change in American political beliefs.

The Democratic party seems to have moved to the left and some will be horrified. In reality, the arguments of the so-called Moral Majority have failed to solve the problems of the mass majority created by globalization and corporate oligarchy and people are demanding something, anything different -- the road not taken.

The right calls universal health care socialism. It ain't
The right insists this is a Christian nation. It ain't
The right call bringing the troops home dishonerable. It ain't
The right has said that it's our way or the highway. It ain't

It's the American way for the fed up to rise up once a generation and it's a generation since Bobby, Martin, and John!

Those of us who graduated in the early 60s were called socialist and communists because we picketed Woolworths and demanded a better America. Today, they are doctors, lawyers, corporate executives -- hardly socialists, mostly free market capitalists and moderate Republicans. Where do those folks go who are socially tolerant and economically conservative?

The Republican party of Theodore Roosevelt and Nelson Rockefeller is gone. McCain is all that's left of that party right now and he has no economic policy which can create jobs or hope. He is tied to Arizona's Goldwater Republican history.

Obama is too much of a blank slate. I don't know what his foreign policy will be like. He appears, to me, naive and idealistic about the Middle East. Still, the man has a degree in International Relations from Columbia so he can't be without some understanding of the complexities. I will not hold his Minister's beliefs against him until I see more evidence that they inform his actions. The Mafia may well have elected John, but Bobby didn't give a hoot!

The MAJORITY in the country doesn't want to fight over religion, gay rights, immigrants who are their lawn care folks, their cooks, and their roofers. They want jobs in new industries. They want to see their kids in college. They want to believe that Yes WE Can.

The most remembered book of my childhood in the 1940,s was a little Golden Book about a little train engine that kept saying I Think I can....I Think I Can!!! Well, until I change my mind.... I Think he and we Can!!!


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