Read this interesting commentary in this Sunday's NY Times:
"Whether the results of the Iowa caucuses on Thursday will be seen by future generations as a threshold moment of change or a footnote to a story yet unwritten is anyone’s guess, of course. The victories by Barack Obama, the Democratic senator from Illinois, and former Gov. Mike Huckabee of Arkansas, a Republican not in the traditional mold, are tiny steps on a long road that may not lead to the White House for either man.
But there’s no doubt that for one night, in one state, Americans dramatically changed the subject. Race didn’t matter — even though Mr. Obama was an African-American running in a nearly all-white state — but talk of unity and common ground did, as Mr. Obama galvanized his supporters by promising to toss historical and political division aside."
See more at: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/06/weekinreview/06johnson.html?scp=1&sq=negro+Do you think we can turn the political scene around?
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What a perfect lead in to what I plan to say. First I have to mention New Hampshire where Hil pulled out the last refuge of Miss Anne and that is to cry when all else fails; works like a charm everytime...right ladies??! Since NH, I've seen ads that show that "It's personal to me..." is a line directly out of the Edwards playbook that he's been saying for the whole campaign. Also intereswtingly Mitt is running an ad in Detroit saying - you guessed it - "It's personal to me..." Sincere politics, an oxymoron. Also,emails are circulating that say Obama is a muslim (Hussein) and that he's a member of a black separatist church. Of course, those myths are being debunked (quietly) but stealth campaigns are alive and well. Remember the McCain rumour in SC election that he had a black child. That was the current president's campaign after he lost NH to McCain. Actually, politics is sincere to the extent that it is a blood sport and folks will kill to win and will kill after they win.
Perhaps more to my original point of writing, I'm listening to the new architect of counterinsurgency from the army war college who literally said his new report is a "new HOLISTIC approach to war" and used the term warheads on foreheads. (Speaking of oxymorons -how about just morons.)
Even tho al Qaedo is costing the American people billions of dollars and lives(not to mention Iraqi lives), he admits they represent less than three per cent of the people in Iraq, but "we're keeping them on the run!" Surge power - the American way!!!
Truly, I dare to hope that the world can be different because I am an eternal optimist but the boogey men and women continue to surface and take center stage dominating our enlightening media.
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