Election As Mirror
Obama’s now got Colin Powell’s endorsement. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under George the first and Sec’y of State under George II. That’s an endorsement from a military man, not a black man, but I’m sure the right wing radio types are already licking their chops. Vile (but entertaining) bastards.
He’s already got Buffet and Volcker, Rubin and Reich. That’s most of the economy, stupid.
The mark of a society that survives is its ability to discern, and willingness to listen to, the best and brightest within its ranks.
This election, is, more than anything else, a referendum on us. On whether our society survives and prospers, or continues the wretched decline that began on January 20, 2001.
America’s going to look in the mirror on November 5th, and see whether we’re a frightened people clinging to a limited view of the past, or a courageous bunch willing to take on the unknown.
Romans watching Rome burn, or the Founding Fathers. You decide.
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Are we courageous enough to vote for change or will we fall into whats comfortable to us. Look at our current President He is the same thing. I See that Obama has the Big Hitter’s, But it still depends wether us Americans will take a step it a new direction.
I am confused. Are you saying that if the wrong candidate is elected that our decline as a nation will continue? I tend to disagree sir. I think you place to much emphasis on the who and not the what. How often do people vote on single issues? This is why our country is poopy poop. This won’t change if Obama is elected. If anything I think voting will go up if McCain is elected because he seems like he wants people to know whats going on in the government and wants people to be more active in their government. That is just just speculation.
Appelman, the who very often defines the what. take George the second. take Reagan. Reagan, regardless of what else one might think of him, helped big time to bring down the Berlin wall. George brought us down. he enabled the worst in us.
this too is just speculation, but we have nothing else, save a crystal ball that works, to base our vote on.
thanks for your insights and stay in touch.
and Neema, that’s my point exactly. it’s up to us, and our choice reflects on us as much as it does on the candidates. LK
You know…. the wingtards also say this is a referendum on us. Their take is <a href=”http://reconstitution.us/rcnew/?p=2641″just a bit different, as you might well imagine.
hi JR. just checked out the link. “just a bit different” is clearly your droll understatement. it’s not the flip side of the same coin; it’s a whole ‘nother currency, and an ugly one at that.
thanks for checking in. LK
Hello my name is __________ and I am an addict. I am addicted to this broken system that both controls me and provides for me…
As this election nears, I think…how did I live like this for so many years, under this bondage…?
I for one can’t live ONE MORE DAY in a society where we’re no longer America. Where the dream is dead. The thought pains me to the point of death, me drudging along, the same old BS being pumped down our throats… I’d rather just finish my days in the back yard, watching the sun rise and fall, bill collector banging on my door, flames leaping, than keep my mouth shut one more day.
McCain’s a good man. He’s paid his dues. He could certainly keep the country moving along.
But let us take a lesson from AA all you junkies: “If nothing changes, nothing changes” and what Obama represents to me is a break from that addiction, as painful (and ultimately glorious) that it will be…the change starts with ME?
You mean I have to do something to make this a better country? Nobody said anything about MY choices having an impact…
Thanks for speaking your mind, Mr. Kannon. It’s inspired me to do the same…
P.S. Are we allowed to say Revolution on the Internet?
yes, we’re allowed to say Revolution, and your addiction analogy was creative and astute. wonder what form (violent, non-violent, secession, etc.) the revolution will take?
thanks for checking in and stay in touch. LK
The greatest fear is the fear of the unknown. Every word that comes from a conservative mouth rings with that fear when they talk about this election race. Same goes with the debacle that is their true God, Laissez Faire Capitalism. They just can’t get their heads around the fact that all of the old school policies are dead and useless in todays world. Look at China. They are making the USA look like a bunch of amateurs in all aspects of politics and economics. The world enters a recession while Chinas growth only falls to 9%. I bet WB et-al are bright green with envy at the way they are rapidly taking over the world! Seriously America, it’s wakey wakey time! If your politicians don’t get with the programme that’s kicking off over here and across Eurasia, you’re gonna be left behind big stylee. You are already because of the Bush admin yet there are millions of you who think that if you vote for the Republicans this time you will gt a different result. That is exactly he same as the alcoholic whos life has gone down the pan but seriously believes that if he has another drink, this time it will be different! Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result is the definition of insanity!
Yes indeed, the situation scarily resembles addiction. And for addicts, it usually has to get pretty bad before they get clean. Most addicts die before they even think about getting clean seriously!
peace
. . . first recall the armies from Parthia, then from Germania, then from the land of the Britons.
* Recessional: the Rotting Imperial Legacy of 40-43 to 44 **
1. Well-circumscribed imperial limits: in distance, treasury, projection of power
2. Pox Americana harassed at every frontier supply line.
3. Richer rich, poorer poor, dying middle.
4. Tyrannical social control erasing living memory of a democratic republic.
As a poet of another world empire wrote on the eve of the 20th century (in faux biblical verse):
Far-call’d our navies melt away—
On dune and headland sinks the fire—
Lo, all our pomp of yesterday
Is one with Nineveh and Tyre!
~ Kipling. Recessional (1897)*
Those wretched ephemeral babblers, McCain and Obama, lusting after the purple in ‘08 notwithstanding, a slide into the abyss can only be slowed not reversed.
I applaud Little Bush our postmodern Caligula. The Bushite catalysis of imperial rot was not necessarily a bad thing.
“Those whom the gods wish to destroy, they first make demented.”
bipolar2 ©2008
* Rudyard Kipling’s anxieties expressed in 1897, Victoria’s 60th year as empress. In 17 years 1914, the Empire received its mortal blow. http://www.bartleby.com/101/867.html