Today I'm grateful for

Democracy
Barack Obama

Don't get me wrong. Looking back, I might have taken John McCain. Joe & Kari & I stood downstairs at the 48th St and shared our own visions. Mostly Joe and Kari, they're both very heated in their expressions of passion. Joe was saying how John McCain was actually a good man, a good politician who might have seen his better days pass him. He still has that special spark within him to try to make his country a btter place. But maybe his methods and his focus has wandered a little bit. It would be hard for him to keep up with it all. We needed someone younger, with the vitality needed to man up for the job every day for 365 x 4. Palin was a nail in his political coffin. Crazy bee-zo that she is. I guess now we're finding out just how crazy she really is. Just my opinion from what I'm being given. McCain might not have made it for years not because he was 72. There's Viagara for 72, but just out of the sheer volume of mess that he would have had to sludge through. That Obama will have to sludge through, God bless him. As Willard said in Apocalyse Now, "the shit piled up so fast here you needed wings to stay above it. " And that's the best you can say right now to this man, God bless him. I think this guy is a leader, a politican of a different kind. Sure, a politician but a guy who will try to help this country reclaim its true feathers. A true leader leads from his gut. That's the kind of guy I think we gave ourselves now. He'll make mistakes, sure, but he'll also try to make good. You could see it on the night of the 4th. Standing triumpant, arm raised high with a fist. This guy's here to roll up his sleeves and try to get to work. He got the Congress to do it to. He is starting to look like a leader, like he did in '04 at the Democratic Convention- a man on fire. I thought it was possible back then when I heard him speak. I sit here now, four years later, amazed. A meteoric rise. He was gone a couple years and then he was back with a vengenance. People have hope now. Never mind that "a little hope is a dangerous thing" like Red said in Shawshank. We don't want to think about that now. We're hoping we never have to look back.
And one thing is true, as Kari was saying now there's a crack in the foundation, and no matter what happens, they won't be able to fill that crack enough. It's too late for that. The door is opened. I reflected upon my recent education about Native Americans, wondering if a tribesman would ever make it all the way to the top like that. If the country will ever completely turn around that way, see land return to their lawful owners. Anybody with any sense would say hopefully it's not in my lifetime. The hell to be paid. Still, this is the beginning, this where democracy will spring forth, if it ever completely does. The way Obama ran his campaign from start to finish was the way it needed to be done. The way it gets done in the world of the forefathers. I could hear some saying that Washington, Jefferson, Jackson, all of them would likely be wiggling in their graves a little bit. Not Lincoln I imagine. No old Abe probably cracked a little bit of a smile from beyond the pale. They've been talking about King, Kennedy, Bobby and John, Malcolm, George Washington Carver, WEB Dubois. Frederick Douglass. You can't help but feel that warm feeling come over you if you think about it, how far back the legacy goes. The bricklayers for hope. The beginning of a new day.
The economy will be one thing. Iraq, Iran another. Foreign policy. I say to hell with foreign policy right now. Screw it. Economy is job number one. You get this baby flying again and those cats will be filing for green cards, they'll want to come over here, not wait for us to go over there. That'll be a whole new problem. This talk of working toward more efficient forms of energy, creating new jobs with a new enterprise all together is particularly interesting. The idea of getting scientists and physicists, engineers, architects together and make the approach toward developing new sources of energy as industry. It seems obvious now that the machine has been busy just grinding the gears, trying to make everyone happy by just whitewashing everything. What a bunch of clowns. What a bunch of infiltrators, intruders and magicians. Giving us the old bait and switch now for eight years. They watch us get bombed four times in one day, and then spent the next seven years tap-dancing so we would forget. What a bunch of jackasses.