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Obama Diary 2006 -- Inklings of Barack Obama
Take the White House tour with Jackie SOURCE
DNC after Dean. Keeping it within the Obama movement. SOURCE
No Cabinet appointments will be announced this week, according to Obama transition spokesperson. SOURCE
Don't miss this great 60 Minutes talk with Ax and three other campaign principals at 1:00 AM following Barack's Grant Park speech. SOURCE
Barack Plan -- close Guantanamo and have trials in US SOURCE
Obama email list is a prodigious weapon for grass roots input SOURCE
It's ironical to see the MSM floundering in the face of reality.They suggest that hope is on hold as though Barack were President already. They lament that the "page is not turned" yet. Meanwhile, some report -- with veracity -- that Barack is busily working on zapping up to 200 deleterious regulations the Bush Bund advanced during their regime. If that is not change being broadcast for all to see, the fault is that of the MSM who cannot see the trees for the forest.
We just bought more AIG SOURCE
Disgustoid disaster capitalism -- prepare to regurgitate SOURCE
2006 -- Inklings of's ground-breaking 2004 speech signaled the possibility of a centrist politics emerging after decades of what might be called bipartisan compromise, AKA gridlock. There has never been a time of more profitable hand-wringing for politicians of both parties.
The following posts from 2006 revive the theme of a less-corrupt, centrist politics. These are the initial posts of what I have called Obama Diary, now being turned into a Kindle Book. May 15, 2006 Ordinary People's Politics
It would be delightful if some ordinary folk, whose radar does not turn off when an easy dollar is dangled or a complex problem is presented, would decide that 2006 is their year and simply run in the primaries of the party most likely to win.
This could be the year incumbents of all stripes took the pipe.
Of course, unchallengeable touch-screen voting from Diebold and others favors corrupt spectral persons whose affiliations can be deduced from election results. That is enough to quell anything like a democratic (small d) initiative.
The goal of a pox-on-all-houses politics would be the election of leaders who can gently and firmly dismantle the sad products of the current crowd, whose casual destruction of our democracy has alienated persons of all persuasions.
That would clear the decks for a new start.
June 3, 2006 Competence -- The Democrat's Best Keyword
Incompetence is the hallmark of the Bush administration.
Incompetence is why the Republicans have plummeted in polls, opening the door to the Democrats.
But idiocy reigns and is no respecter of parties.
The only way the Democrats can make victory worth a candle is to become the party of competence.
Competence is an admission that the world has an infrastructure problem that will only be solved by grappling with the limitations of both philanthropy and reliance on the oil economy.
Democrats have at least thirty opportunities to blow this.
The issues: Two elections have been stolen. Bush has condoned, pardoned and tolerated the worst behavior. Our country is in serious decline.
I think we can allow the anger of the electorate to do the job.
We need a competence party.
If there are any Democrats left who are wise enough to see this, let them step forward and begin to lead us out of the dismal morass this Administration has created, almost as a default behavior based on who they are.
November 17, 2006 The Passionate Middle
Essentially, the situation in the US Senate as we speak is sad because we have no one in either party who is exhibiting any real passion in calling both sides to significant negotiation.
The feelings animating both sides are too visceral and immature to admit any expectation that they will be spontaneously modified.
But if there were a passionate middle -- in BOTH parties -- we might understand that all the Blue Red idiocy is just that.
Most people are discerning. Most people want an end to polarized politics.
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