What Michelle Can Teach Us

Impressive woman who will be an impressive First Lady. Obama/Biden 08!

What is most troubling in todays political climate is the promotion of hatred as a philosophy. The emergence of an ultraconservative dogma relies increasingly on the encouragement of mass hostility aimed at one group in particular - Americans with progressive political views. Liberals are spoken of with the kind of dripping contempt and virulent hostility that used to be associated with racism and sectarian religious strife. Liberals are viewed not as fellow Americans citizens concerned with the future of their country, but as ideological enemies that need to be destroyed - and eaten if possible. This view is fundamentally anti-American.

This right-wing sect manifests a complete lack of empathy toward other Americans whom it defines as its ideological enemies. Its core beliefs are absolutely impervious to reason and are unleashing ugly and violent impulses. What makes their zeal so dangerous for our country is their willingness to do serious damage to our precious American Democracy in their quest for absolute power.

-The Assault on Reason (2007)

SOUND FAMILIAR? IT DOES TO ME AND I AM SICK OF IT. IF YOU ARE TOO, VOTE OBAMA/BIDEN ???08

wendydk, As will her husband will also be a phenomenal and inspirational President.

And, we can hope for:

A President who does not delegate our national energy policy to someone like Dick Cheney who operated it by secret meetings with oil executives only.

A President who does not abdicate our diplomatic and military affairs to NeoCons who mesmerized them selves and Bush with their ideology and fantasies about what results will be.

A President who is not in the pocket of Republican lobbyists who have taken millions in lobbyist fees to allow big capital funds to loot trillions from our economy and created the Bush Depression; unlike McCain who recently told us they were the problem with Washington and vowed to kick them out, but when he got behind he fired his campaign staff and appointed as his campaign manager Rick Davis who took up to $35k/mo. in those fees from 2000 forward and continued to take them while he acted as McC's campaign manager.

A President who, as he has shown throughout this campaign, refuses to try to deceive and divide us with hate and smears. He will end the Bush/Rovian era that gave us Swift Boat and the smear against McC that he had a black child out of wedlock. The same Bush/Rovian propaganda and smear machine that McC hired after he got behind and then conducted the largest smear campaign ever. Watch, later postings on blog will demonstrate how that hate and smear campaign continues to struggle on right into the present.

A President who is smarter than nearly all of us, and wiser than perhaps we have ever seen.

A 40 year republican