Early on it looks like two southern states have voted for McCain. A bad sign.

I do tend to be a worrywart at times.

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When I look at the political scene from a far-away perspective...pretending I'm high above the 'heavens' and watching events unfold...

I wonder about the circumstances that led Obama to be born to be the first African American president. The wisdom is usually given that we choose our parents and so forth.

So Obama is African-American in the classic sense. His 100% African father and his white mother make him pretyy much clearly biracial. He has obviously chosen to identify as a black man, and that is how folks see him. He was raised by a white family and I somehow think that helped him accomplish this goal. His mother was obviously very racially tolerant...I believe his half-sister is half Asian.

What is really odd to me is that all his family except his sister seems to already be passed over. The grandparents who raised him, his mother and his biological father, all gone on. And he is young for a president. Something set him on this course long ago, but the odd thing is feeling I can almost see part of that because of the way things pan out.

I wonder if he will have a long life. Hopefully the comparisons to Kennedy will not continue too far.

What do others feel about this?

hawkeye wrote on Nov 4^th, 2008 at 6:04pm:


  I am very heartened by recent events.  It seems that the majority of people in this country are willing to move into a healthier, more collective direction.  

 Yet, I question whether or not we still have a true "democracy".   It seems pretty darn clear that so much of what our founding fathers warned us about, has already come about.  

 Sure, the illusion of democracy is still there, and most buy it, because we still do live in an unusual country with various material freedoms that yes, some countries still do not enjoy.  

But democracy is too strong of a word, and doesn't quite describe what we now have.   It seems much more applicable to countries like France where the gov. usually has a much healthier respect for the opinions, wants, and needs of the people because the French well remember the lessons of the past where we Americans have mostly blithely forgotten them and the very WORDS and warnings of those who tried so hard to set up a good, but not perfect, system of government.  

 It was hijacked awhile ago (especially after we conveniently lost the gold standard), and has been increasingly manipulated, weakened, and made vulnerable by groups of special interests and immense, almost unbelievable greed and power hunger.  And don't forget the collectors of huge sums of money.  

 The Apple still looks somewhat sweet and delicious, but it is so rotten at its core.   Is it not high time to compost the apple?  So if we patch the outside of the apple, it will somehow heal the inner?

 But like i said, I am very heartened by collective movement of the people...  Now if they would just realize that there is so much more to maintaining a true and healthy democracy than going out once every 4 years and pulling the proverbial lever...     Ahh, but that requires sooo much more work, self sacrifice, and vigilance than the latter.  

Right you are, but the children must also decide....

hawkeye wrote on Nov 6^th, 2008 at 2:08pm:

If people are going to worry where Obama gets his dog from, he has rough road ahead.

Okay, enough already!

(CNN) – In his first press conference since winning the race to the White House, President-elect Barack Obama addressed a pressing question: who is going to be the first dog?

Obama told a group of reporters in Chicago on Friday that since his 10-year-old daughter, Malia, is allergic, the Obama family is looking for a hypoallergenic breed. But Obama also said the family wants to adopt one from a shelter.

“There are a number of breeds that are hypoallergenic, but on the other hand our preference is to get a shelter dog, but obviously, a lot of the shelter dogs are mutts like me,” Obama said. “So, whether we are going to be able to balance those two things I think is a pressing issue on the Obama household.”

Obama is of mixed racial heritage: His mother was Caucasian and his father was African.

Obama announced in his victory speech on Election Day that his daughters had “earned” a puppy. Obama joked that this is a “major issue” and said that since Election Day, the family’s dog choice has created more interest than any other topic.