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Week of August 10, 2008 - August 16, 2008

Obama at Saddlebag Church


He does nuance well, but did he realize he was showing up for a gunfight? Did he realize McCain was rolling with loaded dice? When have you ever seen questions for presidential candidates in a debate about the 'existence of evil' and orphans of the world. 'Let me tell you a story. I promise it will be my last.' It should be patently obvious to even the freshest faced voter that these questions were designed to show off McCain's perceived strengths, and paint Obama as a marshmallow celebrity also ran. Sigh. Talk about dealing marked cards from the bottom of the deck...

Are the Democrats capable of finding a David to go out to meet the Goliath of Big Corporations and Big Religion? Is there anybody besides Crazy Uncle Ralph who can actually fight for the interests of the little guy, the consumer, the guy who carries a lunch bucket against the predations of the privileged insiders? I don't want a President who will fight and defeat Evil--this is not Ahura Mazda vs Ahriman on battlefield Earth. I just want an end to concealed commodities markets and a bulwark against fascists ascending to the Supreme Court. Is that too much to ask?
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I was raised by a kindly old gentleman in the wilderness near the Rio Branco. He died of natural causes when I was 16, and I drifted down river in a bark canoe not knowing what I would find and eventually arrived at a settlement of Franciscan missionaries.It was then I discovered that we had not been the only white men left after the Nuclear Holocaust, that in fact, there had never been a Nuclear Holocaust, and there was no need to forge our own bronze and iron and live off the bounty of the rain forest. I was probably kidnapped as a small child. I have dim memories of someone called Mae and Pai. I wandered the Pan American highway till I settled for a time in Zipolite, Mexico, where I worked as a silversmith. Eventually I met a beautiful young woman who was independently wealthy and she married me and took me to live in N Ca where we live on a cliff overlooking the Pacific. I have my own forge, and do blacksmithing for the local horses, in addition to my silver and bronze work. Adaptation to modern civilization has been a challenge for me ever since I realized I was deprived of my natural family and raised by someone who, though kind, must have been something of a lunatic. He did teach me many practical survival skills, however so I guess he wasn't all bad. I have ambivalent feelings about my whole childhood.

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