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Week of November 2, 2008 - November 8, 2008

she turned me into a newt

November 7, 2008, 9:36AM

I have noticed a strange tendency among some of the democratic party faithful following their recent victory. Their hearts are filled with long-held grievances and lingering suspicions resulting in an inability to move forward as one nation, working with republicans to accomplish our many challenging tasks. Ironically enough, the main theme of Barack's candidacy.

I struggled to put the hysteria into words until I remembered this clip from Monty Python And The Holy Grail.

a perfect margin of victory

November 5, 2008, 8:02AM

It dawned on me this morning that John McCain's campaign and the fervor it inspired was really not much different in tone and tenor than Hillary Clinton's losing bid as she pushed through to Puerto Rico.

I don't blame them for their attempts. That is the type of election they had been raised to run. They are a different generation. I can't blame their supporters either. It is human nature to support your guy or gal to the death. We're Americans after all - damn the torpedoes and all that. Like Senator Clinton, Senator McCain was gracious and magnanimous in defeat, vowing to get behind President Obama to deliver immediate solutions to our many pressing problems.

If that John or Hillary had ran for president, we might be celebrating a very different first today.

we won't get fooled again

November 2, 2008, 12:03PM

With the enthusiasm and attention being paid to this year's election, I find it increasingly odd the way America's new-found interest in such a fundamental feature of our democracy is being characterized by the corporate "news" media. On this morning's Today show, this caricature took on a new face - American voters are "obsessed" with politics to a pathological degree and need help immediately.

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Politics Progressive conservative. I believe we need governing policies that are based in common sense and not dogma. An evolution of society and not a revolution that seeks to tear everything down and start from scratch. We don't have enough time for that nonsense.

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Favorite Books Squandering of America by Robert Kuttner and People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn immediately come to mind, but there are way too many to list.
Favorite Quotes "A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom." - Thomas Paine
"It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things." - Teddy Roosevelt
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." - Dwight D. Eisenhower
"With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and his orphan - to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations." - Abraham Lincoln

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