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I Can Control All That! Watch!!!!

2008-09-26T16:16:25Z

Watching McCain's histrionics the last couple of days brought back a memory that has been MIA since my law school days.
I used to work in an outdoor parking lot in downtown San Diego to help pay for my way to school. I saw one of the schizophrenic homeless guys that I'd come to know standing on a nearby street corner. A few minutes later, he walked over and was suddenly standing above me. He said, "You know, I was over on that street corner over there and all the oxygen was missing from the air and this match REFUSED to light!" "But," he went on "I can control that! WATCH!"
He then struck a match, lit the cigarette butt that he'd found on the other corner and said, "SEE! Don't ask me how I do it!"
Funny how this story came back to me when I read about McCain now being able to debate since all is good in Washington again, since his arrival yesterday.

The Perfect Political S

2008-06-05T22:41:42Z

I’m reminded of the first entry I read over at Anonymous Liberal (anonymousliberal.com) which discussed how we Democrats were likely better off with John Kerry losing the 2004 election. At first I was dumbstruck, thinking about Bush being in power for another 4 years. However, upon reflection,

The Perfect Political Storm

2008-06-05T22:27:21Z

I’m reminded of the first entry I read over at Anonymous Liberal (anonymousliberal.com) which discussed how we, as Democrats, were likely better off with John Kerry losing the 2004 election. At first I was dumbstruck, thinking about Bush being in power for another 4 years. However, upon reflection,

What Was I Thinking?

2008-05-03T15:38:18Z

I am proud to be a lifelong Democrat. We did things differently. We had morals. We had conviction. We had ethics. That's why it was so hard to live through the Bush/Rove era. All the things that I believe in were ignored and thought to be "quaint."

But, in 2006 I felt that spark re-kindle. It felt like the pendulum had started to swing back to the left. Could that be?  It had been so long, I wasn't sure I would recognize it if it happened.

Although originally for Edwards, the day he dropped out I gave my first contribution to Obama. I began to listen more closely to his speeches. I began to feel that optimism grow in me. I started to believe that "Yes we can!"

Just when I started to get excited that THIS time, THIS time it was different, it started.  The Clinton campaign started to become Rovian. Instead of rejecting it, the MSM started to lap it up. It was like a drug to them. The more negative it got, the more they had to have it. If Hillary didn't give it to them, they made it up, feeding off themselves.

I started to wonder, "What made me think that this time was different. What was I thinking to believe that the corporations who controlled everything were going to give up that power and control to us?"

The MSM continued to pile on.  "More Wright! More Bowling? More Hillary quotes!"  It's as if Obama has been chummed into a feeding frenzy of negative reporting.

What was I thinking? Does America really want its country back? Does America want to keep things as they've been? Don't they want to move our country out of the depths from where it has been and put it back in the sunlight of world opinion?

I guess time will tell, but in the meantime, someone talk me off of the ledge.