Don't agonize, organize ... that's my mantra. Change won't happen unless you work to make it happen! But sometimes even your best efforts don't provide the results you were looking for. Or sometimes a situation is just so completely outrageous that all you can do is say ... YIKES!
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The undercurrent of cynicism and fatalism still present in our politics is what strikes me as the most impressive thread running through all of them.
I have to agree with Kevin. They're funny, but there's an edge to it. Maybe because this seems so critically important right now. Or it could be because I'm hungry.
DCup, I think it's because you are hungry. I've been following politics for more than 40 years, and this election is fundamentally no different than any other election.
My earliest election memory is of Kennedy-Nixon. People were concerned about communism and the fact that Kennedy was Catholic. When Johnson ran against Goldwater, there were campaign tabloids circulating our neighborhood (my parents were Republican) that Johnson had risen to every office because of a death -- and that he was somehow connected to Kennedy's assassination. And Democrats feared that Goldwater would drop the bomb.
I think Nixon ushered in a new level of paranoia. He was crazy, and by staying in office well past when he should have been impeached it -- by extension -- made the entire country a little crazed.
The Reagan election made the Supreme Court a big deal. I heard many Reagan supporters say it was important to elect Reagan because he would get to select a number of justices.
And we get to the modern-day elections: Bush 1, Clinton and Bush 2. Each one deemed "more critical" than the last.
We are on the verge of an election where it's very likely Obama will win. He's not going to overturn Roe v. Wade, or put the power of the White House behind passage of a constitutional amendment banning same sex marriage. Issues deemed critical by some.
It also seems likely that Democrats will pick up a number of seats in Congress. Now if we could just get a spine for Reid and Pelosi everything could be fine, even if -- God forbid -- John McCain wins.
So see ... nothing is really any different than any other year.
I just had a wonderful salad with tuna, tomatoes, peppers, walnuts, and other yummy stuff. What did you have?
BAC
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