I’m a rambling man
It’s been a while since I sat down to write this blog and I feel anxious because there is so much I want to comment on but no way to get it all down. I’ve been distracted by work, the election, travel, health issues and my own personal financial crisis and at the end of each day I simply have felt too exhausted to do just one more thing.
First a comment about the election: YIPPEE!
Never before have I heard so many people say that they were proud in that moment to be an American. Never have I seen so many people with tears in their eyes because someone was ascending to the highest office in the land. After voting earlier in the week for the Obama-Biden ticket, Patricia and I arrived in New York City on Tuesday early evening. JFK was abuzz with excitement and restlessness. On the train into town a man who was on his cell phone turned to me randomly and said “He just took Pennsylvania” and smiled. I turned to Patricia with a stunned look and said “Obama just won the election. I cannot believe that this is happening.”
Of course it took several more hours before that prediction became a reality and as we watched on TV from our hotel room and sent and received phone calls from overjoyed friends and family, we celebrated in our own way and went to bed hugging eachother, at peace and awash in hope.
The election is over but the work has just begun. The damage of the Bush Cheney reign of terror will take a long, long time to repair and some of it may be irreparable. The cocksucker is still at it even now as a lame duck and of course the weaklings in Congress are doing nothing. But at least it’s a start. Now, hopefully Obama, assuming they keep him alive, can begin the world wide healing process and lead us toward a better society – the society we often claim to be but fail to live up to. The society that does not torture, does not lie and slander just to win an election, does not rip off it’s weakest members and give it over to the wealthiest. A society that cares about the health and well being of it’s people – all people – and believes in education and most of all peace.
I wish Barack Obama luck. He’s going to need more than that but a little luck couldn’t hurt either.
When I returned to Florida it had been transformed into a Blue State. I can hardly believe it. I really had written this place off but now I have to eat my words a bit and say that I am proud of the people of this state for electing Obama and overcoming the stigma of the 2000 election fraud. Good job Governor Crist. There are so many things wrong with this country right now that sometimes I feel like I’m in a Phillip Roth novel. Civil liberties that have been taken away by the Bushies, the painful and costly war in Iraq, the financial bailout which is turning into a total fraud, etc, etc and so forth. Who knows where to start?
well, I believe that first we have to start by taking that bailout money from the banks and the assholes at AIG and get it into the hands of middle class mortgage holders who are in the shitter. Then we need to get the money (lobbyists) out of government. then we need to work with Russia, China, India and get our foreign trade and foreign policies in order (by the way those two things go hand in hand). And we must close Gitmo NOW. the faster we do that the better we will start to look in the eyes of the word.
It’s going to be a tough road but, as I see it, we just took a huge first step.
