ReUnited States of America

[mtmynd]

ReUnited States of America

I watched Obama's short film last night and willingly admit it drew a few tears from my old, tired eyes. Was the film overboard... was it pure propaganda... was it a load of bull from another politician? No. Pure and simple, no. Here is a man, a very special man that doesn't come down the pike very often in this country... a man that really and truly wants to help his country. He's is sincere. He is honest. He is willing to listen to both sides. He, I truly believe, will do his damnedest to do want he says he wants to do. I believe he has the ability to bring America into the our new millennium with a freshness and compassion like no other person on the world scene today can do.

So why, I ask myself, do people like McCain/Palin and their supporters attack this man like they do? Is it only because they are on the defensive and are trying their best to upset the momentum? Maybe they're desperate to appease their supporters to the extent that lies and deception are all that's left...

Last night I was watching MSNBC's Chris Matthews program and he had Tom Delay on. This once Senate Majority leader came out with the most vile and hateful comments towards Barrack Obama that I have heard on a public forum to date. It was so hateful that I felt that his comments should have been X-rated... not using cuss words, mind you, but the overall intent was absolutely spiteful and totally off the road of any decency, especially given his prior position in the Washington political scene.

Then this morning I was scanning the channels and ran across a live speech being given by Sarah Palin in Missouri. For some thirty seconds or so I was floored by her comments toward Obama but more surprised by her audience response: "America! America! America!" the began shouting... the cries getting louder and louder. Sarah herself encouraging them with affirmative hand signs. It kinda of reminded me of a 'sieg Heil' performance from the late 30's or something akin to that. Were these people really convinced that Barack Obama and his supporters are anything less than American?

I'm trying to be fair. Look at this thing logically and leaving my emotions behind while I witness this Republican attempt at regaining power they had... at any and all expense, using any means they can to downplay the Democrats Presidential candidate. Anything. And the Republican supporters love the hatred and venom of their own candidates.. so much so that many of them seem to drink this poison with gusto. "America! America! America!" And I ask myself, "Who's America are they yelling for? Certainly not one I recognize..."

George W. Bush and his candidacy did more to divide our country than any other administration before him. This election it appears the damage Bush has done left it's scars on the collective psyche of the country. This division... this abyss, is still wide and nearly disconnected from each other in so many ways that it's difficult to see any healing on either side. That's why Obama is so important. There is a hope... a great hope that this one man with his tremendous inspiration just might... a big 'might'... bring the country together again. Is it possible that one man, born from an interracial union, has the fortitude and hope, (there's that word again that pops up so much, 'hope'), that given the opportunity to bridge the differences that have split our country, will unify once again our United States of America?

It's a huge task. Uniting this country is a task that John McCain or Sarah Palin certainly are ill-equipped to do. Their campaigning proves that. Remember the screams of negativity at several of their rallies. That is such a vivid reminder of the country's division that it is painful to not only listen to but to imagine should they somehow win the election. Contrast those rally cries with the huge crowds attending a Barack Obama rally... words of hope and inspiration that anyone with any degree of emotion can't help but be moved, even a fraction.

If this whole piece of writing sounds only like a plea to vote for Obama and nothing else, I have failed in my intent. If Obama was a Republican, I would support this man. His party affiliation is somehow meaningless in this election. It is this very special and gifted man that is at the heart and very soul of this election... not a party, not a left wing or a right wing, but more akin to the body center that calls for a healing of this great divide within our country.

Within the words of our National Anthem is the line: "O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!" If we are not brave enough to allow this man, Barack Obama, to serve our country as President, we will have failed as a United States of America.


Cecil
10.30.08

[bohonato]

Amen.

[Dave The Dov]

All the Reblubercans can do is mess it all up for this country!!!! They have become what they have set out to do in the end!!!! This will spell the end of them forever!!!! After eight years of being derailed by that Son Of a Bush!!!! Barack Obama will put this country back on track the way it should be!!!! We can then go into this millenium with a better sense of "hope"!!!!
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[mtmynd]

Well DtD - not so much the Republican's that messed up the past 8 years as it was the hijackers of the GOP that made such a friggin' mess of this country and possibly the rest of the financial world that this entire administration should be arrested and tried for treason.

They trashed the name and reputation of a once Grand Old Party... the party of Abe Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt... not awful people by any means. The hijackers turned the GOP into their party of Greed Over Principle, imho.

[hester_prynne]

Thank you MTMYND for mentioning this...I watched it too and also felt a few tears of joy and hope rolling out of my eyes...he is indeed a very special and unique person...someone who this country will be so very thankful to have in charge if he can make it through the republican wall of deceit, murder and lies that Bush has built. I really am hoping at this point, that many many Republicans will have the brains and hearts to cop to the fact that they themselves need to vote for Obama, if for no other reason, than to stop the blight and blunderball this ill-equipt axis of evil called Bush and Cheney got rolling and want McCain to keep on rolling.
I mean, really it's got to be stopped and anyone in their right mind, or with a sane mind can see it.
Obama rocks. He is a gift to us all. I hope they do not hurt him.. sometimes I am afraid they might.....
H

[e_dog]

NO UNION!

On;y victory for the DAemo-crats.


Send the Republicans packing.


SPIT ON ALL REPUBLICAN YOU SEE, TELL THEM THEY ARE UNWANTED IN AMERICA.

WARMONGER FASCIST REPUBS ARE WORSE THAN TRAITORS.

THEY'RE EVIL!

THEY ARE THE REAL TERRORISTS.