I voted yesterday morning and had an emotional moment. I took my son into the booth and saw Barack’s name with “President” underneath it. Everything else blurred out and all I could see was his name. I pressed the button and lit it up. I realized I was about to live history. I looked at my son and thought, “My son could do this.” I pressed the “VOTE” button, left the booth, and my eyes welled up.
Yes We Can. This is why America is the greatest country in the world.
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Yes We Did
Cornel West on the Campaign
On Winning
Effete Liberals, Bomaye – Ta-Nehisi Coates:
“No one has conspired to deprive us of power over the past few decades. The American people aren’t stupid. We’ve sucked at articulating our message. If you have any interest in a more progressive country, we need to be honest. At the presidential level, at least, conservatives have hammered us. Give them their due. Don’t blame Rush. Don’t blame Kristol. Don’t denigrate states you’ve never visited. Give them their due. Give them their respect. Study them, and then get better.”
(Via Ta-Nehisi Coates – The Atlantic.)
Finally, to hear someone else speak some truth! Obama shows there is a difference between democracy and getting things done.
Opie has a Happy Day
Ron Howard’s Call To Action from Ron Howard and Henry Winkler:
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(Via Funny or Die.)
Happy Days.
Colin Powell Endorses Barack Obama | Monday October 20 | ColbertNation.com
Keeping it Real America
Understanding Real America in Wasilla | The Daily Show | Comedy Central:
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(Via The Daily show.)
Jon Stewart can be stinging. Lesson to politicians: never try to win with a comedian.
Community is the Opposite of Poverty
“Someone once said that the opposite of poverty is not property. Rather, the opposite of both poverty and property is community.”
(Via Catholic News Agency.)
At the recommendation of a friend, I read this homily. Pass it on to the hardhearted.
How the GOP Does Choice
Skip to Jon’s question on Bristol’s “decision” at 4:05. Outrageous.
Sharing Prosperity: Obama’s Economic Plan for Small Business
Obama does have quite the plan. It is a mixed bag to be sure, as anything political would be, but it is both a sound and refreshingly moral plan to help this economy work for all Americans.
Presidential candidate Barack Obama once spoke to CNBC anchor Maria Bartiromo about the economy. Bartiromo made the usual comments an ideologically minded supply-sider might make, and Obama true to form, struck his usual centrist tone:
The one thing you can be assured of is I’m not going to be making these [economic] decisions based on ideology. I’m not a dogmatist…I believe in the market. I believe in entrepreneurship. I believe in opportunity. I believe in capitalism. And I want to do what works, but what I want to make sure of is it works for all America and not just a small sliver of America.
Obama does have quite the plan. It is a mixed bag to be sure, as anything political would be, but it is both a sound and refreshingly moral plan to help this economy work for all Americans. Instead of government spending per se, it consists of government investment, a key distinction from leftist ideological choices. It provides for targeted tax relief to the engines of our economy: the consumer and the more importantly small business. As a progressive he includes union protection, but departs from political pandering and opts for sensible regulation. See a pattern? I’ve said to my progressive/liberal friends that if they don’t get a pro-business, pro-growth policy that expresses their ideals and values, they might was well pack it in to conservatives whose policies smack of trickle down, faith based “economics.” No government in a free economy creates jobs. Businesses do and they don’t do so out of charity or good will. They do so out of necessity or incentive. So there has to be a system of carrots and sticks, that forces them to, as Taylor put it, “share in the surplus.” So to create jobs, you have to be pro-business in some way, and refreshingly Obama does not disappoint. More on this later.
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