Tuesday, November 04, 2008

Habits of the ♥

~It may take forever and you may disagree~ Obama (paraphrase of the first few minutes..) * The Trail of Broken Promises by Matt Gonzalez On the street when I am approached by an Obama/Biden volunteer or someone who tells me they’re voting for Obama, I usually ask “What about the FISA vote?” And each time I hear in return “What’s that?” Or if I say, “You know he supports the death penalty,” I usually hear in response, “No he doesn’t.” At what point will there be intellectual honesty about what is happening? People are voting for Obama because they find him to be an engaging public speaker and like his message regardless of his history of being part of the very problem he professes to want to fix. Most people don’t want the actual facts to interfere with the desperate hope that he is everything they want him to be. Do you really want to vote for someone who has already voted to take away your civil liberties because of some vague wish that he’ll act differently as president? Obama himself, speaking of Sen. Hillary Clinton, made a remark that could just as easily apply to him, and, unwittingly makes the case for why no one should vote for him: “We can’t afford a president whose positions change with the politics of the moment. We need a president who knows that being ready on day one means getting it right from day one.” (Salem, OR, 3/21/08). If voting for war appropriations and taking away civil liberties was bringing us closer to a more democratic and egalitarian society, well, I would advocate it. But it isn’t doing that. What is your breaking point? At what point do you decide that you’ve had enough? What do they have to do to lose your vote? * Habits of the Heart ...These are people who act on their beliefs. Each is living proof of the magnetic force of Liberty -- that spiked goddess who draws home both the best and worst of her abandoned populations. ... http://www.seinfeldscripts.com/TheDinnerParty.html [The Royal Bakery] ELAINE: Ummm, I love the smell of bakeries. JERRY: Oh look Elaine, the black and white cookie. I love the black and white. Two races of flavor living side by side [mumble?] It's a wonderful thing isn't it? ELAINE: You know I often wonder what you'll be like when you're senile. JERRY: I'm looking forward to it. ELAINE: Yeah. I think it will be a very smooth transition for you. JERRY: Uhm, The thing about eating the Black and White cookie, Elaine, is you want to get some black and some white in each bite. Nothing mixes better than vanilla and chocolate And yet somehow racial harmony eludes us. If people would only look to the cookie all our problems would be solved. ELAINE: Your views on race relations are fascinating. You really should do an op-ed piece for the Times. JERRY: Um, um, Look to the cookie Elaine. Look to the cookie. * "The palm trees that grace the streets of Los Angeles, all planted by man's beautifying hand, none native, are home to thousands of rats' nests. At times a rat, or two, will fall from the top of a bushy-headed palm into a passing convertible car, altering the consciousness of the driver." David Homel, Rat Palms, Epigraph
* Up becomes down. In becomes out. Then becomes now.

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