At 10:03 AM -0600 11/5/08, Reagan Johnson said: >Was working last night so I just now got to watch Obama's speech in >Chicago. Wow. Not sure what the meat will be behind the rhetoric, >but the man does have a way with words. > >Although I am disheartened thinking about the unborn children who are >the real losers of this election, I am relieved that at least we now >have a president who can speak. > >He does inspire... no doubt about that... and to me that's actually >the principal role of a leader. I am SO glad it wasn't Hillary. >Dems made the right choice there. Even though she's not as liberal >as he is, I just couldn't bear to hear her screeching on and on. > >If Obama can just resist going far left on his political agenda, we >could actually have a pretty good four years.
It might surprise you to see how far right Obama is, when placed on a political compass: http://www.politicalcompass.org/uselection2008 or, as Rodrigo says "you Americans don't have a left." Locally, I was very surprised by the misinformation about Obama that my neighbors have expressed, believing that they had access to the same information I did. The majority of what has been promoted as his agenda by his opponents is erroneous; you may find that you have quite a bit of common ground with him. Our local neighborhood group is discussing the election this morning, with a great deal of self-restraint, although it is extremely difficult for some. One of my neighbors requested that we read the pledge of support on this page, the link is below the beginning paragraphs: http://www.sojo.net/blog/godspolitics/?p=3469 The code of conduct prefacing the comments section is worth reading as well. I found this intriguing - a series of statements from other countries about our election: http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1856584_1856586,00.html?xid=rss-topstories -- Mugsy<http://www.macgeekofdogtown.com>"The way to a man's heart is between the 4th and 5th ribs." - Kathleen Francis --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "StrataList-OT" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/StrataList-OT?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
