I do believe an Obama Administration can bring about important changes in our body politic and national conduct. Its less clear if it can bring about serious systematic reforms to the Federal regulatory structure. To do so may require jettisoning long-standing practices about respecting an outgoing Administration's final regulatory orders; doing so could possibly even result in a legal showdown.
In short, there are things an Obama Administration could change with a reasonably free hand, and there are things where precedent and entrenched interests would interfere. Specificity is the key here.
The American people are in the majority tuning out the Republican Party now. And rightly so. The reason they see the truth now is obvious - America as a Nation still trumps the Republican Party. Many now see through the Republican facade. William Buckley Jr. gets it, Colin Powell really gets it, but the Party Leaders and demagogues do not - especially people like Rush, Bush, Bachmann and de Rothschild.
The Party is so imbued in its own Propaganda, in its own sense of Superiority and Self Righteousness. And it still mis-believes it can take America with it. Just listen to the campaign rhetoric coming from McCain and Palin et al. Parts of the country more American than others? More patriotic than others? People more American or more patriotic than others? By what litmus test? Oh right! By whether or not you agree with the Ruling Party on any little thing. And, especially on the little things.
Real Republicans need to seize the levers of the Party, tear it down and rebuild from the grass roots up. Its ownership is too centered in selfish ideological hands and its philosophy has gone Dictatorial and with that power, it has gone Piratical; way too right wing. it is now way out of the mainstream. It has been there a long time already, and held its ground by managing to redefine and move the definition of "mainstream". And demonizing the word "liberal" and "the left" and associating anyone who is not a card carrying Republican with "socialists" and "Messiahs". And, most cryptically, by focusing on the small issues to divide and conquer which is about destruction.
You can't miss that McCain's campaign is all about "spin" to understate rather dramatically. The problem is that the truth is so far off what McCain needs to spin it into, that the spinning takes a legion of spiders. And the web spun from all that spinning, is just tying the ticket to the floor.
The American people are finally seeing what McCain and Obama stand for. They see a stronger leader in Obama, something they hope for. I think Obama will drive his grass roots political movement forward. I say it will not be a Democratic movement, a liberal movement, socialist movement or a radical movement. It will be simply an American movement.
In short, there are things an Obama Administration could change with a reasonably free hand, and there are things where precedent and entrenched interests would interfere. Specificity is the key here.
The American people are in the majority tuning out the Republican Party now. And rightly so. The reason they see the truth now is obvious - America as a Nation still trumps the Republican Party. Many now see through the Republican facade. William Buckley Jr. gets it, Colin Powell really gets it, but the Party Leaders and demagogues do not - especially people like Rush, Bush, Bachmann and de Rothschild.
The Party is so imbued in its own Propaganda, in its own sense of Superiority and Self Righteousness. And it still mis-believes it can take America with it. Just listen to the campaign rhetoric coming from McCain and Palin et al. Parts of the country more American than others? More patriotic than others? People more American or more patriotic than others? By what litmus test? Oh right! By whether or not you agree with the Ruling Party on any little thing. And, especially on the little things.
Real Republicans need to seize the levers of the Party, tear it down and rebuild from the grass roots up. Its ownership is too centered in selfish ideological hands and its philosophy has gone Dictatorial and with that power, it has gone Piratical; way too right wing. it is now way out of the mainstream. It has been there a long time already, and held its ground by managing to redefine and move the definition of "mainstream". And demonizing the word "liberal" and "the left" and associating anyone who is not a card carrying Republican with "socialists" and "Messiahs". And, most cryptically, by focusing on the small issues to divide and conquer which is about destruction.
You can't miss that McCain's campaign is all about "spin" to understate rather dramatically. The problem is that the truth is so far off what McCain needs to spin it into, that the spinning takes a legion of spiders. And the web spun from all that spinning, is just tying the ticket to the floor.
The American people are finally seeing what McCain and Obama stand for. They see a stronger leader in Obama, something they hope for. I think Obama will drive his grass roots political movement forward. I say it will not be a Democratic movement, a liberal movement, socialist movement or a radical movement. It will be simply an American movement.
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