A President Like My Father

As mentioned yesterday, Caroline Kennedy has a written a moving endorsement of Barack Obama for President of the United States. I was not born when the country elected JFK. The most emotional election in the history of my life was 1992. I will remember forever buying the champagne, standing in line at the store with others buying champagne. People cried. I cried. We cheered and danced and watched the president elect play the saxophone wearing dark sunglasses. Suddenly the world seemed brighter, like there might be a chance for humanity to make it, that it was possible for someone who actually cared about people to take the helm of the nation.

I've been told 1960 felt the same way, almost exactly two months before your humble blogger was born. A younger generation committed to the welfare of the many and not the connected few replaced the old guard and the country fell in love. Kennedy was going to get us out of Vietnam. Then the old guard returned, and lying for the sake of war profiteers, invaded another nation to squander outrageous sums and ruin the lives of hundreds of thousands of American citizens forced into service against their will.

The Clinton administration inherited massive debt incurred under 12 years of "deficits don't matter" GOP administrations. Clinton succeeded in obtaining a better than balanced budget with a surplus after one of the most prosperous economic expansions in the country's history, and relative peace. Things were so good a sexual encounter with an intern seemed like a huge crisis.

In 2000 the American people voted for more. An individual of character, seeing the popular vote against him, would have conceded the election at once. Eggplant, having the character of a snake and the soul of a demon (or no soul at all) usurped control and sacrificed competence for blind allegiance. Would 911 have occurred with a competent administration? We will never know. Corrupt and malevolent, Bush lied to start an unprecedented cash cow for his buddies, blatantly and in complete view violating the constitution and everything the country stands for. Cheney boasted with a smile to ABC News before the 2006 election, "The election doesn't matter. We do what we want."

The 2008 election surpasses 1992 as the most emotional I have ever experienced. Tomorrow Senator Edward Kennedy will endorse Barack Obama for President of the United States. Governor Janet Nepolitano has endorsed Barack Obama. The Democrats have the best candidate for president they have had in my lifetime. Do they select a candidate that half the country cannot stand (for good reason or not) or do they select someone who can win this thing, and not only win, but truly introduce new possibilities?

The time has come for Democrats to muster the courage to recognize real change from more of the same. Cheney's pigs have stolen the country to serve as their cow. The time has come to take back what has been taken.

With a vengeance.

On Tuesday, February 5th, I want to see the cactus voting in an unprecedented blue tidal wave that even in Arizona results in more blue votes than red. Yes we can. South Carolina delivered. See you at the polls. I'll be wearing my x4mr certified blogger badge on a Giffords for Congress T-shirt.