bringing it back to the basics...

Obama has shifted his tune and it is looking more and more like he will make his bid for president over the next two years...afterall, it is a tailor-made opportunity for the man who's second memior is entitled "the audacity of hope" given the disdain the American people now seem to hold every other politician, especially those in power. Obama may very well be the first politician on the national stage that I would feel comfortable giving my vote to in a presidential race. I think Clarence Page said it best when he wrote to Obama...

"I hope you run. Americans deserve to be offered that choice."

not that the racism won't rear its ugly head once he announces and the republicans will do all they can to confront his message of hope and progress with a harder push towards fear and bigotry...but we all hope you run Mr. Obama...in the immortal words of Ernie McCracken "more than ever, I need you."

down here in the desert lands of the American southwest voters are awakening to the discovery that neither the republican nor the democratic parties offer anything but the same tired elitist politics. it begins with a wave of independents sweeping over the nation...it ends with the first New Whig president in American history in 2016...think about that date.

and in case you still believe the democratic party (other than Obama) offers any hope of a return to America's progressive soul in the near future...take note that in close races, rather than appealing to the 50 percent of voters, the majority of which who are progressive and who don't vote because nobody speaks for them anyways, democrats are spouting off their conservativeness...hoo-fucking-ray for phantom choices...

ford is losing money hand over fist...good thing we have allowed them to make such horrifically inefficient vehicles that no other nation will allow them to be sold within their borders. just look how good a hands-off approach is for the American worker...try telling joe and jane factory employee that the economy is booming when they lose their jobs and their pensions as the man responsible walks away with a few hundred million in compensation for destroying a company.

bush stopped using "stay the course" because it "mischaracterized" what his administration was doing. I assume that is because it implied that they had a course upon which to stay rather than the royal clusterfuck they embarced upon without bothering to consider that a people subject to a century of occupation by westerners might not welcome another few decades of it...even after a tyrant was removed. so your see...he didn't mean they had a course at all...only that they would keep keep sending hundreds of thousands of American service men and women into life-threatening situations and keep up with slaughtering innocent iraqis...oops, I mean "collateral damage."

urgent message from your republican national committee - gas prices are dropping (ignore that they are still too high for your to afford to get to work or pay the energy bills) and the stock market is soaring (ignore that your paycheck is either stagnant or simply stopped coming...your boss's boss is making a shitload more, so suck it up...unless you are a traiter and terrorist apologist...you aren't a traiter or terrorist apologist are you?)! see how wonderful we are at making your life better (please ignore that your life is going to hell in a handbasket...but if you must focus on it, it is the fault of those pesky gays wanting their life-long, solid and loving partnerships recognized...they really just want to touch your children...oh, fuck, but forget about that last part, because that might conjure up visions of Foley, and bill o'fuckly's attempts to paint him as a democrat failed miserably...oh we're fucked)! more to follow...

skilling got a bunch of time in federal pound-you-in-the-ass prison...most likely the rest of his natural life. of course he gets to wait his transport at home rather than the shit confines of the local prison renting out a wing to the feds. good thing all he did was destroy a few thousand lives...I mean, if he had bought some crack we would have to make sure he was immediately off the streets...

the cost of tuition did not raise quite as fast as it had in the past...but it is still ahead of inflation...which is ahead of your raise...which didn't happen this year...and they cut your benefits...so yea, privatization is the solution...

got a message into my bookie...wondering what the odds are on how long it takes republicans to call pat tillman's brother and fellow soldier a terrorist apologizer and unpatriotic...if anyone has any inside information it would be greatly appreciated (afterall, conservatives seem to love to play the markets with inside info)...

last night, while watching a recording provided by a friend, I realized what it is about me that drives me to truly hope and believe that America will get back on track and climb closer towards its highest ideals...I grew up a Cub's fan...and thus always irrationally believe that the worst has passed and the best is just one season away...of course it probably also means that Obama will be 5 electoral votes from securing the presidency in 2008 and then some liberal will destroy New Mexico before it can finalize its votes, most likely taking Obama with it, and some fascist asshole will go on to rack up the rest of the electoral college votes before midnight...