Yes We Can.

11:09 am EST February 2nd, 2008 | News | 3 Comments

Those crazy hopemongers.

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  1. duros62 says:
    February 2, 2008 at 5:33 pm

    Killa. I got chills.
    I sent the following to a friend of mine who believed that chain email from a couple of weeks ago. To wit:

    I just think this country is in need of a hard reboot from the top down. I think we need someone without a lot of baggage from Washington, someone who has spent more time working for US than their golf-club buddies. Edwards is a nice guy, but he’s been on the Hill for years and he’s a rich Southern white guy. I’m tired of rich Southern white guys in Office. You know if one considers California a Southern state, we’ve had a rich southern white guy in office since Gerald Ford?

    Plus the Clinton-Bush-Clinton fatigue. We don’t necessarily need Pres. Clinton v2.0 after Pres. Bush v1.5. A Clinton presidency will be mired in crap and minutiae from day one.

    Kind of reminds me of the story about a big truck that gets wedged under a low bridge. Everybody is standing around it scratching their heads on what to do. The driver, the cops, the firemen, the state highway guys. No one can figure out how to free this truck until a 12 year old rides by on his bike and says “why don’t you let the air out of the tires?”

    Now I’m not saying that Barack is a 12 year old kid, but maybe, just maybe, he can give us and the government a fresh perspective.

    And that gives me hope. Hope can be a pretty powerful thing. It is what made this country. From the Jamestown settlers to Plymouth rock to Westward expansion. It wasn’t faith in God or anything else. It was the hope that there was something better out there, somewhere.

    But it means radical change. Stepping outside the comfort zone. And that is also powerful. Powerful enough to want to stick to the status quo; The Way Things Are.

    The question of his experience should be moot, because no one is “experienced” to be President except maybe an incumbent (though the current resident of the White House has not necessarily gained very much).

  2. Nimrod Gently says:
    February 2, 2008 at 7:58 pm

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  3. Sean D. Martin says:
    February 4, 2008 at 4:25 pm

    It plays when I click on it.