a subset of derek

November 4th was an incredible day.  To call it a history-making day doesn’t seem to give it the props it deserves.

I saw a country, no, a world, rejoice because so many people united around a man with deep-reaching ideas that could change lives of everyone alive today.

President-elect Barack Hussein Obama.  Today was indeed a new day.  I feel whole yet humbled.

There are so many to thank.

I thank, first and foremost, God, for creating all of this.

I would also like to thank my ancestors who spoke against intolerance and hatred and those who aided them in their plight to guarantee decent rights for all people. There are too many to name and the struggle continues.

I would like to thank my family that are with us — like my great-grandma who, at 92 years young, cast a vote for president and those that aren’t, like my dad and great-granddad who would have loved this.

I would like to thank everyone who voted.  Whether it took you 2 minutes or 2 hours, thank you for exercising your right.  It doesn’t matter who you voted for, what matters is that you did…we did, more than in any other time in American history.  Let’s see if we can keep this going!

I would like to thank my Meet the Bloggers peeps: Joel, Will, Tim, Gloria, Roger, Carole, Ann, Melinda, Rob and George. I would like to thank Howard Fencl from WKYC and WKYC as a whole for being so hospitable.

More to thank soon..

As my readers may have noticed, I have been silent on a lot of issues, including the big two issues facing America today: our upcoming presidential election and the economy.  As a economy neophyte, I am still trying to wrap my head around the enormity, scope and meaning of the economic morass that is gripping the world in general and the US in particular.  As I figure things out, I will speak on them.

Now, the election is another story.  I think my people know that I am supporting Senator Obama in this race.  I believe he is more likely to foster the changes needed to right our ship. There has been too little thought and compassion and too much graft and greed in our legislative progress.  We have resorted to knee jerk fixes that have questionable efficacy (Patriot Act or the bailout anyone?).  If Senator Obama is president, maybe we can correct this. Maybe people of like mind and spirit will get to be in places where they can do some good.

…and why doesn’t this surprise me?

Jerome Corsi seems to fancy himself to be in the vein of Woodward and Bernstein when he’s really Karl Rove: a divisive force who panders to the lowest common denominator to achieve their goals singularly and without regard for, well, much of anything. 

Corsi is the same guy who wrote Unfit for Command which is responsible for injecting “swiftboating” into our political lexicon and costing John Kerry the presidency.

Let’s hope that people are more aware this time.

But the fact of the matter is, is until we move to a single-payer system and get rid of the profit motive in financing of health care, we will not be able to fix the problems that we have. They will be impossible to fix.

Which candidate said this? Clinton? Obama? McCain?

No, no and no.

This statement can be attributed to one Dr. Rocky White, a conservative doctor out of Colorado, who is advocating for a single-payer health care system. I couldn’t agree more. In an interview with Amy Goodman, Dr. White goes where it seems Sens. Obama, Clinton and McCain fear to tread: single-payer health care and he extricates that from “socialized medicine”.

I think that some of the burden of our economy would be lifted if it wasn’t for the expense of paying for health care in the scattershot way we do now.

Well, well, not every one believes that line that the right and Hillary is riding.

I still can’t believe that Hillary…Wellesley/Yale graduate from the ‘burbs Hillary is calling Barack elitist.  Wow…if that’s not the pot calling the kettle black, I don’t know what is.

But, at least much of PA isn’t focused on the craziness of the hysteria surrounding Senator Obama’s comments.