Comments on: How about a little political optimism?

By: mkm

mkm — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 17:39:22 +0000

right on, stagg! i’ve got my fair share of cynicism brewing at all times but i’m tired of people complaining all the time, always being right, and refusing to do anything about anything.

and as for sean tevis, i hope he takes it all the way to the top!

By: stagg

stagg — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 16:46:34 +0000

i think obama is going to win. you know when the corporate owned “left-wing” media is getting yelled at for being unfair to mccain by fox news that a change of the guard is coming.

i’m hoping it is a start of a wave that sweeps away years of an ideology that has hurt the majority of the country.

if people keep speaking out anything is possible…

: )
i’m usually a cynic but i see it is easy to be cynic. a cynic never has to be wrong and never fails. he’s just as much a part of the status quo as GE or Exxon.

By: sunshine

sunshine — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 06:47:30 +0000

bring it! I’m with you.

By: christina

christina — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 02:38:08 +0000

I live in a highly conservative area of the country, We’re talking Big Baptist and Nascar. Though I’ve not seen as many Obama bumper stickers in my town as I have here in SF during my visit, there are a hand full out there. It did sort of hit me a few weeks back when I was driving behind a car back home that had a McCain bumper sticker on it. I thought to my self, “my goodness, this is the first McCain sticker I have ever seen” That says a lot about the shift that has begun
in our country.

It took me some time to warm up to Barak. Not because I did not like him. He’s one of the best speakers in my life time, but after the past 7.5 years, I did not want to vote on emotion, I did not want to vote on “hope” I wanted to vote on substance and down right specific policy ideas. I did not care about personality or whom I would have coffee with. I was (still am) ready to take the hard medicine needed to begin the healing of not only our nation but our world. So my primary vote went else where. However, I have slowly begun to understand what it is about Obama that we honestly need right now and it is “hope.”

The world is so thirsty for real compassion, real empathy, honest heart-felt and intelligent diplomacy. We’re all in the together and the last thing we want is more fighting, more bureaucratic, never get anywhere, bullshit. We are ready for “Mission Repair”

The next 5 months will be hard, may get worse before it gets better, but things are happening. We had an 80% turn out just for our primaries. Our average turnout for a general election is usually 40%.

Clair Mccaskill and Jim Web were elected to the Senate the same
year as Obama and they all three have the same sort of deminer.
They are true progressives and they are a prime example of a movement of new leadership.

(that was just a warm up)

: )

By: sunshine

sunshine — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 19:14:54 +0000

I can see you’re not on board with this whole optimism thing.

By: jill

jill — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:06:52 +0000

Hate to be a bummer… But you aren’t going to be able to vote for him. Neither is anyone else outside of freakishly conservative kansas. He could have a bajillion $ but what he’ll end up really needing is the votes.