RE: Obama

["Dave Gallaher" <micdave@hiwaay.net>]

Forgive my butting into a published discussion, please...



"If you hate it that much come live in a country where you don't quite 
have 
the freedoms and rights you take for granted in the US."

You don't have to hate something to be mightily disturbed with it.  
American
citizenship has been like watching a beautiful and beloved woman being
tinted with turds for the last several years.




How about the tear-stained people going on about how Obama would solve 
their

gas bill problem?  What's that?"

It's just more clever sound-bite editing of out-of-context emotional
responses for the sake of motivating one side of the electorate, much like
the aggrandizement of the two Black Panthers standing in front of a
Philadelphia polling place.




'"Change"?  What 
change precisely can you refer to?'

How about allowing protestors to be seen by the president (or the end of
'free speech zones,' if you will)?  How about media/press access to the
president regardless of pro/con stance of the outlet?  How about actually
listening to veteran intelligence personnel on foreign policy, rather than
dumping those who don't fit the 'micro-loyalty' protocol?  (see
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2008/020508b.html )  Just for starters...




"Oh, it's so AWFUL in the US huh?"

It depends upon one's definition of 'AWFUL,' I suppose.  For me, it's been
similar to standing by while a musical comrade of great talent and promise
takes up a serious meth habit, regardless of my protests.


"Like I said many times since moving to the 
UK, every American should have the chance to be deprived of his liberties 
and freedoms, by the simple act of living outside the US."

I fully agree.




With respect,

dave