"I Want To Be Excited Again

I am old enough to remember the "New Frontier", the Peace Corps, the challenge of sending men to the moon within 10 years. I am looking forward to the excitement, the call for new greatness, to the feeling that we are actually doing something positive at home and in the world. How few Americans have felt positive, challenged, motivated, confident in the past 8 years? It is a human need, to achieve and to be esteemed, that has been stolen from us. Let us vote to get it back and to send an intelligent, creative and thoughtful man to the White House. Oh, I forgot to mention, just in case nobody noticed.....he's black."

I don't know if you'll see this response, JohnPotter, but you made my day with your post. I am excited, but I'm also scared. How can we possibly continue the last 8 years? But "we" the people could. That's frightening to me.

Intelligent, creative, thoughtful. Positive, challenged, motivated, confident. I'm sticking with your adjectives because I simply haven't felt this excited about a candidate in my lifetime. What an agenda our next POTUS will face. I have no doubts whatsoever about who I want to address that agenda.

"Harry Truman once said that if you want to live like a Republican, then vote Democratric."

Thank you for that quote. I'm savoring it. And thanks for your all of your post.

Meant to type "thanks for all of your post."

I'm not going to dissect or analyze what you wrote. I'm just going to say that I appreciated and respected it.

this is something to be PROUD of and GLOAT about and earn a paycheck for writing about?

Regardless of which candidate or which party this loathsome practice involves, it's morally reprehensible behavior. Gee, I sound judgmental. Yeah. I usually try to avoid that. Guess I'm suffering too much from chronic troll nausea.

I haven't forgotten that Naderaid helped bring us the last eight years of Bush et al.

I'm not against Nader. I'm not against third-party rebellion and I truly would like to see a viable third party in my lifetime. But I'm damn well invested in not rewarding the RepubliCan'ts another shot at it--"it" being our country's future.

"Its hard to measure what role fear plays in all this, but I think the Democratic Congress elected in the midterm wilted rather quickly."

And Bush's constant veto threat had nothing to do with it? And the votes required in the Senate?

Off-topic. Reacted. I'm still really railing against the article ON-topic.

"so are all of the LW on Salon professional writers for the Dems in disguise?"

I'm not.

Back on page nine:

"Thus the only real problem you have with Palin, which by the way you'll never admit to, is that she's not a Democrat."

Nope, that's not my problem. I'm a staunch Democrat, but if Palin were on the Democratic ticket, I wouldn't vote this year.

Fortunately, she's not.

"Sarah Palin ran a well-functioning city and made a positive impact on the city."

Just had to laugh. Took a city with no debt and left it with $20+ million debt. And an underperforming hockey rink.

"That's how men are judged. Let's judge women the same way."

I am. I truly am.

I thoroughly appreciated your post, and I've forwarded what you said to others. Thank you.

Heaven forbid we have a president (or VP) who thinks.

Great (albeit disturbing) small-town story.

I and many of my friends have been making some friends and family members mad during this election, simply by stating the truth. Changing other people's version of reality? Maybe not.

I was raised in a small town and went on to live in big cities. It's amazing to me how little difference there is between them in terms of politics.

Ditto, ditto and how to your post. Thanks.

It scares me...if it's even true...that you ever taught anybody.

"This is just more of the same nonsense. obama has thrown more folks under the bus since the primaries began, starting with the man he could never disown and then promptly did when he became a political liability, i.e. Rev. Wright. And don't rely on someone else's view of obama's record, examine his actual votes yourself--they're listed on his own website."

Talk about nonsense! I'd suggest a look at McCain's voting record, especially in regard to what's happening now in the economy (oh, yeah, and there are those wars we're paying for, too) and how many people he's had to throw under the bus during his own campaign. He's staved off on the lobbyists. Carly? She got millions after her decidedly, verifiably bad stint at HP. Gramm? He's STILL the advisor, and we the people are just a bunch of whiners. And hey, how about those Reverends Hagee and Parsley? Courted first and then dejected? Uh, YES. But Sarah stepped in--Evangelicals aboard. And if anyone cares about so-called "women's issues" or health care or Head Start for kids or the mininum wage or benefits for the troops, check out those votes by McCain, too.

"Make Those Miracles Happen"

by Jon Keyworth, Denver Bronco #32

(Inspired by the Mile High Miracle, 1977)

Ole Miss Official Says Debate Cancellation Would be 'Devastating'..."such a move would be "devastating" for the university which has already invested millions in preparation for the debate."

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Hey, what's the problem? McCain, with all his economic savvy, can just come up with a plan to bail out Ole' Miss! And still get that Friday night nap!

"If we're throwing in spoken word records, let's not forget "What It Was, Was Football" by Andy Griffith."

OMG! I had a 45 of that and listened to it all the time when I was growing up! Haven't thought about that in awhile.

(I still have my 45 of the great Bronco tribute: "Make Those Miracles Happen"--in honor of the Mile High Miracle of '77.)