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DeepModem Mom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-17-08 08:44 AM
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Sometimes the truth hurts, folks.
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And for me, watching the Faith Forum last night, it hurt real bad.

I'm not going to kill the messenger: I agree with Chuck Todd in this piece: http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/08/16/1270330.aspx

I realize again that what appeals to us on our side (and to voters in Democratic Primaries) -- reason, empathy, selflessness, a view to the long term and the future -- does not resonate, I'm afraid, with many, and possibly most, voters. I think there is a generational change coming that will change that, but we are only on the cusp of it.

We have a candidate who could well be, derision aside, The One who could lead us, in a new way, to a different and better place as a nation. Bush has left us damaged, and possibly on a path to the destruction of America as we have known it. We do need a Saviour, and it clearly is not John McCain. He made it plain last night that his intention is to lead us farther down that desructive path.

McCain pushed every button many, if not most, voters want to hear. He will not raise taxes -- even though we are a bankrupt country. He blames our deep debt on Congress's funding silly projects, not on the war draining the lifeblood from our national veins. He waves the flag, and rattles armaments, and assures us we are a great country. We are a great country, but he ignores that we are now a declining country, in deep trouble.

And if we love our country, we must sacrifice to save it. Obama, of course, made that point, about sacrifice, at the end of his hour. Do people want to hear it? Probably not. Better, in terms of the electorate, to mindlessly wave the flag of a nation in crisis.

If there was a failure last night, it was not Obama's. It is ours. It's our thoughtfulness, our ability to see things (as they are) in gray and not always in black and white, our "bleeding hearts."

Obama and his campaign think we can win this election by getting a new electorate to the polls. My prayer after last night's Faith Forum is that they can. I'm convinced that only "we" can save us. It won't be the other side.
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