Reply #70: My main worry is that, they will fiddle the election again and say,

[Joe Chi Minh]

"Well you know, I guess the people just weren't quite ready for a person of colour to take up the reins of the presidency."

Given the normal level of corruption in US elections in the past - which clearly can no longer be viewed as even moderately high - I don't believe it would been a consideration. Even with Nixon at the helm. Though I'm sure he'd have been a fast learner in these times.

I've been agin Obama, not for his lack of experience, but for what I consider his evasiveness concerning his policy planks - surely, a unique phenomenon in any quasi democratic polity. A man who, in effect, has said little more than, "Trust me! I'm a politician. Be of good cheer. We shall prevail! A bright new dawn arises with healing in its wings." Despite which, however, there could, of course, be no question of his not being infinitely preferable to any Republican candidate.

I hope that, in the future, you will extend to your poorer fellow countrymen and women, the same gentleness in your political decision-making - which, of course, can have infinitely more vicious consequences than the harsh words of any flamer - that you wished to be accorded by DUers here to you. Many of us would have found your choice of voting for Bush just the first time, way beyond incomprehensible. (I wouldn't presume to ask for an apology. We are after all, all of us sinners, but maybe reading some passages in the Gospels, Epistles, etc, from time to time, would be helpful in gaining an understanding of what our real priorities should be.)

"Love is the fullness of the Law. Upon it hangs the whole of the Law and the Prophets." Not just putting a few dollars in the poor box, but voting for your society to be structurally changed so that everyone can have a proper home of their own, however modest, the modicum of pay for their work necessary to buy food and clothing, while leaving them at least a modest disposable income - without their having to work three or four different jobs each day. Here ends the lesson.