Obama is teaching me to be a glass half (or even three quarters) full kind of gal. So I would like to share with you some reasons for my celebrating.
Positive thinking:
The war:
Micheal Ware reported that the agreement mandated by the UN for the US and other parties of the “willing” expires this year. And an agreement talks with the Iraqis sought by Bushco have, at the present borken down!!!! We may be FORCED to withdraw from Iraq!
The election:
(over the hump)
Since Bush has been so bad, so inept, so inompetent, so corrupt, so venal, it is possible that we will only need to make sure we have better dems and not worry about how the repubs will do. The cons and neocons have had their day and their trillions of tax payer dollars and their lobbies and their media shills but now they better fold their tents and still silently away to that less public toilet in their hometown! The pendulum usually does swing back and forth and 2008 the pendulum is swinging our way!
And, hooray amd halleluyah McCain is proving to be even more inept than Bush. McCain’s fans in the media raised hell about the comments coming about how confused McCain was about Sunnis and Shias and the economy etc. They said it was code for his age.
repeated from a comment somewhere:
I just had to laugh because it wasn’t Obama and co. that brought the age issue up, it was the McCain bunch. And really, why couldn’t they refute the confusion issue?
Now the bearings comment is, true enough, a comment that truly could relate to McCain’s strategy, integrity, stand on issues, etc. God knows he HAS no bearings in any of those. But they can’t refute that so they leap on the age issue.
The ironic thing is, McCain’s supporters might be that older age group but those are the ones being hit hardest by the repub stiffle the vote machine with their voter id laws. (giggle giggle, they just can’t help shooting themselves in the foot!)
Even things like the floods, the fires, the desertification and the mortgage crisis, even though they are bad and will get worse, they are strong evidence for those who are even somewhat thinking that a third Bush term spells disasters on many many many fronts.
War for cheap oil:
$200 a barrel for oil will do what we could not get Bush to do, find ways to be independent of oil. So how is your life changing? I am forswearing too many trips from one side of the city to the other. I haven’t taken to using the bus yet, but I need to start using my feet again! What is your strategy?
Buying locally:
The expensive oil and rising prices for food will cause other changes. We will be looking for locally grown produce and that will dent the mega corps agribusiness.
Jobs:
China is no longer cheap. And you add transpo charges that were ignored previously, I think we will se more and more jobs moved back into the states. If the dollar stays low, perhaps imports will pick up even!
Crossposted at the orangatan place:
What a WONDERFUL DAY!!!