44!
We made it through the years of "W". We were not unscathed. In so many ways, we were really, badly hurt. We spent and lost trillions of dollars, into the pockets of those already wealthy, into the profiteers of war, into the desert sands, and in the end, into thin air. In large measure we have lost the dollar itself. We lost the fight to quit war. We lost hundreds of thousands of lives, an important fraction of them my countrymen and women. We lost the moral authority to exert leadership in our shared world. But soon I will be able to abandon that futile search for the first decision of the Bush administration that I can applaud. No need now to despair our losses.
Why?
My Barack. My Barack. My Barack. I like Senator McCain as the most progressive of Republicans. But I love my rightful President Barack Obama. He's my Barack, our Barack, the beacon of hope. He's the closest candidate to realizing the primacy of our energy and environmental policy problems to the survival of civilization and the democratic rule of law. He understands that educational opportunity, rather than resource boundary condition, proscribes the limits of our common future. He's the President of my lifetime closest in age to me and nearest to my experience of life. He's my Barack. President Obama, I am ready to help.
