I may be crazy

Ok, I may be crazy but I am going to blog once more on politics. The following are my opinions only based on my experience only.

We had book club last night and we hardly touched the book because the passions were running so high that we talked about the presidential race ; well, that's not totally true. We talked about the role of women primarily. No surprise to anyone, but most of my friends in book club are progressives, mostly vote Democratic. (there are, however, a few Republicans too.)

As women we all agreed. We reacted the same way to the choice of Palin and McCann's changing positions on so many issues. I won't go into all of our specifics. Not necessary.
But we came to some conclusions that were depressing.

This campaign now is polarizing our country even more, especially around the issues of religious belief and race. No question in our minds that Karl Rove is behind much of the Republican strategy. He is the best at orchestrating a campaign that plays on the negatives.

And the fact that Obama wanted to take the high road shows his lack of experience and professorial background. Many of us like that about him, but it doesn't win elections. The only hope we could come up with is that the youth and people of color vote turns out in massive numbers.

We all seriously agreed that it will be a struggle for our system of government to survive 4 0r 8 more years of Republican rule, no matter who is on the ticket. Like Bill Moyers has said so eloquently, we are already on the slippery slope of losing control by the majority, in other words our democracy, to the rule or big business, big international business.

The most unique thing about this campaign isn't the gender or color issue but the funding issue. And dispute all his talk about campaign reform check out where McCann's getting his money. If you took out all the personality issues of those four people you would have the real basis of what our choice is: a government that owes its power to the fat cats or one that owes its power to the general citizenry. It's an issue not being discussed much at all by the media...they are owned and controlled by the fat cats.

There's a lot at stake in this election that isn't being discussed because we've all bought into the cult of personality epitomized by Entertainment Tonight.

I'll try to keep off this subject, but I won't swear to it!