How Obama Could Get My Vote

Right now, I won't even read about the stupid election activities in the USA. I don't give a rat's ass about how much money this or that party is spending on ugly ads, or on horses. What would get my interest would be some serious talk about what Obama might really be able to accomplish and what he needs to do it. I could get interested if he would come out and say exactly what states he needs what senators and congressmen in and what they could accomplish if we could mobilize and get the people elected. I am not talking about how we can get a democrat instead of an evil republican. I am speaking about very specific stuff with a clear plan of exactly what needs to happen to accomplish what. Right now it is all about who is the better choice between personalities. Obama doesn't let us know what he stands for. And when he can't follow through on an initiative, he blames the congress. It is simply not interesting. And it is obviously disingenuous.

In the conversations I hear he has pretty much lost his base. It feels like a choice between two republicans. There are a lot of us who would actively campaign for the person we thought Obama was in the last election. Unless he gets real, it is too boring to think about.

I saw Chris Hedges on the Bill Moyer show the other night. He has covered war- torn countries all over the planet. He has just written a book about the worst poverty locations in the USA. He looked shell shocked, almost speechless about what he experienced in this country.He looked and spoke as if he was more traumatized by what he saw at Pine Ridge Reservation and Camden, New Jersey than he was in Bosnia or Congo during the worst parts of their wars.

It would certainly inspire a lot of people if a presidential candidate went full force into an issue like the specific problem of dire poverty in the USA and had a plan and told us what he needs from all of us to attack the problem. I know we could accomplish amazing things if we had a little action outline and a little drop of hope that we could get one huge issue off the table and move on from there.