I Can See Jupiter From My House

I can see Jupiter from my house. I think I am ready for Intergalactic Politics now.

On a more serious note... the single most irritating campaign tactic from Senator McCain supporters, is the use of advertisements questioning Senator Obama's administrative qualifications. "Who can you really trust filling this seat?"

True, senator Obama hasn't served as Mayor in a small town in Alaska, but he has served as a community organizer in Chicago's south side, working on projects to improve economic conditions in the impoverished area, preparing the economically disadvantage for higher education, and mobilizing citizens to fight for tenant rights. Senator Obama has worked as a civil rights attorney, and who better to represent people concerned about losing their constitutional rights... any of those rights.

It also irritates me that the McCain campaign tries to reduce Senator Obama to nothing more than "the most talented public orator of our time" - an insult intentionally thinly disguised as a complement to his character. Perhaps he is the most talented orator of our time, and so was King, and so was Lincoln. Does this claim mean to imply that those who passionately trust in the HOPE for CHANGE that he passionately BELIEVES in are a bunch of meek half-witted little lambs being led to slaughter?

Empty words? I think not.

What can any good man or woman really achieve without HOPE for something better for those who suffer, recognition that CHANGE is necessary to reduce reduce pain and to fight injustice, and the BELIEF that we as plain ol' ordinary and extraordinary people can be participants can shape the policies that govern our lives.