Today is the anniversary of my father’s death back in April, 2000.. I miss him deeply and think of him daily.
Mercifully he died before the election that brought us the shameful presidency of George W. Bush.
I know what he would have said about most of this administration’s greed and crafted ineptitude. He would have said: "Well, don’t drag your ass in the sand." (Yes, a college president for Pete’s sake!)
I think today he would be very optimistic about the candidacy of Barack Obama. I pledge some optimism this morning in his memory.
He would be very optimistic about the Boston Red Sox.
S.K.
Planet of the Blind 
Wow, thanks C.W. Wyatt. I never would have thought to look at Ohio and Penn from the angle you did. You observations make sense and are insightful. I can truly understand how marginalized people can accept the ideology of money.
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I think I would have liked your dad. I appreciate colorful speech, which my wife deplores in a baptist minister.
Clinton’s win in Ohio and Pa isn’t surprising when viewed from a historical perspective. For example, during reconstruction, poor whites were not significantly better off than recently freed slaves.
Yet, it was precisely this group that was most vociferous in expressing their desire to keep blacks as second class citizens.
In Ohio and PA, it’s striking that white voters voting for Clinton were women (earning less than 200K), the elderly, and blue collar (i.e. working poor) whites.
It seems that the poor and marginalized choose to believe the ideology of the moneyed class. This is why both Ohio and PA are considered conservative states.
This social-economic paradox has happened in many places and many times in history.
P.S. I grew up in a small steel town in PA. And currently live in OH.
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How do you stay positive after last night? I just do not get how Clinton won Ohio and Pennsylvania. These are two states hurt by Clinton backed national policies.
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