Christopher Merle

Que sera, sera, whatever will be, will be, but first I need more coffee.

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Cautiously Optimistic

November 4, 2008 /

Bush is still President and Obama is projected to be President-Elect. Bush can still do a lot of damage in the time remaining he has in office. Like say bankrupt the country so badly, that the next President will find it very difficult to clean up the mess this one has created.

But for tonight and the next day or two it’s time to dance in the streets! Congratulations President Obama and to everyone who helped make this happen. This election was about us and that the promise of America is really for everyone.

Fist bumps for everyone!

Ugly Days Ahead [Updated]

October 27, 2008 /

November 5th will be a day to remember. It’ll be the day after the election and if we are very lucky we’ll know who won the presidential election. I knew that the campaign would get uglier the closer it gets to the election. And it has. An actress who played Ann Coulter in a bit part in the movie W died after after a severe beating. Was the attack politically motivated? I don’t know. It could have been a random coincidence. A woman faked an attack by an Obama supporter. She has confessed.

If Obama wins, Republicans will be crying voter fraud. If McCain wins, Democrats will be crying voter suppression. The difference is that voter fraud is done by individuals and voter suppression is an organized effort to prevent large numbers of voters from casting ballots, usually minorities. The voter fraud that the Republicans are crying about now is actually registration fraud, but they are being disingenuous about it. ACORN hires people to register voters. They are required to turn in all registration forms even if they are considered suspect.

Remember the attorney firing scandal? Well the Republicans made the same charges of “voter fraud” and when those attorneys appointed by George W. Bush couldn’t or wouldn’t find this alleged voter fraud, they were fired.

I will not be surprised to hear more reports of racially motivated attacks over the next nine days. I will not be surprised at conservative and “independent” pundits making claims that the Democrats have become unhinged.

There is nothing I can say to my friends and family who plan to vote for McCain, that will convince them Obama will be better for America. Some of them think he will be a disaster. They don’t believe the last eight years have been disastrous with Bush & Cheney. There have been willing Democrats who have enabled them. Rightly or wrongly the only the only thing that can prove the Republicans in charge aren’t totally evil is if Obama wins, is inaugurated and serves most of his first term as president.

Update
Well, that didn’t take long. AP is reporting that the: ATF disrupts skinhead plot to assassinate Obama (and 102 other people who just happened to be black). This is not the first foiled plot.

I Voted Today

October 24, 2008 /

Since I will be out of town on Nov 4. I requested an absentee ballot. I did receive my ballot, and I read those instructions carefully. As instructed, I had the affidavit notarized. I was a little alarmed that the instructions told me to use a No. 2 pencil. I did so. I put my marked ballots in the envelope marked BALLOTS, and put that envelope in the envelope bearing the Affidavit, and then I put that envelope inside the envelope marked Outer Envelope. After sealing it all up I walked over to the campus post office. It cost me 59 cents to mail.

I won’t say how I voted, but if you’ve read my posts and comments, you can probably guess who I voted for for president. I will say this: when I saw Sarah Palin’s name on the ballot it was only then that it really sunk in that she was the VP nominee for the Republicans. I had a similar but lesser reaction when I learned that Ahnold became the governator of California. Then I actually visited some friends in the Bay Area, and I realized looking around OMG he’s the governor of this state. I knew intellectually what a disaster she’d be for the country when I learned enough about her, but seeing her name in black and white on the actual ballot I got a sinking feeling in my stomach.

This is an historic election and for many of us will be the most important vote we will ever cast. Regardless of who wins, we Americans have huge challenges ahead of us. With the right leadership we can take on those challenges. With the wrong leadership, we’ll fail. Only you can decide what choice to make.

Yes We Can

October 23, 2008 /

I amazed every time I watch him. Obama really is a once in a generation politician. If anyone can get us through the troubling times ahead of us, he’s the one. Yeah, that one.

Sure you could vote for a 72 year old war hero (and a four-time melanoma survivor) and a charming but divisive governatrix. And if you think she’s capable of stepping in at a moments notice then I have a bridge to nowhere to sell you.


If Obama can beat Hillary and beat McCain and beat the Republicans, beating the terrorists will be a cake walk.

The next four years will not be easy. America is in for some very rough times and perhaps days darker than anything we’ve seen in the last eight years of this disastrous administration. There will be a difference. If we elect Obama, we’ll have a president who we knows cares about all Americans not just the ‘real’ Americans. (former US Marine and SF author Elizabeth Moon has some thoughts on what a ‘real’ American is). We’ll have a president to inspire us to be better than we are.

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