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It’ll be interesting to see what the final outcome of Scott Brown winning the election in Massachusetts will be for Washington. I love how all of the pundits scramble to define it immediately. Yesterday, the news was all about how the “voters had spoken” and Democrats were madly adjusting to the new layout in D.C. While this special election will definitely reshape how the Democrats will do things in Washington now, the broad statement that the somehow this was a major reflection of the people struck me as funny. I mean, this was just an election from one state under special circumstances – and all of a sudden it had become a referendum on everything being done in government. I question that – but it will be interesting to see where this all goes.

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As the days before the election in November continue to count down, I’m starting to wonder if I’m not going to wear out before we get there – from of all of the political BS that’s being slung around these days. Despite my opinions about who I plan to vote for, and who I think is being more unfair at the given moment in this campaign, I think that both sides are equally at fault for all of this crap at different times. And it has me worried and wondering if we’re ever going to be able to unite again as a country or if, as one person I was speaking to recently said, it’s the “New American Civil War” – not fought with guns, but with words. So with this in mind, I once again found myself exasperated by what I saw on the Today Show this morning. Matt Lauer, Tim Pawlenty, and Bill Richardson – none of them were helping to clarify the situation – they were all just there to muck it up even more. I found what Pawlenty and Richardson had to say to be completely worthless – full of intellectual dishonesty – and other than depressing me at the state of political divisiveness with 48 days left to go, the only other thought I was left with was thank God these two aren’t the VP choices!

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Sarah Palin gave a great political speech last night. In it, she was feisty, charming, funny, open, and confident. As a convention speech, where the murmur behind the scenes was about whether she was ready for the national spotlight, I think she proved that she can more than hold her own. As a political speech, in execution, it was a home run. The problem I have is that I also found her speech to be smug, condescending, and containing what I’ve now learned is referred to as “intellectual dishonesty”, basically making something you say you’d support in one breath, sound like something you don’t in the other. (To read more about that idea, see Tom Hall’s IndieWire post - I do agree with the points he makes, but like many bloggers, he lets his anger veer him towards making statements that I don’t think are wholly fair. His points about the absurdity of calling Obama an elitist, however, are dead on!)

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Barack Obama gave one of the best speeches I’ve ever had the great fortune to hear on Thursday night. I believe it was truly an historic moment. There have been other great men, and other great speeches, and other great moments in history (many of which were before I was born or old enough to really remember) – and I think this will rank as one of them. From every standpoint, as an acceptance speech, as political rhetoric, and as a moment marked in time of moving forward as a nation – it was just about as perfect a speech as could be given. And whether you agree with Mr. Obama’s politics or not, the call that he puts out to all Americans – working TOGETHER – to each take our part in making America great – is one that crosses all political lines. May we all do a better job of being our “brother’s keeper” – and truly lead this nation into the 21st Century.

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