Barack Obama's Election is About the Restoration of Democracy, Not Race

I am also a long-time civil rights activist; I marched for racial equality back in the day, and have supported affirmative action, etc. for decades. (I am Caucasian.) I, too, was extremely disappointed by the passage of the bigoted and discriminatory prop 8 in CA, and I was shocked to learn that, of all groups, it was African Americans who supported prop 8 in the greatest proportion. I want to believe that good people were tragically misled by an onslaught of church-directed rhetoric generating unjustifiable fear and hateful divisiveness. I want to believe that this victory for prejudice is not really sitting well today with all those nice, church-going folks. Perhaps I have to believe that because the alternative, that a majority of AA voters in CA are bigots, is just too much to wrap my brain around. The good news is that, in the under 40 demographic, there was 70/30 opposition to the discriminatory proposition, so, in a decade or two, this will all be moot.

Colin Powell's Jamaican ancestry is irrelevant. What is important is that he is a fraud. He is impressive, as so many who reached high military rank, but much of that is acting, and it is all in the context of the great lies of the military-industrial complex. On Powell, see Robt. Parry's consortiumpress.com. On the military in general, read "War is a Racket", by Smedley Butler.

Barack Obama is an African-American, not an Afro-American. "afro" is a term used in the sixties to descrive a hairdo.

Or maybe that should read "Let the U.S. heal..." Though yesterday's election results have once again kindled that dying ember of hope in my heart for our country, I don't hold much hope in the area of Obama and the Democratic majorities punishing the true "Axis of Evil", Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfield. What I would like to see is for our new government fully support bringing these evil warmongers in front of a world court for war crimes prosecution. If memory serves, both Japan and Germany have shown their willingness to do so, and I say let them have all three. I'd love to see them all on the world stage, forced to take responsibility for invading Iraq, torturing prisoners, ignoring the Geneva convention, not to mention the myriad of other crimes against humanity that these three a-holes have committed.

8 years of Rethuglican Neocon reign have left a massive crap pile to clean up on the part of the incoming administration. Passing the responsibility of punishing Dubya, Darth, and Rum-dum-dummy off to a world court would in my opinion be of benefit in a minimum of two ways. For one it would show the world that our newly elected government is not the cocky one of the prior 8 years that thumbed it's collective nose at world opinion with an attitude that it was above the laws widely accepted in the world view. Secondly it would address having to spend the time and effort from the lengthy list of priorities of having to deal with THAT major turd.

On a different legal front, after Dubya leaves office (no opportunities for pardons then) I would also like to see a full review of our "Justice Department". The new administration truly needs to focus on that area of our government. It needs to be purged of all the political hacks that have infested it and corrupted it's actual function, and those proven to have twisted the department's constitutional charter to a political one should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. I find it frustrating as hell to see (or not see) Alberto Gone-zalsis and his minions just disappear and drift into obscurity. He and his cronies need to be brought to justice and used as a strong example of what happens when you pervert the Constitution for political gain. The time to clean that 'house' is long overdue.

I know Barak wants a presidency without the rancor of the last few, but in light of what we face I am afraid he's whistling into the wind with that thought. Realistically there has GOT to be some payback for the lives taken and the lives damaged. For the damage to our republic. Unfortunately John Dean tells us that we are foreclosed by the Constitution from this option. So we need to take care of business and this is how: We need to ensure that Republicans and lawbreakers (I repeat myself) are stripped from every office from across the land forever. Forever. In order to do that we need to keep our movement IN TACT, INFORMED, ENGAGED, REGISTERED TO VOTE, ACTIVE IN THE CAUSE. This job is not finished. We are filling our quiver with arrows, but we need to ensure their accuracy and efficacy. There are elections in every district across America every 2 years, sometimes every year. We need to get all over these local elections and WIN ALL OF THEM. We need to take the power away from these people FOREVER! ! ! ! ! ! ! To do that we need to "sign, seal, and deliver" a permanent place in the forefront of this nation, never again to be thrown into the garbage heap like we were in 2000 by a crooked and no longer respected Supreme Court. We need big changes to our law to make our lawmakers accountable. We need big changes to make our elections accountable. This election has proven that it takes 2 full weeks to count the votes of almost 400 MILLION American voters. No more allowing the TV STATIONS TO PICK OUR LEADERSHIP like some God Dammed Ratings Show the politicians paid for with our donations. We the people need to lock elbows and form a chain that can't be broken. We need to KEEP THE CHAIN UNBROKEN. We can't go back to "PARTY" mode EVER again or we loose our nation to these bastard killers. We have a lot of work to do. Right now it's time to rest for just a day, then get back on it. And it's a time to cry big alligator tears for joy. Because we truly did a majestic thing here and Barak Obama is a fine fine man. He will be a great president and we need to help that happen. God Bless America and God Bless Buzzflash for being here for us all these long dark years and in the years to come. Pretty good for an anti church person to say that.