Yes I am still alive....although it has been over two years....

Since my last blog.....Just haven't been as motivated to blog....however something happened this a.m. that I just wanted to give my opinion on... I was watching Morning Joe on MSNBC(although Joe himself annoys the hell out of me) I otherwise like the show. The unfolding protests in Egypt was being covered and there was a sense of almost surprise that the typical normal anti-american components were not a part of this massive protest.....
I strongly believe all of that is due to one man, President Barack Obama, or as the dumb brunette from Alaska (who I use to find hot, now her stupidity has overcome all physical attraction I had for her) likes to say Obama, like if they went to school together.

I have marveled at how the Republicans have successfully launched one of the best smear campaigns in my lifetime, against him..... His ratings plummeted after the whole "Death Panels" crap....and 1/3 still believe he wasn't born in the USA... please....Yes I think maybe he should have publicly focused more on jobs as priority one, but he had political capital that he wanted to utilise for game changers like: health care, don't ask don't tell, the banking reform etc......Clearly I am on the outside looking in and I really think he did a damn great job with regards to the US domestic agendas... Lord knows it would be a different world if his administration didn't address the recession........

But for me where he has shined, where he has truly made his mark, is in the international arena.
I think I had said this in an earlier blog... what I admire most about him, is not his intellect which he has in pouring out of his ears....not his cool, calm no drama-obama disposition.....not his incredible articulation (although I really do miss GW for this, the new 'words', the perplexed knitted brows that only an idiot savant (minus the savant part in his case) could do)....but he is the first US President in my lifetime who realises 'We are the World' is just a song......he isn't set on US World domination as ALL his predecessors seem to have been hell bent on, including my previous favourite, Bill Clinton to some degree....and the neo-conservatives so hate him for it....."he goes around apologising for america, when there is nothing to apologise for'.
America is but one country, a very important country, but never the less, one in almost 200 countries of the world, and has no more rights than any other country.... He gets it... no one before him did....... and I think that's why the usual Anti-American element is missing from the Egyptian 'revolution'.

I love the man (no not in any gay manner :-)), but seriously, sometimes I think of what he means to the world and the tears well up.....I think this is one man who has in two years completely changed the world we live in.......
I just hope the American population give him a second four years.....

rsp