What does the future hold for us? A youngish Black man bold enough to run on Change or a white older man intent on defending the Fort of Yesteryear. The older white one waves a red, white and blue flag and the younger Black man carries a globe in his hands.
Obama smiles broadly while McCain smirks as "he knows better" most of the †ime. Our fate is in the hands of a few states and swing voters (who have no philosophy and no rooted idea). These anchorless mindless forces can swing The Electoral College one way or the other. Those who might cast a vote against Barack based on myths about race and national origin also may hold our fate in their hands unless we rise up and vote in large numbers that overwhelm and surprise. Barack himself says he is not the reincarnation of Jesus Christ. Our faith in Obama may be too deep, too broad. He is not an FDR, may never come close. But he is all we've got now. I look to his policies and find hope that we may get something to hang onto- some universal kind of health care, a safety net, jobs that government may have to manufacture to get us through bad times. The alternative is living through 4 years of smirks though Congress may succeed as it goes Democratic in keeping the worst of the greedy dogs at bay. I wonder if Barack wins, if we will really leave Iraq and turn our attention to Afghanistan. I wonder if that is another dark hole we will enter rueing the day we made that fateful decision, looking sadly behind, for many of us our only regret the totally veiled woman we might have to leave behind. Or will Barack get lucky, track down and kill Bin Laden and then declare a victory of sorts, leaving peacekeepers behind to hold another kind of Fort. Yes, what does the future hold? It can't be McCain! What if it is then what do we do then, move to Canada or some other place, hibernate underground, join the revolution. It is too utterly hard to digest that happening again, again. No!. The future can't be that mean, can it?
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