In a message dated 11/2/2007 2:21:28 P.M., [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com <mailto:AsburyPark%40yahoogroups.com> , Traderdube <[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is anybody else sick to death of the complete and utter bullshit being heaped upon America this election season
Vote for John Edwards! Following is On Topic for Asbury Park too: politics, corruption, civil discourse, family quarrels, culture, religion, race.... "Is Iraq Vietnam? Who really won in 2000? Which side are you on in the culture wars? These questions have divided the Baby Boomers and distorted our politics. One candidate could transcend them." - by Andrew Sullivan, December 2007 Atlantic Monthly Goodbye to All That http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/print/200712/obama <http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/print/200712/obama> / http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200712/obama <http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200712/obama> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "An Inconvenient Truce" [T]he most persuasive case for Obama has less to do with him than with the moment he is meeting. The moment has been a long time coming, and it is...a cultural climate that stultifies our politics and corrupts our discourse. Obama's candidacy in this sense is a potentially transformational one. Unlike any of the other candidates, he could take Americafinallypast the debilitating, self-perpetuating family quarrel of the Baby Boom generation that has long engulfed all of us. So much has happened in America in the past seven years, let alone the past 40, that we can be forgiven for focusing on the present and the immediate future. But it is only when you take several large steps back into the long past that the full logic of an Obama presidency stares directlyand uncomfortablyat you. At its best, the Obama candidacy is about ending a war...the war within America that has prevailed since Vietnam and that shows dangerous signs of intensifying, a nonviolent civil war that has crippled America at the very time the world needs it most. It is a war about warand about culture and about religion and about race. And in that war, Obamaand Obama aloneoffers the possibility of a truce. From http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2007/11/why-obama-m\ atte.html <http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2007/11/why-obama-\ matte.html> (Great cover!) ============================================= Useful info for Tuesday's voters: Click here: NJVoterInfo.org <http://www.njvoterinfo.org/>
