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05 May 2008 09:03 pm
A View From Abroad
A reader writes:
My wife and I arrived home from a two week vacation in Germany.
While there I read Lester Brown’s latest, and witnessed much of what he
discussed in his book, to wit, $8 per gallon gasoline, enormous dedication to
wind power and mass transit, and so on. My 25 year old son, an early and
enthusiastic supporter of Obama, picked us up at the airport. Hardly
asked us about the trip before launching into a ten minute diatribe about
Hillary Clinton, the expurgated edition being he hates her guts and will not vote
for her should she win the nomination. (Won’t vote at all he
says). He mentioned the gas tax issue somewhere in that explosion.
The political discourse in this country is just plain stupid. Obama gets
my support in part because he says far less stupid things than the
others. Its not that he’s addressing the key issues of the day
(what the hell are we going to do to move from a petroleum based economy to
something else without wreaking our economy) in any particularly astute way,
but at least he is not on record as supporting completely idiotic
positions. We need leadership in this country desperately. Why is
the press attacking Obama about what his pastor thinks instead of addressing
the utter absurdities of McCain and Clinton? The United States has
become a scared, self-centered, and ignorant country.
When you read quotes like this, you have to wonder.
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