Gary Rumor’s Anti-Entropic Continuum

Swine Flu moved to the back pages in the news and Obama is the talk of the TV. Hardball live on MSNBC seems to have an Obama love fest going. Everybody loves Obama.
Is Arlan Specter going to give the Democrats the filibuster proof congress needed to push though the health plan?
Today I heard someone call Obama a progressive. I am not sure about that. I would say he is mainstream.
But the American mainstream has shifted directions. It is almost a miracle that enough people in the flyover states got the word that America needed to get in step with the rest of the world.
When I drove across country back in 2004 people in the middle of the country had little access to information from the left or what I would call a mainstream view. I am not going to say that all of a sudden everyone in the middle of the country is watching MSNBC now. I think it is the economy that did it. When the bottom fell out in the financial markets in September, people had to make a hard choice and all of a sudden having someone like Sarah Palin as the person a heartbeat away from an elderly potential president, knocked some sense into even the most stubborn head in the sand people.
America has the ability to turn on a dime according to Chris Mathews on Hardball. I am not so sure. I am more leery after all Americans like to lead lives of personal and private desperation.
It was great to see Michelle Obama make a direct comment about Sojourner Truth’s statue dedication where she noted that she wondered what Soujourner would think of her a descendant of slaves not the First Lady of America.
Obama made a good point using Churchill as an example with regards to torture, by noting that durring the Battle of Britain, when asked if they should torture German Detainees, he said no. We do not torture and that was when London was under almost daily attack from the air. He also wondered if we could have got the information required without torture. He thinks we could have when discussing the use of torture by the previous administration.
My problem with it is that he is not prosecuting the Bush administration for war crimes.
He is leaving the door open for his own administration to use such tactics. Even if he says it was a mistake he should have said it was criminal. But that is my opinion.
While I am glad to see is that there are commentators from the Nation, a mostly left magazine, on the TV news and being treated as legitimate commentators. America is slowly becoming Euroamerica. MSNBC seems to be leading the charge on TV. even mentioning the Move On crowd as a legitimate source of support. It is not exactly endorsing the Communist Party, but it is close to promoting socialism as a legitimate alternative in modern America.
I am impressed with the American electorate, but I am worried that they will drift off and leave it all up to the experts in the administration. “OK we elected the black guy, now lets see what he can do”.
No America, that is exactly the wrong attitude. It is better to be a wrong minded Tea bagger than to become indifferent. The government must be held to accountability if we ever are going to get real socialized medicine and real economic reform and a real green economy and a real end to militarism and not just Imperial America Lite.
Oh and for shame Congresswoman Virginia Foxx. to call the crucifixion of Matthew Shepard a hoax, and especially while his mother was there is another sign of how out of touch the Republican Party is. Matthew Shepard was tortured and left to die of exposure in a blatant anti gay hate crime in Wyoming. Former Vice President Cheney’s home state.
Flyover country needed to change. It was becoming an embarrassment and I lived there for years. I was blacklisted by the anti union employers and I eventually could only find work smashing bottles at the recycling plant. I left and moved to California. Too bad, the middle of the country has pretty areas, like Colorado where I used to live.
Thank the gods that Americans felt moved to catch a wave and move closer to becoming Euroamerica.