I consider myself a democrat. I am a liberal, but not a bleeding heart. The other guys have a few policies I agree with, such as fiscal conservatism, but they have fallen too much under the control of fanatical religious zealots, which brings us back to the control issues mentioned above. I strongly believe in the separation of church and state. The Constitution entitles religious institutions to say what they please, but if they choose to interfere in politics, they should be considered political institutions, and taxed accordingly. We have seen in the Middle East what happens when religious interests get too much power in the government. Is that really what we want for America?
In the presidential contest, I supported Barack Obama from start to finish. It’s not just that I found him a politically appealing choice for the job, I genuinely like the guy as a human being, and this opinion rises the more I learn about him. There doesn’t seem to be any dirty laundry on him: he’s already put everything out on the table. I think he’s just the kind of fresh thinker this country needs in the White House.
I thought George W. Bush was an incompetent idiot. I think he and Dick Cheney should be prosecuted for their war crimes.
In more local affairs, I’m delighted that Norm Coleman got unseated in this year’s election. Al Franken will do a much better job for the people of Minnesota than he did. Coleman would have been handily defeated by Paul Wellstone in the 2002 election, had he not died in a plane crash less than two weeks before the election. Call me a conspiracy theorist if you will, but I strongly entertain the theory that the plane crash was somehow arranged, most likely via sabotage, by Coleman’s campaign or the Republican National Committee. It can’t be proven, but I would not put it past the same minds that got caught with their pants down in the Watergate scandal of 1972.
But it’s all over now, and our new senator takes his rightful seat and gets to work. Go Al!
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