but I believe I am far from alone in having to hold my nose in this election, knowing that failure to support Obama would be unpatriotic and even treasonous in terms of having any chance of beginning to fight to restore the principles on which this country was founded.
Rmoney and the current republiswine, exploiting the destruction engendered by President Cheney and his little toady, still reading at the grade-school level, could easily destroy what is left of our rapidly-expiring experiment in self-government.
Unfortunately, our candidate, while accomplishing some great things, not the least being to float positive ideas like "hope" rather than the fear and terror that were the previous administration's sine qua non, has been hamstrung by an opposition that has even advertised that taking him down is more important than taking care of the business of caring for our country and each other.
We must make certain their program fails big-time.
But many of us continue to be very concerned at how little the O administration has done to redress the appalling erosion of human rights that Cheney's neocons so gleefully undertook. A little correction around the edges seems to be the most we can feel good about. "Maybe" no more waterboarding. Closing Guantanamo - not so fast. NO real investigation/prosecutorial actions as far as I know for what almost certainly included war crimes very high up in the prior administration (and, not coincidentally, very likely involved numerous members of the same intelligence agencies that have doubtless profited hugely from our ongoing fear-based governance and quite likely have skated on any number of other historical crimes, international and domestic, including assassinations in both venues).
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