Reply #114: The nation wanted Gore as their president in 2000,

[Kurovski]

and we were not permitted to have him.

The nation wanted Kerry as president in 2004, and we were not permitted to have him.

And this was even after the Corporate Media did its best to skew our perception of those men.

Even Dean was often recreated in the Media to be that which he is not. And his campaign was eventually put to bed overnight by a media onslaught.

All of those men were either lied about, or had inconsequential elements to their personalities, or events in their campaigns inflated and (most-likely) purposefully misconstrued by the majority of the media. George Bush, who proudly nurtures one or three personality disorders, was somehow made to be the pal you'd choose to hang out with over your own best friend.

Now I see Obama as being in some ways groomed by the media. He is almost a fictional character of seamless perfection and acceptability, emotionally speaking. And voting emotionally is very common.

I have almost no doubt that Obama is a good and honorable man. But I also feel that way about Gore, Dean, and even Kerry.

Even though the press appeared to wish me to believe otherwise, I went with my own deeper reading and observations, as well as the record each man created before finally coming to any "emotionally-based" part in my decisions.

My point here is that I can't help but feel that the decision of who is acceptable presidential material is ultimately not ours to make. This is not by any means a new idea, but the Obama coverage has me dwelling on that once again.

Gore, a man driven by the urgency of a planet in real peril, would be a disaster for those who gain enormous benefit and hold power and sway over the actions that have brought us to where we now are.

Obama? I'm not so sure. But I think somebody who watches very closely from the top is pretty certain.

Obama is soothing. It's as if we're in the post-war Eisenhower period. (has Obama made anything like Eisenhower's farewell "military-industrial complex" speech yet?) Obama is comforting and reassuring, and that is very nice.

So I would finally vote for Obama. But at this point I can't help but feel that it would be because I was allowed to.

We would feel good with a President Obama. Good things would be done.

But some other things, the huge money-makers such as war, oil, health--and whatnot--will likely continue on pretty much as decreed by the money-makers themselves.

In the midst of feeling good, We will petition and cajole, wonder why something is not being done and complain as the house falls down around our ears, and the process will continue.

Perhaps change will just come a bit more slowly with a corporate approved "good-man" president, and perhaps that is the best we can do in America today.