Obama for President (The Villager / W&E Village, Chelsea, Soho, Noho, Little Italy, Chinatown ..)

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... First and foremost is the replay of the Great Depression of the 1930s that is threatening to engulf all of us. When a stock market can shed 40 percent of its value in a year and wildly yo-yo from 800 down to 500 up to 700 down again to 300 within days, it should become clear that an entire society (not to mention the world) is dancing on the edge of a volcano.

John McCain, in obvious campaign panic, almost took a nosedive into that volcano last month, and hardly seems the guide to keep us out of it. Obama has shown how little he is prone to panic even under cruel and intense pressure.

Everybody in this country knows, or should know, what most exigently needs fixing — healthcare, mortgages, foreclosures, jobs, equal pay for equal work, restoration of the regulation of our financial markets, crumbling infrastructure, the environment, energy sources, global warming, a war in Iraq, a war in Afghanistan.

It is not enough to plumb the thoughts of a Joe the Plumber on these and other needs and/or catastrophes, many of which McCain has been blind to in the first place. We have high hopes that on taking office, Senator Obama would quickly move to address the most pressing of these problems. With his prodigious intellect and ability to reach across the aisle, he is surely more than up to the task ...

http://www.thevillager.com/villager_287/editorial.html