The supreme consideration is man.” Mahatma Gandhi
“When you lose, don’t lose the lesson.” Dalai Lama
Remember that irritating cell phone commercial where the guy keeps asking “can you hear me now?”
I had to stop and listen to my lungs this morning a pour some inhalant down them so I could breath. Not the best way to start a week. If you have asthma you learn to listen.
When I worked at The Tattered Cover book store in Denver we would have celebrity autographs. The most massive turnout we ever had was for Colin Powell. That line looped up three flights of stairs and down and out into the street. I briefly got a chance to meet him since I was helping with crowd control. He is a real gentleman in every sense of the word. He is polite and gracious and obviously intelligent. He was a pleasure to work with.
Yesterday Colin Powell endorsed my candidate Barak Obama and he touched on many of the things that I have touched on in this journal. He opposes the mud slinging campaign being run by McCain/Palin. He knows the Bill Ayers rantings have no relevance what so ever to this campaign. He knows Obama is a Christian and he knows that Muslims need to feel free to follow their religious beliefs. He knows Sarah Palin is totally unfit to be Vice President let alone President. He questions McCain’s rashness in picking Sarah Palin as a running mate. He questions McCain’s bizarre closing down of his campaign to “solve the economic crisis”. He questions whether or not McCain even has a viable solution to the economic crisis.
The most important aspect of Colin Powell’s endorsement is his endorsement of Obama the man and his ability to lead. Our position in the world today is one of derision and scorn. Never has the phrase Ugly American been more apropos. Colin Powell knows how important it will be to have as President a genuinely good man and one willing to talk with anybody to achieve peace.
“When you lose, don’t lose the lesson.” Dalai Lama
Remember that irritating cell phone commercial where the guy keeps asking “can you hear me now?”
I had to stop and listen to my lungs this morning a pour some inhalant down them so I could breath. Not the best way to start a week. If you have asthma you learn to listen.
When I worked at The Tattered Cover book store in Denver we would have celebrity autographs. The most massive turnout we ever had was for Colin Powell. That line looped up three flights of stairs and down and out into the street. I briefly got a chance to meet him since I was helping with crowd control. He is a real gentleman in every sense of the word. He is polite and gracious and obviously intelligent. He was a pleasure to work with.
Yesterday Colin Powell endorsed my candidate Barak Obama and he touched on many of the things that I have touched on in this journal. He opposes the mud slinging campaign being run by McCain/Palin. He knows the Bill Ayers rantings have no relevance what so ever to this campaign. He knows Obama is a Christian and he knows that Muslims need to feel free to follow their religious beliefs. He knows Sarah Palin is totally unfit to be Vice President let alone President. He questions McCain’s rashness in picking Sarah Palin as a running mate. He questions McCain’s bizarre closing down of his campaign to “solve the economic crisis”. He questions whether or not McCain even has a viable solution to the economic crisis.
The most important aspect of Colin Powell’s endorsement is his endorsement of Obama the man and his ability to lead. Our position in the world today is one of derision and scorn. Never has the phrase Ugly American been more apropos. Colin Powell knows how important it will be to have as President a genuinely good man and one willing to talk with anybody to achieve peace.
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