President Obama

It’s official, the Democrats have won in the greatest presidential landslide since 1992, proving once again that unless the country’s in a severe economic crisis, we don’t have a shot of winning this thing.  After eight solid years of mismanaged campaigns marked by inconsistent veiled messages, I was beginning to believe that pigs would need to grow wings to carry one of our boys (or Hillary/Pelosi) into the White House.  Instead, all it took was two wars, a broken economy, a hurricane ravaged Gulf Coast and a celebrity candidate.

The real question now is, will Barack Obama be content to go down in history as merely the first Black man to sit in the oval office; or will he choose to be remembered for something bigger?

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Whether you’re a resident of California or not, there’s a good chance you’ve heard of Proposition 8. It’s an initiative that the ballot description tells us would “change the California Constitution to eliminate the right of same-sex couples to marry in California.” It would add a new section to Article I of the constitution that would read “Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California.” I’m writing this note because so much of the information put out by the “Yes on 8″ campaign is a pile of lies. Not the kind of lies politicians might use – omission of facts, shades of gray, or slight exaggerations – but flat untruths easily undone but Googling California law. I’m writing because the campaigns for and against Proposition 8 are tied in the polls. The outcome isn’t certain, the future isn’t set in stone, and the effects on November 5th to the California constitution, civil laws, and the rights of couples in the state can still be influenced.

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