For me, Joe the Plumber has a negative connotation. In the Nixon years the White House Plumbers went to prison for their dirty deeds! Just use Wikipedia to search for "Nixon Plumbers" and you'll see the story of deceit as they tried to get Nixon elected. They became known as the White House Plumbers or "the plumbers".
Why does the current "Joe the plumber" want to have this kind of association? Is he ignorant of political American history?
Senator Obama wants education to flourish in our country again. Without education, ignorance will bring our country into a black hole. Joe the plumber appears to be a prime example why we need to make education a priority.
I believe, with all my heart, that America will be on the road to change if Barack Obama is elected President of the United States of America. We, as Americans, will then have the perfect chance to contribute to this cause. The reason I believe this is because Barack said it. He said, as he spoke in Henderson, Nevada yesterday (October 31st), that 5 million jobs will be created after he becomes President. Jobs, in my opinion, are one of the things that makes our Nation great. We absolutely need to be the Nation that invents things and values education.
I have come to see that Barack is a man of his word. He's honest and helps communities become better. From the stories I've seen of him, he has committed his life to helping people have better lives. I started out being a supporter of Hillary Clinton. She's a very smart woman. She, and her husband, think that people come first in our country. They certainly do! Without people, we wouldn't have the wonderful towns and businesses that make this country great. The corporations wouldn't have advocates of their own businesses without American employees. Inventions wouldn't happen so quickly without American creativity. The military wouldn't be so quick to respond without American patriotism. Barack knows, from what I've heard, that people are very important when it comes to making this country great.
But soon, I realized that Barack had the attention of the younger generation by huge amounts! And that is when I paid more attention. A lightbulb went on over my head! I realized I was still thinking and remembering the 1990's! I then realized we needed to be in the 21st century, and our younger generation seemed to know that better than me! Senator Obama showed me the way as he organized his way to the top of the Democratic Campaign! He called me personally one day to tell me so, but at the time I didn't know who he was! I said I was a Hillary supporter and that was how it was! He said, at the end of our conversation, "Well, Mrs. Morrison, remember, you'll have to think of who the RIGHT candidate is before you vote"! That sentence was in my mind for months later! I didn't quite understand what he meant by "the RIGHT candidate". I always prided myself on thinking I knew who the right person for President could be.
Senator Obama's vision paves a path forward that will be transitional. We need to improve our country with more jobs, improve infrastructure, and improve education, to become more competitive. I was told recently by my son, who is taking classes at a community college to get a Cisco Certification in Silicon Valley, that Cisco is slowing down on hiring because they are waiting to see who is going to be elected for President! Now I would say that maybe that is smart of them to do that. But, on the other hand, my husband, http://www.chuckmorrison.com, has noticed a significant slowing down in the hiring process this September and October. He's a Sr. Project Manager that normally can be hired within a months time, but now he is seeing this slowdown in Silicon Valley. It appears that our America is so concerned about what is happening within this current administration, the corporations don't want to move forward until after the election. This is obvious if you are watching the stock market and the financial crisis that has gripped the country! Senator Obama wants to change the deceptive eight year behaviour of this administration by making more jobs open to the public. What good does it do for a country that can't move forward because they are in a stale-mate!
I have made two pictures for the art community I contribute too. One picture shows that we need a new path to progress in America. This is where you can see it: http://www.artistrising.com/products/344468/path-to-progress.htm We need a new path where everyone is involved in order to move our country forward. The other picture was made as a digital painting from two pictures I photographed from my own televison set! http://www.artistrising.com/products/344371/we-the-people.htm This picture is about working together to promote change and progress in America and shows the last scenes at the Democratic Convention at the stadium, as a digital painting. I hope you enjoy looking at them. So far, they seem to be staying on the front page of the "People" section at http://www.artistrising.com. It appears people are looking at them. I know people want hope and change for our country.
I would like to stress the importance of the idea of creating new jobs in America. The Nation has moved in a downward curve for eight years. We can't stand much more. We need a President with inspiration and hope to move our country forward. We the People can do it with this kind of inspired leadership. We can move down a New Path to Progress if Barack Obama is elected!
I just watched Sara Palin speak at the Republican Convention. I'm disturbed beyond belief. I can say as a fact, she reminds me of certain women, in executive positions in Silicon Valley, that feel they need to be the "b" word to do the job right. And I mean a real "b" word...cut-throat. There's a certain person I'm thinking of that has a real reputation all over the Valley. People do not want to work at that company. I don't mean eBay. As an example, you wouldn't know that an executive in charge, with this reputation in Silicon Valley, surfs as a hobby.
Watching Sara Palin speak, she distorts her face as she makes a point. That is a huge form of negative body language, because it shows she means to be very aggressive with her ideas and already has her viewpoint considered, with no regard to anyone else's thoughts. It's scary to think of having a person like that in charge of the second highest office in the land. Perhaps the Secret Service should be very watchful of her in McCain's presence. She seems quite ambitious with her own agenda in mind. Some of the words she used in her speech seems almost "dagger-like" as I have seen in certain women executives in Silicon Valley. You won't see men behave like this too much. This is a woman thing.
This is not a sexist point of view. Women executives, like Carly Fiorina, have these types of reputations. Silicon Valley is one place where it plays out.
The people in her audience don't know what they are getting the country into... if they vote for her. She mocked community organizers. That should say something by itself. She's all about PROFIT. That's all I heard during the last two days of this convention... PROFIT.
For Sara Palin, it's "Country First" for PROFIT.
Democrats speak for the people.
I've noticed surveys that say John McCain is the person who would be the better Commander-In-Chief! Ha! I think people don't understand what it takes to be a Commander-In-Chief! Being Commander-In-Chief is the difference between being a strategist or a tactician, it is that simple. Maybe people don't understand this difference. They may think that all it takes is to have your mind set on an idea, then go for it, even if you have to be a bully about it. This bully attitude is the kind of thinking our current administration has and it hasn't ever worked for eight years. Electing someone else just like them would be a disaster for our country and the world! Educating yourself regarding these differences is very important in this election.
Senator Obama is qualified to be a Commander-In-Chief because he is a strategist and a leader. My husband, a former Vietnam Veteran and Republican, has been telling me what it takes to be a strategist in the military and why a tactician doesn't qualify one to be Commander-In-Chief. A strategist has the plan, the vision, to do the things at the right time at the right place. In thinking about a strategy, you may want to liken it to a game of golf, because the strategy is to know which direction and how far you need to move the ball down the fareway. You need to know how to move the ball down the fareway in the right direction in order to knock the ball into the hole.
The pre-requisite of being Commander-In-Chief is knowing strategy, not tactics, and Senator Obama is a strategist. A leader doesn't question another man's patriotism as his theme to get elected. He wouldn't advocate that all the other nations are always wrong. A leader would talk about diplomacy and strategy.
Senator McCain is a tactician... that doesn't qualify him to be a Commander-In-Chief. These are the goals of a tactician:
1. Keep your head down.
2. Keep your eye on the ball.
3. Follow through.
4. Stay the course.
Tacticians are like supervisors on the shop floor who do their job well. But they don't have the right experience of planning and strategy and vision to take the whole company forward. This means they aren't qualified to become President (CEO) of the company. That's why General Wesley Clark has said that just being a pilot and getting shot down over Vietnam doesn't qualify Senator McCain as Commander-In-Chief. No one is questioning McCain's patriotism, like McCain questions Senator Obama's patriotism, we are, though, questioning his lack of experience in strategy. If that shop floor supervisor, from my previous example, attempted to lead the company by staying the course, he/she may very well lead that company down the cliff!
Senator Obama is a strategist and Senator McCain is a tactician. Our country needs a strategist in this new century of fighting terrorism and not a person who seems immature in their thinking. We need a critical thinker like Senator Obama who has been raised in other countries and has seen what it is like among the poorer nations. He has seen that education is the key in these places so children won't grow up to be terrorists.
My mom, who is 79 years old, likens Senator Obama to President Roosevelt who was very knowledgeable about the world and led our country while in a wheelchair. He led our country through a world war and economic crisis. My husband says that Senator Obama reminds him of John Kennedy, Martin Luther King (the recent Berlin speech), and Ronald Reagan, all rolled into one! America needs a leader with all these attributes!
Our country, and the world, is in grave danger now. We can't afford a President who doesn't remember the facts, makes the facts up if he forgets, doesn't know what country is where, etc. We need a REAL and RIGHT leader named Senator Barack Obama!
