I Had a Dream

So I'm channel surfing last night, and I caught this guy on CNN (and maybe a few other channels) named - I wrote it down, let me make sure I got it right - Barack Obama. Did you happen to see it?  I don't get how a fiction movie was playing on the news channels, but I knew it had to be fiction, because this actor was playing a guy running for President and he was, well, black.  Or "African-American," because his Dad was from Kenya, but he only knew him a month. Odd little backstory, that one.

Anyway, the script was AMAZING. This guy was so uplifting and inspirational, and talk about a big budget! 80,000 fans in a stadium, and they didn't look digital! And they weren't Chinese either, so it wasn't the Olympics.

You know, the more I think about it, the more it must have been a dream because this man spoke of a hopeful, optimistic America where people strive to care for each other, and I could have sworn that I live in a country where the haves have convinced the almost-haves that the have-nots are to be feared, marginalized, judged and kept on the other side of the moat, except when they're needed to build castles.

In fact, for sure it was a dream  because this guy was SMART.  Americans don't like smart leaders. They like the folksy. the avuncular, the macho.  Smart men only get elected if they hide it.  (Americans are a bizarre, illogical people.  There were even a few speakers who introduced this guy who said they'd been registered Republicans all of their lives. They only shifted allegiance after the damage done by this regime reached into their own wallets.  Americans don't seem to care much about the poverty of strangers, but their own, very much so!)

Anyway, I'm awake now, and this old white Republican is running, so I guess I'm back to reality.  But I had a dream, and it was lovely.

MCO 2008