Fact

Newly elected Senator Brown of Massachusetts with boastfull pride said he was going to burst the bubble of the Obama heath reform efforts. Brown's own state has its own complete health care program deemed to be very similar to Obama's but only on a state level. Now I can see that as a team player for the Republican party that piling on the bandwagon against national health care is part of party loalty. Let us take a step back and look at the fact that here is a man with similar health care in his own state but wants to be aganist it for everyone else. Being a Republican should not be the same as being a Red Sox fan. Obama has a bi partisan Cabinet of 13 members and Hilary is doing a matter of fact job that McCain would not likely do much different. So a neutral partisan Cabinet is evidence of wanting to get work done. Bush complained of a Do Nothing Congress while in office and closed with a huge amount of debt. Brown as a new member of the Senate is fresh enough to not fall into revenge politics and be bright and positive.

Obama's America.

Thanks to Chris Matthews "Hardball" at MSNBC and Boeing Corp for their combined work via Texas Southern University. The presentation on Race during the Martin Luther King holiday was a significant sumation of progress acheived since the election of President Obama. Obama's America and the presentaion of stats from Mr Matthews gave evidence of a comming together of racial divide among Americans. I hope he can continue such great work every year on the same holiday. Significant members of the news and radio community offered challenging viewpoints and student participation brought forth pains that cannot be surmounted among us eassily. The professional level of discussion maintained order but yet allowed the refference to the vernacular and barbershop chatter that often creates the level of conversation where race is used in a challenging atmosphere. The difference between race and racist are opposing poles in the habits of mindless ignorant hurtfull speech. It was established that the refference to race need not be corrected for it is who we are. However racial ignorance in a hurtfull way is an all powerfull negative. An Arab woman speaker who's name I don't recall, I appologize for that, made an interesting observation that I think is a classic point of view of an immigrant comming into the US. She mentioned that her students often would admit to voting for Obama without being familiar with his policies. She possed the question that if you voted for him based on just race alone is that then a racist vote? My viewpoint is that voting for someone is not a negative or hurtfull intent of my vote. Could it be termed racial? Well no doubt it could. But turning racial to racist is not a given equal assignment of value. I would say to her the difference is similar to the difference between Islam and Islamist. I'm sure she would agree that her students votes did not make them terrorists.

Hary Reid

I actually heard Sen Harry Reid's statement on the news and thought a question of professionalism was being presented to evaluate. The current media blitz on Harry Reid's comments referring to Negro dialect is to pressure Sen Reid into a racist mode. Actually I thought when I heard it live is that Sen Reid was comparing President Obama to Republican National Chairperson Michael Steele. I felt that Reid was saying Obama is more professional than Steele. Nothing more. Out of context Harry Reid painted himself in a corner that the gamesmanship of political dialog pounced on. He had no choice but to appologize if challenged. Obama as usual is his gracious self. By accepting Reid's appology he created an avenue for any further comments inteded to harm or delay positive progress in any and all programs to exit free of any accusations of deep seated hatred.