Greetings from Colorado:
It is Thursday, August 28, 2008. This evening, Senator Barack Obama will accept the Democratic nomination for President at Invesco Field at Mile High, less than eight miles from our location here in Golden, Colorado.
A dramatic opportunity arises from this event for those of us who are older than the Senator from Illinois. America's future is at stake! We Old Fellows can make a decisive strike for the future of our children and future generations of Americans. Let's set aside our past shallowness and mistakes and demonstrate our acquired wisdom. Let's show that we are capable of meaningful consequential analysis of the Presidential candidates. The disastrous tenure of the Current Occupant ( Thank you, Garrison Keillor ) demands that we have dramatic change in the Presidency. It will take One Very Smart Person and his talented, ethical appointees to get America out of this mess! Will it be a very bright man from top universities or an individual who graduated in the bottom one percent of his college class ? You know, in your heart and in your mind, that Senator Barack Obama is the only candidate of the two who can take on this challenge. No matter what our individual political persuasions may be, Senator Obama is the ONLY choice for America's future!
Let's get the United States of America back on the critical path to American idealism and success!
Become an Old Fellow For Obama (an OFFO) today!
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10 years ago
1 comment:
I actually know another oldfart whom I believe will be voting for Obama. So they are out there.
On purely economic terms, a case can be made that we pragmatic oldfarts and the young idealistic Obama supporters could come together in our support.Since we are now on the receiving end of government programs (after having paid for them for a lifetime) i.e. Social Security and Medicare, we would very much appreciate Obama raising taxes on those young high earning, high achieving Gen Xers and Gen Yers to make sure WE continue to get our well deserved retirement benefits.
On the other hand, knowing the Democrat's irresistable inclination toward wealth redistribution it is also possible that Obama with the help of Pelosi and Reid might think that we geezers, after a lifetime of frugality and saving and having perhaps built very modest estates, are rich and it is WE who need to be taxed more. So there are risks and, of course, we have good reason to suspect that the Democrat's definition of `rich' includes a whole lot more people than the few thousand really wealthy people in this nation of 250+ million.
The oldfart Republican from Irvine
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