If Obama is ushered in as the democratic presidential candidate, let's all consider our principles when choosing who we vote of in the Nov election. When I use the word principle, I will remember how none of the DNC leaders spoke out against the disgusting sexism and misogyny directed towards one of their own, a startling and disappointing example of lack of loyalty, as one of the nominee was to be sacrificed. When the mass media  began the sexist rants, numerously chronicled, and began declaring Obama the winner, lets not forget how many of those Obama supporter's (Randy Rhodes, Olbermann, etc) joined in the character assassinations.  So my friends, you will have to choose between blind group loyalty as a principle and personal principle and we should ask ourselves whether we should reward those who sought to destroy someone we admire in a gloves off sexist, misogynistic assault. Those darrn principles, our core.

OK, politicians are ambitious, they want more and more power.  Also, some of them actually believe in something.  And this is the bottom line problem with Senator Obama.  

Yesterday, the New York Court of Appeals made a ruling that reinforces my view that the central problem facing our times is a fundamental respect for the separation of the public from the private.  Public here are those rules meant to govern us all. Private are those rules meant to govern us as individuals atomized from each other. Obama's speech last week, JL v Lamont and the GA and NY decisions have brought up a lot of questions- for me about what is a real decline in our society.  Many conservatives will dwell on the individual's morally. They will argue that individual morality is in decline, and this will destroy us as a nation. However, I disagree. It's not the decline of private morality that will destroy this nation. It's the decline of public morality.

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