YES!!!

President Barack Hussein Obama.

That sounds great! I love that he kept his middle name for the inauguration. 48 years ago the world was a very different world. I hope that the modern Muslim world will appreciate the courage it took to keep that middle name, as an American. (I love that a kind and gentle Heavenly Father has a sense of humor.) I love that Americans, 80%, support him, even if they didn't vote for him. I love that he inspires us to be better, do more, look more deeply.

As a family we are keeping a "Golden Rule" calendar to record the service we do. Last night for FHE I read his letter to his girls to SKJN & M. So far it is doors open and sharing juice boxes, cheerfully helping around the house.

Loved the music at the ceremony! "Yo-Yo Ma along with Itzhak Perlman on violin, Gabriela Montero on piano and Anthony McGill on clarinet performed the new work composed by John Williams, 'Air and Simple Gifts.'" Aaron Copeland's, "Simple Gifts" was so perfect! Piano, clarinet, cello and violin! The poetry was great but the reading was odd. As if the punctuation was. Off.

ONWARD.

Cheney looked like a sick and twisted, iniquitous, feeble, decrepit Voldemort. Hope time reveals his crimes and that he is alive to receive his judgment... he will eventually. Bush looked like he had another good night of sleep (The former :) president always went to bed at 9:30?! No wonder were are in such a mess.) -- how did the country elect him TWICE?

ONWARD.

re: "My Friends," said the phony geezer.

found this:
8:50 PM [Sean] McCain is averaging about three "my friends" per answer. I can see the "my friends my friends my friends my friends..." YouTube mashup already.

8:42 PM [Nate] Yeah, that was a Debate 101 type of mistake.

On http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/

REGISTER to VOTE! Today! Monday 6 October is the deadline!

in short: Register to Vote

Dear Readers,
Perhaps some Republican (I am so confused about the whacked out terms "liberal" and "conservative". I am conservative with money, clothes, my family structure, as is Obama and Biden and yet McCain/Palin don't seem to share any of those values with me. Cindy McCain's Rep.Party outfit cost $313, 100?! The Bush led $700Billion bail-out? All that seems "liberal".) leaning chums read this blog to get a different perspective or some clarity, as well as see what kind of messes we are making about our blue house, I don't know. The conversational tone is getting more respectful and I appreciate that. Although Palin is "vowing to take her gloves off"--as if she ever wore lady-like gloves, boxing gloves perhaps. Now she's going to use her nails! Yipes.

My friend Robin Ballard is a gear-spinner. She generate ideas and makes them happen. She doesn't get a lot of sleep. We are both looking forward to this election being over, so that we can (hopefully) sleep. She and I have been exchanging emails in between bouts of being awake, which is a bit different from not being asleep or insomnia. This is what she sent me this morning:

Hi H, This is what I was trying to say on the phone.... [my iPhone is giving me fits.]

I had this wild idea today as I was navigating the traffic around the Tabernacle today.... What if people, dressed very nicely, yet with obvious Obama swag festooned about their person, what if these people walked around after conference got out with clip boards for "mail-in voter registration forms" and informative fliers?

What if we had signs that said something like,
"Heavenly Father wants us to live in 'unity and enjoy peace in this life' (D&C 38:27)", or
"We believe in strong families"
"The Savior teaches - love one another, help one another,care for the earth, live in faith, not in fear"
"Vote your conscience"
"Remember when McCain smeared Romney for his Mormonism",
"I am Mormon, Mormonism is not a sect: I'm a Democrat, Democrats are not baby-killers",
"Recently converted Mormon Democrat",

[here's a long one....] "And thus, in their prosperous circumstances, they did not send away any who were naked, or that were hungry, or that were athirst, or that were sick, or that had not been nourished; and they did not set their hearts upon riches; therefore they were liberal to all, both old and young, both bond and free, both male and female, whether out of the church or in the church, having no respect to persons as to those who stood in need.
Alma 1:30"

What do you think?????"

I think all of that is good and true, but, I'm not going to do it on Sunday. Saturday I could have swung it. I will post it on my blog on Sunday though (that falls into the writing to friends and family category, ignoring the No Monitor on the Sabbath rule...seeing as it is Conference weekend, that rule is suspended anyway) and
ENCOURAGE EVERYONE TO REGISTER TO VOTE!
Tomorrow is the deadline. 6 October 2008
HOW?!
Here is a link: voteforchange.com

Since McCain stole Obama's tag line about CHANGE this link works if you are registering for either party. :)

H is for Hussein.

I was asked today if I'd buy a Mormons for Obama t-shirt. Hmmm. YES!
Loved the discussion on the blog. Left the following comment:

Oh dear... should I jump in? Great dialog. I've had people yell at me over any mention of the ills of Palin. (Don't get that.) This t-shirt idea & this discussion motivated me to mow the front lawn and put up my Obama yard sign. Tomorrow I'm going to wear my "Obama Mama" pin... bold moves in Utah County.

At C's new office one woman almost fainted when she heard he is a Democrat. (True.)

Stephen Hussein: Julie is my good pal in NYC!

I don't get the Democrat raising taxes argument... Anyone see what the Bush Clan is cooking up to solve Wall Street's woes? That isn't R or D -- it is crazy and we'll all be paying for it for years. If I recall, for all his foibles Clinton wasn't so hard on the budget.

What is Republican about the debt that is growing and growing and GROWING? The endless war? Failing schools? Failing infrastructure? How about the Hot, but inexperienced, negligent mother for VP nominee? Grandma Ream and Uncle Bud wouldn't recognize the party.

Palin, the mother and a member of AoG (a faith that routinely says that Mormons are going to rot in hell?) makes me so ill... that "hot chick" thing especially. That McSame chose her tells me what he thinks of the American people, on many levels. My fear is that he is right and people will vote for Her/them. Mo-bama's, Obama Mamas, Everyone who wants things to get better needs to speak up for Obama/Biden.

Back to the shirts: Would you like C and I to work on it tonight? (My dear graphic designer friend is one who yelled at me--Wacky republican? Saying all sorts of lies about Obama. I sent her (calmly) to factcheck.com and snopes.com)
Are you taking orders? I am forwarding this to my conservative friends, that means Mormon Democrats. You know the type: we believe in family (parents raising their own children), no debt, fair health care coverage, good education, diplomacy, a strong dollar.
~H Hussein

Another Take...

I appreciate you [the director of M's school] sending this to me!

In many ways it confirms my anxieties about her. For my sake I'm going to outline them:

1) She is impulsive... firing people left, right and center isn't always the best policy. Is it a policy? Is this reason? What have been the results of those actions? 6 months, 2 years down the road? A modest state jet, in a state like Alaska, kinda makes sense to me. I don't understand firing the people hired to protect her and her family, especially after she fired/exposed so many people.

2) Would a barracuda, even an attractive one, make a good counselor to the president, a VP or president? How does a barracuda deal with health care, the enormous budget deficit, terrorists, education (elementary and higher), natural disasters, immigration, congress/senate, states (domestic and foreign), etc.? Today she insinuated that the US might have to go to war with Russia. Just a biting threat like that could have monstrous consequences.

3) What are Her family values? As a Mormon, I have been taught and I believe, that while my children are young the most important job as a woman is raising them, myself. As you know, in this day while trying to give our children what they need, we can get very distracted. Sometimes it is as much work to stay with the young children/adults as it is to fight/go to work for them, which often, though well intended, actually neglects the children. Is she delegating that responsibility to her husband? I don't feel that her children's place is in the oval office. She didn't hesitate to accept the VP invitation. This baffles me--especially with the many issues that face her family.

Blah blah blah. (Everyone is talking--I'm no different.) What I dislike the most is the TONE that is coming from McCain's camp, with Palin being cast in the lead role... that of divisions, "my-way-or-the-highway", pettiness; it wasn't like this prior to 29 August. Their idea of Change is stolen from Obama and is kinda scary. This is the opposite of democracy and it is dangerous.

I've checked this out on snopes.com and it is legit (as is the Wildman Ranch letter). Here is a link to another Alaskan's perspective:
http://www.thepresidentialcandidates.us/about-sarah-palin-a-letter-from-anne

Thanks for listening!
M LOVES! your school! If politics jeopardizes our relationship in any way I'd much rather just leave it on our desktops. I appreciate all that you do for the children, M especially.
Hope you have a wonderful day!