Mid-term elections 2oo9: Tortoises and Hares (Update)

In my opinion, mid-term elections are about State’s Rights. The focuses are different than elections embracing all fifty states united in goals and aspirations. One has local Main Street orientations and the other has massive political tentacles embracing national to continental issues; two different cans of worms, if you will, as different as comparing apples and oranges or old fashioned (1940's?) boys and girls. (Smile)

I am hearing persistent allegations these current mid-term elections are reflecting upon national and global issues confronting Pres. Obama with a strong bonding to the executing of his job: In other words, electing a local candidate based on the President’s job performance.

If that were the case, I would posit this 2009 mid-term election analogous to Aesop’s fable “The Tortoise and the Hare” with Pres. Obama characterized as the hare who does not get cocky or arrogant regarding his goals with history recording other things he is doing along the way on his journey as the hare lie sleeping. The Civil Right’s song, “keep your eyes on the prize, hold on” comes to mind.

The Tortoise and the Hare is a fable attributed to Aesop. The story concerns a hare who ridicules a slow-moving tortoise. In response, the tortoise challenges his swift mocker to a race. The hare soon leaves the tortoise far behind and, confident of winning, he decides to take a nap midway through the course. When he awakes, however, he finds that his competitor, crawling slowly but steadily, has already won the race.

Motivational post:

What Obama Is Up Against
Monday 02 November 2009
Excerpt:
We Americans harbor a quaint belief that a new president takes charge of a government that eagerly awaits his next command. Like an orchestra conductor or perhaps a football coach, he can inspire or bludgeon and get what he wants. But that's not how things work at the top, especially where "national security" is concerned. The Pentagon and CIA are powerful and independent fiefdoms characterized by entrenched agendas and constant intrigue. They are full of lifers, who see an elected president largely as an annoyance, and have ways of dealing with those who won't come to heel.

And

Obama seems to understand his narrow range of movement, and to be carefully picking his fights. He retained many of Bush's top military brass, and even Bush's Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who himself had served as a CIA director for Bush's father. He has trod very carefully with the spy agency, and has declined to aggressively investigate Bush administration wrongdoing on torture and wiretapping. Obama's campaign rhetoric about disengaging from Iraq seems a long time ago, and the war in Afghanistan is taking on the hues of permanency.

And

The old boys' network is very much in place, and it is hard at work to force Obama's hand, a la Vietnam. Witness the leaking of Gen. Stanley McChrystal's supposedly "confidential report" calling for escalation in Afghanistan. The leak was, not surprisingly, to the reliable Bob Woodward.

Read more of intriguing article at:
http://www.truthout.org/11020910
Fighting for the dignity of my Ancestors,
God bless Bill Gates, WPFW, C-SPAN and the spirits of the unborn for the help,
BB
(UPDATE)
David Axelrod was on the Andrea Mitchell Show this afternoon and this is my interpretation how he answered her question regarding what he learned from the voters in the NY-23 district. He acknowledged a Democrat won a Congressional seat for the first time in over one hundred fifty years. He said a Democrat has not won that district since the time of Gen. Grant.

Mid-term campaigns are supposed to be on local issues, I interpreted him as saying, and when you try to run on national issues or engage a speaker identified with national issues, you lose.

I conclude what he was saying and it comes down to this Black expression: “With all due respect, man, I ain’t talking ‘bout your Mama. I’m talking ‘bout you!”