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McCain just conceded at 10:28 CST. Barack Obama will be the 44th President of the United States of America. I am filled with hope.More later.

-Loki, Founder HumidCity

Mere weeks remain, soon the overburdening hysteria will subside as votes are tallied, recounts demanded and one reptile or the other slithers into the Oval Office. Like the majority of my fellow bloggers on HumidCity I am pro Obama. Unlike many out there I do not trust or like him very much at all. I do believe he is our last, best hope for salvaging something from our country’s toppling fall of the past eight years.

I don’t think anyone who seeks power is trustworthy, power intrinsically attracts the corruptible. Make no mistake, I am sharpening my claws for Obama’s screw ups once he is in office as I would anyone else taking the position. All politicians must be watch-dogged, even (sometimes especially) the charismatic ones.

That said I encourage all of you out there to cast a vote for Obama come election day. He is the only politician I’ve ever heard acknowledge the vital nature of dealing with the wetlands. While we were evacuated during Gustav I caught some of Anderson Cooper’s 360 when he was speaking with Obama. The Senator from Illinois was asked what his strategy for the Gulf Coast would be upon taking the Oval Office. Sen. Obama replied that while levees and housing issues are vital the most important thing is restoration of the wetlads so that this becomes a once every hundred to hundred fifty years occurence as aopposed to an every two or three year occurence. As Gulf Coast residents this is an angle we all to be on the same page about. “Drill, baby, drill!” will do nothing but further destroy our only barrier against the storm surge.

Obama is as close to the answer as we are going to get right now. It is incredibly important to have someone in office who will deviate from the disastrous path our country has been taken down by the “Current Occupant.” As McCain’s campaign becomes more overtly hate filled and brazen in its attempts at deception I feel pretty safe in saying he is not the one we need. He voted with Dubya 90%+ of the time and helped to bring our nation to its knees, as we watch the global economy begin to spiral down the toilet as a result the course of action should be clear.

Once he is in office then it will be time to explore and lobby for a new syste (Instant Runoff Voting comes readily to mind) that will enhance democracy by making third party candidates viable without being “Vote wasters.”

Come on people, this is too important to screw up.

-Loki HumidCity Founder

Via The Onion:

Bush Tours America To Survey Damage Caused By His Disastrous Presidency

I keep reading bulletins and news reports about Barack Obama’s pastor, and the remarks this pastor has made. Who cares?

Barack Obama didn’t make these statements.
His retiring old pastor did.

Barack decided to distance himself, without trying to destroy an old man who was about to retire.
I think that shows character and integrity, yet he is being condemned for remarks that this pastor made.
Because he ‘associated’ with this pastor.

Bill and Hillary Clinton ‘associated’ with the McDougals, who later went to prison for fraud in the Whitewater Land Investment Scandal.
In fact, the Clintons claimed to have lost documents that showed the level of their own involvement.

Hillary Clinton went as far as to claim some of the documents never existed.

The ‘non-existent’ documents magically appeared, with Hillary’s finger prints on them, just weeks after the statute of limitations on prosecution went by. Read the rest of this entry »

George Bush often touts the idea of America as a Christian nation. He stresses his faith and support of faith based socail change. Maybe he should actually pay attention to what his fellow christians have to say.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The president and co-founder of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference called on President Bush to get U.S. troops out of Iraq and U.S. money into New Orleans to repair damages from Hurricane Katrina.

“We find funds for Halliburton to make millions fixing Baghdad. But we have not yet found the resources to fix the levees on the Mississippi River,” Joseph E. Lowery said Wednesday at a New Orleans news conference.

Promises were made on Jackson Square. The typical unfulfilled promises of a politician. Unfortunately these promises mean our survival, and were an order of magnitude beyond your usual election season offerings.

My advise to “The Decider,” is to adhere to the tenets of the faith he supposedly espouses. To remember the precepts of Yeshua Ben Joseph and treat others with love and care, rather than sowing dischord and watering it with blood to yeild the bitter crop we in New Orleans are harvesting.

Bush :: New Orleans
Nero :: Rome

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When I was being interviewed the other night for the newspaper in Dobbs Ferry, NY the reporter was shocked by my description of the government response as viewed down here. My thoughts and reasoning are easily available by searching this site. It is a fact that we have been treated horrifically by those whose solemn duty is to ensure domestic tanquility, provide for the common defense and promote the genereal welfare (at least the last time I checked).

The President’s recent return threw this into sharp relief. The latest phot-op being the latest in an ignoble tradition begining with the staged speech in Jackson Square. You know, the one with the gorious promises counterpointed by the feeding stations (people were still starving) that were immediately broken down after the shoot.  Now, like a late night B-Movie we are treated (?) to Bush Speech III: The Emperor’s New Clothes. An eloquent and impassioned, as well as erudite and sucinct treatment of this is located over at the Wet Bank Guide. I am excerpting a paragraph here but highly enourage you to visit his site and read the whole thing. I rarely say this, but I agree 100% with it. It is addressed to G. Bush directly.

Wet Bank Guide: You Lying Sack of Shit
Too bad you didn’t share some of your real world experience of civics and free enterprise with the students at Warren Easton High School. It’s good you picked a school for your little speech, somewhere where the students are required to sit respectfully and quietly while you shovel it up. I know you didn’t want to venture out where my daughter’s friend and her mother were caught in a traffic jam for your motorcade, an instant mob in which people of every race, creed, income and age stood out of their cars or leaned out their windows and unleashed a torrent of insult and profanity and interesting gestures as you went by. If you had stopped there to shake hands, as your predecessor might have, I wonder if you could find one not balled into a fist.