The Great Divide

Once again America stands at the Great Divide. A doorway or threshold of sorts which divides the future from the past.

We were here during the election of Gore vrs Bush. Then the future was not seen so clearly and the past was more comfortable than it seems today.

We came here again after 9-11. The door to the greatest opportunity the world had ever had for peace was flung wide open and the rest of the world beckoned to us to come in. The Bush Administration slammed the door in their faces and even threatened them if they would not turn back with us.

Now again today, election day, November 4, 2008, America goes back to that great doorway. The choice is more clear than it was with Gore or even after 9-11. McCain wants to “Fight! Fight! Fight!”, and Palin looks forward to the return of the days of the frontier. Biden, regardless of what one might think of him, is a negotiator, a reconciler, a communicator. Obama, as Powell described him, is clearly a transformational person.

To me the choice seems clear. A vote for McCain is to fly back into the flame. A vote for Obama is a passport to a new world.