The November 4, 2008
PinFeed Almanack
Welcome to the new millenium.

  
  The Almanack takes a superficial view of history:  For the first time since the
  adoption of the alphabet, the political leader of the culture of the alphabet 
  will not be a European.  He will be a tall, skinny guy from Illinois, who 
  uses the alphabet as well as another tall, skinny guy from Illinois.  (Thanks, 
  CNN.)
  
  Ancestry will never be irrelevant, but suddenly, it means something very 
  different than it has in the past.  Having parents from different continents
  no longer disqualifies.  
  
  This is a change of social attitude large enough to finally, and hopefully,
  turn the last miserable page of the twentieth century.  
  
  Congratulations, president-elect Barack Obama.
  
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  jackgold42@yahoo.com:
     I agree with you that this is finally turning the page. Not a small step, but I 
     giant leap for the US.  Lets hope that he can find the people to solve our 
     issues and get us back in the direction of being a world leader.
  
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  np_thomas51@yahoo.com:
     I looks like he will be leading us while the US becomes "just another country". 
     For that we have the architects of free market capitalism and the past several 
     administrations. It is unfortunate, as I believe that, given some amount of 
     movement from centerist right to centerist left that President Obama could have 
     been a quality leader, an example of what the US can produce (elect) when our 
     backs are to the wall. Never the less, an example we can be if our new leader 
     decides to lead by example. Shuttering Guantanamo, leaving Iraq and Afghanistan 
     alone, letting the bad bankers and auto makers fall on their swords, 
     redirecting the 700 billion toward retooling for alternative energy and a new 
     grid to handle it, and most important of all - telling the world that the US no 
     longer wants to posess weapons of mass destruction and therefore we are 
     starting the dismantling of all of them right now.
  
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