Debate Party afterthoughts...

Last night Dan and I went to the first Obama-McCain presidential debate at the home of a welcoming couple from Narragansett with a very large screen TV.

This is one of the things I love about Obama - the way his campaign uses the web to make it easy for people to connect and communicate. Democracy comes alive! We were about fifteen people, mostly strangers when the evening started, making connections, sharing insights, offering our heartfelt support to our amazing candidate, Barack Obama.

I think it's fascinating - how men and women see the debates in terms of winning or losing on the intellectual debate points themselves. Dan thought McCain won last night's debate on that basis. Not me. During the primaries, he thought Hillary won - again and again. Not me. The candidate who gets my vote is the one who can make me feel a future I want to live in, a diversity that is a joy to be a part of, a clean energy economy that will free us from oil and oil wars, the one who helps me come alive to my very own job - as Citizen Gail.

Office of Citizen

From an email to Bill McDannell, who has walked across America to deliver a petition to Congress to end the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan http://wtetw.com . He has finally arrived in Washington. - Gail


Today's Abraham message, coming in my daily email, seems especially relevant to share:

Your government is the byproduct of the vibration of the masses. A war is the byproduct of the vibration of the masses. In other words, this is not a war that your government has waged against your will. This is a war that has grown vibrationally from the vibration of the masses.
--- Abraham-Hicks 5/8/2004

We have been badly served by our current leaders. Now it is our turn.

I think the real task - for those of us who want a better world - is to reclaim the power of the Office of Citizen in a vibrant democracy. To me, that is the real meaning of what you have done. Let's step outside our own comfort zones. Step outside the War on You-name-it kind of thinking. Begin imagining the much better America we all want to see - made up of American citizens who know their rights, who are not afraid to dream, to lead, to take the first step in faith. And all those steps that flow from that courageous act. Let us be the change we want to see happen in the world.