For the past four days (and months before), I have said to many friends that the issues that would dominate this years election would be the economy – and at times, I considered some alternatives to who would be my choice for President this coming election. In the beginning – I was not sure on all – I was looking at more economic wonks like Mitt Romney (okay, so he’s a Repug – I still looked at him and his suggestions), and Mike Bloomberg (yes, Mayor Mike who had breakfast with Obama at a NY deli a while back) and began to feel more confident about Obama – not because of his strong economic background, but because he seemed to b another learned man who could effectively think and lead us through the crisis that we were heading toward.
And now, four days since the start of this financial crisis, I am holding out hope for Obama and the future of our country. I am tired of the failed economic and energy policies that has been put in place the past seven years.
I still remember the anger I felt when I read about those private meetings in the VP’s office on a n energy policy that was drafted by beneficiaries of the oil company largess (e.g. Ken Lay).
I still remember the utter frustration I felt when I watched our great country convince itself to prepare for war in a country that could not have attacked us – and let the antagonist of our financial stresses get away in Afghanistan – just so we could capture him at an appropriately “good” time.
I still remember talking with friends of mine in London warning me to get out of the stocks and anything dealing with real estate since the US had been acting more like a third-world nation with its financial structure – and that if we had a name like Argentina, we would have our Moodys rating drop to “junk” status.
And I still remember the dream of being the most powerful nation in the world, a “hyperppower” in the New American Century as the Repug neoCons called it. It called for military projection into other areas, and little focus on our countries infrastructure and strength beyond our soldiers for fodder in the grand powerplays.
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Apologies for the broad email, but Uday Sreekanth, the Deputy CTO/Data Architect for the campaign, mentioned to me the campaign is in need of an experienced DBA to augment their efforts.