Obama Bin Biden

Just kiddn. He better win today. Otherwise, not only are we fckd but the entire country and the world.

John McCain is truly John McSame. He will continue the failed policies of trickle down economics and American Imperialism leaving nation building afar while our nation (our own house) crumbles.

I pulled the trigger on the Kindle and I am half way through Thomas Friedman's latest book called 'Hot, flat, and crowded.' It's an amazing book. I dare say that the insights and the writing overall in the book matches the great books that I've read. It's up there with Nietzsche, Schpenhaeur, Emerson, and Socrates... for real. I dare say that it's a seminal piece of work on par with Darwin's 'Origin of Species.' It's that revelatory. I initially hesitated on getting the book because I figured it'll just tell me what I already know... that global warming is bad and that we need an alternative to coal and petrol. But the depth and the breadth of Friedman's insights go far beyond a bumper sticker motto. He connects all the dots and gives unassailable amount of facts and insights as to why it is an immediate and the most profound issue of our time. Believe me, I'm a hard guy to impress. I stand on the shoulders of giants. My vistas are quite high. This book is another giant.

Fact: Global population is now at 6.4 billion and by 2050, the population will be 9 billion and every 10 yrs. or so, an American sized (280 mil.) middle class will pop out of that growth consuming resources and excreting carbon on a biblical (exponential!) scale. Think Moore's Law not Newton.

Global warming is no longer a tree hugger issue. It's an issue of survival or extinction and the amount of work and sacrifice that will be required so that our carbon emmissions doesn't kill the planet (and us with it) is astronomical. Forget about the meteor that hit in the Yucatan that killed the dinosaurs. We have a carbon meteor that will implode in 50 yrs. that we are gestating and if we don't control it now on a global scale, one day, Frankenstein WILL walk off the table.

John McCain doesn't get it. He's old school. A tweaker. Obama gets it. Obama better win. Even today, America is the only country in the world that can lead the world. The Danes, the Spaniards, the German, the Brazilians, and the French, they all have better alternative energy technology (to date) than the U.S. But their progress has not made a dent in consumer behavior on a worldwide scale. Only the U.S. has the history of innovation that the rest of the world follows (excldg. the Islamic world.)

America is still the shining city on the hill that the rest of the world looks up to. For the past 8 yrs., we've become dim and the petro dollars have put wind in the sails of our enemies: Iran, Saudi Arabia, Russia. Talk about killing 3 birds with one stone. If we can right our situation with Obama at the helm, we will win back leverage, respect, and the planet. Innovate, baby, innovate! We have to.