For Once Obama And I Agree On Something

Good job, Mr. President.

That is the sum of my comments on the slightly odd memorial service in Tucson, AZ (Fanfare For The Common Man is not exactly a classical piece you think of in relationship to a memorial service. Know what I mean?). For the first time in his Presidency, Barack Obama acted like the President of all Americans, not just the Democrats. He rose above partisan politics for one shining moment and brought to the forefront an issue that is an integral part of my campaign, the lack of civility in politics (and America) these days. And he appropriately called for it to stop. I believe in giving credit where credit is due and you, Mr. President, deserve credit for standing up last night and saying what needed to be said. That does not make me a fan of Mr. Obama but it does score him some points in my book for his legacy as an American President.

That said, I was sorely disappointed in Sarah Palin not having the class to let things go. Her use of the highly inflammatory term "blood libel" was, at best, a poor choice of words. The most disturbing thing about this is that she obviously had to search for the phrase since it is not used with any regularity any more. Shoot, I had to look the term up because I had never heard it before. Most Americans are probably in the same boat. So, she reaches way back into the past to find a highly offensive term to Jews and then uses it in the context of demonizing those who tried to link her to the Tucson, AZ shootings. Sorry, Sarah, this just further makes my case about a lack of civility. Instead of waiting until you heard what Mr. O said last night, you just blindly fired another volley in a battle which, hopefully, ended last night. I hope the Democrats take the high road on this one and just let this fall flat. The video she made was inappropriate and totally unnecessary. Enough said.

Frankly, I think she needs to apologize to everyone she has offended and particularly to the Jews in this country and in Israel. That would be the right thing to do here.

I wlike to send both the President and Ms. Palin an email with my comments and a link to my blog so they can read this form themselves. However, being the invisible candidate from Texas, I doubt that either of them will read it but I can hope they will.

More to come.