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I don't mean literally (although they truly did), and I certainly do believe that people have every right to get rich in this country, even filthy rich if they can do it.  I mean that the MSM is now full of people who are not in journalism for the honor but for the big bucks and the oversized expense accounts.  I guess money truly does wreck everything it touches.  It's funny that all this process analysis is called "inside baseball" because the exact same thing has happened to baseball.  Baseball used to be played by guys like Ted Williams who truly loved the game.  Now it's played by a bunch of pimped-out whiners with astronomic paychecks.  The same thing is happening in  Journalism.  Think about the buildup to the Iraq war: those of us with open eyes watched in dismay and disbelief as everyone, from the so-called experts to the reporters, got on board even while millions of peoples' shouts of protest fell on deaf ears.  A quick and easy war in Iraq?  Excellent: think of the first class travel to Quatar, maybe with a quick side trip to that big fancy hotel in Dubai.  Why stand in the way of that?

This was the worst debate in the history of human discourse,  and NOT because of poor performances on the part of the candidates, but because ABC decided to give us those tired old "gothca" games we see every minute of every day on Cable television.

and we need to get to work.

For 39 1/2 years, Sesame Street has been teaching us that we need to get along with people and monsters of all colors and creeds.  It is long past time for those of us who grew up under Big Bird’s all-inclusive wing to finally step up and take our rightful place in the world.  We need to respectfully, and with love and affection, disagree with certain of our elders who are stuck in the old ways and patterns of discord. Obama has shown us the way; we will follow his example.  

The most important thing for us to do now is to make our presence known at the polls in the kind of numbers we know we are capable of.  We need to show an avalanche of support for Obama, who has paved the way with his masterpiece of a speech on Tuesday.  Our time is now and we need to GET TO THE POLLS.

We will treat the old guard with grace and gentility as we vote out their dinosaur ways and vote in the new!