Goodbye Kiddies

Well, then. Just when I thought adults were reading this blog, a little microcosm of our political system erupted in the comments section of that last post. That's just great. So, as much as it pains me, I'm going to refrain from posting any of my political views atleast until I'm back home, because apparently you kids just can't keep it civil. I'm also disabling the comments for a few days so the kiddies in question find new sandboxes in which to play. To my actual friends and family: I stand by what I said, but hope it didn't offend anyone. It's interesting that even my extended family can be a microcosm of the contemporary political divide, and it's worthy of remembrance that we are all, in fact, in this together. I'll just close this off, for the time being, with a quote from Barack Obama, who I think really gets it:

Yet even as we speak, there are those who are preparing to divide us, the spin masters and negative ad peddlers who embrace the politics of anything goes. Well, I say to them tonight, there's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America. There's not a black America and white America and Latino America and Asian America; there's the United States of America. The pundits like to slice-and-dice our country into Red States and Blue States; Red States for Republicans, Blue States for Democrats. But I've got news for them, too. We worship an awesome God in the Blue States, and we don't like federal agents poking around our libraries in the Red States. We coach Little League in the Blue States and have gay friends in the Red States. There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq and patriots who supported it. We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America.

Amen to that.