Recently I heard an interview with Doris Kearns Goodwin discussing Obama and his spaciousness in thinking.  Obama has a keen ability to stick to the big picture – leaving space for more information, points of view, sense of history and the possibility there is another way…Hence he was able to win the election with a fifty state strategy and keeping to his big message – change.

 Of course, keeping to the big picture can lead to problems (hello new bailout bill of good and bad) – so along with ever-expansive thinking, there needs to be the balance of making final decisions and taking action. 

 Look at your own life – where are you struggling?  Do you need to expand your thinking to a new way of doing things or do you need to make a choice?  Remember – there are no bad choices, because you learn and grow from ALL your choices.  As you already know, some of the best lessons are discovered when you make the ‘wrong’ choice.    

Please, someone explain how anyone can still be wondering which candidate to support in the November elections?  Listening to NPR this morning was torture as we were forced to listen to reactions from independent voters about last night’s debate.  Are you kidding me? 

 Why exactly should any of us care about the impressions of an uninformed voter?   There are differences between these two men, however you slice it.  About six months ago, I could have been pleased to see either man in the White House, however, watching McCain become part of the “politics of personal destruction” and adding Sarah Palin ended that idea. 

 Over my dead body will I ever vote for a person who wants to turn back Roe Vs. Wade and go so far as to deny rape/incest victims abortions.  Shooting wolfs and deer from helicopters was really just validation.  If I have to hear how she can Russia from her state again as foreign policy experience I am going to scream.  What about a qualified Republican woman – Olympia Snow or Kay Buchanan?  Why insult this so-called “independent vote” with someone who looks good winking, but has few other qualifications???  I hear she is good at running up the debt in Wasilla…