Today marks the 80th birthday of Martin Luther King Jr, a championer of equal rights. I wondered how he would figured into Obama's campaign and becoming the 44th President of the US and trying to sort out the mistakes and miscalulations of W and Chaney.
There's more people going to DC for the swearing in then there are here in Iowa which shows you the whole scope of this historial event. I don't know if things will turn around or get better but the results are better now, now that this is the final day of Governor's Bush's Occupation of the White House.
This decade has been the most roughest of times that I have gone through in this lifetime. The harsh winters, the bad rainy springs and record floods of last year and the damn F5 tornados that wiped some of the towns off the map in May of last year. Speculators running up the gas price and try to blame it on India and China. For once OPEC doesn't get the full blunt of this but rather the Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs who on the stock market bought oil and stored it and used the media to predict 200 dollar barrell oil if they had their way with it. The stock market and oil crash of last fall has given us a reprise for now. But I'm sure the media will find ways to get it back up to four bucks before we're dead and gone.
I grew up watching TV and seeing Martin Luther King Jr on a regular basis. The guy was a believer in fighting for the principal of everybody being free and being in the South and black in the 60s wasn't the best of times. The protest marches, the bombing of 16th Avenue Church in Birmingham which took four girl's innocent lives.
I sometimes wonder what MLK would think of the gangsta rappers of today or the reality crap of BET. But I'm sure he's smiling out in the great beyond to see that people here have spoken and wanted change for the better. Again that remains to be seen if a year from now we trumpeted the progress or look at suspicsion and disgust that things haven't changed at all. But for now, it is a new and exciting time to watch the Obama take the oath and try to restore the deciency that was lost in the eight years of Bush n Cheney.
At least it seems we are on the right road.
