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The airwaves are full of political broomsticks these days.  These are not brooms sweeping away corruption.  They are the brooms of a witch hunt, and they are busy stirring up a dust cloud of obfuscation and flat-out lies.

Is Obama a Muslim?

Is Obama American?

Is Obama even President?

The obfuscators have managed to make absolutely crazy questions (were we not all here in November 2008?) somehow mainstream.

The obfuscators, who include ex-drug addicts, serial husbands (serial divorces), sexual harrassers, plenty of non-church goers and multi-millionairess, try to pin every kind of moral, economic and societal evil possible on Obama, despite the fact that he is a clearly abstemious, genuinely Christian, devoted family man, and careful political thinker.

What can be done about it?  What, I mean, can be done by those of us who support Obama, or, at the very least, are against this kind of witchhunt?

Think, do, speak of the positive.  If you support Obama, then openly  (or at least silently) support him.

I understand that this may run against the grain.  Some of you, like me, may have grown up at a time, i.e. during the Vietnam War, when it was hard to be openly patriotic.

Even after the War was over, it was hard for many to let go of the anti-U.S. government stance.   To be openly in favor of a president was like letting go of youth itself, like finally acknowledging that one really didn’t look that great in jeans; like getting reading glasses and noticing a sudden hardness of hearing.

I admit that Obama has not been perfect.  (Yes, I know – no public option.)  But he is thoughtful, intelligent, hard-working, informed, fair-minded, articulate, empathetic.   (If you feel disappointed with him, think of how you would be feeling right now with McCain/Palin.)

All this means it’s time to speak up. When peole say “Obama’s gotta go!”, say “Go Obama!”  (As In “Go Team go!”)

If you don’t feel comfortable speaking up (if you believe, for example, that you really do look good in your old jeans), at least think up. Outmystical Glenn Beck.

Think of Obama’s good points – his grace, his intelligence, his judiciousness.  Then fill the air with these thoughtwaves.  Crowd out the broomsticks.  Do it now.