Monday, November 10, 2008

GObama!!!


I am thrilled Barack Obama is the President-elect of the United States of America. I feel as if we, the American people, have been given a hand to lift us up out of the the tumultuous sea of fear that has been governing us. Maybe I’m being overly dramatic. Yet, I don’t care. I am excited on so many levels. I’ve been reading articles for months on the positions of McCain vs. Obama, and the arrogant authority the Bush administration has been taking to serve a conservative agenda and undermine our democracy….though, let me not get so high and mighty on my soap box. This blog is for the stories of technology in our lives.

Obama’s campaign used technology masterfully to generate momentum at the grassroots level. And I am looking forward to the innovation that his presidency will fund, and support. I read an article in the New York Times comparing McCain’s position on innovation vs. Obama’s position. I have always believed that the success in the Silicon Valley was due in large part to the free education system that we had for many years at the Junior college level, and the extremely affordable education provided to Californians by the California State University and the University of California systems. All that free and affordable education not only cultivated genius, but gave geniuses like Steve Jobs and Larry Ellis the workforce necessary to build their successful companies. So, when I read that Mr. Obama feels that funding education and research in technology and the sciences will boost America’s position as a leader in innovation, I agreed. That's the long term solution. We had no more time for the McCain approach which would have been to deregulate corporations and hope they do the right thing. That’s the same old trickle down theory from Reagonmics 101. Thank God we’ve been saved!



God Blessed America.

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