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of John Gelles
August 30, 2008

OBAMA OR NOT ?

The choice has narrowed to McCAIN-PALIN, an unsophisticated team, willful, anxious to succeed-- but attached to an anti-intellectual constituency, and OBAMA-BIDEN, talkers and thinkers, trying desperately to be elected, supported by anyone who can read and is not part of the power structure determined to stay rich (in fact or in their dream-life).

And so I'm going with the O-B team. But I will listen to Sarah. She has just come to our attention. She may suggest some populist measures that will be attractive.

One of our forum's writers gave us an interesting analysis of centralization versus decentralization. I appreciate that his view is helpful. It led him, however, to be reject Obama for president.

My own analysis begins with a line I heard from one of the pundits today: "Obama's plans to fight deprivation, pollution, corruption, disunity, etc., are logical, and deal with reform that is necessary, but HOW WILL HE EVER PLAN TO PAY FOR THEM?"

The aforesaid forum member appears to me to be more the political scientist, even the history buff, than the economist, or one who has really studied the history of money as the language of price and how its internal contradictions must be resolved along logistical (supply) lines, if we are to avoid depression and war on a greater scale than they are at the moment.

Obama appears to be an effective listener. I've read that Lincoln was one. But Lincoln, in my mind, was a truly great thinker and problem solver, himself. He listened. But his decisions reflected his own mind more than others.

This is the question in my mind: Is Obama gifted enough to take on our real problems related to (1) avoidance of WW-next, and, taming of money's power to distort our production systems-- instead of facilitating them, and (2) accomplishment of conversion to safe clean energy systems, and, reform of law and language to stop the race to Mandarinism and the total triumph of form over substance.

Where are my economic reformers ready to turn price over to our recently acquired super-abundant computational powers and ready to focus production on the urgent needs of the human race?

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