WOW, ONLY ONE WEEK TO GO!!!

Yep, this is still the Bear visiting with you tonight, Monday, October 27th, just one week from liftoff in one of the greatest, "you bad", exciting, volatile races in American history. Many great adventures will be narrated over the years to come about the variety of candidates, the primaries, the conventions and the campaign which has brought these candidates into community after community all over the US!

Tonight I salute the great former governor of Vermont, chairman of the National Democratic Party for his "50 state" strategy, which has given us a new outlook towards our goals and organization.It was John Dean who said: "No more targeting states like reds and blues. We're going after them all and allied with the famous Obama organization that sure enough has happened!

To achieve this lofty effort, the Democratic Party went to work organizing and rallying a downtrodden party and lent its objectives to the bitterness of the American public, who was saddled with the worst administration in the history of the US but wasn't sure which way it wanted to go in 2008. You bet we Dems want out of Iraq, a fair tax program, a green nation, an economy which grows and benefits all Americans. We Demos must give us not only fair government but honest and genuine, always hard working US Senators and Reps. Remember Mr. and Mrs. America:
We have three branches of the Government: Legislative, Executive, Judicial. All must be respected by our electorate and all must respect their constituents. Somehow during the last 8 years the party in power forgot that!

Then there were the polyglot of candidates which culminated with a newcomer, a charmer, a so called intellect who some called a "rock star", leading his troops with a keen sense of humor, a freshness that captured the minds and hearts of people all over the globe and an organization which defeated "the famous Clintons", considered by most unstopable not too long ago. The Repubs, after another interesting fight, eventually settled on "old money" and came up with Senator John McCain. It appears that Senator Obama's team has been non relenting in their efforts to elect their candidate. Wow, what a team!

If you have been following "Bear Talk" you would have seen the Bear muddling over, meditating on, and going from Richardson to the battle between one of his favorite women, Hillary Clinton (no not the puck head from Alaska) and this new guy Barack Hussein Obama and after several weeks deciding he would go with Obama and you know what? He's made a happy choice.

Now here's why the Bear is supporting Obama:

1. Tax Plan is geared towards the Middle Class, no George Bush type "no taxes but we'll fight two wars. McCain first opposed Bush"s tax program and later voted for it! He now wants a no tax plan that will favor the upper classes in our society, just like W's plan, in otherwords the old Repub "trickle down" program which has always been the stuff of Repub tax programs.

2. And what about the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan? Well, with McCain, we get more of the same watchful waiting and spending which has led to the divided and maybe disinterested Iraqui government to more or less want us out of there soon! Well if Barack gets in there it will be an important ingredient in his foreign policy to put an end to this disgraceful event in US History.
About Afghanistan, the Bear isn't too sure we should be in there either. It would not be my policy to chase thru the mountains of Afghanistan after good old Osama and give weapons to all sorts of characters over there like we did when the Russians were there only to have them fall into the hands of the enemy. What we need is to bring the troops out of unneeded spots throughout the world and train the hell out of them, build up an organized and ready force and
be ready for any major, I say major undertaking we may be called upon to rectify. Now get this:
Iraq was not an ally of the US. Greece, Turkey, South Korea, Israel, GB, France and Germany, plus a few more are part of our network of Allies. I say honor all present alliances and build on diplomatic efforts to deal with our adversaries thru nation to nation efforts and thru the UN! Yes, the UN can work! McCain is not the person to lead this effort, Obama yes!

The Bear will address other issues in this pivotal and important week in American history!

It is necessary for the Democrats to gain control of both Houses of Congress by healthy majorities and then it will be our ballgame to engage in positive programs to improve our standing in the world and strengthen a military which presently is in disaray. I don't like to criticize our military leaders but Bush's and McCain's total dependence of General Petraus has gone from a respectful acceptance of his views on every policy to a dangerous dependence on his views on everything from Iraq to Iran to Korea to Pakistan to Syria. Where I come from your Commander-in-Chief (we do not have one now), a civilian is in charge of the military, not some general out there.

More to say tomorrow on the Economy and I'll give you and Barack a hint: THERE ARE MANY AMERICANS OUT THERE WITHOUT JOBS, MEDICAL CARE AND WITH EACH DAY IT GETS WORSE. Remember the really bad time in the Depression of the Thirties took place between November when the great FDR was elected and March (they inaugurated in March then) when he took office. We need major programs ala "The New Deal" to put our American labor force back to work. Should we be so fortunate to win next Tuesday, we must and should start to prepare for January 20th when we will be carrying the ball for the American people, and I mean ready! Enough, its World Series time!