November 7, 2012: Day One of President Obama's ...

On August 20th of this year I tweeted (to paraphrase) that President Obama had not earned a second term but Romney's choice of Ryan as a running mate made Obama's re-election a gift. On election night as the news came in between 10 and 11 PM on the makeup of the Florida electorate and the fact they were staying in line after the polls closed, I knew Obama had won. Later, when the Teamster official in Ohio told about the huge hold out of his county's mostly Democratic votes, I knew the win would be decisive.

My first national election was in 1960 when Mayor Richard J. Daley held out the huge Democratic vote of Chicago until Senator Everett Dirksen—US Senator (Republican) from Illinois 1950-1969—delivered the downstate votes which were mostly Republican. By holding out the longest Daley knew how many votes he had to deliver to make John F. Kennedy president. I voted for Nixon because I thought President Eisenhower was a great president, and I still do. The War in Vietnam turned me into a "fairness progressive." I'll explain what that means in the posts to come.

November 7, 2012: This is "Day One" of President Obama's new opportunity to actually earn the re-election to a second term that "We the People" have now given him. I think We the People should speak out individually and collectively about what we expect from him as our leader.

I will periodically record my thoughts in video format and post the video here. Here is the first. As I wrote on my Facebook page (Hg Lindquist):

Most will find this video incredibly boring, but someone might not ... and that is who it is for. "We the people" have some issues that need resolution ... and in a country where too many of us are more familiar with the names and personalities of our favorite sports teams than we are with our state legislatures ...

FYI: That's one of my doodles in ink and colored pencil on the wall behind me. I am putting together a functional "recording booth" to eliminate the distraction of my cluttered workspace.