An Obasm?  Yep, an semi-orgasmic delight of Obama….I wish I could say that the term was mine and mine alone….but alas I cannot…..

The Urban Dictionary has had a definition since 2007: “The pleasure that a liberal-leaning journalist gets when writing a fawning story about U.S. Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL). An ‘obasm’ is a story so gushy and so fluffy, bereft of objectivity, that one imagines having to clean up after the writer with a mop and bucket.”

Personally, I never thought that change was gonna come with the election of Obama and I wrote about it on Daily Kos and was attacked because I was not 100% behind Obama as the site was…..goes to show that even us Leftist do not want to hear the truth……..both parties are concerned with power than solutions and the American voter is more concerned with who is president than what is done for the country they proclaim that they love and honor…….

I will not write a flowery post about Obama just because he is Obama….I will defend a policy that I think is best for the country and its people….I care not who is in power…I will not defend someone that I do not agree with or someone whose policy is not in the common good……

I have spent time reading blogs, both left and right leaning and i still shutter when I see the condemnation of anyone just because they are of a different stripe……..I may think a person is a moron and an idiot but I try to refrain from calling them such (not always successful, but t least I try….more than many can say)…..I am not condemning the person but rather a policy I do not agree with….

These days we hear much about ‘moderates’ or ‘independents’………in my mind a moderate is  a made up term to make someone appear more reasonable……an independent is someone who will put political agenda aside to work for the good of the country…….

Recently when I was having an exchange with a friend and loyal reader of Info Ink, Terrance of Sibboleth Nation (go to blogroll and visit his site…it is thoughtful and well written)………he stated that he was not sure where I stood on political issues, at times I sound like a socialist and others a straight liberal….and that exchange got me to thinking that there maybe others out there that would like to know where I stand…..it is a fair question and a fair request…….

And this is something that I have seldom told anyone….for reasons I cannot say….

I am a Leftist and I guess one can analyze that anyway that they choose….I believe that government has a duty to look after the people that it rules…to see that everyone has an equal opportunity at life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness (sorry could not resist)……when I was very young my grandfather gave my a copy of Paine’s “Common Sense”…..and that work put me on the road that I still travel…

But the biggest influence was a man named Ahmed Massoud…..a man I met during the time that I was in service to my country….it is not my intent to write a biography of the man just to illustrate how he influenced my political thinking….(Google him if you want to know more about him)…..

He was a leader of men….he would not set himself above any of his men, he cooked, washed, stood guard duty and when ever he entered a village he would shake the hand of everyone and acknowledge them, he would not take special gifts that the villagers offered because they needed it more than him…..his first concern was for the safety of the people above all……the needs of the people and the wants whenever possible…he listened to every person that wanted to talk with him, whether it was a problem, idea or just a bitch and he would act on them as he had promised….he never told the people anything that he was not willing to do……of course, he had is agenda but he never let his political ambitions get in the way of his duty to the country and its people…….he would put aside his ambitions whenever it conflicted with the needs, desires and wants of the people……

After watching this man in action, I felt that American politics should function along these lines…our politicians pretend to care, pretend to listen but their actions show they do not CARE…..policies have a dollar value in this country……..much can be learned from people like Massoud…it is a shame few listen!