He is warned not to try it, “It's over Anakin, I have the high ground,” Obi-Wan tells him. “Don’t try it!”
Anakin attempts it anyway, and his legs are cut off by Obi-Wan. He then falls in the fiery furnace, and completes his descent to the dark side.
In the battle for the presidency in 2008, if we are to fight, we must fight from the high ground. As we fight, we must cling to the ‘politics of hope’ versus ‘the politics of division.’ We are Obama’s Army—Americans from all walks of life, who believe he is the only candidate who can change the ‘politics of division’ that is stagnating our nation.
The ‘politics of division’ is practiced on both sides of the aisle, and by the media… It keeps the country divided and off-center, while the rich get richer, the poor get poorer, and the middle-class disappears.
The 'politics of division' is based on spin and semantics. It uses the scandal hungry media to attack candidates with ridiculous assertions and twists of words. It is similar to first-graders on a playground reciting an endless litany of ‘he said…she said.’
I don’t know about you, but I am tired of stupid word games among adults running for president!
The other candidates have played the game for so long, they are thoroughly enmeshed in it. “I’m the one who can take on the other side,” they say. What they are really saying is: “I have lot’s of battle experience – expect more years of battle if you elect me.”
I don’t know about you, but I’m tired of year after year of political battling!
We are Obama’s army. We will fight from the high ground. We have a candidate who says: let’s work together to solve our myriad of problems, instead of setting up battles for the years ahead. We have a candidate who is focused on common-sense solutions, rather than continuing a failed legacy.
The Clinton’s had their chance to implement everything they are talking about now—they failed. Edwards had a chance to bring a winning message to the voters in the last election—he, and his running mate, failed. And, they ALL failed at keeping us out of Iraq!
The attacks are starting, and we will fight back from high ground! We are not going to let this candidate – Barack Obama – who brings us more hope than we’ve felt in many years – we are not going to let him get dragged into the political pit the others are in.
We are Obama’s army…our weapon is faith….we will fight from the high ground!
“If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it;
George Washington
(also posted on BarackObama.com)
