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I am sitting here in Berlin, Germany, listening to NPR on 104.1 FM (yes, we have National Public Radio on-tap in Berlin, it is true), and I am rooting for Barack Obama. I have to admit that I voted Republican in the last two elections, in 2000 and 2004, because I was appalled by both Gore and Kerry. I was passionate about Bill Clinton during his eight years in office and preferred anything to Gore or Kerry, to be honest. That said, I want Barack Obama to win because the world wants Barack Obama to win.

On the Fourth of July, I heard our Declaration of Independence read aloud on the radio here in Washington DC. Disturbing.

I was deeply unsettled to note how many of our Founding Fathers' condemnations and complaints against the misgovernment of King George III in the late 1700's could be rightfully levied by Americans and other nations against the appalling misgovernment of the President George Bush II's administration in the early 2000's.

Let's call this the meme of "truth, injustice and the American way"...or when "bad things coincidentally happen to your politically enemy just in time to get them to shut up!" I mean it doesn't really have to be cancer, it can also be an undisclosed ailment. It could be pneumonia. But, it's rarely old age. Take Diana of Wales for instance...she died of Blood Loss nearly 2 hours after the accident that did NOT take her life.