Prometheus 6

This

"I'll admit that I probably don't follow all of the election news like maybe I should," Peterman said. "I haven't read his books or studied up more than a little bit. But it's hard to ignore what you hear when everybody you know is saying it. These are good people, smart people, so can they really all be wrong?"

Yes! They are wrong!

and this:

Gerri Kish, a 66-year-old born in Hawaii, read both of Obama's autobiographies. She has close friends, she said, who still refuse to believe her when she swears Obama is Christian. Then she hands them the books, and they refuse to read them. "They just want to believe what they believe," she said. "Nothing gets through to them."

...can't both be true at the same time.

Is it really impractical for black folks to succeed and form our own nation? PT, you can be the first president/prime minister.

"PT, you can be the first president/prime minister."

Thanks but I think you probably meant "P6."

Anyway my thoughts about serving as the prime minister or president of any country is to quote Bob Dylan when he wrote:

"If my thought dreams could be seen

They'd probably put my head in a guillotine."

Thanks but I think you probably meant "P6."

Probably not.

From the 17th whatever you call it of the Tao Te Ching:

But of a good leader, who talks little,
When his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
They will all say, "We did this ourselves."

You explain things, I keep bringing up stuff that needs explaining. You're probably more comforting than I.

I meant ptcruiser. You have very little qualms about correcting bad government, black or white. And I wouldn't want a P6 administration to get on your bad side.

The thought of spending a large portion of my life having lunch and dinner with people I barely know does not seem too appealing. Then there is question of applying balm several times a day to the collective consciousness and acting as if I am genuinely interested in the opinions of people who should keep their opinions to themselves. These are not admirable traits in a political leader.

And I wouldn't want a P6 administration to get on your bad side.

That's curious. You think it would?

That's curious. You think it would?

No!

I don't think you'd impose bad policy or anything like that. I just had to have a reason to chose between the two of you. And it came down to if one of you were to get on the bad side of the other, which one would keep the new nation smelling pretty. In my short time of conversing online with you, it seems P6 would be honest while being conscious of the nation's image. It seems pt wouldn't care about the nation's image; just about justice. And with the new nation's setting in a global world that includes a pissed of US, I'd rather have P6 guiding a pt administration, then the US misquoting pt's criticisms of a P6 administration.

My actual point is that everytime I start feeling "ok" about this country, I'm reminded of that something just ain't right with many Americans. I can't believe these people considered themselves and their neighbors to be better able to discern the truth than the people who actually know the truth. Aren't these the same people who gave us Bush? So, in response to my disgust, I entertained the idea of African Americans succeeding in masse. Or, at least the 94% of us who knew better than to vote for Bush in 2004. The new country needs a leader and someone to hold the leader accountable, the press, if you will. The leader needs to enact good policy. Both of you will do that. The press needs to hold the leader accountable without making the new leader look bad. P6 obviously as this press thing down, and he'd probably be more concerned with our global image.

So, I actually meant nothing that serious about who would make the better leader. And I'm sorry I mentioned it. The dream of an independent nation of African Americans, a Haiti of North America, is a "happy place" I go to every now and again.

So, I actually meant nothing that serious about who would make the better leader. And I'm sorry I mentioned it.

Don't even worry about it. I'm usually curious about how I'm seen.

Don't even worry about it.

Whew! Good.

I liked being selected. Thanks! Nothing to be sorry about. No sweat, no strain.