In some perverse way, I think there's some validity to Brooks' somewhat condescending statements. Perhaps it is the fervor with which we support our candidate, certainly when it's compared to the loyalty and depth of support of those that claim they're supporting McSame. Maybe we are scaring some folks with our voracity. It's certainly a statistical fact, based upon recent polling results, that Obama's supporters are a hell of a lot more excited about his candidacy than McCain's supporters.

I know it's a revolutionary concept, but maybe that's because we have the truth on our side?

FROM VORACITY TO VERACITY.
So, what I propose is that we make a concerted effort to change that VORACITY to VERACITY. Paraphrasing Webster's, voracity, meaning 'the desire to devour,' with veracity, meaning 'truthfulness.'

So, putting it another way, I'm proposing that it's in our best interests, if we really wish to win in November, that Obama supporters evolve from their mentality of wanting to devour the competition (perhaps this being a holdover sentiment from the primary race), to simply putting out the truth about various realities that will end up being the result if Obama is not the victor come November.

It is these truths which we must get in the face of the public in the ensuing 90-plus days if we expect to win the White House for the next term. Making or keeping this personal, obviously, means we're not focusing upon the greater truths. When you look at the race in this fashion, it's easy to understand why the Republicans (aided by the corporate MSM, who are primarily interested in keeping this race close, moreso than anything else) are so eager to pass right on over the issues and focus on making Obama "the issue," instead.

For the next 90-some-odd-days, you may refer to me as a member of the "Cult of In Your Face." In short, if what I wrote on the evening of June 3rd, "Clinton Supporters: How Can We Not Support Obama Now?" was a little too emotional or "loud" for Republican and Independent voter consumption (I was speaking to fellow Democrats then; now I'm speaking to everyone), then l'm going to modulate it slightly for easier mental digestion. But, make no mistake about it, the volume of my voice might be a little more calm (I'll even whisper it if that will make my audience more 'comfortable') than it was when I first wrote those words 60 days ago; but the truths remain constant. But, like the lies that are repeated until they become the truth, we can repeat the truth until it is understood to be the truth, too! So, here are those words from June 3rd, again, this time in "modulated" form:

Do you really want four more years of Republican rule?

Do you really want four more years of  ongoing, top-down, national economic misdirection  and ineffective leadership that was most recently described by former Bush Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill as: "A blind man in a dark room looking for a black hat?"

Do you really want four more years of a financial services sector devoid of regulatory enforcement?

Do you really want four more years of welfare for the rich?

Do you really want four more years of rampant inflation and unemployment?

Do you really want four more years of the rich getting richer while everybody else struggles to pay the mortgage, to pay the rent and to put food on their table (if they are even able to do that now)?

Do you really want four more years of lip service--and nothing else--for substantive federal support of alternative energy initiatives, where the only "solution" is to shortsightedly and wantonly "Drill! Drill! Drill!" in our oceans and in other areas where big oil had chosen not to drill in years past?

Do you really want four more years of obscene oil industry profits?

Do you really want four more years of the rest of the world perceiving the U.S. as negatively as they did during the Bush Administration?

Do you really want four more years of "Shoot-first-ask-questions-later?" diplomacy like we had when we entered into the Iraq conflict?

Do you really want four more years of Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan, Pakistan and throughout the world?

Do you really want four more years of out-of-control healthcare costs, with more than 40 million Americans uninsured?

Do you really want four more years of the U.S. being somewhere around the 30th best country on the planet when it comes to infant mortality?

Do you really want four more years of challenges to Roe v. Wade?

Do you really want four more years of Republican control over our Supreme Court appointees?

Do you really want four more years of a Judicial Branch, led by a Department of Justice that's more interested in political thuggery than real justice?

Do you really want four more years of irreversible depletion of our ozone layer?

Do you really want more of McSame?

Reiterating my vote for the campaign slogan for the next 96 days, a paraphrase of a quote from Albert Einstein--the greatest thinker in many generations--who said it best:

"The definition of insanity: repeating the same action and expecting a different result."

So, FWIW, that's my little dose of Sunday inspiration.

Maybe Brooks is right. It's not what we're saying, but how we're saying it. I'm down with that. No problem. The truth is the truth; no matter what its tone and no matter how it's amplified (or not). And, some people don't suffer the truth well when others are constantly shouting about it. So, I'll lower the volume a touch going forward.

Turning an old saying on its head, I'm going to spin the Rethug concept of "A lie becomes the truth if it's repeated often enough," into: "The truth is still the truth if you finally hear and understand what's being said."

I propose that we keep repeating these "truths."

Contrary to the Nicholson outburst in a A Few Good Men, Republicans and Independents "(We) can handle the truth" if they're reminded about it often enough.

At the end of the day, the truth is that I am a member of a cult. It's called: "The Cult of In Your Face" ...with "the truth" every damn day until November 4th.

I will be in your face. ("You" know who "you" are.)

However, I will make a point to speak a little more softly going forward. I promise.

Is that better?

Can you hear me now?

Will you be in their faces, too?