OK, the purpose of the blog is clear but one goal that needs to be highlighted is that this blog is not just to vent out and talk about stuff. This blog will also provide means for action ... i.e. means for getting our point across to the people and institutions who matter. I will also solicit suggestions from readers as to the best means of action to make our voices heard and get our point across loud and clear ... even if it involves a screaming match at townhalls. The right-wing propaganda machine is getting dirtier, slimier and more unscupulous by the minute but this time they will realize that the other side is not going to take things lying down and will 'hit back harder' ... .

We've all been celebrating President Obama's victory abd lcosely following his frenetic effort at implementing his ideas and promises. I took a well deserved break, as one of the many bllogers who fought for him relentlessly when he was running for office. Of course, I've had the usual reasons of 'too busy at work' and everything else that people perennially short of time complain about but as I said before, the presidential election is not the only purpose for this blog and the scope of my goals for this blog stretch much further and much more global. So, I'm back to writing after a hiatus and, of couse, being in the US my focus wil very much be on US politics but will strecth outward much like Preseident Obama is spreading the wings of his thought. Here's to our continuing attempt to make a diffeernce through words and thought....

I have to admit that the final push for the site came from the right wing conspiracy which led to the Iraq war, which is probably the basis for a lot of liberal blogging out there and is a kind of cliched reason, but it wasn't just the war itself; it was more the events which followed the war, culminating in the 2004 election campaign by Republicans (and the wimpy response by Democrats) which finally made me kick through my lethargy and think seriously about getting this site out. It still took a long time coming after that but I knew I had to get this out before the 2008 election, as I always regretted not airing my views about how Kerry's campaign should be run as I believe that might have helped him.

I knew the American mainstream does not like to see a wimpy president (the clever gop campaign made Kerry look like one and he obliged by playing the scaredy cat), especially during a time of war, and Kerry had to hit back harder at them. I had the lines that I was sure would electrify the public and make him come out stronger from the swiftboating and host of other attacks (it's no use repeating those lines now but the clever GOP is using some of those for Mccain this time).  Well, this time I will make sure I will air my views and I hope that some of the Obama campaign folks manage to somehow read this and it somehow helps them, at the very least in not repeating the mistakes of the last election. Whenever the republicans attack the democratic candidate, try to diminishing his/her image, paint him/her in a negative light or throws false allegations at him/her, you have no choice but to hit back harder or else you run a real risk of a permamnt/irreversable damage to your image (remember the waffling french poodle) ... but you have to be real smart about to how to hit back harder and use their own words and attacks like a boomerang which comes back to give them a big blow. 

It's not tough at all but it is a shame that democratic strategists haven't shown that kind of smarts (and I'm not talking just about negative attacks here) and basic intuitive understanding of how a regular American (or a regular human being for that matter) thinks and how to build the image and credibility of a person so that it resonates with the common man's feelings. 

This blog does have a higher purpose though which I will pursue after the 2008 elections. Right now it is critical that we all focus our energies on this important task. Till then the main purpose of this site will be to devise an unbetable campaign strategy for the democrats and laying out in detail how to hit back harder at the republicans so cleverly that every one of their moves goes against themselves and they will be left scrambling for ideas .

Have fun reading and do drop a comment with your thoughts.