What is the reigning political philosophy nowadays, Obama days.

The truth is that many people have discarded George Will's notion of socialism in American government, and policy on the Federal level at least. Please see Will's thawts on American socialism well-entrenched, as quoted in the preceding blog-entry (refWrite page 3, Nov19,2k8). Now, Obama is preparing to take office, to become Mr. President, no mean appellation in the USA.

A salute to Barack Obama, President Elect who is about to become Mr. President USA. Notice that we've added a cropped pix from the cover of TIME on the sidebar of refWrite's frontpage. You have to scroll down the page somewhat far to get to the column of worthies (at the top of which totempole is the grand benign visage of Her Majesty, Queen of Canada). After the Canadian leaders, come the Americans. Bush and then the man of the hour in the national politics of the country. It's a great mugshot, grinning with only a wiff of the gathering cares and burdens of nation and world. And carries forward the series of images metaphorically structured to constitute a totempole for today. May God in grace bless the person we all want to call "Barack," but who hesitate because we also want to maintain the decorum of this office of service thru this institution of/for public justice, the American State, the Federal Government, so we set any over-familiarity aside as a matter of refWrite's own editorial policy.

Albert Gedraitis, refWrite publisher