I’m going to pick up again, after a little over 100 Days of President Obama…

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I’ve been busy with personal matters; helping cultivate the next great critical thinker of our times.  Rest assured that the break is over.

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I was listening to talk radio today, and was a little surprised that the right-leaning hosts were already attacking Obama.  Maybe I should not have been surprised, the entire media assaulted Bush the day after he got elected, hell they did it BEFORE he was elected, but I thought that people on the right were different.

There ought to be a 100 Day Rule.  This rule would be part of the self-regulation that media puts on itself (no, this can’t be a law. no this should NOT BE a law), its more of a guide-line.  Maybe we can call it “10 20 50 Rules To Make the Media Not Suck.”  But I digress.

The 100 Day Rule simply states that once elected, there is no picking on said President Elect until 100 days after he/she takes office, or they do something dictatorial (whichever comes first).  

Maybe there should be an addendum that says there is no drooling all over ourselves while talking about how wonderful they are either.

It sounds crazy, and I’d love to start on Obama about even thinking of choosing Holder to be anything more than paperboy.  But, I won’t.

There is simple logic here.  We should have an adversarial system, and should have levied all argument against and for candidates prior to the election.  If we have, then there is nothing to say until they take office and actually do something to introduce new arguments.  If we have not, then shame on us.

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I’m officially opening MBR up to the whole world today.

Cathartic value aside, talking to myself is not the point of this blog.  My true desire is to bring a different voice to the table and open up a debate with a different tone.  This is where my beloved reader(s?) come in.

As you can see, anyone can register now, and once registered anyone can leave a comment.  The greatest proof of success will be the need for me to moderate out insane ramblings from either side, because that will mean people are reading.

In the mean time, I need some help.  Comment away, and let me know what you think of the design and layout, I’m open to suggestion, and I want this site to be accessible to everyone.

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As I sit here deciding if I should start this blog and then installing and configuring the blog-software, I am fully aware that I may very well end up talking to myself.

My hope is that slowly, people will come across this site, by friend or by chance, and take a moment, with an open mind, to read what I write.  That raises the obvious question; Why read this blog over any number of others?  The answer to that question is incomplete, though I hope that I will find the answer to it through my posts.

The simple answer, as it stands today, is that I find myself tired of partisan politics.  This is not to say that I do not have political leanings, it is to say that I find political discourse to have reached a point where it no longer serves a constructive purpose, and no longer advances the cause of our great nation.

My goal, as lofty as it seems, is to attempt to write on matters of politics and issue, and to do so in as close to a non-partisan way as possible.  That too raises its own questions, and I am unsure if I can preempt or answer them completely.  What I can do is try to draw conlusions based on fact, and provide reference to that fact here.

Since I am most likely still speaking to myself, I’ll end it at that…for now.

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