Welcome to Half Bright, with Blog Protocol

HELLO AND WELCOME

I've started this blog to invite "serious" political thinkers to share their observations and make comment about the Obama Administration and America's response to it over the next four years. By "serious thinkers" (borrowing from a recent comment made by Barney Frank) I mean those that: are passionate about the national political scene but are not a part of it; are dedicated to keeping their emotional and intellectual biases in check; wish to seek other veiwpoints and perspectives to broaden their understanding of who we are as a nation, how we are to move forward on the complex issues we face and how our dealing with these issues will effect and be effected by the world community. As we all know America will be hard pressed to deal with the heavy footprints of the Bush Adminstration. Choosing Barry Obama as the next President of the United States is the first of many steps we, as a people, will need to take to undue the domestic and international damage done to us by us over the last ten years (beginning with the impeachment of President Clinton). As we have recently seen, an informed electorate is the only way we, as a nation, can move forward to solve the many pressing problems we face.

PROTOCOLS:

I will be posting a "start up" comment each Tuesday based on a culling of the week's and the weekend's articles, with an emphasis on major media editorials and op ed posts. I will focus on what I believe are the most important issue or issues that surfaced during the week. The most important part of this blog, though, will be the comments that those, such as yourself make, and the conversation that follows.

Obviously, we will want to keep our conversations polite and respectable. No foul language (which will reduce my comments by half); no undignified/disrespectful comments to other commentators; after a week of intellectual gnashing let's agree to move on. Only invitees will be allowed to comment. Send comments about the blog structure/protocols, names and emails of newly proposed invitees, to lancegmorton@gmail.com. Thx. Remember, above all things, "the dude abides".