I'm a New Jersey doctor who sees patients from all sides of the socioeconomic spectrum. I grew up in a NJ town with friends from all cultures and creeds. My experiences as a young doctor have shaped my understandings of how progress can be made during all interactions, even the most adversarial of ones. I wholeheartedly support Barack Obama for his life experiences as a man who grew up in a multicultural world, attuned to the hearts and minds of diverse numbers of people. His ability to convey a complex message to a broad swath of society will serve as his tool to innovate our political system for the better. His diplomacy skills within both parties, the nation and the world will set the spark for a reversal of our misfortune for the past 7 years.
From CEOs to homeless crackheads to veterans from all wars, I deal with people from all walks of life on a daily basis during my life in NJ. Diplomacy from a multicultural perspective helps me effectively communicate with my patients and I am proud when I can improve their health for the longterm, not just temporarily. My experience teaches me that when it comes to communication, "building bridges" is the only way to improve the common good. Aren't we all sick from the negativity and fuss that our political system as become gradually over the past 30 years? We are fraught with a vicious cycle of tearing down our binding forces in order to advance a minority opinion, and unfortunately Hillary Clinton and the Republicans are poster children for that style of diplomacy.
Barack Obama's experience taught him the essentials of diplomacy with resultant progression. He understands that in the face of an obstacle, others can be impugned into action when they are confronted in a gentle way about the wrongs in some of the commonly held misbeliefs we as individuals and as community members sometimes hold as truth. His lifetime of living within different nations and dealing with community organizations has taught him the way to build lasting bridges that serve as the infrastructure for the advancement of our common good.
I truly believe that his diplomacy skills can fine-tune our government into action that serves our common interests, not the corporate and wealthy interests of the top 1% of our nation. The Clinton establishment as well as the "business as usual" attitude of most Washington politicians should be shamed into changing their ways of knocking others down to advance their selfish greed for power. We see now how the establishment media destroys any attempt to diverge from the status quo based on the impression that the political establishment finds divergence as disconcerting. The media is daggering Obama with this bullshit pastor story like he is the devil himself; and you see Clinton gleaming with her unbridled enthusiasm to feast on her achiaic politicism of negativity.
Speaking from my heart is my only way to communicate my frustrations and hopes for the future. I know whomever reads this little post will want more objectivity, but whatever.....I'm just a little jaded right now to try. Like "Andy Dufresne" in the Shawshank Redemption, I believe that, "hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies." I hope that Obama's progressive diplomacy builds bridges over the negativism of our society's present so that we all can lead on our way to a more perfect Union.