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So I am sure most of you are assuming that given the title of this blogisode, I will be discussing yet another religious and/or divine experience.  But, you are wrong.  See, in this case, the view from above is not from Heaven (or Touched by an Angel), but from me looking down on you from high atop my soap box.  Here goes: So I spent the last few days in DC lobbying on Capitol Hill, listening to senators and prime ministers and civil rights leaders and the like talk about the important issues of the day, and last but not least, walking past Donald Rumsfeld as he went in to have a lovely lunch.  That experience (probably most of it derived from Don) gave me a renewed appreciation for how genuinely interested I am in politics.  I also learned a lot of substantive information about the economy, terrorism, Israel, hate crime legislation, and other issues. I took all this renewed interest and knowledge with me when I went to attend a talk by Rudolf Guliani.  I went to hear Rudy speak as part of a fundraiser where people stood and publicly pledged hundreds of thousands of dollars to the cause (note: this was not a fundraiser for Rudy).  Rudy talked for about 30 minutes and from my crash course this weekend, I was able to listen with renewed appreciation for just how wrong he was.  He talked about how Barack is weakening America for negotiating with terrorists, although I have yet to hear a published report of any negotiations that have yet occurred.  He said that the only way to fight terrorism is with force and war, although he conveniently left out Iraq.  He talked about how the stimulus package was a mistake and instead we should just lower the debt rather than give money to “social causes,” which might make sense to people willing and able to donate hundreds of thousands of dollars on a Wednesday night, but which certainly is an incomprehensible proposition to families who are out of work with incredible debt and no way out.  But, my favorite part of the night occurred during the Q and A.  Most of the questions were anti-Rudy sentiments, which I applauded.  But the exception, and my favorite question, came from a young man who was sitting at a table with his family who had likely given hundreds of thousands of dollars that night (and who belonged to a private club, lived in a wealthy suburb, drove a luxury car, etc).  This sage asked the following questions:  ”Rudy, I was watching on TV the tea party protests against taxes and I was really struck by how the cultural elites were labeling the protests as dangerous when they were just free expression.  What are your thoughts?”  I had to go to the bathroom during Rudy’s response, but here is what I imagine he said (ha, obviously not, but here is what he SHOULD have said): 1.  Dude, you are a moron for labeling others as “cultural elites” when you are listening to me speak at a private club after having been dropped off by your driver. 2.  Many of those tea ceremonies were in fact dangerous.  According to the Huffington Post, some of the most offensive signs displayed during tea party protests read:  ”Obama’s Plan, White Slavery” or “The American Tax Payers Are The Jews For Obama’s Ovens”  (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/16/10-most-offensive-tea-par_n_187554.html).  It was these ceremonies that were labeled dangerous, you moron. So here I stand high above the rest and from this vantage point I can say one thing:  Let me be pacific, our country is in a worse spot than its ever been so let’s just see what Obama can do before you make your doomsday statements Rudy, or your incorrect and ill-conceived statements Oblivious Cultural Elite.  And the message from above is that we are in good hands.  MINE!!!!

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