Jacinto, an artist,
musician, carpenter, plumber, fence post digger, medical equipment tech,
driver, arbitrator and dad.
Jacinto, a very
conservative, anarchistic, Ayn Rand Individualist, shy, loner, lover of
honesty, passion, intelligence, children, old folks and cats.
Jacinto, voted for
President for the sixth or seventh time in his life.
2008 was the first time his
candidate actually won.
It was a clean
victory for President-elect Mr. Barack Obama. For me personally, it
means a very important political change of powers to the benefit of this
country and the people; a change that will give new opportunities of work to
many people; a change that will give equal opportunities in everything to
everybody; a change in foreign policy that will bring, to the U.S., friends
again, commerce with all nations, in all aspects; and this obviously will
benefit the United States. It will be a change to save the financial ruin that
this country is in now; a change that, with its strategies, will fix and repair
all the errors of 8 years of Republican policy that, unfortunately, only looked
after some vested interests and benefits of the rich; a change in Washington,
in government federal agencies that have applied severe injustices and
bureaucracies to people; it will eliminate corruption applied to our veterans,
to innocent people. It will be a change that will end the war. This is the most
important thing.
— Henry Martinez
I think that it was a good thing for the country, for Obama to be elected, being that he is the first black or half-black President; but I do not think that it will mean much in the long run. It may change attitudes some. I am more interested in how he will perform as President. We are in for some hard times with the economy, and we need to get out of Iraq, reform health care, work on an immigration policy. I don't think he can do much with the economy, being that it is in such sad shape. Other Presidents and Greenspan have put us in this mess, and the stupidity of moving manufacturing out of the country, and globalization or free trade, without fair trade. I hope that Obama doesn't throw around billions of dollars of borrowed money, like we are already doing…money from China that they have because of our crazy trade deficit with them. I think we just have to live through this long downturn in our economy; and Obama can build our morale and give us hope that if we cling to our strength, our families, we will be all right.