Divorce Mediation, Obama, and McCain

This is my 100th blog posting. It is appropriate that it has a political theme. We just got back from Denver and where we saw the Obama acceptance speech at Invesco Field. It was truly an historic event. It was also a challenge to get tickets. As you know, I love to google. Out of curiosity, I googled Obama divorce mediation and McCain divorce mediation. I got 131,000 hits for Obama. One of the top hits for Obama was a posting by James Melamed. He is co-founded Resourceful Internet Solutions (RIS) and Mediate.com in 1996. Before this, he served as Executive Director of the national Academy of Family Mediators from 1987 to 1993. The posting is entitled, "Obama’s Message - Mediation’s Political Triumph"and can be found at http://www.mediate.com/articles/melamedobama.cfm. Melamed say, "The purpose of this article is not to endorse a candidate, but to note, as I think is undeniable, that we have at least one candidate (Obama) that is championing concepts of reaching out, capably negotiating, listening, bridging divides, and leading the world into a more collaborative and capable dialogue." I realized this was one of the many reasons I liked Obama. I got 15,000 hits for McCain divorce mediation. The most interesting hit I got was "John McCain's Staff in Damage Control Over 'Wedding Crashers" by James Hirsen on Tuesday, July 19, 2005 from The Left Coast Report, A Political Look at Hollywood. It said "Yes, Arizona senator and aspiring presidential candidate John McCain recently made his cinematic debut in this summer's bawdy romantic comedy Wedding Crashers. The cameo appearance may create a big-screen problem for McCain, though, and it doesn't have anything to do with his Clinton-defending cameo co-star James Carville. It has to do with the flick's thoroughly warranted R rating. In the movie, Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn portray divorce mediators who crash weddings and seduce bridal attendants."
See the article at http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2005/7/19/190255.shtml. Apparently is did not hurt John McCain’s ability to get the Republican nomination. I had used the movie has part of a presentation I did a few years ago at the Connecticut Council for Divorce Mediation. I had totally forgotten that McCain was in the film. I guess he did not get an Oscar like Al Gore. As always, you can post any comment about this blog, Divorce Mediation, or Tucson Arizona by following the directions at the right in the green column or at the bottom of this website or participate in our Presidential poll located below the directions. WM 9/7/08