Life's a carousel.........

John McCain sez he’s a Republican. But, y’know, I ain’t so sure. He just might be a Democrat in disguise. Joe Leiberman sez he’s a Democrat but I ain’t too sure about that either. At any rate, what they are, both of ‘em are the closest thing to Democrats that we have on the political scene at the moment. God knows that Hillary and Barack claim to be Democrats but the Democrat party they represent doesn’t bear a whole lot of resemblance to the Democrat party that I grew up with....Of course, I gotta admit that today’s Republican party doesn’t look an awful lot like the Republican party of my way back when time either......
But now that I think about it.......there ain’t much that looks like what it used to way back when......
Cars are all different, streets are different....Heck, even the houses look a lot different than they used to....People are different.....a lot more languages being spoken t’day......Heck, going to Costco is like going to the tower of Babel......y’never know what you’re gonna hear....
Race has raised its head big-time in our Presidential primaries.....Jeremiah Wright is big news now....running his mouth about being a black man in a white America...I c’n understand that kind of talk.....it’s the rest of his rant that I couldn’t stand..... but it got me to thinking that just about all the whites that condoned slavery along with the actual slave-owners and the slaves not only died off a lotta years ago....so that it’s darn near impossible to find a slave or slave owner in this country, unless you count some of the recent immigrants who come from countries where slavery is still a fact of life, and they think they can carry on here just as tho’ they were back wherever they came from.....does that make any sense? Anyway, when we find them keeping slaves here, we arrest them and free the slaves ‘cause we only have economic slaves in this country......Anyhow, most of the white inhabitants of America came here after the Civil War so they never owned slaves anyway......’Course, it was all that white immigration after the Civil War that helped destroy the Indian people.....fighting the tide, the Indians were, and that never works......so the gov’t put ‘em on reservations to save them......but keeping them on reservations turned them into 2nd class citizens which kept them out of the mainstream which insured their status as 2nd class citizens.....Now there were some, of course, who simply assimilated and became reg’lar ol Americans....Heck, an awful lot of ‘em brag about being part Indian.....A lot more of them talk about it now that Indian gaming has made a lot of millionaires, but jumping on the bandwagon has always been a part of the American way of life so I guess you can’t blame ‘em......wooden horsie and a brass ring.....Justin Other Smith