Assume the position......

D’ya find that nowadays that people just assume too much...Like, it seems that the media has assumed that Barack Obama is going to be our next President.....that it has become somewhat of a fait accompli, if you will.....
Other people assume that John McCain is too old to be President....that he’s a use’ta be hero and not relevant in today's world......assuming, of course, that relevance is dependent on actuarial tables that assume that John McCain has just about run his race and is going to die soon, while Obama is relatively (and relevantly) young and less apt to die in the near future.....well, that is the assumption, isn’t it? That Obama is a better choice than McCain simply because he’s younger.....unless, of course, you assume that more experience is better than less, which means that McCain is the obvious choice because he’s old.....
Y’know, one of the things that crack me up is the news....I spend a lot of time watching and reading the news.....I read the Bee every day altho’ there ain’t a heckuva lot of news there...it’s more of a habit than anything, I s’poze.....I watch several news programs on teevee ‘n I read a couple newspapers online....my current favorite is the London Times.....The British papers all seem so durn civilized....it’s prob’ly me but I c’d swear they write with that know it all brogue they all seem to have....
So, I’ve been reading about the Russian invasion of Georgia...it don’t surprise me that Russia would do that...
Heck, it’s in their best interests to stop Georgia from joining NATO....prob’ly in our best interest also ‘cuz if they was in NATO, we’d have to come to their defense and not just with words....(it was all those alliances that turned a simple little assasination at Sarajevo into a world wide event......)
What’s funny about it tho’ is that the rest of the world seems to be watching to see which way the (despised) USA will jump.....Maybe it’s just me....maybe I’m assuming too much....we’ve been the Big Dog in the world since I wuz a pup ‘n I always kind’a wondered why since I’ve never known any American who wanted to be King Stud in any other country in the world....’Course, it’s an assumption on my part that the average American lives better than the average King elsewhere......
I seem to spend a lot of time assuming...along with generalizing....along with my well-known tendency towards exaggeration.....
Anyway, if we assume for all intensive purposes, that all of us go around talking to ourselves anyway and answering some infernal, internal telephonic conversation that began somewhere around the time of our begetting before we even had words, back even before our tails fell off and we sprouted legs.....an ongoing conversation that may or may not end with our dying.......assuming, for all intensive purposes, that we do actually die rather than metamorphosing as we did at birth.....assuming for all intensive purposes, that is....in the maelstrom of ever-flowing conversations, is art truly in the eye of the beholder? And if it is, who among us really cares.......