Sometimes I just can't sleep 'n I play Solitaire 'n other stuff 'til I get sleepy.....'n sometimes I write stuff that come the morrow even I will not understand....'n sometimes I go into my own archives 'n read again the nonsense that I find there....I find that I'm a little upset with the direction that President Obama seems t'be taking us 'n I'm so irritated by the mainstream media that I can't hardly stand it....part of what irks me is I have a neighbor who doesn't have cable or satellite 'n only watched 'free' teevee which means that he gets his news solely from one of the major networks 'n he gets a totally different view of what's going on in this country.....he thinks that far-right zealots are blaming Obama unfairly, that American healthcare is broken (it ain't) 'n that we should all give Obama a chance.....I consider myself t'be a moderate conservative 'n I thought we should give Obama a chance, but after half a year into his first term, Obama seems to be slipping badly....I think he misjudged what he considered to be a mandate from the American people and if he ain't careful, he just might end up being judged a worse President than Jimmy Carter.....I was a McCain supporter 'n I don't give a damn what anybody thinks about Sarah Palin...McCain/Palin lost the election mostly, I believe, because the Republican Party was in such disarray after Bush/Cheny that no Republican had much of a chance to win....Still, McCain/Palin received almost half of the votes.....not enough to win but certainly enough so that the Democrats should have taken notice of the divide and governed accordingly....They did not. It appears that Obama may well have 'sown the wind 'n thus must reap the whirlwind.....
The following is a pre-election speech from John McCain that stuck in my mind.
"We cannot again leave our problems for another unluckier generation of Americans to fix after they have become even harder to solve. I'm not interested in partisanship that serves no other purpose than to gain a temporary advantage over our opponents. This mindless, paralyzing rancor must come to an end. We belong to different parties, not different countries. We are rivals for the same power. But we are also compatriots. We are fellow Americans, and that shared distinction means more to me than any other association. I intend to prove myself worthy of the office; of our country; and of your respect. I won't judge myself by how many elections I've won. I won't spend one hour of my presidency worrying more about my re-election than keeping my promises to the American people. There is a time to campaign, and a time to govern. If I'm elected president, the era of the permanent campaign will end. The era of problem solving will begin. I promise you, from the day I am sworn into office until the last hour of my presidency, I will work with anyone, of either party, to make this country safe, prosperous and proud. And I won't care who gets the credit." John McCain
“Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing the matter with this except it ain’t so.” Mark Twain
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