O CAPTAIN WHERE ART THOU IN A LAND OF POLITICAL CHARLATANS

It's nearing that time again in Arizona, when the wind is caressing us with her dry heat and the sun is getting ready to settle into the White Tank Mountains on her way to kiss the West Coast good night... Yet again, another day has gone by with still as many unanswered questions as I had yesterday; the day before and so on with no clarity in sight as to what direction this country is heading, and who is truly worthy at the Helm. O Captain where art thou in the land of political charlatans.

You don't have to be a Svengali to project that Clinton won in Kentucky and Obama is getting his due rewards in Oregon. Sometimes it feels as if it’s just another “Your Decision in 2008” because your vote matters kind of day, when truly it’s not. We are being force fed by the media on who they want YOU to choose and it’s working. Are the American people so easily swayed?
When I saw the sea of people supporting Obama in Oregon, as the media proclaimed him having rock-star status, it felt as if Americans had been politically raped and slipped “the pill” in their holy waters as they helplessly fell prey to Obama-mania. Two Democrats and a Republican candidate, all three so very flawed, questionable at best, of whom a few of you have so eloquently pointed out in recent blogs their short comings for our enlightenment. I truly did enjoy reading them and realized I am NOT alone in how I feel, and your voice carried me into a world of inspiration. One of these candidates will become our next President and that is an absolute fact :)........

What kind of message do you think we as a nation are putting out into this ever changing world choosing these nominees for President to represent out country? We are a country in tears with no more tissues left to wipe them away, and for the proud... silent tears.

We have a President who in almost 8 years has
1. taken us to our knees single handedly and hand tied us to a poor economy.
2. In the state of Arizona alone, there are well over 30,000+ foreclosures and still growing daily. Houses left vacant in sparsely lived-in neighborhoods. Sometimes I think you can actually hear the homes cry out for their owners as you drive through the numerous city blocks. All building, if not most, has ceased with only the corpses of trailers left behind.
3. With gas going up to almost $130 a barrel it has become almost unbearable for most American's to travel via car, train, or airplane. And, what about small businesses who rely on UPS (such as myself) and other shipping carriers who have also had to raise their prices making it very hard to sell wares in an economy that is now thinking twice before buying even a cup of coffee.
4. Not to mention the Katrina victims hopelessly still left waiting for needed help who are still living in trailers. Waiting. Still waiting for someone to come help them with no help in sight. Yet Life goes on.
4. We as a country forced into a war to feed the wealthy and corrupt for material gain. The ones I cry for are our military sons, our young men and women who are no older than my two sons, fighting overseas in the worst conditions imaginable and for what? Where has all that money gone to support our troops. The millions and millions of dollars spent. Where is it going and why isn't our government taking care of them? I am very confused for what. I see my sons in every one of our soliders. I am very proud of our young men and women, but my heart is so very full being a mother.

These are only a few things that according to polls, the worst President in our nation’s history is leaving to us as his legacy for the next President to take on.
I have two sons, almost 22 and 24 of whom I look at and wonder what will it be like for them four years from now when Obama or McCain are in office? Should I dare mention the C word as a possibility here? Clinton, as abrasive as she is, as misspoken as she proclaims, as a woman running for Office really got a raw deal. If she had to do it all over again, I am wondering if she would do things any differently to win the nomination. Did she ever really have a chance to be back in the White House after all that has been said and done?
Will there be enough gas for my sons, your children, so that they too will be able to move freely in this world and enjoy the same freedoms as we had growing up? What will "they," our children have to endure because of decisions we as a nation had to make? Will they have to suffer because of an upcoming President who will not be strong enough to run our country, make the right decisions; or because of the President who ran it into the ground? Have these questions already been asked and in the process of questioning the questions some bad form of deja vu keeps repeating itself because we still have not gotten it right? Who is the “we” in the getting it right?

These are some of the questions I ask myself as a mother and American citizen.

There are so many political promises being made on both sides, that there are promises being made promising the promises now and who can keep track. It feels as if we have and have been tossed into the middle of a raw deal salad mixed in with hopes we can't even believe in. But according to some “Yes WE Can.” What about all those folks in that small Kentucky town, who are not even voting, don't have enough money to buy gas to work, and have just given up? How many are out there who have just given up? Is this what we as a nation have become? Is this what we have to look forward to?

In closing, there is a saying, the brighter the light the darker the shadow. The more you know, the harder it is to turn away from the light and what is right.

Has it become much easier to sleepwalk than to challenge what you truly believe in?

God Bless America… she needs it more than ever.

IF GORE WAS ASKED TO BECOME OBAMAS RUNNING MATE, WHAT MIGHT HE SAY IN RESPONSE TO KEVINS PLEA ON REDBLUEAMERICA.COM

On redblueamerica.com, there was a blog recently posted AL AND BARACK by kevinkind. When I tried to post this response, I was flagged for god knows what reason. So here it is, my take on if Al Gore was to respond to Kevin's plea, it might go something like this...

Kevin, buddy, um... thank you. As much I appreciate your plea, and truly I do, for asking me to consider, if asked, the position as VP to the non stopable Obama-Bot, I would have to say, ah... NO! I have already been there, done that and as you can see it didn't work out too well the first time around with Bill. Most of my VP'ness was keeping Bill out of trouble; and trying to justify his expense account (i.e. cigars) and I can't go through that again with Obama. The 3AM wake up calls alone would really piss Tipper off. Plus, I have a lot on my plate with this Global Warming thing you know, saving the world, getting honored and the whole shabang. I just don't have the time.

Let me ask you this... how can I VP someone who is just not right for the job even though the thought of taking the wind out of Hillary's sails is very tempting :evil grin, rubbing hands: (keep that between us ok) not to mention how much it would piss Bill off, but hey, payback is a bitch. Frankly, between us girls, I am still trying to digest how Obama even got as far as he did with the little we do know about him. Hillary, bless her little abrasive heart, is still hoping someone will dig up some "more" dirt on the Obama-Bot in her eleventh hour to change the minds of the powers that BE. I almost want to make that call to her myself and say darlin, how is that working for you?

In any event, thanks again for thinking of me. Even though I could the extra income to help pay for my "energy efficient house and natural gas bills" of which the press will not seem to stop hounding me on, which as you know totalled around $30,000 back in 2006, how about considering, o gotta run, just blew another fuse. That 18,400kWh is killling me and my reputation. Take care!

SEE NO EVIL McCAIN, SPEAK NO EVIL OBAMA AND HEAR NO EVIL CLINTON... Yeah, that's right!

I find it utterly fascinating that even though the website redblueamerica.com has, from what I have been told, come full circle and has moved on in another direction (kudos on that site by the way), my views are still causing bloggers to foam at the mouth and blast me personally.  How unfortunate. 

My last blog "Shame On You John McCain" really pushed some buttons leaving me feeling the heat just because my viewpoint did not resonate with some. Isn’t that why one blogs - to share opinions openly with others without attachment or crucifixion? I write it as I see it!  I’m just a simpleton among a world of educated journalists sharing another perspective.

To set the record straight, I commend Senator McCain for serving his country. I can’t begin to imagine the hell he went through as a POW. However, he may have been a great solider, but I don't trust him to run this country, nor do I agree with the way he wants to do things if elected as our next President.

Now with that said, I have been a Clinton supporter, nutcrackers and all from the onset, but even I have had enough of this rhetoric. I am truly politically taxed after this last primary and I too want this to end.  A good thing is only a good thing if it makes sense, and the only sense this campaign is making is horse sense.  I don't trust her.  I am finding the more she has campaigned the more questions I have, which has now led me down the road of doubt and confusion. To me, she is running her campaign on the throws of desperation.  This was her nomination to loose. You don't have to be a political rocket scientist to see that smug Obama will be the last nominee standing with his very hefty ego in tow. Sort of like the one his Pastor has been hauling around.  I guess the saying holds true... the apple doesn't fall far from the tree, and in this case, it is still hanging from the branch. I am wondering if Oprah had not stepped in when she had, would the name Obama mattered to any American? 

I started blogging a couple of weeks ago because I wanted to take part in the bigger picture instead of sitting watching the world go by like so many other Americans moo-ing to themselves and each other, oblivious to the reality of what is really going on in our world at large staying stuck in political dong.  I was tired of being hand fed what the media wanted to feed me via information from the NY Times, local papers, watching CNN, FOX, MSNBC, yadda, yadda, ya... So, I started voicing opinions to my tea-cup poodle and a few close media/radio associates and decided to take charge of my ‘rants’  and start walking my talk.  

In my first blog, "To Obama or Not Obama, That is the Question," I ended that post with, "for all I know, I know nothing" and received some nice feedback. That to me was as honest and true as I get.  I can be raw worded, quite outspoken and at times seem antagonistic, but it could be worse. You just never know... we may learn something along the way, given the opportunity to journey together for beneficial growth.  From my deepest core I believe that we do the best we can in any given moment or we would do better. Who wouldn't?  If my passion has appeared as anger, than I would as you to embrace the reflection and ask yourself what within you is so passionate that it comes off as anger, and why are you given me credit for pushing your buttons when it's your buttons that were already ignited long before our paths crossed.

In ending, I hate to have to regress to employ a cartoon as a reference, but I recently watched a very relevant episode of the vulgar cartoon South Park with my son. The episode informed the children of South Park of the importance of voting and to always vote regardless of the candidates; since it is always between a giant douche and a terd sandwich.  As crass as that sounds, there is much truth to it.   When you really think about it, they all feed us a bunch of what we want to hear anyway.  Then we turn around and we give them our votes, because at the end of the day we so much want to have something to hold onto and believe in at any cost, even if it is a bunch of crap we will believe it.