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.