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Has anyone else wondered, during all the calls for Hillary to stop running since Obama is ahead and will, according to them, be crowned the nominee, where all these calls were when SHE was way ahead, when it looked like SHE was the shoe-in? Why weren’t all these people out there hollering for Obama, and Richardson, and Edwards, et al, to get out of the race? Why the different take on it now? Could it be because Hillary played fair, while Obama does everything he can to get over on her?

For all the hoopla about what a great guy he is, he has always played a little loose and free with the truth, tried to act like his hands were totally clean and he had nothing to do with all the bad things being said about her and her family. He’s not that innocent, as Britney Spears rightly said in one of her songs.

Take his Reverend, for instance. The man said Mr. Wright was a role model for him, his spiritual and moral advisor for over 20 years, yet he never once heard the man say any of the things they have him on tape saying? He backed him up for quite a while, until it really looked like the man might hurt his chances of winning, and then he turned on him as if he only just realized what the man had been putting out there all those years. What’s wrong with this picture?

But anyway, I’ve just been wondering why no one was crowning her the presumptive winner when everything looked as if she was unbeatable, just as it supposedly looks like he is now. I find it odd, and I find it a bit sad that so many people can be led around by their nose rings by a man who hasn’t got half the moral fiber (

1st question: “Sen. Clinton, why have you been so mean to Sen. Obama by chastising him for sending out brochres full of lies about you?” “Sen. Obama, why has Sen. Clinton been so mean to you?” Sound familiar? It should, it’s the treatment given to these two in every debate they’ve had, along with the fact Obama can say what he wants, for as long as he wants, and he gets to answer everything Clinton says. The same can’t be said for her. Is it any wonder the sheeple who watch vote that Obama wins every one, even tho the most cogent, coherent answers are always given by Sen. Clinton? I thought debates were won by those who made the best points and counterpoints, didn’t you? In this contest, that seems not to be the case. I have said in the past that if I were ever to vote for a Republican, it would probably be John McCain. It looks like I might get my chance this time, because I certainly won’t vote for Obama. He isn’t up to the job, and his attitude and actions during this campaign show me clearly he’s not the person I want to have in charge. So, holding my nose all the way, if Obama gets the Democratic nomination, I will be voting for John McCain in November. God help us all.

It sure looks like Obama has managed to wriggle his way into the nomination, doesn’t it? Hillary seems to be all but out of the running all together. I have to say this really makes me doubt the intelligence of my fellow Democrats. Honestly, does it really make sense to anyone out there?

Since when does flowery speech carry more weight than experience and a record of accomplishments in the very areas we need so much help with these days? Yes, the man can give some pretty good speaches, as long as he’s reading them, but honestly, what the heck is he saying? We want change….Duh! America needs to get back where it was before Bush muddied our name all over the world….Double Duh! We need something different….Absolutely! But why doesn’t he tell us exactly how he’s going to bring all this about? When has he EVER given specifics about what he will do and how he will do it? I haven’t heard it, have you?

All I hear is why Hillary is not a good choice, and veiled innuenedo about her “racist tendencies”, her “pro war feelings”, and her “shady antics” over the years. Well, excuse me if I’m wrong, but hasn’t she been investigated ad nauseum, with not one illegal thing being found? How much has Obama’s past been investigated? What does he have way back when that people can whisper about and use to discredit him? We don’t know yet, but make no mistake, if he gets the nomination, the Republicans will find it all and blast it all over the world. There’s nothing they can smear Hillary with that she hasn’t already beaten down with the truth, but Obama? He hasn’t been scratched yet.

Hillary, on the other hand, tells us what she wants to do, how she wants to do it, and how she’s going to get it done. For someone who likes to vote on a person’s ideas and past accomplishments, she strikes me as being the most intelligent option we have, yet people are swarming to Obama because he says pretty things. Go figure.

This isn’t the first time I have tilted at windmills in the election department. I spent 2000 and 2004 trying my best to warn people not to put Bush in there, to no avail. I was right then, and I’m right now, not that it will do any good. I don’t have a large enough audience to make a difference. I just hope that if Obama gets the nomination, and if he actually wins the Presidency (which I’m not at all sure he will do once the Republicans start in on him), he won’t do even more damage than Bush has done to us. I don’t think we could survive it, quite honestly. And with Putin stirring the pot, adding warmed-over Cold War rhetoric to the mix, we need someone in there who has the backbone to stand up to bullies and back them down, not someone who, as Obama has said himself, would rather sit back and batter them with pretty words. Pretty words won’t do the job on them. Oh, well. We get what we vote for, like it or not.

It seems we have a diety running for President this year, and not because he’s a member of the Religious Right. I’m not sure what he’s done to deserve such accolades, but nevertheless, there he is, being hailed right and left as the savior of our nation. And we’ve even had Caroline Kennedy baptizing him as her father’s clone. It’s really a bit much, don’t you think?

Ok, the guy seems like a nice guy…. most of the time, anyway. He’s good-looking, smart, and has a real way with the turn of a phrase. Other than that, tho, what’s he really got? To hear all his star-struck admirers tell it, he can do just about everything but walk on water, and they’re not too sure that won’t be happening before too long, too. He’s supposed to be the cure for Bush II’s eight-year rein of terror because…..well, because he’s new to the game. Doesn’t anyone else see the folly of that thought? In what other profession do we celebrate the fact the person who’s about to make life-altering changes to us is a newbie and not a well-seasoned professional? Honestly, can you think of any? A heart or brain surgeon…….I don’t think so. A rocket scientist charged with getting the space shuttle into space and back safely and in one piece……not likely. How about the guy who’s designing and putting together your home, or your car, or your wedding dress? Nope, we want someone with a verifiable track record in whatever it is. Yet we want to entrust our country and the world at large to an amateur? I certainly hope not!

It is looking more and more like we are going to pass up the veteran, the one with the experience in governing, in working both sides of the aisle, and dealing with foreign leaders in favor of the one who has less than the equivalent of an AA degree from our local junior college in all those areas. What’s wrong with this picture? It sure scares the bejeebers out of me, that’s for sure.

And another thing. Remember when Bush, Jr, was running in 2000 and there were questions about his ability to do the job since he had so little experience? He assured us it would be fine, since he would have a lot of good people around, advising him as to which way to turn. Look what’s happened to us under his reign. It’s not a pretty sight by any stretch of the imagination. Yet now we have another newbie telling us it’s ok, he’ll have a lot of good advisors by his side……deja vu, anyone?

I certainly hope my fears are misplaced, that we really are capable of making an informed decision using logic and common sense. I pray that once the smoke clears, Hillary Clinton will be the Democratic nominee, and intelligence will win the day over knee-jerk sicophancy. I mean, 8 years of incompetent “leadership” is more than enough, thank you. We don’t need to continue it.

And another thing. Mr. Obama has shown us that when he’s being pressed on his record, etc, he will whine like a baby about those awful, racist people picking on him. Do we really want more of that in our nominee? I’d prefer someone who’s dealt with the dirty tricks the Republicans play at every turn and knows how to overcome them. That person is Hillary Clinton. As the commercial says, she’s taken a lick’n and kept on tick’n. She will be able to stand up to them, put the truth out there for all to see, and never back down. That’s what we need in a candidate who can overcome instead of one who won’t even try to defend him/herself, allowing the Republicans to define who they are supposed to be.

For those and so many other reasons, we need Hillary Clinton this year. And as she said in their last debate, it took a Clinton to clean up after the first Bush administration, and it will take a Clinton to clean up after the second, also. She may not be the new Messiah nor the clone of a past great President, but she is tough, she is smart, she does have good ideas, and she will fight for us to the death. That’s something we’ve sorely missed the last eight years, and it would be great to get it back.

Listening to Mike Barnacle on MSNBC this morning was confusing at best, totally infuriating at worst. He and the others on the show, Mika Brezynski(sp?) and Joe Scarborough, were talking about whether Hillary’s remarks about Martin Luther King and President Johnson were racist, and whether they would adversely affect her chances of getting the black voters to choose her. Of course they’re still ranting about how racist it was, except for Mika, who seemed to be more openminded about it. Mr. Barnacle, however, went into a rant that went something like “…who put the pen in Lyndon Johnson’s hand so he could get a bill to sign? Martin Luther King did!” Ok……but I seriously have to differ with both his statement and the whole racist attack on her.

First of all, Martin Luther King was an impressive speaker, as anyone who ever listened to him can attest to. He could move you with the simplest statements, and when he really got going, he was magic to listen to. I have no doubt his “I Have A Dream” speach was the impetus for most of the Congressmen and Senators who ended up voting to pass the 1964 Civil Rights Bill, and he deserves full credit for that. I believe he actually changed the hearts and minds of people all over this country with that speach, also. But Hillary is right: Lyndon Johnson’s pen is what gave us that bill, and there’s nothing racist about that statement. Anyone who says there is has to be looking for something else to derail her campaign with, as it takes a very great stretch of the imagination to turn what she said into a racist sentiment.

Mr. Barnacle’s rant, while seeming very heartfelt and sincere, was so far off the mark as to be almost laughable. First of all, MLK didn’t put the Presidential Pen in Johnson’s hand, Lee Harvey Oswald did. Had he not killed President Kennedy in Dallas, thereby putting that pen in the hands of then Vice President Johnson, Kennedy would have been the one using it, and he also would have signed that bill. Thanks to Mr. Oswald, however, the task fell to Johnson. Had there been any other President at that time, there is no way of knowing whether the bill would have been signed into law or not, but the chances would have been diminished, quite likely. All the speachifying in the world would not have mattered, eloquent or not.

Second, what Hillary said in no way resembled racism. She simply stated the above-stated fact that President Johnson is the one who put that bill into action. She was correct in what she said, she wasn’t trying to diminish the effect of MLK’s beautiful speach, and she certainly wasn’t trying to imply it was white over black in that area. She simply stated the facts. The intent was simply to show that great words are wonderful, but it takes action and the ability and willingness to provide that action to get the job done. Barack Obama says wonderful things, he conjures up dreams of what could be, but that’s not enough to make it so. He doesn’t have the experience and the know-how to get the things done he keeps talking about. Hillary, however, does, and she can.

She is well-respected by the other members of the Senate and House, as evidenced by the statements of even her Republican “adversaries”. She can and does work with members of both sides of the aisle to get the things done that need to be done, and she has earned the respect and admiration of all she’s worked with. Yes, I know that sounds inpossible, but it’s true. Republicans who’ve worked with her on bills, or watched her work, have nothing but good things to say about her and her abilities as Senator. She has a much better chance of reaching bi-partisan agreements than any of the other candidates, Democrat or Republican…except maybe John McCain. He can cross the aisle sometimes, but he’s a little crotchety while doing so. Anyway, Hillary is the one who can do more than just talk about what what needs to be done, she can actually get it done because of her bi-partisan connections, and unless there is a major change in Congress, that’s what will be needed to get anything done.

Just look at what we’ve gotten the last 12 years or so. Yes, Bill Clinton could get Republicans to side with him under the right circumstances, but most of the time they were fighting him so hard he couldn’t do anything, and even when he’d sign a bill into action, they’d simply vote it down. And Bush….he had everything he wanted for his first four years, but once the Democrats took over, things got a little touchy. They would pass bills we need, and he would veto them out of hand. It didn’t matter how good they were for the country, if he didn’t like them (or more specifically, if his big-money backers didn’t) they were dead in the water. We need better than that. We need someone who can work both sides of the aisle and actually get us the legislation we need to lift us out of the swamp of a bad economy, a war we can’t seem to end, and the increasing hatred of us from even our best friends. We need Hillary.

I hope the Obama camp’s attempts to paint her as a racist blow up in his face. I hate when something that has nothing to do with anything gets blown all out of proportion, distorted into something it never was meant to be, and used to trip up a really good person. The whole Viet Nam thing with John Kerry is a perfect example, and even now he is painted as less than the hero he truly was in that war because of the Bush campaigns need to tar him with enough filth to keep him from winning. It’s not only hurtful to the one being attacked, it’s an embarrassment, or should be, to all those who actually believe the hype and allow it to shape their opinions about the person being assaulted. I truly hope people will see this for what it is and turn the tables on these people. After all, we expect these kinds of attacks from the Republicans, not from other Democrats. But then, we have been very good at eating our own young over the years. Ted Kennedy…..Howard Dean……John Kerry…even Al Gore, to a certain extent. We have to stop doing that and work to get the best candidate nominated. We have very little hope for the future if we don’t.

Woke up this morning - thank God, I guess - and turned on the news. That was my first mistake. This day isn’t going so well, it seems. First they found what they think is the body of the pregnant 19-year-old Marine that’s been missing for around a month, and she was burned and buried in the backyard of the man she brought charges against for raping her. Seems the neighbors wondered why there was so much burning going on back there a while back, and why so many buzzards were hanging around it. One even said he lent the guy his shovel. Can you imagine what those folks are feeling like today? And God help her family, who had to have been hoping for a better outcome than this. Yesterday the pundits were saying they’d learned she was still alive and had simply taken off. It has to be hard for them today.

Next came the story that Barack Obama was coming home to Chicago for a rest, and the plane he was on clipped the wing of another plane on the runway (or somewhere close), waiting to take off. Luckily no one on either plane was hurt, but how scary does that have to be for him? I’m not planning on voting for the man, at least in the primaries, but still, that had to have been a hard time for him, and I sympathize with what he must be feeling. I would probably be too scared to get back on a plane any time soon. Well, to be truthful, I’m too scared to get on a plane at any time, but that’s neither here nor there. Thank God he escaped serious injury.

There were more children killed in a house fire, a couple of “local” murders, the continuing downward spiral of the stock market, and more turbulent weather back East. And to top it off, although not on a level with the other stories, it seems Hillary still can do nothing right where the reporters are concerned. The woman just can’t win. She has been called cold, hard, and calculating because she sticks to business, talks about her ideas for a Hillary Presidency, and goes on to the next stop. Not enough humanity, they say. Not very likable. Well, after a few months of hard campaigning and thinking she was probably going to do well in Iowa, she came in a close third after Obama and Edwards. Close, but not close enough, according to the newspeople. So, later, at a Q & A session in New Hampshire, she let her emotions show, even getting dewy-eyed at a question that seemed to be made out of concern for her. Who could blame her?

Well, apparently, the Republicans, the newspeople, and John Edwards, that’s who. And they’re still on her about it, swearing it was all a put-on performance. Now, I don’t know about you, but after spending a few years of hearing people say I wasn’t strong enough to be President, that women are just too weak, and doing all I could to show everyone I most certainly was strong and not prone to emotional outbreaks, breaking down in public would not be something I’d be eager to do, even a very small breakdown. No, people, that lady had no intention of leaking tears, as evidenced by the way she fought to keep it under control and keep on going. She sucked it up, got control of herself, and moved on, with nothing more than dewy eyes to show for it.

The pundits this morning were opining as to how it was all a put on, how she’s trying to show the world she has a softer side - which, according to them, she really doesn’t - and it’s only to gain more sympathy, since it seemed to work so well in NH. But did it really? According to Frank Luntz, certainly not a Democrat supporter in any way, the signs were there that everything wasn’t written in stone, with Obama sweeping NH like he had Iowa. And when you look at the numbers, Obama got pretty much the percentage of votes they’d all said, with 36%. The pollsters all showed him between 35 and 37, so they were right about him. What they all ignored, however, was the 12 to 15% of voters polled who hadn’t made up their minds. It seems most of those broke for Hillary, for whatever reason. It wasn’t the polls that were wrong, it was the reporter’s interpretation of them….or the lack of it.

Anyway, I think that after seeing she could actually show herself to be a thinking, feeling human being without being ousted from the race for all time she simply decided she doesn’t have to wear the Superwoman suit she’d been sporting all along. And besides, most presidents have teared up and even outright cried at least once during their terms, so why should she be looked down on if she does the same? It makes no sense, and neither do the constant jabs at her, no matter what she does. Yes, I support Hillary Clinton, and I want her to become President. I don’t have many years left to see a woman finally make it into that office, and I’m doing everything I can to make sure she does it, because I feel she’s extremely qualified and capable, and she’ll do a great job of getting us back on track, both domestically and internationally. And let’s face it - I love underdogs.

We are hearing quite a bit this political season about whether we should vote for change or for experience. Obama keeps hitting the change button, and his new butt-kissing puppy dog, John Edwards, is parroting it right and left, hoping to stay on the Senator’s good side and be in the running for VP if he wins the nomination. His intentions are so clear they are transparent, and it’s really knocked him down a few pegs in my assessment of his integrity and sincerity. Be that as it may, Obama swears we need change, and he’s the only one who can give it to us.

On the other hand, Hillary and Richardson are hitting the experience button as if they’re hoping to have a treat roll out of a non-exisitant hole. She has “35 years” experience, while he’s got it in everything from Governor to Head of the Energy Commission, to talking foreign leaders into compromising with their enemies. Sounds good, except that when he opens his mouth he’s liable to ramble on to five or six other topics than the one he began to address as he continues speaking. He is very hard to decipher, and his answers never quite seem to address the question he was asked.

Hillary’s experience is very impressive, when looked at with an unjaundiced eye, and seems to make her the logical choice for the Democratic nominee. However, she is still being pelted right and left with specious charges that have all been shown to be false several times over, and there is a seemingly inate dislike of her personally, making it anyone’s guess as to whether she can ever make it to the nomination, let alone the Presidency.

My question here, however, is this: Is change better than experience, and does one necessarily exclude the other? My answer: No on both counts.

Every Democrat in the running for President wants change, as do the largest majority of Americans themselves. Barack Obama doesn’t have a lock on that, no matter how often he says and implies that he does, and John Edward’s sudden conversion to same doesn’t make him an agent for change, either. What neither of them has, tho, is actual experience at dealing with bringing changes about when not everyone is on their side of the question, and dealing with foreign leaders who are not about to simply lie down and let us have our way, no matter how much we feel we’re entitled to that. Hillary Clinton has experience in both these areas, with plenty to spare.

Before I go any further, let me ask you this: If you hated your nose and wanted to change it, would you take a jack hammer and chip the thing off your face, leaving a gaping hole from above your lip to between your eyebrow, use a chisel, needle, and thread to do the job yourself and hope the scar won’t be as bad as the original nose, or call in a skilled, experienced cosmetic surgeon to do the job? I don’t think there’s any doubt about the anwer to that one, is there? We’d all choose the surgeon. So, why would we not choose the person most capable, with more experience than any of the others, to represent us around the world and try to get a better working relationship with all the other countries? It makes no sense, does it?

Ok, Obama is refining his rhetoric, saying the change is in the political area, not anything else. That makes no more sense to me than the other kind of change, tho. Politics runs a certain way, and if it’s derailed, it falls, it doesn’t get stronger. I honestly don’t think there’s a better person in the world to get our allies back on our side again, or help make new allies from old enemies, than Hillary Clinton. The countries and their leaders all have a great rapport with Bill Clinton, and through extension, to his wife, Hillary. How would that not be invaluable in building better relationships with them? What does Obama know of these things? How much experience has he had working with these leaders? Not much, according to his own travel office personnel. John Edwards? Not much, but a little more than Obama. Richardson has experience, of course, but who knows what will come out of his mouth each time he opens it? Haven’t we had enough of the Foot-in-Mouth gaffs over the last seven, almost eight years with Bush? No thanks, give me someone who can answer questions in an intelligent, understandable, and sensible way. Give me Hillary, or give me death. I want to be proud to be an American again, not having to duck my head and wonder what people are thinking when they find out I’m American and simply go mute until I leave. Give me intelligence and experience in dealing with foreign leaders and the hard questions we will have to ask ourselves if our economy is to rebound and take us back to pre-Bush days. Hillary has all that, while the others seem to not know how to put one foot in front of the other most days, let alone how to negotiate with world leaders.

Yes, I want change, and all of the Democratic leaders do, too. But intelligent change, done in a way that works and doesn’t cause more problems for us. We don’ need that at all. Change for change’s sake? No way! Intelligent, fact-based, experienced change that will really keep things running well at home and abroad. We want (and NEED) Hillary.

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Once again, people who can’t stand freedom and ideas other than their own have struck down someone to whom both those things are fundamental rights of life. Benezir Bhutto was shot down like a dog after giving a speech to followers in Pakistan, ending her chance of being elected to lead that country again and try to get it back on track.

Fingers are pointing in every direction, mostly at the current Bush-backed President Musharraf and Al Quaeda, but no one knows for sure who did this horrible thing, and we may never know. The coward who did the deed blew himself up when he was through, taking several innocent bystanders with him and sending many more to local hospitals with varying degrees of injury. With him he took the knowledge of who sent him and why, and unless the world is really lucky, it may be impossible to learn those things in any other way.

I pray for the soul of this beautiful, intelligent woman who only wanted to make the world a better place, and for the family and friends she left behind. I pray for calm, tolerance, and justice in the country she loved so much that she was willing to risk her own life for it. And I pray that God will revenge the death of this person so beloved by so many, as He is the one who knows who did this and why. God rest her soul, and give her peace.

The Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday denied California and 16 other states the right to set their own standards for carbon dioxide emissions from automobiles. The E.P.A. administrator, Stephen L. Johnson, said the proposed California rules were pre-empted by federal authority and made moot by the energy bill signed into law by President Bush on Wednesday. - The Washington Post

I heard about how the President actually signed a law that limits auto emissions, and after I came to and picked myself up off the floor, I considered writing about it in this space. Then I read the rest of the story, as partially quoted above I can’t believe I almost fell for his scam this time. Man, I’m really slipping!

So, he signs the bill, seemingly putting new limits on the emissions new cars can emit, but in doing so, it totally throws the stricter emissions standards of my state (California) and 15 others out the window. So now we’re taking a step backward in trying to get a handle on the air pollution that is causing a huge increase in childhood asthma and other lung problems, especially here in the San Juaquin Valley. It’s the old “give with one hand while taking away with the other” dodge, upgraded for the 21st century. I should have known.

I may have told you that I live between 10 and 15 miles from the Sierra Nevada mountains - Sequoia National Park and Forest, actually - and for many years now it’s almost impossible to tell they are there most of the time due to the air pollution that funnels down to us from the Bay Area, among other places. I’ve been writing in here off and on for several years, so it’s hard to remember just what I have and haven’t said, and I’m not inclined to go through and read everything to find out, but if I didn’t tell you before, I’m doing it now.

Actually, the foothills begin about a mile outside of town, and I grew up looking at Rocky Hill, the nearest one, every time I went outside. Believe it or not, there have been times in the last two or three years when I haven’t even been able to see it, let alone the mountains behind it. In case you’re not aware, Mt. Whitney, the tallest mountain in the Continental US, is one of the mountains that used to be visible unless clouds moved in and covered them. Now, rain or not, most of the summer and a good part of the rest of the year you wouldn’t even know the mountains are there if you weren’t from around here. Yes, the pollution is so bad it completely obscures some of the tallest mountains in the country from no more than 10 miles away. It makes me sick!

These mountains are beautiful, whatever the season, and not being able to see them takes away from our enjoyment of living here. In the winter, they are covered in snow, with one mountain whose crevices work with the snow to show an elephant shape, and part of them look like a saw’s teeth, from whence they get their name. Another is called Homer’s Nose, because it looks for all the world like a man’s forehead and big, Roman nose as he lies on his back, taking a nap. Some days, after a good rain has cleaned the air, it seems you can see every rock and tree on them. Those are the days I love best, the ones I remember from my childhood. I love those mountains, and not being able to see them for weeks on end causes more pain than you can imagine.

Our state has led the country in emissions control, with the strictest rules on the books, but now Bush has wiped those away with a stroke of his pen, and any hope we had of reversing the crime against nature that’s taken place over the last 100 years or so seems to be slipping away. I remember standing up on those mountains, at a turnout that looks back across the valley, and seeing the coastal range as clear as day. My grandmother said when she was a girl, she stood at that same turnout and could see the sunlight glinting off the Pacific Ocean beyond those hills. I marveled at that, while she mourned the loss. Now, standing at that turnout, I can’t even see beyond the mountains themselves. No valley, no coastal range, and no glinting ocean to be seen, just a thick, gray mass of what looks like clouds but is really the smog obsuring our view. I have to wonder what my grandkids will see when they stand there.

I should have known having Bush do something truly good for us was impossible, but I actually fell for it, and as I said, I had planned to write a nice “Thank You” to him and actually say something nice about him for a change. Now, tho, it’s not going to happen. Now I see that he wasn’t thinking about us and those who come after us at all, he was still thinking about his rich buddies, this time in the auto industry, giving them yet another break and saving them even more money to line their pockets with. I can’t believe I swallowed the whole thing! It will never happen again, I can promise you that.

So, Mr. Bush is meeting with the G8 members, trying to sell them on the idea we’re really, really, really the good guys. At the same time, he’s trying to convince ol’ Vladimir that he has nothing to fear from the new defensive satellite system he wants to put in Europe. My question is, will any of them buy anything he’s trying to sell them? I have to say, I really doubt it.

This is the man who has been lying like a rug since he began running for office back in 1999, the same one who’s lies have been ratcheted up exponentially as time has gone by, and he still thinks people are just gonna take one look at his “cute” little face and believe every word he says. Why?

No one trusts him any more, doesn’t he know that? His word is as good as last years left over Christmas turkey at this point, yet he seems not to realize that. Yes, we know he’s not the brightest bulb in the chandelier at this point, but even he can’t possibly believe he can convince anyone of anything, can he? If so, we are really in even more trouble than we think, and that’s a truly scary thought.

If I were him I’d tuck myself into the furthest corner of the White House and never come out until it’s time to go home to Crawford. Even then I’d try to keep a very low profile, you know? I mean, having the whole world know you’re the biggest liar since the Pied Piper isn’t something that would make me want to be seen anytime soon. Has he no shame whatsoever, or is he really so stupid he doesn’t realize what people really think of him?

I am praying he won’t be able to get us into any more trouble around the world than he already has before he’s finally out of office and no longer a threat to us or anyone else, but I’m losing hope every day. I mean, if he doesn’t have the sense to know when he’s f*ing up, how much chance is there that he won’t do it again at every chance? I’ll keep my fingers crossed, but honestly, I’m not sure anything will block his determined path toward his single-handed destruction of our country and our way of life. Buy a used car from him? Hell no!!