President Obama Brought Up Short

There are certain losses in life you can easily get over, and there are certain losses in life that seem to leave an ongoing hole or shortfall in your personal agenda of life. For instance I still miss my father. I haven't entirely gotten over his death because I told God - or at least expected that my Dad and I would be able to reconcile the differences and communication problems we were having. But the Lord had other ideas, and with my Dad's death, all those hopes will be forever unaccomplished. Two weeks ago I lost twenty dollars. I hoped that I would be able to save enough in the following two weeks before the phone bill was due that I could pay the whole thing. That didn't happen. This shortfall is still with me, and I find myself perpetually trying to dig myself out of a hole. And seeing as how I've had flu symptoms of fever and chills the past day - I'm not going to deny myself a big cup of coffee so that I at least feel decent. Now to the current news. Republican Scott Brown won an "upset" of the Republican senate race in Massachusetts. He won by five points but out in the working class suburbs in the rest of the state, Brown was leading his opponent by fifteen to twenty points. Brown is a virtually tea bagger and has moved significantly to the political right in the past few years, as did Sarah Palin and Mc Cain. He used to be for abortion before he was against it. He used to be for a health bill, before he was against it. I guess he's tapped into that redneck, anti government bias that exists, even in Massachusetts. He makes that all crucial 41st Republican senator spelling an end to Obama's dreams of a Health Bill, a basket in which he placed all his political eggs. People say that these D-bolt ballots (?) were used in this election, which have a reputation for being tainted. Also they say they don't do Exit polls any more after 2004 and Ohio because they know it will expose election fraud. But this is a real case of "Et tu Massachusetts? Then fall Obama!" Those other races that went Republican for governor despite the President's campaigning- - obviously wern't just flooks, but seem to be highlighting a real anti Obama trend out there. One must keep in mind that Republicans said in 2006 that the democrats were only able to win a majority because they elected a lot of middle to right centerists and "blue dog democrats". We need to wake up and smell the coffee. The Republicans last had sixty senators in 1923 but their short fall hasn't hurt them any. They've been able to accomplish a lot of things all these years despite never having a veto proof majority. But the democrats had it all and didn't know how to use it. And they don't have the cajones to try anything like "reconsiliation" where they only need 51% for a measure to pass. They would rather be known as losers than be known as "pushy". As I said in a later paragraph- - I observed early on in the Obama campaign a "failure to grow" the way others like Jack Kennedy did. Now this flaw is made evident for all to see.

I thought Governor Swartzenegger was in favor of legalized medical marijuana. If so perhaps he could intervene in this move by governmental authorities to close down the hundreds of medical marijuana dispensories that have sprung up in the LA area. But as I say I haven't seen any around here just walking down the street. This battle to legalize marijuana has been a long one, but we aren't giving up yet.

Men have suffered more in this recession than women, since it has been the male blue collar jobs that have been the most cut. Now they say that more men are marying women for their money rather than the other way around. There seem to be a lot of liberated men around now content to be house husbands and have their wives earn more. Though other words come to mind other than "liberated" such as- - emasculated. They have been "liberated" from their gonads. Clearly we need a leader with an America first economic policy. Do you know where we can get one. Is Ross Perot going to run again? Failing that, how about Ron Paul or Pat Buchanan running? Pat Buchanan at least shows moments of real lucidity.

The following material was typed yesterday

I’m going to say something this morning I thought I’d never say. The fact is I have been willing to give President Obama more personal latitude because he’s Black. Were he a white guy running against Hillary I doubt I’d have been near as patient with him. I was looking through my Word documents in March and April trying to find where I made the fleece to God that if President Obama got the nomination I would do various things for God, and among these are to quit smoking. I was pretty sure the remark was in a lavender colored document and that’s just where I found it, but in May as in Simpson’s. But the request of God is a little odd because prior to this time I was having a log of doubts about Obama- among them being I often agreed with Hillary more in a face to face debate, and more importantly there was the line “Obama is no Jack Kennedy because Kennedy grew as the campaign progressed. I have observed no such similar growth in Obama”. And that observation has come true in spades today, after his long laundry list of retreats in important issues, such as that one is hard pressed to come up with any areas where you are still in agreement with him. I’m almost hoping that Brown win today in Massachusetts. Perhaps that will be a “wake up” call to President Obama to again start listening to what the American people are saying and what they really want, instead of some obsessive insistence in passing a bill nobody wants, at the expense of virtually everything else. The American people say that the President is leading the country in the wrong direction. If the democrats no longer have their veto proof majority it will force them into thinking of alternative ways of getting that health bill passed, that is if they even want it passed at all. Maybe they should be more open to input of Republicans and find out what sort of bill Republicans would actually vote for.