STILL BEGUILED AFTER ALL THESE YEARS

This represents John Kerry's America. Plus the other states for which there is still hope. The states that are beyond hope and should be kicked out are Utah, Arizona, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina. It's a thought, anyhow.

I was re-reading Donald Regan's book, but I imagine others agree, that there are two things that really stand out about the personality of Ronald Reagan. One was that he was obsessed with his image and how things said to the Press would affect his poll numbers. The other was that Reagan surrounded himself with people who made his decisions for him. Reagan was not a "hands on" kind of President the way most men are today. The legacy of Ronald Reagan is still alive and well and we still buy into most of his myths about "free trade" and "deficets" and just ignoring AIDS and other health issues, and shredding the Constitutional civil rights safeguards. It seems that these days thanks to Rush Limbaugh and his voter insergents, the Democrats, both of them, have slumped in the polls in any contest against Mc Cain and people who were not formerly inclined are not considering voting for Mc Cain, and I confess I am one of them. What Obama needs to do is start acting more like his mentor, John Kennedy. He needs to come back swinging when accusations are made against him. This "nice guy" routine is wearing thin and the public just isn't buying it. People are sold "notions" as they say in EST, every day of their lives and once they get a notion about something or someone it's hard to dislodge it. People still believe that Al Qaida is out to take over America. People still see non White races as a threat even in this enlightened year of 2008. They say some OCD people are afraid to venture out of their house to go on a date or even shop for food. Many people in the red states are afraid to venture out from the security of their long held prejudices. Mc Cain can afford to throw the Blacks a bone now and then. Some centerists (like myself) will take comfort from the fact that Mc Cain occasionally differs from the Bush-Chaney-Rove line. I guarentee you Hillary's approach in Indiana is to white people to muster up every ounce of racial prejudice they have.

When you see the Jeremiah Wright interview on Bill Moyers, he appears to be a most reasonable man. I think he has one thing wrong. Christianity is and always has been about culture war. St. Mark who knew Jesus lived in Egypt and was an African and the founder of the Coptic church, as we have said, the earliest church. When these ideas about Jesus being alive came to Rome- - Rome took over. It was their goal to wipe out Jewish culture and I don’t want any to be misled about this. Most “missionaries” of the past despised the cultures they preached to. If the Jews had been more like Westerners, then we would all be good Jews today. Since I only saw the first half hour watching it on computer and they were just playing the controversial sermon when the transmission broke off, I don’t know what the Reverend said later on about his words. But clearly the man is not a hateful man and cares about both his country and the gospel. But he also admires the culture of the African peoples and this is absolutely no reason to fault him. I think the people who, for instance, talk about the Latinos “taking over” our culture one day- - are full of bullshit. I’m not the least worried about my culture and if it becomes Latinized in the future, which it won’t, then it must be because I think it’s superior.

Three New York policemen, two of them apparently Black, were acquitted for unloading 31 rounds of gunfire and killing a black man on the eve of his wedding day. They say the number of shots is irrelivent; it’s only what is going on in the officer’s mind. I don’t like this “paranoia escape clause” provision of the law. Now they are making laws even for private citizens, that if they feel personally afraid or threatened, they are free to fire away. Of course they are going to "feel more threatened" if it's a member of a non white race. Being a policeman is a lot safer than many other jobs. The proof of this is when a cop does die they suspend everything else on TV and cover his funeral. What if they did this every time, for instance, an individual who had taken VIOXX or CELEBREX died from the drug. The answer is obvious. They say that one death is a shame but a thousand is a statistic. That's how we relate.

There was a shack attack on a man in Salana Beach near San Diego, killing him. The tri-athlete suffered gigantic wounds in both legs from a single bite. He was wearing a wet suit and the shark thought he was a seal, attacking from below Naturally this will only feed the waning panic about sharks. I told this to Phyllis. Christians are sensitive people and the idea of their being evil in the world- - bothers them.

Mc Cain has spoken up and said those anti Rev Wright commercials playing now in North Carolina are wrong, and he doesn’t believe in that kind of campaigning. And Reverend Wright will appear on the Bill Moyers program at nine o clock. I think black people need to fight back although this guy has lighter skin than I do. I don’t have any immediate plans to blog. I was going to talk about my own “Gift that keeps on taking” meaning mental illness, and an inability to break out of my family’s shadow. Dad is still alive and well with his proclamations still in effect from the grave. The Holy Spirit seems to be a person like "Billy Babbit" who stutters and is deathly afraid of what his mother, (or the Devil) might say or think of him if he does wrong. So basically the Holy Spirit gets a pass in my life not to be there to defend me, because it doesn’t even know who the enemy is. I need to learn to come out swinging should my mental fitness ever be questioned- - particularly if I’m ever in a situation where I need to defend the Faith.

On Days of our Lives, Eva was captured. Kayla came in on them having sex and then there was a gun wrestling match and Eva fired the gun and was disarmed and Bo and Hope came in and they were joined by Abe and Roman who got information from that same guy, information they could have gotten weeks ago before any of this happened. Now Eva is going to jail. Meanwhile Stephanie is being kidnapped after almost having sex with Max. John is entertaining Nicole, or was. To be frank John Black is turning into an asshole these days. This makes two women he’s dissed. He had no intention of all that romantic crap he spewed about going to NapaMonte Carlo or something. The shocker of the day is that Victor knows where Brady is. He’s always known but played this shit-ass game of his. Now he’s kicking both Nicole and Clowie out of the house and questioning his son why he is “siding with others against the family”, like some kind of crime boss. to stop off for wine tasting before jetting on to

On the Randy Rhodes show and BS news they talked about Clinton math and how she really hasn’t won the Popular Vote. Even if Hillary counts Florida she still hasn’t won. In addition none of the “uncommitted” votes in Michigan can go to Obama. They say Pennsylvania has the second highest oldest population figures. “Except for any state Mc Cain is visiting”. And they’re trying to spread the roomer that Hillary’s idea of a dream ticket is her and Mc Cain on the same ticket. Clearly if you are looking for a candidate who doesn’t make a habit of lying, you have to exclude Hillary. Now they are saying that there were voting irregularities in Pennsylvania and they hurt Obama excluding people who voted for him. I wish Hillary wasn’t associated with “Rovian” tactics. Some would say "Well the Republicans are aiming their guns at Berock Obama now". That's right, because Hillary might be mistaken for a Republican in some quarters. There is also a roomer that Hillary has privately decided just to sit 2008 out and let Obama lose to Mc Cain and them come back and run in 2012. Meanwhile Mc Cain is campaigning in places like Selma, Alabama, praising Black protesters of 1965. He’s also been in New Orleans saying he’d have handled the Hurricane Katrina fiasco much more compassionately than Bush handled it.