Belaboring a point.

I don't have a great sweeping barometer that measures the thoughts, feelings, and attitudes of the entire country...I only have what I see.

When I saw what I saw...everyone turning around with that 'WTF?' look, and my own "typical". I felt bad to feel that way...it's so ingrained in my thoughts from..not so much how...but where I was raised. I pictured what I could hear people I know say. "Now that we have a black president, they're gonna be running wild" or something equally ignorant. Not to mention the socio-economic imaginations like "oh now THEY'RE going to get all the jobs!"

I don't think we're ready for Barack Obama's America. People with thoughts and feelings and rationale are, but no one else is, and that's why I'm beginning to think Hillary Clinton would have been a good stepping stone to get us headed in some kind of a general direction that didn't involve down.

The latest political 'gaff' by Obama, is he claims small town America is bitter, and it makes them cling to their religion and their guns. Is that such an outrageous statement? Is it? I could point to anyone walking down the street of this town, and they would have at least two of those three symptoms. He should have said that small town America is a bunch of naive and sensistive pricks who are two stupid to realize the media is exploiting THEM, and hang on their every word. DUPED! How many times did you vote for Bush? Twice? I don't feel bad.

And the Rev. Wright thing, cuz you know I was gonna bring it up...what was it really that he said that made people mad? Because, I can say that I've uttered a few of those things over the past few years...People are afraid of black men with opinions, that's just the way this country still is. Consider Bill O'Reilly making the exact same comments.

I wish people got equally bent out of shape over Dick Cheney's "so?"

Did you actually watch Obama's speech on race? That was inspirational for fucking ANYONE to listen to, and they killed it within a few days.

Anytime someone says something bad about the country, we light torches and sharpen pitch forks, but patriotism is so temporary now. Think about September 12th 2001...I bet by October you were back to flipping people off in traffic, and if that didn't put a nail in the coffin, the Pat Tillman fiasco did. So don't pretend to be something you're not. You're not a patriot. They are so rare and few.