Now, Santa Won't Give Me As Many Presents

Wednesday morning my father called (with new requests for me and my graphics tablet) and in the course of conversation said, "Well, I hope you are as pleased a year from now as you are right now." Uncommonly gracious for my father, by the way. I replied "I hope I am, too, and I hope you are considerably more pleased in the president than you are now in the president-elect." My dad chuckled and said that set the bar awfully low, that really the only direction left for Obama to go with him was up.

I have noticed, heard for myself and heard tell of surprising Republican grace in defeat this time, They're not all well-poisoning Sean Hannitys. I think we are seeing the beginning of a real chance for reconciliation. Let's remember the lessons of South Africa and give peace (between us) a chance.

Its not just you Elfie.I live in a very rural isolated area and thought maybe it was just where I live but the more I read and talk to others, I reckon it is all over.

An elderly gentleman told me yesterday he was so afraid that all the talk on Fox News was true and that Obama was a secret terrorist who was going to destroy America. He also thought he was a Muslim. I tried telling him the truth. I also told him something that I have told many others that beleive in some vague secret Muslim terrorist plot that Obama is going to carry out . My explanation goes something like this: If there was a Muslim plot to infiltrate the Presidency of the U.S., it wouldn't be with a man named Barack Obama. The candidates name would be John Smith or Jim Anderson and he would remind us all of what a great Christian he was continuously.He wouldn't be a liberal Democrat, he would be a conservative.He would be endorsed by the religious right and there wouldn't be a clue of any sort. The candidate would have to be a very fair secret convert to Islam or a European, or fair Asian Muslim, who appears European, and somehow kept it all secret. It usually takes decades to build a resume suitable to run for the canddate of one of the two major parties for President, so keeping all that secret would be a heck of a task. This would all be very unlikely.

Another paranoid delusion of the right that seems to be out there is that Obama's birth certificate has never been checked. He is really an illegal alien. I tell people his birth certiificate has been checked and the idea that he is an illegal alien is just another lie.

We are goinjg to have to be strong for this major event in the evolution of American history.It is a huge development and we need to be patient with people.

BTW, welcome Elfie.