Election Day

It's finally Election Day.

It's none too soon. During this presidency, we have been lied to, disappointed, ripped off, and our young people have been put in danger, injured, and killed. Our VA has often let them down, put them through hoops, failed to recognize mental injuries, and provided inadequate facilities.

We have declined to work with other nations to save the earth.

Ironically during the presidential term of an oil company owner, oil companies have made record profits -- at our expense.

Unemployment is at record highs.

People have lost their homes.

The budget surplus has evaporated and been replaced with record deficits, largely caused by a war we entered based on a LIE.

Sigh. I pray God The Sham is almost over.

More Garrison

Just an excerpt from today's column. I found the entire text on Salon.com.

The American people are poised to do something that could not be imagined 10 years ago, or even five, which is to vote for the best man regardless of his skin color and elect him president. The campaign against him is not one that anybody will point to with pride in years to come. It is a long trail of honking and flapping and traces of green slime, as if a flock of geese had taken up residence in the front yard. But Barack's cool poise in the face of blather is some sort of testament to American heart and humor. The man has walked tall and his wife has turned out to be the brightest figure in the whole political parade, an ebullient woman of quick wit and beautiful spirit. Bravo, Michelle.

Onward, America. We've all seen plenty of the worst -- the sly cruelty, the arrogant ignorance, the fascination with trivia, the cheats, the weaselish and piggish and the buzzardly -- but we can rise above it if we will only recognize a leader when one comes along and have the sense to let him lead.