The last three posts, Jack, Stringsinger, and Ebbie, are right on target.

Anyone who can't work up the necessary brain cells (or doesn't have them to start with) can sit on his or her flabby buttocks and snort in a smug and superior manner, "They're all a bunch of crooks!" and take snotty pot-shots at people who are actually working very hard to try to improve things (generally using meaningless blanket terms like "liberal agenda," not having the foggiest notion of what "Liberal" means or what a Liberal's "agenda" might be), and there are far too many such people.

Which is one of the reasons we all too often get some of the politicians we do.

If I am at all disappointed in President Obama, it's mainly because of my own expectations. I was hoping for another FDR, which, unfortunately, he is not. Few politicians are. But President Obama is doing his damnedest against a Congress that is hell-bent on seeing him fail--partly because he's a Democrat, and partly because some of them think he is the wrong color to be occupying the White House.

And that last is not "playing the 'race card,'" it's a simple, obvious fact.

Don Firth

P. S. And if you want to see what male chauvinist pigs are like, wait until a woman is elected president! Especially if she's a Democrat!