Republican Rage

 I try to figure out why the Republicans are so bent out of shape and then I start thinking .. that I sort of resemble a Republican of late. 

 As I try to make sense of the direction Obama is driving our Country, i try not to get angry too

particularly where I live in Marin County, California where Obama worship is possibly at it's highest. So if you don't know I come from a liberal background, anti-war young guy, Draft Dodger, marched in a few demonstrations back in the 60's when I was a teenager, smoked pot, went to Woodstock, I believe in Ecology as a way of life, of course I drive a car again lately and consume crap and create waste like the rest of us.

  Anyways some how I have never strayed from being pretty deeply skeptical about many actions of government Republican and Democrat, national or local. I have tried to do better at being a participant in our system of government at least showing up at occasional town meetings where it seems like to often I am a day late and a penny short to do anything but watch things drift further down the stream of irresponsibility ('the never ending rape' as a female friend in the cab driving business describes it our actions toward the Planet Earth 'the pompous parasite' Kenneth Patchen american poet described us ...sorry don't mean to to offend sensibilities. I know you have to rush off tomorrow to jet away to explore some remote corner of the Earth that hardly anyone knows about. Cool. See ya. Maybe get a tattoo too while you're at it. Buy a condo there, real estate - always a good investment.)

  So we had Bush and Cheney and yes I thought Bush might have been an alien sent to our country to destroy it. Profoundly nightmarish experience unless you love torture, or perhaps you think constitutional liberties are for sissies, maybe you think only terrorist sympathizers care about keeping the government at bay-- 

     as a friend said to me just tonight. 

   Thank God Obama won. 

   I have to think about that. What is wrong with me? Why have I been so thoroughly unimpressed from the beginning? Well I thought the  inaugurational speech was inspiring.

Since then I realize all his speeches are inspiring.

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