I'D BE TIRED TOO

Well, the pundits are talking about how our president seems so tired. Let's see, he inherited the worst recession since the great depression and the only reason it wasn't the greatest depression was because during the Bush administration they bailed out Wall Street. He will get credit for nothing but blame for everything. He has once sane people like Lindsay Graham and John McCain who wanted to work with all of congress for comprehensive immigration reform now taking the hard line conservative view that we should just go around throwing Mexicans or people who look like them in jail.

For all of you who are my age, I want you to remember the night you sat in front of your black and white TV and watched Ike say goodnight to the nation. With the climate in this country today, he would be maligned as a liberal, progressive, socialist. As a student of history I can't say I agree with everything that was done in that administration (the Shah of Iran is one of them) but his attention to and care for the people of this nation was foremost. Now our "alleged" representatives are libertarian based corporatist's and we are going to be left to fend for ourselves which amounts to being "serfs" who serve the rich, or in the alternative, we are left to die with no health care, or if we have a job, there will be no retirement and we will work until the day we die.

That's my fate. I'm not rich. I just worked all my life. No big opportunities, just worked really hard and also volunteered, tried the "American Dream" of my own business twice, and my husband tried that, too...we're almost out of the last of that credit card debt." Talk about death panels.

How about the fact that while you're trying to create your own company you get sick. You immediately have a "pre-existing condition." That means unless you get a soul sucking job that has nothing to do with your talent or your dreams but they offer group insurance, you are screwed and nailed to that job for life.

Your dreams go away. Your heart and your spirit die in tandem. You are on life support because even as you live and breathe and go through one day and then to the next, because you are not even close to the person that God meant you to be you are dying minute by minute, each day. Welcome to my world and welcome to America, because of their corporate health care system.

Okay, Tea Party Patriots. Before you say another word about "OBAMACARE" you have to give up all of it...your world without Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security. See, in order to live up to what you think you're supporting in your "KEEP YOUR GOVERNMENT HANDS OFF MY HEALTHCARE", that's what you MUST do.

Seriously, No more nothing. Everybody fend for themselves. You have to go out now and get a job. No more health insurance. I don't care if you're 72. Get a job, you lazy ass. You have to support yourself. Yup...that's what you're supporting. If you don't like this, talk to Dick Armey. He's the one that duped you into starting this Tea Party Bullcrap.

So, Back to being tired. When our President Obama gets inroads to Healthcare, Wall Street Reform, Jobs Creation he gets numbers and polls and anger. I'm pissed off too. But, realistically...oh come on...nobody thinks the current jobless rate is acceptable but it's on the upturn as opposed to the sucking sound heading to China that existed under Bush. Do you really think that Walmart is on our side??? Don't get me started. I won't let my car be seen in a Walmart parking lot and if any of you want the real scoop go to wakeupwalmart.com Do you know how many people have been locked in stores, forced to work overtime for no pay and off the books, threatened with losing their jobs if they didn't comply? Oh, that's right, they don't count, they're illegals. Illegals who keep the price of your freaking laundry detergent low. Get it?????

Oh, other things President Obama happened to execute. The Lilly Ledbetter act (that mandates equal pay for equal work for women,) Don't Ask, Don't tell will soon be gone - yes, they have to go through the Pentagon motions but for all intents and purposes, soon we will have sanity in the Military. Further, President Obama will soon be naming the second of two women to the Supreme Court.

So, my President is still maligned for having a "DO NOTHING" ADMINISTRATION. I'm afraid that if I were Obama I'd be seeking a comfy couch for a serious, long "GIVE ME A BREAK AND SCREW YOU" nap. Of course, he's not going to do that. God, why did he want to be President?

I still have the fire in my belly...still entertain the desire to seek or help others seek .public office Then,each time, I ask myself why I would put myself through all that Hell? This incredible man, whether I agree or disagree with every one of his policies (Oh...trust me...I'm not a blind cheerleader) still makes me want to rise to the best of my capabilities. He still makes be believe that we can make that illusive "American Dream" available to EVERYONE, not just the top 5% of our population.

So there he is. Damn. I'd be tired too. I still haven't written off the crazy idea of running myself...Because of Obama...Even though I can't run. I'd have to walk slowly as I have extreme chronic Bursitis...or I'd have to buy a Segue. But he makes me want to run anyway. He makes me want to care, to stay involved, to be a part of this great democracy...even though I'm tired. I call that Inspiration. I call that man my President.