The move to set Hillary as the head of the task force for health reform was a shocker to many within Clinton's administration and was already a fumble by the administration in the way it handled the presentation of this new initiative. Then this truly went downhill after litigations and the way she tried to push the bill forward in Congress.  But looking back, we can see the plan that was proposed was one of the best solutions to the rising costs and ineffective health care system our country has today. Not only was her plan designed to help bring in the 47 million Americans without health care insurance into the manifold, it would have also guaranteed that Americans have a cost controlled health care service. Currently Americans who think they have insurance do not find out until they are burdened with unfortunate situations that their company does not cover their needs because of certain conditions or terms of service. But the failure of Clinton's policy due to certain misunderstandings, dislike of her approach in dealing with people and campaigns by various corporations established Health Care reform as a topic on mainstream agenda. It also helped to clarify and fix our approach to the issue. From learning the lessons of the past, California and Massachusetts have implemented something very similar to universal health care - at least their own version of it. And at this point, anything is better than nothing. But the biggest blunder to the problem is how to manage the cost.

It is easy to say that we will set up a free nation wide health care system and control the costs of health services but how can we practically fund such programs? I think that question severely made companies realize that they would have to contribute to the system more - another reason why lobbyists successfully made sure Congress did not pass her bill. But the question still remains to this day, how we can implement this system. Unless we find better ways of reducing administrative costs - like implementing electronic record keeping instead of leaving a paper trail - can free up more money to be used in order to slowly reform our system. Even if the bill was passed, I doubt that it would have been immediately effective and any such reform - especially in the US with the largest health related costs and budget, would have produced any significant results in short time. Rather, by slowly implementing changes in how we do things and better management of the money in existence being used towards these health programs, we can implement a universal health care system (or a version of it) with little to no dramatic rise in taxes. But in order to achieve any accomplishments in revamping our system, we need to make American public and corporate America realize the need for such reforms and how it would be beneficial for all parties involved and only then can we make a strive with a bill like Hillary's to change our system dramatically.

Based on the national media there are several things wrong with Sarah Palin that totally disqualify her from being the acceptable candidate for vice-president.

She is from Alaska. We all know this is the land of the Eskimos. There is no culture, no centers of learning. They come to parties with fur parkas, not sleazy dresses. Heaven help us, they actually kill animals for food, clothing and shelter. They actually eat moose. She has probably killed a moose and gutted it herself. How can a person like that be the leader of this great country?

She is a woman and a feminine one, subservient to her husband, not a woman of the world. She hasn't had an abortion. She holds to her guns and her religion. Her faith is important to her, important enough to make life decisions by its tenets. She may actually as vice-president pray and ask God, whomever he is if he exists, for guidance.

She holds life sacred. How can someone like this be president? Will she be able to uphold the laws of this land? What will happen if she has to take steps to uphold Roe v. Wade? Will she pardon the man who bombed the abortion clinic?

She has no experience.

Allow me to answer these.

Alaska is rich in historic culture. The Eskimos and American Indians are not much different in their cultures except that brought on by the differences in land they lived occupied. The left looks at the American Indian culture as rich. Why do they not see the Eskimo culture in the same way? This is all very simple. The American Left HATES anything American. The only reason they love the American Indian is he is a symbol of what "America did wrong." The Eskimo on the other hand saw the hand writing on the wall and relatively peacefully joined with the influx. I am sure there were bad times and heartburn on both sides but the Eskimo did not create a victim state, necessary to become a darling of the left.

Sure they come to parties with parkas. So do people in Minnesota and Pennsylvania for that matter during winter if they are smart!

Sure they kill animals for food and some for shelter and clothing. You bet. But they do not kill for sport. They leave that for the elite in the lower 48. The kills are carefully used as did the Indian when he was living as an Indian. What is killed is used. It is food, it is clothing, it is shelter and what is not useable for these became fertilizer. The Indians and Eskimos did not have land fills. The waste of one process was used for something else. I don't know if she has ever eaten moose, but if her family killed a moose, it was eaten. But then this isn't a really hard thing for me to understand. Here in southern Pennsylvania, an area Obama said clings to our guns and bibles, we hunt white tail deer. It is done for herd management, most of the hunters do it for sport, but most of the meat is eaten, most of the hides are used for some form of clothing. Very little is wasted except meat from a diseased animal. You see, we understand to some degree the Sarah and her fellow Alaskans probably more than either of us would have even thought a few weeks ago.

What has happened in Alaska is interesting, the Eskimos and the people who came in have to some degree become one and there aren't two cultures like there is in Indian areas. And the people who have come in have learned from those who were there and vice versa. These new people have learned to live well on a hostile land.

Has Sarah actually gutted a moose? Don't know, don't care. But I hope she can gut the wasteful liberal Washington political pig. If she has it may be good experience. And who is to say this is not good experience to be vice-president? The only other VP in the last 200 years who may have gutted a moose turned out to be a great president. Teddy Roosevelt came to the vice-presidency as an expedient of the Tammany Hall people, they wanted to get him out of New York. What better place to burry a person than make him VP? Then the president was shot. One of the bosses was heard to say, "We made him president!" If Teddy is an example of what a "Moose Gutter" can do, bring on Sarah, and let's find more like her.

She is feminine, not the mold of the liberated woman. She is very pretty. But she is tough. Anyone who charges that she is subservient to her husband should look carefully. This is the family of the liberated woman, the woman who is free to live and fulfill her dreams. She has been a sports caster, a male bastion. She has been a PTA mom and a mom of five kids. She has been on government commissions. She has been a mayor and a governor. The number of women in this country who have been mayor and governor, living and dead probably does not exceed ten. By comparison, U.S. Senators are a dime a dozen. The NFL has more active quarterbacks. The number is about the same as living Supreme Court Justices!

Her faith is important to her. Her basic life decisions are based on it. Has she ever failed in this? I bet she has. And I would also bet she would be the first one to say she has. In one interview the humility of the person came through when she was called the governor of the least sparsely populated state. She responded that she thanked God more than a few times it was so. Why? She saw the responsibility for these people.

She may pray for guidance. Sure. I don't care so much where a person goes for guidance as long as they seek it from multiple reliable sources. Most of what I get from prayer is not "do this" but be calm and listen, search, listen to those who care about you. It often helps me see more clearly what must be done. With that perspective I see prayer for one in authority as good. The left concentrates not on God but on frauds who have misused the name of God. They call that the norm of Christianity. I am not sure if this is out of ignorance or malice.

Sarah Palin holds life sacred. She holds the rule of law as necessary. Nobody is above that law. As one who was for a time a part of the Protestant denomination she belongs to, I can say that this group holds to both tenets. I am sure she will work to reduce abortion. But the law must be upheld as it is. She will fret, she will see how she can reduce this more than a million dead a year but she will uphold the law. I could see her commuting a death sentence to life without parole for the man who bombed the clinic, but never pardoning unless there was some reason to believe he was not guilty. I say this because the teachings of her church are very clear on this, not nebulous or muddy.

Those who see abortion as valid and oppose the war will claim that those of us who support the war and oppose abortion are duplicitous. Let me say the reverse. It is you who are hypocritical. You can justify 3300 deaths of innocents every day in the U.S. but choke on 6000 to rid the world of a terroristic government. They choke on 100,000 number in five years of combat (deplorable) but can justify 110,000 deaths every month in abortion clinics.

She has no experience. That is spin. She has more experience in many areas than the rest of the ticket combined. She has made decisions. And allow me to address the other criticisms. Let's take "Troopergate". First, if that is all they can find she is great. And it is looking like it is. If they want to spin the bridge decision, fine. But that is bull too. A governor makes more decisions in a week than a "community organizer" does in a year. She will make a couple wrong. She apparently reversed her initial decision on the bridge to the right one. She is flexible. How many of the projects "community organizer" failed? Check that out.

And then there are the big things. Her daughter is pregnant, along with about 20 percent of other teenagers. Are the mothers (and in fact fathers) of teens who have gotten pregnant not fit to lead? What about the mothers and fathers of the guys who were involved? Let's face it. If you have a pregnant girl, you have a guy involved somewhere. He's fortunate his belly doesn't swell to show the act. Actually, maybe that is a good idea. When a guy who isn't married gets a girl pregnant he has to wear a sympathy belly full time for nine months. But I digress. I am sure there was at one point the question asked, "What were you thinking?" But there appears to be a commitment of the family to help as there should be. All too often times of stress for a family is the time a young girl gets pregnant. Her mom was pregnant with a baby that had problems at the time she got pregnant. I am sure that no matter how hard the parents tried, this placed some stress on her. I am with D. L. Moody when the great temperance preacher saw a drunk in the gutter. He said, "But for the grace of God go I."

And let's look at the final big thing. Her husband was arrested for DUI when he was twenty two. Imagine that, a twenty two year old guy getting arrested for DUI. I ask, has he been arrested since?

If any of the four people running are qualified, it is Sarah Palin. If you are to say something good about John McCain one of them has to be, "He isn't afraid of a bright bulb." I have seen McCain shine brighter since she was selected. I have asked, "Why?" I am reminded of the line from one of the Asteroid movies. "I am the best because I work with the best." McCain chose the best. Now he can work with the best, not the one who will not make him look bad. He chose one of the best and brightest bulbs in the Republican string. Obama chose one that looks nearly burned out. Joe Biden, you have your work cut out for you. I would remind you when you hit the debates of the military axiom, "When your attack is going too well, you are running into an ambush." And Palin is almost Paladin, the honored knight.

I firmly believe that there are no good answers at the extreme end of any spectrum, yet this whole election process serves best to galvanize the public to one pole or the other. Each camp hurls accusations at the other, and tries to spin the events the show themselves in the best light, but there is no truth to be found anywhere.

The Republicans try their best to paint Obama as a narcissistic and a self proclaimed Demi-God. Meanwhile the Democrats suppose to convince us that McCain is just part of the same old conservative show. Neither of these assertions holds water, anymore than cheesecloth. I heard one conservative talk show host try to make up some mileage on the fact that a couple of old women switched flags after Hillary was spanked out the picture; and you really have to give me a break on this one. Those two adamantly feminist crones would have thrown in with the Nazis if they'd had a woman on the ticket.

If you want to know for whom you're voting, then you need to go back before they began posturing. Obama, in his writing and pre campaign comments has exposed himself to be a sensitive and humble man with a very liberal new world viewpoint. Here is a man who had to get permission from his wife to run for President. I am not joking. I paraphrase Mrs. Obama when I say, “Alright dear, you may run for President if you like, but you must quit smoking before you do.”

On the other side, McCain has a 26-year career of being an irascible curmudgeon. He has butted heads with whomever he chooses in order to do what he wishes. I am certain that in his mind, he has never been proven wrong.

So there you have your choices, a charming but essentially weak Socialist, or a bully

The sad thing is, though, that it really doesn't make a big hill of beans for whom we vote. The president is only one person, and no matter who they think they are, they can't swim against the tide for long.

It takes an obscene amount of money to be elected to an office; especially at the Federal level. Candidates and incumbents from both sides of the aisle take their money from the same people and entities, who are largely paying for influence and favor. Who among us is foolish enough to believe that these politicians would take this lucre from the elite among us, then not serve them and expect to receive their support in the future. They are corrupt, not stupid. There is a reason why we essentially have no middle class left in this country.

More upsetting than all of this is that the whole thing reminds me of everything that is wrong with us. We have deadly serious social problems in this culture and are in effect being attacked from all sides, but few among us have the good sense to realize that we are in a war. We have largely become a nation of people who reason by emotion. Most of us having a fully functional Pre-fontal Lobe use it only to justify our own actions and attitudes. We react largely out of fear and anger when faced with the results of complicated social issues, like so many children trying to escape the bogeyman. Some of us, however, have risen to the point where we can muster some good, old fashion moral outrage against that which we do not understand and have convinced ourselves that we would never do. Most of us, though, are just self-absorbed isolationists, who have learned to live in denial of that which we believe we can't change; victims, like as many women who seek the comfort of sympathizers and rail for vindication. Rarely do we take responsibility for our own lives, the choices we make, or the actions we take. Everything is someone else's fault or blame.

We are not living in the golden age of reason, and I don't see any great change on the horizon. When this election is over, we will say hooray or boo, and maybe oh well, but will eventually turn our heads down and scuttle back to our little holes, where we will let the world go by. Only occasionally will we pop out and manage to point a finger at someone else, before hiding again.

I live in this mess, and being unable to escape it, have been victimized by it. I am not willing to be a victim, though, but having no authority or platform by which to change this place, I can only pick up my trumpet and blow.

As one of the few Bush supporters left (ducks flying objects), I was very disillusioned by the whole political circus. Err… campaign. Who to vote for? I was leaning toward Ron Paul, perhaps Bob Barr, heck even Hillary was staring to look good!

I really believe Hillary would have made it if she only had dumped Bill. Obama (or Nobama as Chuck Norris says) made a HUGE mistake by not picking her for VP. Our choices were slim to none and then came Palin

I mean wow. What a breath of fresh air! I have been glued to the TV/Computer ever since.

What I love about the Palin's is they are not perfect. But they overcome adversity together. Anyone who says that Palin can't be VP and a mother is delusional. She can and she will. In fact I think SHE should run for President!

Let's look at the impact of some of his policies and see who they will impact.

First is his economic package is a disaster for anyone in the middle income, between fifty thousand and a half million a year. Let's look at his lack of understanding of economics. The Bush tax cut INCREASED the amount of tax money that came from the rich. Check the tax revenue dollars, not CNN and NBC news. When I talk about the rich I am talking those who make over a million a year. How? They made more money so even at the lower rate it returned more. Why? Because at the lower tax rates these people did what made money because, heck, if you make a million more, you can afford the taxes. When the tax rate goes up they put their money and time elsewhere. The middle class also saw cuts. This includes many Afro-American semi-skilled and skilled workers, processionals and entrepreneurs. It appears that Barak has a problem with a white (or black) person making $40,000 a year getting a break! Let's face it; if you go to the professional and skilled work forces, they are there, good people, good workers, doing a good job and getting somewhere. And there are many successful businesses that have been started by Afro-Americans. The Obama plan will hurt every one of these.

His plan will increase taxes most for the professionals and the entrepreneurs. Let me give it to you, governments always take from one group that does not have political clout and give to one that does. Call the government robbing hood and you have it close. These two groups fall into the seventy to two hundred thousand dollars a year groups that will get hammered. Jobs the entrepreneurs provide will go away because these will leave the business world and find something easier in corporate America. Any plan that adds one cent of tax burden to these will just cause more grief. Obama's plan will make more people dependent on government and if you are dependent on government, they control you. His plan leads to slavery, not a nice word but it is true.

Second, he touts that he is the first Afro-American president. Heck, that is a bare faced lie. That slot has already been taken or did everyone forget that Bill Clinton was called that? It has to be true, the Democrats said it to get him re-elected! Or is it possible you can't believe what the Democrats will say to get someone elected? Maybe we have forgotten that Democrats lie. It is in their jeans. No, I didn't mean genes, I meant jeans.

Third, he is for change. Great. Change. What change? Well, that changes every day. No matter what position you have on the war, he has held it in the last month. I figure it this way, I agree with him twenty five percent of the time. That isn't good enough. What kind of change in government? One thing for sure, bigger government equals more taxes. If you believe that will all come from the rich, you are smoking some really good stuff. And allow me to let you in on a reality. If you take a million more from the rich, the rich will not buy a million dollars of boats, cars, houses, and stuff that the average working guy builds or does to make a living. A million dollars out of the economy and twenty five or so working people go on unemployment for a year! Oops. That runs out in twenty six weeks, doesn't it? Well, there is always welfare, but then you loose your home to get it. You become a serf of the government. The government owns you. It is called slavery.

Fourth, he is for pulling the troops out of Iraq and moving them to Afghanistan. Have you ever asked why? Because it is politically expedient! He can say he is tough on terrorism and Bush was wrong which keeps the Conservatives happy and satisfies the kook fringe. He can say, “Bush is wrong. We are getting out of Iraq.” The kook fringe American hating crowd, the one that has him in his pocket like that! They hate America as much as they hate Bush. When Bush is out of office they will have more time to hate America.

Fifth, he is not a messiah, he is being led around. If he is elected the men who have given to his campaign will run the government. The only thing he knows about running government is from Chicago politics, at best the runner up for the dirtiest political machine in the country, the only contender is New Orleans. He has proven he can be duped. He sat in the congregation of a church that preached racism and he sat there for twenty years and didn't see it till someone pointed it out. Let's face it, he said, he never heard it till Sean Hannity brought it out. Is Obama just plain stupid or is he a liar? To those who say “Bush lied,” did Obama? How can you bash Bush and give Obama a pass? To those who call Bush an idiot, what do you call Obama?

Sixth, the person closest to him is a mean spirited racist. I am not talking about Pastor Wrong, I am talking about Michelle. She is no better than the white sheeted members of the KKK. Her rhetoric is just more politically acceptable.

Seventh, why did Jessie Jackson make an outburst about him? What does Jessie know that we don't? Jessie thought nobody was listening, the venue that people state their real thoughts.

Allow me to give you the answer. Barak Hussein Obama is a political opportunist in the best Daly tradition. It is win at any cost. To paraphrase Farragot at Mobile bay, “Damn the truth, win the election.”

Obama is lauded as a great orator by the media. Really? Is he? Look at the number of ah, um, ah, well, um, sequences that he got into at Saddleback and in other debates for that matter. He is a great orator? No. I must confess that he is a great reader of something that someone else wrote and put on a teleprompter. When the teleprompter isn't there Obama chokes or maybe it is just the real Obama coming out. I wonder if he will have a teleprompter when he meets with a head of state over a conference table or takes the "phone call at three A.M".

McCain is not a great orator but he has things in common with Lincoln, a quiet wisdom and a wealth of knowledge and experience and more important, he is able to draw from that pool and use it when needed. He thinks fast on his feet. He showed that ably at Saddleback. Allow me to observe that if I have a choice of a guy who can read a teleprompter or one who can think on his feet, I will take the latter every time if the person is going to be in a position of decision making. If I want someone who will make an impressive speech, I will take the teleprompter reader. But a president must be able to think on his feet.

Lincoln told a story during the debates about a train engine that had a small boiler. It was so small that when the whistle blew it couldn't run. The boiler couldn't make enough steam for both. He then likened his opponent to the engine. He told the people, “When Mr. Douglass talks, his brain doesn't have the ability to think.” Obama is somewhat the same.

So why did Obama look like so good? In the earlier debates Obama generally went last, or at least not first, in answering a question. The others answering the question gave him material and more important, time to think up an answer. He could think before he had to talk. He could listen to the other answers and draw from them to form his answer and in fact if you listen to him that happened all too often. I would also not be surprised if I learned that the Obama staff was holding up queue cards (known in the industry as idiot cards) in the back to help him or they had a headphone for him to listen to it would not surprise me.

And what was the answer to the Obama crash and burn at Saddleback from the Obama camp? The only thing was an attack by proxy on Saddleback Church! The Obama camp is like the ball team that blames the field for the loss. The field wasn't level. It wasn;t their playing. According to the charge, McCain listened to Obama and thus had time to study the questions and Obama's answers. Let's suppose I didn't trust Rick Warren, McCain, the Secret Service and Warren's staff and thought they could all possibly participate in such dishonesty. It is like believing the police at the OJ quarters, who didn't know each other conspired to frame him. It isn't credible. Even if ethics didn't demand it, wisdom would say to the McCain camp, “Don't do it.” Why? If McCain had been given access to Obama's answers it would have been easy to show that his answers were targeted to rebut the Obama answers. It would have not been prudent for the candidate that went second to try to take that advantage. It would have been too easy to stumble on an answer and reveal awareness of what the first candidate said. That the Obama camp would consider this possibility shows they either underestimate their opposition or that they would have done it, given the opportunity! Consider that breach of integrity. And these people want to run the country. Having that would be Honest Bill Clinton gone to seed!

But one questioning Obama's integrity has more ammunition in his own statements. Some of Obama's answers boggle the mind when they are examined because they totally ignore facts. He says that deciding when life begins is above his job description yet he has voted to allow the survivors of late induced abortions to be left to die. If he really felt it was above his job description he would have voted to err on the side of safety. That is what you do when you can't be sure.

He called his vote against the war the hardest decision of his life. What vote? He was in the Illinois Senate, not the U.S. Senate when that happened. During the primaries he chided Hillary for that vote and repeated that he did not vote to go to war. He wasn't there to take part in that vote. And voting against the war for someone from a Democrat state like Illinois isn't an act of courage it is out and out cowardice! And if there was a vote that took any courage it was the one he seems to want to forget, the vote for war funding. The war is wrong but he will fund it. Does that make sense? Sure it does. That bill had pork in it. Lots of pork. Democrat pork. It would have taken courage to vote against it.

Although this was in another forum his talk about properly inflating tires is a joke. Experts tell us it will help, maybe two percent. But this is not overall oil usage. It is just gasoline. It is less than a half of a percent. This is good to do, we should do it but for someone who is setting policy to say this is a solution means they just plain don't understand the problem. If Obama doesn't understand this, what else doesn't he understand? The war? National security? Abortion? Judges?

Obama was willing to throw a black Supreme Court justice under the bus to satisfy his financial support, the radical left. What else will he throw under the bus for this radical fringe? National Security? These people hate the US and want to see her fall.

So the Navy pilot shot down the orator. The orator couldn't even see (in this case hear) the enemy. But like the pilot his instincts told him where the enemy was, where he would be and where the gunfire should be placed to take him down. And like an unskilled pilot, the orator flew into the bullets. It was crash and burn.

Not a bad move for the DNC, especially in a race like this. I wonder however, if Obama had lost, would we even be doing this?

Though we all hope to get past racial issues, the fact remains there are a lot of people out there still holding on to long-running beef that no minority is good enough, or smart enough to be President.

The facts are clear that Obama represents what the country look like today. And it surely doesn't look old and white.

And what's the most they can say about Obama now? OH, he's inexperienced. That's the same thing they've been saying about successful black men who apply for high profile jobs for years.

When they can't get you on education, family lifestyles, attitude, charisma, they can only say, “Sorry, you don't have enough experience”

Black America will NEVER have enough experience for mostly white-dominated jobs.

So yeah, I think it's great that Hillary will get her shot at the DNC to appease the supporters she carries because she did run a historical campaign but her history will have to wait.

She wanted to be the first woman president; Obama wants to be the first black president.

With the country only integrating 40 or so years ago, it's obvious what wounds we want to heal first.

America, get over it-she lost. That's just the facts to it all.

And besides, whether if Obama can do the job or not, America has already christened him. McCain has the fight of his life on his hands to even come close to winning. You can see the bias in the media. They're going to make him president one way or another.

And why? Why so much of a push?

Maybe folks look at Hillary more for what her husband did than what she can do for the country. Maybe she represents the 90s. Maybe they see Obama as a person that can bridge the diversity gap in the world. It could be dozens of things for what we know.

And we haven't seen her on the TV lately, but she has been pushing for Obama..It's like the media doesn't want to recognize it for nothing! She's playing her new position and maybe it's never going to be good enough. It's like Muhammad Ali and Frazier shaking hands at the end of the bout..Who wants to see that? We need beef. We need troubles. We need conspiracies..That's what' America is all about.

Now, the former first lady will speak on the second night, Aug. 26 - the 88th anniversary of the women's right to vote. I consider that nothing more than great spin so that people can't say they simply pacified the Clinton camp because they're sore losers. Either way it should be a good speech but like I said, if she goes into the whole “It was a hard fought battle to the end and…” blazy blazy blah…I'm turning the channel to Family Guy.

These ladies are single mindedly in pursuit of power; Clinton, now in her own right, and Obama, following in Clinton's footsteps of 1992. Likewise they appeal to the same demographics. One group of their supporters thinks that Americans are not smart enough to take care of themselves and need government to do so. This group consists primarily of “educated” yuppies who feel that the country which provided the freedom for them to pursue their educations and careers is horribly flawed and they need to fix it. This is the mind set of the people who have “fixed” the U.S. in the past. The same way one “fixes” a dog so it can't reproduce. This could explain why we don't exercise the ability to prevent our jobs from hemorrhaging out of the country, or to control our borders, or to use decisive force against our enemies, or to prevent our currency from collapsing.

Two other groups are the parasites of civil society. The first of these could also fall into the previous group, they are the entertainment class who are almost embarrassed by their success and have to “support a cause” to feel like their life has any meaning. Supporting their cause, however, cannot interfere with their self indulgent lifestyles. The second is the more obviously parasitic, the welfare class who don't have to choose between gas to go to work or food to have the energy to work, because they don't work and their food is paid for by the taxes of those who do work.

Another demographic drawn to Clinton and Obama is more disturbing. This group consists of the disaffected independents, Reagan democrats, and moderate republicans. These people are so disgusted with the republicans that they would “throw out the baby with the bath water” just to get the attention of republican leadership.

Our ladies both have memory problems pertaining to historical events, especially if they were involved. Mrs. Clinton remembered Kosovo snipers who were not there and only after much evidence was brought to bear did her memory clarify. Similarly, Michelle Obama “explained” that her “For the first time in my adult lifetime I'm proud of my country” remark was referring to the fact that so many people are engaged in this year's election process. She has obviously forgotten that in the last presidential election more people voted than ever in U.S. history. For that to have happened, a record number of people had to be engaged in the election process. What will it take to clarify Mrs. Obama's memory?

One wonders how Obama will fare without any real experience compared to Hillary who has the experience of being both a senator and working behind her husband. My estimate is that the Republicans are likely to win because they are dedicated at keeping America safe from terrorism. Obama will likely appeal to a more peaceful population wanting to concentrate on issues at home that will help to restore American pride and dignity. One wonders if will obtain a majority of votes from the black population seeing that some of their leaders are pro-republican.