THROWING MY ARMS UP ON A HILL: Lately I've been getting an image of my great-grandmother.

She grew up in the rural Smoky Mountains and was (as near as we can tell) of mixed black and Indian heritage. When I was a child, she was discussed in hushed terms, like many other dark-skinned kin of the Scots-Irish mountain people.

I see her in my dreams, standing there on a windy mountaintop, her arms outstretched to the sky. And I wonder what she is trying to tell me.

I see John F. Kennedy, who kissed me in a shopping-center parking lot when I was a baby. And I hear his thunderous phrase ringing out:

Ask not what your country can do for you,
Ask what you can do for your country.

Ahhh, no one is asking that question anymore. From the closeted liberals who think we can turn our backs on our enemies, to the FARMERS 4 OBAMA! who believe that all our country needs is just a little more socialism, to the greedy investors who triggered the meltdown of the stock market because it's a great thing to make scads of money but you've got to run the minute your windfall profits take a beating: I see a nation of people who see America only as a means to an end — that end being their personal wealth and comfort and nothing more.

George W. Bush blew a great opportunity to correct what is wrong with America. After 9/11 he seemed to forget how to use his bully pulpit; he talked to the American people (when he bothered to at all) in dismissive terms. He let illegal aliens grab an irrevocable foothold in this land (noticed how everything you see is in Spanish lately?) and made a mockery out of the proud tradition of immigration in America, apparently because he speaks Spanish and didn't want to appear "racist," whatever the hell that means anymore*. He let the mainstream media steal the entire story of the Iraq war, to the point where many Americans genuinely do not know that we won the war and defeated al Qaeda on their homeground. Because he didn't want to alienate the left, he handled Ahmahdinejad with kid gloves and let the socialist foxes raid the henhouse of our economy—with predictably disastrous results. And when it came to domestic energy production? Clueless.

John McCain doesn't stand a chance not because he is a bad man, or a little less of a socialist than the Obamessiah, or even because he's old and chose a good-looking young "hockey mom" as his running mate. John McCain is saddled with the perception that he is Bush's inheritor, because George W. Bush didn't adequately make the case that we've got to look beyond our own noses and look out for our country's future. Instead he let Obama seize the "high ground" by merely promising a chicken in every pot (never mind that he's got no way to provide it except for his vague notion of robbing the rich—how breathtakingly original) and threatening his opposition with murky overtones of racism.

Where were the substantive arguments in this election?

McCain is old and cranky and he chose Caribou Barbie as his running mate.

Obama is the Messiah and will make oil cheap and the stock market rise and our enemies sing "Kumbaya".

And I see my great-grandmother standing on a mountaintop, her arms outstretched to the sky, and I wonder what she is trying to tell me...

*Obama supporters have pointed out to me numerous times (including on this blog) that I am a "racist" if I do not support their false messiah.

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Comments

[Doreen B.]

I see her too - she's saying "Beam me up - there's no intelligent life left down here..."

I see a light at the end of the campaign tunnel - I fear it's the train headed right for me. Be very afraid.

[PegMi]

I just kinda wonder if I shouldn't had jumped on that train wreck instead of underneath it..daa,, boy did I loose a chance of a life time... damnn!

[PegMi]

just kidn'
it doesn't matter where you sit . . . .
kid ing sorry...

[Klaus]

It is never time to surrender.

Never quit the fight.

Election day is six days away.

Do whatever occurs to you to support the McCain-Palin ticket.

It's what we can do for The Country.

[Klaus]

For example, last night I spelled out across the rear end of my car in large block self adhesive letters from Menard's the following statement:

HEY OBAMA - KEEP YOUR HANDS OFF MY PAYCHECK

This is getting noticed by people.

obama's economic plan will rob us all, and just about 99.99% of the population is worried about money and concerned about politicians designing ways to take more out of their paychecks.

If I was alive in 1940 I would have said "Hey Adolf, do me a favor - DIE."

It's 2008. "Nuf said.