Right, for once

Bubblehead, what terrible news! I sincerely hope that all will go well and that you will quickly recover. All best wishes.


I predicted from very early in the campaign that Obama would win in a landslide. I guess he didn’t quite achieve a true landslide but I am certainly satisfied. It is nice to be right for once, having been wrong so many times. As usual the right-wing media and Rethuglicans began an immediate chorus about Obama not having a mandate. If winning the popular vote by a very large margin, and having double the electoral votes that McCain had doesn’t constitute a mandate, what does? They said Bush had a mandate when he barely scraped by with a much, much smaller margin of victory. But, then, why expect anything but further hypocrisy from this bunch of dishonest clowns. We can look forward to a few years where our government may actually be able to function as something more than just a criminal conspiracy out to rob the taxpayers and deliver the loot to their corporate masters.

Now Obama is going to have to try to govern with both hands tied behind his back, hardly an envious task. But what is he to do with two “wars” and an economy definitely in the tank? There are already three or four “Impeach Obama” sites on MySpace, an indication of just how loony some of the loonies really are. Obama’s pick of Rahm Emanuel for Chief of Staff is, I think, a really good one. But of course people are already complaining that it doesn’t represent change as Emanuel is a hangover from the Clinton administration. No doubt there will be others, too. So who is he supposed to pick, all new people with no experience? Emanuel is a tough, no nonsense type who knows Washington inside and out. Obama is certainly not losing any time in assembling his staff and cabinet.

The Rethuglicans are proving once again there is no honor among thieves. They are all busily pointing fingers of blame at each other, and especially at Sarah Palin (who may or may not deserve it all). I confess it is difficult for me to have sympathy for any of them as they brought it on themselves. Frankly, I hope they never recover and the neocons will be given a featured part in the history of crime and corruption in American politics. Good riddance, I say.

Our first snow of the season tonight. A neighbor reported seeing a bear. They will be denning now, probably already are at higher elevations. Deer season is on and we have the usual photographs in our local paper of all the hunters holding their grisly trophy heads. One of them will win a new hunting rifle. Some of the deer are smart enough to move in closer to the house as they seem to know they are safe there. Most of the hunters here hunt for meat and use what they kill. As there is an overabundance of deer this works out for everyone. It’s trophy hunters I cannot stand. Everything is starting to rest for the winter. Life goes on here at Sandhill.



Though hourly comforts from the gods we see,No life is yet life-proof from misery

Robert Herrick

TILT:
I am far from ready for winter.