CAMPAIGN WITHDRAWAL

We have gotten caught up with the negativity of the sore losers...the Republicans who don't wish for what is best for the country but, rather, that which furthers the goals to turn the entire country into a Fundamentalist Christian land. Forget that the Founding Fathers did not intend any such thing, Forget that we didn't vote Obama in to do anything of the kind!

Meanwhile, back at the ranch, the space shuttle has docked with the space station, planning to enlarge the space station to handle a capacity of six, rather than the current three. Unlike our politics, it has joined several countries together in a single scientific pursuit.

Almost 200,000 auto workers are in danger of being laid off. The Republicans say they are vehemently opposed to saving those jobs. Naturally, the context in which they work means that there will be many others out of jobs as well, all the supportive industries. Rather than make a deal that the auto makers might be helped if they meet certain conditions, it seems some lawmakers continue in their limited way of 'either you are for us or against us'. Creative negotiating and solutions seem beyond their capacities. When your philosophy, for years, has been 'the solution is found in placing blame', it leaves the capacity for real governing rather bereft as in the last eight years.

Everything the Republicans have accused the Democrats of in this election seems really to have been something they discovered about themselves while looking in the mirror. The tax and spend arguments seem not to have been the order of the day. While the people in the middle and lower classes have seen their taxes steadily rise, the Republicans have spent us into the greatest national debt.

Meanwhile Obama vows to exit Iraq, and rebuild US 'moral stature'. While I question that the the wisdom in letting Osama bin Laden know that gunning for him will be a renewed priority, we will be holding our breath until long after the inauguration, hoping that the statement will not be read as a dare. Those of us who lived through WWII, Korea, Viet Nam, Cuba, Desert Storm, Iraq and Afghanistan will remember that life never seems to get easier, it just calls on us to strengthen our defense, give up denial and rationalization, and get to work!