THE POLITICAL HORSE RACE

Tonight the talking heads on TV have been reporting as though this is a game. My former idol, Keith Olbermann has toppled off his pedestal, in my eyes. I miss the straight talking man who wrote letters to President Bush and read them with a firm tone, sincerity, and the blunt truths. I have long since abandoned all hope that Chris "Tweety" Matthews is an unbiased, competent news reporter. It seems something has gone to his head and coming out of his mouth in a most undesirable way. I presume it is that Washington sense of power and entitlement that we heard in Cokie Roberts when Bill Clinton became President. The derision in her voice as she laughed that he thought he could come in to Washington and change things!! If only the audience were not a bunch of sheep who don't stand up to these talking heads and let them know that they really do not run, but rather ruin, the country (with their opinions given as fact), as though they know more about how to run the country because they have been in Washington longer.

Perhaps I should be more sympathetic to their plight, that they have to make sounds come out of their mouths all the while the camera is on them and running. However, I cannot feel sympathetic. Chris Matthews take his own opinion so seriously that he talks over his guests constantly. He asks the questions, answers them, all in a breath...often leaving his guests totally looking like a deer caught in headlights. They don't seem to know what to say or do.

However this day's elections result, let us hope that the country will soon be better off than it has been in the past eight years while it has been being raped by the present administration. This may not have been noticed by many because the country's virtue had long been lost and very few screamed loud enough to be heard in the Fort Knox security of the Oval Office.

There is not much left but to wait, watch and see....but can we last until November? That leaves us with an 10 month gestation period before we can learn who the new parent of the country will be. We will be very exhausted, impoverished, and anxious about the future of the country that is slowly committing suicide, with little support or hope for recovery.