Hello, Lanie -

1,000,000 hits!!
WOW!
Man, you certainly made the right choice when you overwrote your vid with your own inet address!

And RE:
>> I am somehow “evil” because I support Obama.
Well, so is General Colin Powell, Lanie.
His BIO: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Powell
So you & I (by virtue of my agreement with his assessments of his friend John McCain) & others are in *very* good company.

I, personally, also support Obama, but frankly, by default.
I just do not think that Palin is ready to take on international affairs and McCain, though very experienced in politics, is just too rageful at times, which could cause other leaders to regard American policymakers as closet irrationalists. As the VP, Palin would be doing the majority of international travel & thus affecting U.S. policy with other country’s leaders, who have no doubt had *enough* of Republican, “play along or run along” imperialistic-perceived blabla.
Palin has already demonstrated that she is indeed a “pit bull” type at times, but those types –ESPECIALLY a *woman* “pit bull talker”– MUST have restraint & wisdom & cultural compassion & understandings before those types go shooting their mouths off, whether in appropriate reaction or not. I do not have anything against woman “pit bull talkers” at all, but in light of the fact that she very often could be dealing with essentially misogynistic Middle Eastern politicians, “Palin the pit bull talker” could be the cause of some VERY nasty repurcussions. I mean, America has to get over the Bush years of self-righteousness which caused virtually the entire world, most notable those admittedly crazy-run countries, to pretty much hate us as a nation, some unequivocally so.

Actually, IMO, General Powell is not one of those dime-a-dozen narrow-minded, self-righteous, bigotry-inclined [in secret, of course], economics-challenged [except for how to line their own pockets under the guise of how their money-sucking actions benefit "the greater good," & how to use OPM to their own benefit, in the end {gotta hand it to those types -- they ARE good at those things, particularly the former!}].
General Powell is one of those **RARE** Republicans who has the *GUTS* to put aside their mindblinders for a moment and actually SEE the truth from a truly objective perspective; i.e., AS IT IS.

But all in all, it’s going to be a very interesting, & *very very rough* next 2-3 years for the world’s people, particularly for American people (as I’ve been adding into personal conversations about politics/etc. over the past several years). It ain’t gonna be pretty, unfortunately. But Revelations gave us that news. Just not exactly the precise scenarios…..

And lastly, RE: the Proud Republican Attorney guy, he’s not just a “Type A,” he’s a “Type AAA!” Which means that he & other samesuch venomous & vitriolic people will burn out by heart attack. Heart attack because their hearts are sick, firstly in a spiritual/emotional way and then by consequence, in a physical way. But ’til then, meanwhile, we just gotta put up with ‘em.
My most favorite quote of all time came from Joe Walsh of The James Gang & The Eagles:
“Never argue with a crazy mind.”
That includes, of course, mind self-blinding American political-oriented zealots, on both sides of the fence.

One last thing:
We as a nation depend upon the 2-party system to keep out other political parties. We depend upon arguements between 2 opposing groups. When that dynamic is held sacred, then no other parties or political leanings can make headway into our political machines.
And it worked, with results of those arguments being a medium, a mix.
But such a dynamic required courtesy, restraint, & decency.
But unfortunately, this dynamic is a past tense paradigm in this country….. Just look at the news…. A lone innocent plumber, for example, has a very big personal bulls-eye on him now. Talk & cable news show hosts ramble on in ever-effusive neck-vein popping dogmatic yakking. And “hanging chad” is now joked about in rockabilly songs.

We the sane gotta literally stick together, not just “say so.”
Because unfortunately, (and I wish I didn’t have to say this, but…) the lunatic fringe is now the status quo.

oki’mdonenow….
Idaho Guy