WTF?????

As I reorganize from my vacation, I saw the story about the people carrying guns at Obama rallies.

I have only one thing to ask: What the hell would have happened if armed protesters had shown up at any of President Bush Jr's. speeches or rallies??? We all know, don't we? Goddamn right we do. I mean the cops hassled ladies wearing the 'wrong' t-shirts for God's sake! Were people afraid that if the Secret Service and police had hassled and removed the armed people, the right wing morons would have been screaming about the death of liberty? Let them spew their toxic fumes, the president must be kept safe, period, end of discussion. I would say the same thing if armed loons had shown up at Bush's rallies. It is a damn sad thing when people have been pushed, by morons in the talk world, into such states of fear and delusion, that carrying things designed to deal death is the most effective way to 'protest'. Now that IS scary!!

After seeing that kind of crap beginning to surface, whipped on by republicans and their drooling media sycophants, it makes me wonder just where the real Spirit of America has gone. I am beginning to see that there is a spectre haunting our America; it is the spectre of a fear driven craziness that can lead a people straight into the arms of dangerous political delusions, where they sacrifice their real freedoms for the false 'freedom' of a security that is neither free nor secure.

I am going to mentally return to the banks of the Hudson near Hyde Park, and let that heal me.

Tim