T H E - D R E A M - I S - O V E R

Disillusionment is a powerful emotion. John Lennon was so disillusioned with being in the Beatles at the end of the sixties he wrote a song about it with the line "The Dream is Over". This is how it is for people who voted for Obama in the primaries. Obama has backed off of so many issues I actually care about I am deeming him not worth voting for. Which means I will be voting for one of the remaining three candidates, either Mc Cain, or the Libertarian guy or Ralph Nader. The latest blow for me came this morning when I heard that Obama voted to reaffirm the Patriot Act. This is just one of a long chain of insults to the people who elected him. Of course he flaked on his pledge to opt for Public Funding. But now it's easy to see why he opted out of public funding. He's obviously gotten so many pledges from private lobbiests he loves their money more than he loves his ideals. There is the FISA bill. He's against tax relief for gasoline buyers. And he is against the single payer health plan. I bring this up because the ONLY good I see in nationalized health care is if it should bipass the private H M O's. Nobody can stand them. Ralph Nader was on "This Week" reminding the viewers of the many high ideals Obama has backed out on. The whole idea that we are wedded to just two political parties in this country- - tweedle dumb and tweedle dumber- - is such a silly one. Isn't the whole idea of a political parties is for like minded people to coaless around issues on which they agree? I have no idea what Obama's stance on Iran is, for instance. We know that he was for opting out of the North American Free Trade Agreement, but now he's changed his mind. Apparently he's changed his mind about how long he'll continue the War in Iraq. This was a MAJOR appeal of this candidate and now that issue is gone. What about pork barrel spending by congress? Where stands Obama? Getting rid of the electoral college might be a good idea, but I haven't heard Obama weigh in on that. The only areas where he is still true to his liberal roots are areas where I disagree with him. He still seems for blanket amnesty for illegal aliens. That seems to be the whole "thing" behind attackint Mc Cain. He's an advocate of "gay rights" as they are called, and he's pro abortion. He's still for raising taxes on the very rich, but give him a little time and he'll back off of this issue too. He doesn't think Bush should be impeached.

You know Joel Olsteen said this morning that a person needs to filter out all of the negative thoughts in his mind and zone in on the positive ones. He used the example of his little dog in the kitchen listening to the specific sound of the unwrapping of cheese because he loves cheese. He said that bad thoughts were like bad tennants in an apartment. If an area is 70% bad tennants, the bad tennants, the hookers and drug dealers, will drive out the good, respectable tennants. In the same way bad thoughts, perhaps of others, will drive out your OWN good thoughts. He used the example of a bat hunting for frogs and he can tell the poisonous from the safe kind to eat by the way that they croke. Sometimes you have to be like Superman, with your hearing cranked way up to hear the one good thought. About the only good thing about Obama is that he's black. And that isn't enough reason to vote for him. I would love to have the Audacity of Hope. People hope for a lot of things. But it takes more than "positive thoughts" in order to enable them to happen. Whoever gets elected in November is going to have to spend a lot of time cleaning the septic tank, because a lot of crap has accumulated the past seven years. Economically this country is in a lot bigger mess than either candidate would like to admit. We've avoided a recession so far but we musn't kid ourselves. By the way I'm one of the few people in this country who did not get a rebate so excuse my ingratitude. Life for most people is not just one big Joel Olsteen sermon. Happy endings of the few he preaches are few and far between. Berock Obama is like someone with ADHD. He's easily distracted from his ideals when someone waves new poll numbers his way or lures him with money. I have heard his absentee record in votes is high. I've also said most of this before but I'm repeating it to remind you why I am no longer for Obama. There are a lot of things I will tollerate, but I won't tollerate a flake in the white house. I'd rather have someone who disagrees with me if he's well grounded and consistent and stable. I don't like the way the media has been bashing Ralph Nader. It's time we gave him another hearing. I don't see how he could score any worse on my issues than Obama.

Today is June 29th. and 44 years ago I recorded "Hard Day's Night" off the radio onto a tape I called "2nd. Acetate" because it came in a generic white box and it was acetate and 1200 feet. Sometimes it has been "A Hard Day's Night". Ringo of course came up with that term when they were coming out of the studio in February when it got dark early, and it was night. Sometimes "things getting dark" can catch you unawares. This country has a lot of darkness right now. Unfortunately Obama is not the man to lead us out of our muck. I know my personal life is screwed. I don't see any way out or any "un thought of" positive thoughts. But I don't think the country is in as bad a shape as I am in. There's still hope, if we pursue it.