It seems like these days you don’t hear the words slippery or slick without hearing Bill and Hillary Clinton in the same sentence. The pair should be running Waffles-R-Us. Slick’s newest waffle, “I was against the Iraq war “from the beginning”. I’m sure that if by devine intervention the war spins into something positive, he will have been FOR it “from the beginning” and it was his hand that brought us to this momentous occasion in history. Washington needs a few degrees of separation from it’s past and a good political cleansing. Apparently over the last 30 years our illustrious administrations have decided that ”of the people”, “for the people”, and “by the people” were just nice sounding words.

   Barrack Obama is eloquent and good looking, but fortunately I don’t equate a well spoken, good looking president with experience and good politicing. The republicans aren’t much better. A Giuliani/Thompson ticket maybe? Thompson would make a great VP – we’d never see him then either.

   I don’t know what the answers are, but I do wonder what would happen if you could strip away all the generational uplines for party affiliation and start over. Would you be a Democrat or a Republican? I can’t think of anything either party has done for me personally. The real question is, has a bi-partisan system done anything for anyone, ever? Do you think Kennedy said “I’m going to have a showdown with the Russians today because by God, I’m a Democrat!”. I don’t think so.  My point is, the really important decisions are made by people – not parties. To that end, which person is going to clean up OUR backyard, and then worry about sweeping the up the mess down the street.

   I challenge you to go ask your neighbors and friends why they chose their party, and what they’ve derived from that affiliation. Then examine your own house of cards.