It has been a loooong time since I posted anything. I got up in the election fever of 2008 and had hoped for quite a bit more change than we got. While I have been pleased with Mr. Obama's foreign policy overall his domestic policies have been disappointing. The first clue that the economy was not going to handled well was when he did not include a single economist that had predicted the meltdown but instead filled the posts with folks that had helped it occur. That may still sink him if he cannot get the economy to turn around and of course for the Republicans, they do not want to turn the economy around since their friends (the Koch brothers come to mind) are doing just fine. Between the oligarchy's money and the general public's discontent, they make still get significant majorities so that they can dismantle everything leaving everyman for himself, everyone else be damned.