Posted on 01/11/2012 12:09:50 AM PST by quicksilver123
It’s an anniversary of sorts. It was four years ago this week, the day after the New Hampshire primary when I first began to become an invisible man. It all started when I fell down dead on the living room floor.
Apparently, a lifetimes of cigarettes, brownies and Italian sausage has consequences. At midnight, without any warning other than mild heartburn, I collapsed and heard my wife call 911. She alternated between assuring me that I was fine and telling the 911 operator that if they didn’t get there soon, I would be gone.
Within minutes there was the loud confusion of firemen, paramedics and a defibrillator and I remember the ambulance techs talking to the hospital by radio phone and explaining that I didn’t seem to be responding. Halfway to nearby UVA hospital, I lost consciousness.
When I awoke at 5 am, I was alone in a hospital room with an oxygen mask and tubes in both arms. I knew what had happened, and checked quickly to see if they’d cracked my chest. They hadn’t. I felt great, and was ready to get up and go. I didn’t yet realize that I had started to become invisible.
Four years ago this week is also when we watched the deeply charismatic junior senator from Illinois let his mask of affability slip during the last Democrat debate in New Hampshire... more
(Excerpt) Read more at thesenewtimes.com ...
GOP = Party of Backstabbers and Vulture Capitalists
This year is bigger than GOP vs Dem. I’m with Rush in that I believe we will see a landslide election like no other in order to rid ourselves of a fatal parasite.
Not sure I understand the comment...
Man, I hope you’re right... I don’t think we can stand another term with this guy...
“I don’t think we can stand another term with this guy...”
You and me both.
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