[Redleg Duke]

Nope, that wasn't the post I was responding to. I was just frustrated listening to the Bush-Bashers ranting about how there is no hope. For your own life and challenges, I respect and salute you. We make of life what we are willing to work for. Like they said, when life serves up lemons...make lemonaide.

[TigersEye]

Thanks. I don't consider myself a Bush-basher but that's my view. I'm sure many of my posts well fit the criterion for others and it's not my business to set criteria for anyone else.

I do feel rather bleak about our country's direction and prospects at the moment and the President's spending agenda and some other domestic plans weigh heavily on that POV. I don't like coming to conclusions like that.

I would like to see whatever dwarf gets the Dem nomination buried in a landslide of epic proportions. I would like this fall's election to ring like a bell the size of Mt. Everest tolling the death knell of liberalism. Well like the man said you can't always get what you want. Hopefully we will get what we need.

I'll always be making lemonade with my personal lemons; that's not a problem. But there's no reason this country should go into the lemon production business. We need to export success not import the losers to vainly try and share in glory they haven't earned and we need to continue the tradition here not pass on a hollow image of it for future generations to pretend they have it too.