I'm glad that this is the last year of the Bush presidency. The hatred of the man that has been such a part of the political scene since the controversial election of 2000 has grown so vehement and vitriolic that the government stands on the brink of becoming permanently partisan.
Yet, the election of Hillary or Obama fills me with foreboding. Whether it's the thought that they are being championed by a section of the population that wants to forget the foreign threat, and hope to be lulled back to sleep, or that they will gut the military to pay for social spending and "national health care", the feeling I have is that they will break the bank. The war may be expensive, but wars are transient events...and the expenses short-term, relatively speaking....while government run programs such as social security and "national health care" turn into never-ending boondoggles.
Health care could use some price controls, but total government regulation...you gotta be kidding.
Don't even get me started on the second amendment. On that issue, Clinton and Obama and I have absolutely nothing in common. By the time they get through passing their versions of "gun-control" the only people left armed in the country would be the police, the military, and criminal gangs.
No thank you. If worst comes to worst, I'll hold my nose and vote for Huckabee...
