steveaz said:

“Is America going to “die,” proverbially or otherwise, if Obama gets elected for a term or two. I realized today that the answer is “No.””

I agree with the sentiments expressed by Steveaz. The US has alot of inertia and it would be difficult for one bad President to screw it up entirely. My counter points are:

1) Beware of things slowly going to hell along the lines of a “boiling frog”.

2) One nuclear explosion can ruin your whole day.

If the Messiah wins, I’m going to get all of the family’s passports up-to-date (I’ve been slack about that). I’m also going to give the matter some careful thought about what triggering event should cause the family to cut-and-run. Einstein survived the Holocaust because he was smart enough to know when to cut-and-run. A whole lot of people did not survive because they thought they could hunker down and wait it out.