fred/eggplant:

I worry about the same thing. I’m old enough to remember Jimmah, and have children young enough that I feel very invested in where this country is headed. (Of course, I cared before I had kids, but now that I have little ones to protect, things seem so much more urgent.)

Mrs Triton still rolls her eyes at the thought, but I’m steadily getting us prepared to beat feet outta here if the situation warrants. Don’t know what the triggering event would be – I guess I’ll know it when I see it.

Can’t decide if it’d be enough to just go off the grid within the Lower 48 – even in North Georgia Mtns, there are places so remote that the last feet that graced them belonged to the Cherokee. It’s a big country – lots of wild space out there to fall back to – but maybe a total relocation would be better.

Too bad that our liberal elites can’t satisfy themselves without feeling the need to use the mechanisms of government to gradually convert the populace into cattle, to exploit or cull as they see fit.

I, for one, will never submit.

As for this upcoming election… I’ve been rather pessimistic, at least until I watched Obama’s Magical Eurasian Mystery Tour. Deep in my gut, I have the feeling that he may have indeed, as an earlier poster suggested, jumped the shark here.

Now, I haven’t had a chance to look into the backstory, but… the image of him holding a press conference in front of No. 10 Downing Street WITHOUT it being a joint affair with Gordon Brown seems to be a massive breach of protocol IMHO. Imagine Brown’s Tory opponent coming here and doing the same in front of the White House without the President being with him. Back to Obama, I couldn’t help but think “What the hell?!”

The man is afflicted with an overinflated view of his own importance. With the media indulging it so dramatically, perhaps we’ll dodge this particular bullet after all.

Triton