Posted 5:31 PM by Gene

If this supposed record voter turnout means people think the next prez will do something. we're in trouble. I don't disillusion myself. If we get The Lord we get suspicions over His beliefs; more important we get the senile Congressional leadership running the show for a bit in His presumed name while He gets up to speed, shredding money and indulging in their pastime of daydreaming through social-engineering legislation; by the time He takes control it may not be worth His while. If we get Boobs we get a man who will lead sporadically, uninspiringly, at the spur of the moment, who'll have to barter his power, who because of his age may not fully know what's he's doing -- and there's the risk of an airhead taking over. People who believe presidents can be (I hate this term) change agents are only showing their ignorance. The last president who could make this claim was FDR, and while some of his reforms made life better -- think of Social Security, or the TVA -- it took a war to fully recover America's economy. I think I know better than to expect good out of politicians.

The one group I'll exempt here are blacks, who deserve to celebrate; and The Lord is not so much a -- change agent as a manifestation of change.