Did you forget what today is the anniversary of?

Admittedly I did - until I read this online..

It's the 45th anniversary of the assassination of JFK.

For years I recalled the day and time and the exact feelings of that moment - where I was and who I was with....but now I forgot what day it happened. It's no longer front page news anywhere that I can see. [I saw it as a small mention on a blog.]

We are consumed with the in-coming administration and the guessing game about who gets what post...In this atmosphere it's even odder that we all collectively, it seems, forgot about JFK - weird - because for me and many others of my age the Obama campaign and the feeling of hope and a future is a reminder of what the Kennedy years brought..

Good day for the netroots and the country

While the Republicans were playing games with cloture - the netroots [US] were busy calling our senators and asking them to not support mr 28%'s telephone company immunity bill.

WE won...for now...Don't you find it sort of ironic that me unpopular says he will veto a bill that does not contain immunity for the telephone companies that spied on us? He says this bill is important for USA security yet he also says he will veto it if the immunity is not in the bill.. Kinda makes you wonder what or where his priorities are???

And yesterday Carolyn Kennedy said she is supporting Obama. Her statement was eloquent - reminded me of her father. Every time I hear Obama speak I recall that feeling of love for my country and hope for a future that we had back when JFK was president and then again when RFK was running. or when Martin Luther King Jr. spoke..

How I wish we had a president that was eloquent and filled with hope and promise...but I tuned on the TV to see if mr smirking chimp would sound any different for his last SOTU [YEA - his last!!] But I started screaming at the stupid smirking winking blob in front of me - I turned off the TV - it's better for my mental health to not watch this moron/psychopath/dry drunk/mad king george anymore than possible.


I console myself by saying next year we will have an articulate president...AHHHHHHHHHHH that time can't come soon enough for the world.....