In watching daily news on television, I find words left out, things taken out of context, slants taken, and all kinds of things done to change the news in another direction. This is done many times to glorify, sometimes to vilify, sometimes for personal ambition, and sometimes to embellish. This reminds me of the pollsters putting out polls based on how and what questions they ask to bend or mold the polls to their satisfaction. Reminds me also of all those snake oil salesmen on television. I guess the head shed at the stations are concerned only with the money they get from those snake oil crooks selling their junk and bilking the public with junk product.

That’s similar to the money they make from the political candidates that they are getting ad revenue from. That is why they show all the polls over and over so the one on the short end will pay more money to make commercials to offset those polls - quite a successful ploy. Now the talking heads on television are calling ads that show someone’s record as attack ads.

McCain did work with Teddy on the immigration bill with Feingold on campaign finance. He did vote against the tax cuts by Bush. How is this an attack to note these? Huckabee was a taxer. He did want to provide education for illegal immigrants. He did have a record amount of pardoned and commuted sentences. He did release murderers, and one of them killed again - shades of Willie Horton that Dukakis released. The only thing I think when I hear the Huckster speak is a flim-flam man - one of the best. Using religion to gain a nomination is WRONG WRONG WRONG. A state that allows this to happen should not be the first state to start the nomination process - it is foolish.

Perhaps it might be better to have all the states vote in the middle of January. Can you imagine how much money this would take away from television stations as the primary elections, as of now, crawl through with a few states at a time? It would also take away the preening and imparting of their vast knowledge to us unwashed and illiterate rubes. Every four years must be a real bonanza for Iowa. I wonder how much of their economy is based on this.

The surge in Iraq is working. The Iraqi economy is recovering. The Democrats have done less in Congress than the Iraqi parliament has done this year, but they criticize the Iraqis. The Democrats, Iran, Syria, and al-Qaeda were hoping and doing whatever they could to see that the surge was not successful, all the while our young voluntary military is using all efforts to reach their objective.

The media have stopped beating Bush over the head with Iraq everyday, and now they are trying to help the Democrats by putting down the economy everyday and talking about recession - another hope of the Democrats to have this happen just before the general election. They are not for America - they are for the Democratic party ONLY. Power is their desire.

Now we hear of Bloomberg thinking of a run as a third party. One of his confederates is the turncoat Republican Chuck Hagel. I guess he is hoping for the Vice Presidential spot. There is not a good result from any of the third party’s attempts in the past. Ross Perot gave Clinton the election in 1992. Teddy Roosevelt and the Bull Moose party, in 1912, saw to the defeat of President Taft and gave the election to Wilson the Democrat. Wilson was the father of the League of Nations, which disappeared, but raised its ugly head again as the United Nations, which I hope would disappear, but doubt if it will happen. There were other third party attempts which were of no consequence, such as Anderson, The Green Party, and other idiotic fringe parties.

The New Year is coming in and we have the same inept Congress and Senate as we had this year - doesn’t give you much confidence in the future. Still, we are a nation of hope and assurance, even though we have been greatly disappointed this year by the actions of this Congress trying to surrender in Iraq and allow millions of Iraqi citizens to be killed as they were when we left Vietnam, and there were blood baths of a horrendous nature. They also tried to take away the most effective tool for intelligence to prevent terrorist attacks on the United States. The Democrats wanted Bush to sit on his hands as Clinton did, but thank God he didn’t!

There are the same cast of characters still in Washington - Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Jack Murtha, and a BUNCH of other defeatists and anti-American Democrats. We can hope that Republicans would gain seats in the House and Senate, but this is a highly unlikely prospect.

Just heard that food prices increased by 5.3 percent this year, which is a record. Thank you Iowa and the ethanol fiasco. Eventually the government will wake up, realize what they have done with good intentions, but with a lack of knowledge. This was helped by some crooked politicians.

May God continue to bless the USA.