While analyzing the past year on a personal level can be complicated, it is easy to predict what the coming year will be like on a political level. More than likely, it will be more irritating than the last year and everyone is advised to wear protective clothing.  So much mud will be thrown by the presidential candidates that it will be difficult to avoid the splash.  Not only will be mud be slung at their opponents, but something akin to equine excrement will be thrown directly at the voting American public in the form of promises from candidates that most people know the candidates have no intention of keeping.

 

       Even Christmas is being used for political gain.  Americans have seen Huckabee’s "floating cross," and watched Hillary search for the pretty gift with a bow for another of her socialist programs guaranteed to pick working American’s pockets even more then is done now.  Free everything is quite expensive.  That is socialism’s dirty little secret and the main reason that socialism doesn’t work.

 

       Under the control of a friend of Hillary Clinton, National Enquirer is busy smearing John Edwards with, of all things, accusations of adultery.  If anyone could be called an expert on all things adulterous, it would be Bill and Hillary Clinton.  This is the same outstanding journalistic wonder that stated that President Bush was driven to drink by hurricane Katrina.  This article was complete with personal conversations between Laura and George Bush.  Apparently the Enquirer columnist, standing several miles from the Western White House, has a bionic ear and quite an imagination.

 

        What many people probably don’t know is that the National Enquirer is directed by Robert Altman, a Clintonite who reportedly is hoping to be anointed the secretary of the treasury in Hillary’s cabinet.  Mr. Altman bought controlling interest in American Media in 1999 and has been peddling trash on anyone who doesn’t worship at the altar of Bill and Hillary.  It doesn’t matter whether the story is true.  All that matters is that millions will see the headline in check-out lines across America and some will believe it.  Honesty is not at the top of the list of desirable traits for friends of the Clintons.  While Hillary talks about "change," it seem that the old ways of slash, burn, and destroy still works fairly well for her.

 

     During this Christmas carol season, Americans are listening to pompous senators howl "cover-up" because of the reported destroying of some video tapes of al Qaeda prisoners being interrogated.  Seeing this only as an opportunity to attack Bush, the senators have no concern for the safety of the agents of the Central Intelligence Agency whose faces were also seen in those tapes.  The man who destroyed the tapes should be given a medal.  He knew if those liberal senators saw the tapes, the names, home addresses, and phone numbers of every agent seen on the tapes would be on the front page of the New York Times before the projector cooled off.  The Titanic had fewer leaks than the Senate.

 

        Those senators, who would happily divulge the names of true, covert agents, are the same senators who became hysterical over non-covert, desk jockey (and wildly liberal) Valerie Plame’s "outing."

 

        Barack Obama has finally found the intestinal fortitude to point out that most of his campaign advisors were advisors that Bill Clinton employed when he ran for president.  Does no one wonder why these supposed learned people are not supporting Hillary?  Perhaps because they know her, they really have no desire to see her the boss in the oval office.  Working once around Hillary seems to be all that most people can stand.

 

     Americans now have Bill Clinton running around declaring that Hillary is a genius.  While we have been told repeatedly that Hillary is the smartest woman in America, if not the world, one has to wonder why documents that would prove this statement are being held tightly under Bill Clinton’s presidential seal.  One phone call is all it would take to have every piece of paper demonstrating the genius of Hillary open for all to see, yet, after nearly eight years, we are told: "The documents are still being sorted through."  Making it even worse, the documents most people want to see involve Hillary’s failed health care plan which occurred in Bill Clinton’s first term, making the time lapse more then twelve years.

 

     So, my fellow Americans, gird your loins, dust off the body armor, get a tetanus shot, and stock up on the Vick’s Salve to rub under your nose to block the stench that has become American politics.  While the back-stabbing is nothing new, what is new are the endless ways that candidates have to attack us with their "promises."  In the good-old-days, there were newspapers and then radio.  There was an avenue of escape from the stuff that is NOT Shinola.  There also seemed to more people who knew the difference between shoe shiner and shoe scrapings.

 

        Americans used to be fiercely independent and self-sufficient, but 40 years of liberalism have severely chipped away at this outstanding American trait.  Now, far too many people in America have their hands out and presidential candidates are more than eager to promise them anything to get their votes.  That "shining city on the hill" is still there, but we just can’t see it anymore because of the fog caused by all the hot air and toxic gases coming out of our politicians.