Dan Abbett is an electrical engineer and technical manager who finds great satisfaction in freelance writing. He lives in Northern Nevada at the foot of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, and receives e-mail at: danabbett1@charter.net.
These ankle-biting pests are impervious to facts and logic, and engaging them in the arena of ideas will produce no tangible results. It will be necessary then to develop methods and strategies that expose them in their nests and destroy the infectious premise of their self-serving rhetoric.
It is important to note at this point, that Barack Obama has clearly demonstrated that he is not presidential material. In spite of glowing rhetoric, adoring crowds, and an obsequious media, he appears incapable of making a decision.
The race has essentially come down to a man with a lot of experience in an elected body that achieves little and a man with little experience in that same body that has achieved almost nothing. Viewing it in that perspective, it is alarming to near panic that the latter stands the better chance of winning the election.
The greater question is if Obama is successful in his bid for the White House, will race become a permanent tool to ensure blind allegiance to his administration and the Democratic Party?
The first rule of Congress seems to be, “Do nothing lest you be held accountable for your actions, and do nothing that will allow the members of the opposition to get credit for their actions.''
The real reason the media are so flummoxed is not that they believe they are being manipulated; it is because they are losing their power to manipulate the public.
Until his pick of Joe Biden to be his running mate, the man of hope, change, and a “new direction” for America watched as his message fairly became a cliché. The man who would lower the seas, heal the planet, bring jobs to all mankind, and yes, heal the sick, was a victim of his own rhetoric.
Obama spoke of the "bitter clingers." It is not those who hold dear their faith and personal freedoms who are bitter. Rather, it is those who lack the ambition to succeed, and believe that the successful owe them for their failures. This is Obama's world.
He had the charisma and eloquence, but his inexperience has been his undoing. His ego, his inexperience, his arrogance, his attitude, and his radical associations and beliefs betrayed him.
What do I know? After all, I live in one of those “rural towns;” you know, the kind that you think of as “quaint, rustic, charming,” as you quickly drive through on you...
Dan Abbett is an electrical engineer and technical manager who finds great satisfaction in freelance writing. He lives in Northern Nevada at the foot of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, and receives e-mail at: 
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