It is the best of times for me …  

The weather turned cooler, got a pretty good year in the bank from my business, the golf game is good…. Could there be more? Yes!    My son bought another house and finally sold the old house and paid back the short term loan by his dad! (Parents always treasure it when their kids act like grown ups!) More? For a political junkie like me we have a great presidential race, good race for congress in our district… Could there be more?  Yes.  For a Cardinal fan like me it is seventh heaven with the Cardinals fighting for a chance at the World Series….  And more!!!!  A chance to take on the evil Yankees in the World Series.  Wow! As a Cardinal fan for more years than I would like to admit… I remember huddling in my bed, under the covers listening to Cardinal announcer Harry Carry on KMOX and trying to keep it down so my parents didn’t know I was listening.  After all tomorrow was a school day!  So another chance to play in the Series is the all in all! 

So what is the problem?  A nagging problem persists. No, problems.  As to the presidential campaign I am sick of all this civility.  The presidential candidates warmed up with some minor league snipping at the first debate.  Pretty good for starter, but both did not bring their A  game.  Just spring training for the real thing!  Debate two and three should get better, nastier and more “American”.

 But then come Cheney and Lieberman with a civil, thoughtful, quiet, dull boring debate and everybody in the media fall all over themselves talking about the “great debate”.  Shades of Rodney King… “Can’t we all get along”.

 And what do we get with the second presidential debate?  Yep,  another quiet, civil, dull boring debate!  It is like the Cardinals in the first game…. No Mark McGuire.  No going for the fences.  All wait for a walk, single, move the runner over, guard the plate, play defense.  

Can anybody wonder that the viewership is down?

 Come on this is serious business.  We have a huge decision to make.  Some say there is not a dime’s worth of difference.  Not so, there are huge consequences to this election.  It is like a big boat, a small change in direction coming out of San Francisco can make a difference between Tahiti and the Artic!  (In this example Tahiti is Republican!)  Get off this civil, aristocratic bent.  Lets go for the fences,  wind up and try and land a haymaker.

 Yes, we are all supposed to get along and will…. AFTER the decision is made.  Before the decision on November 7^th, it is not time to be nice.

 Come on Bush, if Gore made up stories, he is not a exaggerator, he is a despicable slimy liar.      And Gore… you can do it, get nasty, mean.  If Bush is a bumbler, doesn’t know what he is doing or where Austria is, get all over him!  Call a spade a spade… the dummy is out of his league!  Both of you, get in their, get your hands dirty and draw some blood.

 It seems that neither of you know the importance of your mission.  America likes a fight, we like heart, we like someone that can take a punch and come back and win.  We are not Rodney King.

 We will “all get along” but after a good fight.   We will get behind a winner that has fought the good fight and won the day.

So what else….? Well the Cardinals lost the first two games against the imposter Mets.  After this they are all talking about a subway series.  Get real, I think we have ‘em just where we want them.    We can take a punch and go into New York and show them what we are made off.  No better way to win than to go into the other “house” and show them how to play ball.  New York does not have it… after all they could not find a single resident Democrat qualified to run for the Senate, had to import. 

But another American trait is also available in these situations.  We  can “whistle by the graveyard” with the best of them!