I am feeling a little blue, heartfelt vanity.

I just took a look at the latest poll numbers and the electoral college map. It's pretty blue.

There are the red states of the heartland, flyover country as they say, but there are a lot of blue states on that map as well..too many.

I remember pretty vaguely, but I do remember 1984, when Reagan won his 2nd term in a complete landslide, the map was Red, all red, except for Minnesota and DC. That was great...I remember even then a feeling of happiness and peace. Reagan, 4 more years, we can relax, we are in good hands.

I look at this map now, all this blue, it makes me confused, it makes me angry, and most of all, it makes me blue.

I feel like I did when Michigan was playing in the national championship game against North Carolina in what, 1992? Michigan was down a couple of points, but you just knew that it was not over. You had the feeling of apprehension, nervousness, yet some excitement cause you just had a gut feeling everything was gonna be ok.

Then Chris Webber gets the ball, dribbles a few times..and timeout..what..ok, he just called a timeout, that's ok.....wait..what..what a technical foul...what the heck...HE DID NOT KNOW HE HAD NO TIMEOUTS!! YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING..!!!!! OHHHHH...there has to be some mistake, maybe it was a mistake call, yes there has to be an explanation for this. But there wasn't, it was over, a couple of free throws from North Carolina and it was all over.

I feel a little like that now. I truly felt that this election was gonna be ok. The night of the Republican Convention when Palin spoke was electric, I felt on top of the world. This was going to be OK. Something will come out on Obama, the American people will wake up. There is no way that we could elect someone so radical. I was wrong...this past few weeks has been a nightmare, bad debate after bad debate, smooth talk by Obama, the media refusing to cover his problems with Ayers, ACORN, Wright.

But yet, even last week, I had real hope, just like when Webber got that pass and started to dribble down the court. I was so sure that he was gonna be the hero. He wasn't..it was all just a big disaster.

I am trying to put on a brave face, I listen to Rush and Hannity, they keep saying 19more days, anything could happen, it's not over, keep your head up. Well maybe it's not over, but it's close. These polls may be off a little, but the people of America seem to have spoken. I am not a negative Nelly, I have been so optimistic, I have been making myself sick. But at some point, you have to face the reality that it just might be done. Don't flame me for saying this, cause you are all thinking it to.

They would rather vote for a smooth talking snake oil salesman who promises everything, but has no real intention of delivering on much of anything. Even if Obama really believed some of the things he is saying, where is he gonna get the money for all this stuff. He will rob you and me for it. Spread the wealth around is what he told Joe the plumber. Not to mention what he is gonna do to the supreme court. It is truly very disheartening.

No, just like in 1992 and 1996, we are gonna get what we pay for. I am so confused by a lot of what I am hearing from people out there. I have heard things like, "I know he is not telling the truth, and I know I will hate it when I vote for him, but I will never vote for another G*DD#$M republican as long as I live." That makes no sense to me. People admit that his past associations with Ayers and ACORN and Wright are troubling to them, but we just need a change. It's like another world, I feel like I am living on Bizzaro Earth or in some other dimension or something. We are all gonna wake up and President Reagan will tell us that we are a shining city on a hill, America's best days are still ahead of us. Sadly, Ronnie is no more, all we have are our memories.

I keep telling my wife how upset this is making me. It's like standing by while you watch a friend being eaten by a bear and you can't do anything about it but shout at the bear, maybe throw a rock or two.

Hey America, wake up...this is wrong, you are being suckered...don't be a fool. No one listens, no one cares, we just need a change...any change even if it's the wrong change. Well, America, if this is what you want, you will have to live with the consequences...oh and so will the rest of us.

The only thing giving me comfort right now is my belief that God knows what he is doing. He has a plan and we have to believe that he is smarter than we are. It's hard for me, it always has been hard to just let go, let go and let God as they say. So really this is good for me..maybe God is teaching many of us to just trust him more. Lean not on your own understanding.

God puts people in positions of power and his time and for his plan. Really if you look at it this way, Obama and everyone voting for him are the ones being used. They are being used by God to fulfill his ultimate plans for this country and the world. Barack Obama is where he is, not because of anything he has done, not because of who he is, and not because he is the master of his own fate. He is where he is only because God is seeing fit to put him there. He rules ONLY because God sees fit to allow it.

That actually makes me feel a lot better...Obama and everyone voting for him are unwitting players in some game that God is ultimately going to win, for himself and those of us who trust and believe in him and his wisdom.

I am gonna still get out there and vote my conscience, and am still going to pray that in the next 19 days God might change his plan and use John McCain instead. But if he doesn't, he knows why, and I will trust him, he is way smarter than me.

"And that goes for ANYONE who wants to perpetuate despair about this race which is FAR from over!"

So, in essence, you are not a truth hound, but a McCain hound or a republican hound? Many are forming the opinion that the truth is actually that Obama is going to win the election. Does that make it that we like the idea or look forward to the day it happens? No way. But it certainly could happen in the real world.

I would not say anyone is a truth hound or McCain Hound or whatever....everyone that has posted here, including the guy that called me a Tool, are just trying their best to remain optimistic. I agree that the media is trying to surpress the vote by telling us that it’s all over...no we can’t fall for that. Maybe I did a little...

I was a little too pessimistic in my post perhaps...it really is never over until it’s over.

That being said, I just want us all to know, we will come out winners either way. Obviously I want us to be the winner on Nov 4, but God please forbid...lets still hold our heads high and relish thought that just like Jimmy Carter...Obama is gonna self-destruct. And also like I said...there is a God, he is smart, he is powerful and he is just...we can believe that.

Remaining optimistic and facing the possible reality are two different things. But I do have to acknowledge that the media lean quite liberal and liberals want to win the election too, so it is easy to see that they will present their own view. But are they totally fabricating the polls? I don't think so.

To a person, I've not met anyone who is excited by McCain or his campaign. Neither has anyone in my family, nor have my friends. That can't possibly be spun into a good thing. We have a poor candidate and he has run a poor campaign. If someone disagrees, give me an argument not your insults.

“I enjoyed watching George Washington commemorate the Super Bowl that year ...”

Confession time, Laz. I feel intimidated by you.

Your history lessons are far beyond my capacity to learn.

I thought this was supposed to be a thread about misery. We’re going to suffer, but we’ll feel good about it. That sort of a thing. Now can’t we get miserable again?

“That being said, I just want us all to know, we will come out winners either way.”

Defeat’s not an option unless:

1. You want to see busloads of dual citizen voters cross the border every election day.

2. Have a supreme sandwich court that subordinates our rights to UN treaties.

3. Fairness doctrine on the internet.

4. Jimrob locked up for ‘hate speech’.

5. The Bush administration and all of our best generals locked up for war crimes.

6. An ACORN from Hell, hyper-funded.

7. Worst of all — computerized voting machines programmed by ACORN.

If Obama wins, it will be extremely difficult for us to regain any semblance of a republic.

Conclusion: gotta’ win.

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