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So how do people who value life and understand the balance of scientific research showing Adult Stem Cells are more promising address a glamorous, high-school drop out, victim of a disease stating the falsity that there was a federal ban on "stem cells"?

Leaders. We need leaders who come out and state the truth. Hey, go with me here, the President of the U.S. has a right nice bully pulpit and no way could the drive-by ignore anything he says.

So why did he swallow big and fire that Brown guy when Katrina was all about lazy individuals who sat on rooftops and waited for the Feds to come rescue them? Why didn't he state the simple truth and declare America to be a nation of rugged individuals and the federal government was never MEANT to come in right after a disaster and rescue people from rooftops? Then he could have went on and stated that after the individual he could have said the response then goes to local then to state authorities. THEN he could have pointed out how quickly the Coast Guard was hefting people out of danger and heh, maybe mention that it doesn't help when the local congress critter in the form of William Jefferson-D-Louisiana absconds with helicoptors meant to rescue others to save his ill-gained cash.

As for stem cell, well same thing. While voices lost in the wind screamed that the federal government has NOT banned stem cell research, even embryonic research, that such research can be privately funded, the voices that SHOULD have been speaking remained silent.

Same with Saddam's weapons of mass destruction. Same with, same with. They LET the Dems and drive-by media run the show.

So okay the Pres of the U.S. can't just go and get mired down with every detail but how about that awful tone-deaf Hastert, vaunted Speaker of the House? The only time I saw that fatso out and about was to defend William Jefferson-D-Louisiana and to practically lick boots over the Foley matter.

Frist, how about him? Did he ever publicly dispute that Saddam lie? Did he ever look the American people in the eye and state the heirarchy that SHOULD have worked for Katrina?

They let it go on and on and on and even while the Pres begged them to do something about SS reform the House didn't want to go there because they didn't want to lose the AARP vote. So that THEY could keep their power.

Did that complex prescription medicare thing help them a whit? NO. Read my lips, they STILL lost.

I'm not done yet but fingers are tired. Let me catch what little wits I have left.

And hey, may I point out that even when the base like to went ballistic over Spector on the judiciary committee and that little bridge to Alaska to serve 50 people living on an island, one such resident being Stevens' mother-in-law, they spit in our faces and did it anyway!

Okay...stop me now.

Okay, let me get this one final thing off my chest (size 38C). It's that little matter of the Iraq war. It's high time this America nation sit down and talk the concept of war over. I am still not in favor in anyway of pulling our troops out of Iraq and think the decision to invade was a good one. That being said, I am rapidly coming to the conclusion that America simply has no stomach for a long drawn out war. Sure the notion of bringing democracy to the Middle East is a good thing but it simply takes too damn long. Not to mention the poohbahs in Iran, Egypt and Saudi Arabia have so much money to spend, all from oil that WE consume (not that the Repubs couldn't have pushed drilling in ANWR at the very least but mine own so-called Republican congress critter, Mike Castle of the Main Street Republicans voted AGAINST this), and can send so-called "insurgents" into Iraq endlessly by promising them money to blow themselves up, ad nauseum. Thus the American Army becomes a freaking police force and it goes on and on.

The reality is that America functions best when at war when it, BOOM, drops a big bomb right in the middle of things and after getting everyone's attention, then goes in to straighten things out.

Vietnam, even Korea, and now Iraq, are all examples where the concept of "humane" war simply does not work.

Sure, it takes a big pair of gonads to order thousands of people dead but I truly think that to embark upon a prolonged but politically correct war simply does not work for America. Remember Japan. Hey, it didn't take that damn long to set that country on the right track.

A prolonged war allows the opposition party to carp and nag that THEY get the power. Then the party in power starts to apologize and back down and through it all the truth and goal somehow gets lost. Meanwhile our troops are out fighting the good fight and being picked off by rabble recruited by Arab poobahs who don't want their good thing put down by America.

Hey, I don't have the answers, seriously I don't. Let's just say that I'm beginning to think that the concept of a prolonged but "nice" war just does not work for this country.

We need to talk about it.

We need leaders who come out and state the truth.

A few more examples:

Why did the President chastise Ashcroft when Ashcroft released the memo about the wall? The wall was one of the main reasons we didn't prevent 9/11. But releasing the memo made the Clinton Administration look bad. Horrors.

Why the cover up about Able Danger?

Why did Sandy Burgler get away with a slap on the wrist?

Why haven't the leakers and publishers of classified national security info been prosecuted?

Why did the Administration lose its nerve about confirming Saddam's intent to obtain yellowcake? Everything Bush said about it in the State of the Union was true and has been confirmed by two independent commissions (British and American).

Why was David Kaye prevented from talking to the American press about the transfer of WMD to Syria? He was allowed to talk to the British press about it.

And so on.