Moving on: Cult of Hillary and Obama to Reality

You gotta face the facts, guys! It's time for substantive discussions of national security issues...not the vagaries and fantasies and ideas of some who grew up feeling good because they read graphic novels and saw Stephen Spielberg movies in which people just like them grew up saying things just like they said in exactly the same angst ridden, easy times that nature probably hasn't seen since the Garden of Eden.

Not real people.

Some of them got the idea that they could turn on a machine and simply earn money that way. The funny thing is they can.

But not real people.

Some of these kids got the idea that they could bounce a basketball or learn to run a football, play a certain card game a certain way, write something well, and make oodles of money. And sure enough, as it turns out some of them actually can. There are all kinds of examples of kids who are making huge amounts of money.

The kinds of money that most of our fathers and grandfathers would be embarrassed to even look at--no, let me rephrase that. I'm embarrassed for my dad to have to seen that, considering that my dad, who worked his way through college as a four-letter varsity man, got two science degrees, taught school and then had to paint barns and work in steel mills in the summers to feed his family, and then have little boys and girls lecture Republicans like him on life?

I don't think so.

Still. It's hard to argue with their success. It's also hard to take their shrugs, their arrogance, their knowledge. Their nods. As they clear their throats, swallow their laughs. It's part of being nice to your elders.

So. With all the smarts they have.

As a mother I must ask simply why don't they speak honestly about their own security? Why do they ignore it? Why is it no one talks about it? It seems so obvious to me? What is that about? Why does national security not seem to be a priority in this campaign? There is no mention.

When it is mentioned, it is downplayed as a "legal" issue, maybe? What if they're wrong? What if their kids' schools are the targets?

Above all things in their lives their children are their trophies. One would think they'd watch over them more carefully. Maybe it's that fairyland mentality that keeps them from thinking grown up thoughts. It's easy to do. I know. They have no experience. It's a natural reaction to want tranquility and peace and to think 9/11 was a one-time deal.

Yeah, right, and my cool friend and associate, Darth Vader came into my room last night and told me to teleport you with Yada and Nonoo after you've blasted into hyperspace with...

Jeez. I just don't know how to convince them of reality. Until then I'll just sound sill...or until someone comes along they can relate to...I'll just sound like a fear monger.

And for all of you over the age of 50: a graphic novel is a comic book.

Thanks for the read.