Barack Obama

Indeed I am feeling better, especially after a 3-hr nap!

I truly believe it was the mighty hand of an angel of God - or Lady Karma herself, perhaps! - who reached out a hand to guide my response, because there's no way my scrappy human nature accomplished that on its own. Can't count on a repeat, either.

At some point Mike might wake up enough to remember I can hand him his head on a platter, so to speak, in public if necessary. Besides, in one of my letters to the newspaper's op-ed page, I said I realized that many people couldn't understand my approval and defense of President Obama, so to put things in perspective I added: "I have loved and worked for the Democratic Party all my life. You don't see any living relatives around me so you think I have no family. News flash: the Democratic Party IS my heart family, and when anyone assails its core principles, they're also stepping on MY toes. Such a person needn't be surprised at some degree of heat in response. If the occasion involves someone especially dear to my heart and beliefs, such as our current president, that's really all they need to know to accurately anticipate my response."

Of course I wrote that only after a long period of harrassment in person and in print by an appalling number of people who wished President Obama dead in my hearing. I told them all, including a particularly odious pastor, that they were shaming themselves and they might care to remember that I'd take a bullet for that man, so careful how you tread.