The Recent Election

This election was especially disappointing since Ohio's Governor Strickland did not get reelected and since Rep. LaTourette did.  Under Strickland, Ohio had become one of the top ten states in terms of the economic recovery, but it seems this doesn't matter.  And LaTourette won by  landslide, as he always does.  I was glad to see Jerry Brown win in California, I think.  He has to be better than Whitman would have been.

I believe that a lot of the backlash to President Obama's policies stem from racial prejudice, only no one can admit this, even to themselves.  People of my generation (older than the baby boomers, younger than the war babies) have to keep fighting to not be prejudiced.  We were raised in an era that treated people differently, depending on the color of their skin.  We have to work every day to overcome this upbringing. Maybe the best we can hope for is that our children are better than we are.

Will health care reform be repealed?  I hope not.  It is a national shame that the population of the United States does not have the best health care in the world, and that our leaders are undermining any reform.  Of course, they are being influenced by the  insurance companies, who have obscene amounts of money with which to persuade the politicians.  I guess it goes to prove that you can fool all (or most) of the people some of the time.