This is a great article! From your lips to other people’s ears!

Each day some new crazy thing comes up. This morning Obama, in his sneering, smug way, says something about Russia messing in our electoral process and that We Will Do Something About It! really? You, a lame duck lousy president are saying this in your last month of office? How irresponsible is that – yet it is consistent behavior. And never mind he meddled in Israel’s election trying to oust Netanyahu, and Britain’s election on Brexit – that makes his position, which should be greeted with “way to go”, even more derisible.

I’m not sure Democrats will ever get over this – I remember many saying after 9/11 “if only Clinton had an opportunity to respond to something like this.” I have come to the conclusion that the leaders (from local all the way up) see the world through a different prism, and the rest simply follow without question, without curiosity, loathe to take the effort to do any kind of investigation or truth-seeking of their own. And I have a feeling that even with a turnaround in the economy, even with people finding jobs, full time with health insurance (instead of multiple part-time jobs), and their lives become better, they will find a way to justify it all and say it was Obama’s leadership that finally kicked in. Amazing, their ability to lie to themselves.

I am hopeful. Even though I look at Trump’s initial choices for his cabinet and cock my head and think, “well…that’s interesting, how is that going to work?” – he has chosen for Secretary of State a man who believes on some level that climate change exists and globalization and such, yet he’s picked a person for the EPA who is going to clean house and oust regulations. So he’s creating some imbalance in his advisors, on purpose it appears. I am pretty darned sure he really hates being bored.

So it shall be interesting, won’t it? I just want Monday to come and go and let’s get on to 2017 and ignore Obama if he’ll let us!

Thanks for your thoughtful writing!

As usual your recent column is insightful and intelligent, though I do differ a little with your view on Putin.
Not that I think he is anything but a thug in powe, but I try to look at it from the Russian point of view looking out from their windows in Moscow.

It's Nato and the US that are pressing on Russian borders with military and missile bases established. It was the US that covertly arranged the overthrow of the Russian friend and president of the Ukraine, associated with the attempt to move Ukraine into NATO, and eventually the EU. No one knowing the Russian paranoia, sometimes well founded, would think that this kind of enclosure from the west and from the south would be tolerable.

Having spent a very large amount of time in the 1970s in Russia, I realize that they are reminded daily that Napoleon, Bismark, Hitler invaded them from the west, and each time at an enormous loss of life and treasure. It was not Russia that moved westward.

Their paranoia is understandable, and squeezing the Russian on the borders is like waking a dangerous bear.
As for the middle east, ISIS is as much a worry of the Russians as it is for the "west". The underbelly of Russia is fraught with danger from radical Islamic groups. Had the US succeeded in having the so called rebels overthrow Assad, there was the chance that a radical state could pop up that would threaten the rest of the middle east and eventually the Muslim underbelly of Russia.

In my travel to Russia the major topic was always the wars from the west and the devastation they experienced. No one's family was exempt from the horror and the terror of those war years.

I do think that the attempt by the Hillary crowd, -- and I am sure Hillary and Bill are secretly behind the movement -- to disqualify the election through the Electoral College is shameful. The best for the country would be to accept defeat in oder to save the sanctity of the democratic system of a peaceful transition of power to the winner. By attempting to influence and turn the election results through the pressures on delegates to the College, they are threatening the democracy we depend on. We are a country of laws, but most important we are a country that has learned to accept majority rule, and in this case like it or not, he won, she lost. That should be the end of it. Even a bum like Nixon walked away in defeat with honor and grace. Not true for the dems and Hillary.

I am a life long dem and will make sure never to vote for a dem again as long as they behave the way they are behaving over the last few years and especially post election. If Hillary had any moral and ethical sense about he, she would make a statement to call off the wolves that are calling for an electoral college overthrow. That would be the most honorable thing to do. But we all know that honor is not one of her bywords. She may seem more sophisticated but underneath that skin she is more of a bum than Trump is.

...and I'm just getting started. Throw in Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi and Podesta and of course Bill and family, and the millions of sore losers who are out campaigning against a man who isn't even president yet. If they would give the guy a chance, he might just be on the right track on certain things. The dems railed against the repubs for being obstructionist when Obama was elected which was also shameful, but apparently what was good for the goose is good for the gander. Shame on them.

In answer to your final question, Melanie, yes, it would be great, and I can remember when I didn't care that much about who won the election. Indeed, I remember voting for Democrats such as Lyndon Johnson, Jimmy Carter, and Bill Clinton. But now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether this nation, as we have known it, can long endure.

M. Stanton Evans remarked that there are two American parties -- the stupid party and the evil party -- and he was proud to have been a member of the stupid party, which to many Trump voters is the party of the Bushes, Lindsay Graham, John McCain, and Paul Ryan, although the latter is trying hard to smarten up.

I've had it with both parties, but especially the evil one. I hope Trump rolls over them like William Tecumseh Sherman on his way to Savannah, starting with the education establishment. If we don't reclaim our schools and universities from Marxist lunatics, we have yet to learn what real evil is.

I remember when I trusted my media and my gov't... That was my mistake. I won't be doing that again. I also won't be living the PC lie... Get ready because Grandma will be giving lessons in old fashioned respect, fairness, common sense and dignity. ( If that doesn't work, a 2x4 or cast iron frying pan will do.)

I predict hard work and decency are going to make a very big comeback if we demand it. Truth in media will too, if we demand it. Stop telling yourselves you're here to only pay bills and try paying attention to who is doing what they say they'll do.

It takes effort from everyone. No welfare unless deep means testing! Give our youth a chance with hiring them to train up in all the new start ups that are sure to come. Be very choosy about who you listen to and who you buy from. It all matters. Listen to your parents and grandparents. They have lived the dream and they can show you how.

We saw this type of media manipulation the last time Obama released 5 of the worst terrorists from Guantanamo. I'm wondering what the lunatic left is doing with the other hand now the all media is consumed with this topic.