I know that my little plot of herbs and home grown tomatoes means a lot to me on many fronts. For one thing, the taste is so far superior to anything in any supermarket it’s hard to believe they are the same product. I use the herbs to make my own teas and to season many dishes instead of using my well-loved but bad for me salt shaker. (Oregano and Basil are really easy to grow in a pot if you don’t have any other room and both the smell and the taste are incredible.)

Of course you also need to convince some people that in spite of the fact that your hair is now gray and gravity has played some nasty tricks on your anatomy you are still a functioning adult. With an intellect even.

Maybe that’s one of the things that enrages me so much about many of the Obama supporters and surrogates; their subtle message that all us old farts need to step aside because they have suddenly discovered that ,gasp, politics is something almost as important as American Idol.

This old bat ain’t going nowhere. And the first fool that tells me to pass the torch is gonna get hit over the head with one!

Sorry, a little off topic and am fast ruining any chance I had that anyone might think me a sweet little old lady.

So who is really uniting, here, already?

You know?

My 8th grade history teacher started an organic garden and I learned a great deal. We feed a lot of homeless people as well. Dam those tomatoes were great.

I have seen first hand how merit pay makes teachers “concerned”. “No George left behind” (read 1$ bill) mandated student assessments and the “software” used to do this can potential be used to assess the teacher as well.

Another issue hurting education has to do with the affective underlying poverty many families face.

WHY have some schools failed, why do certain schools succeed?

Once we have a better understanding of the social factors in conjunction with the economic, we can better address the issue.

I believe you were speaking of health insurance earlier?

I have some contact with the ivy league grads who produce, or will produce, the policies we are speaking of. To a person, with few exceptions, they are completely unaware, removed, from the economic reality the rest of the country faces, ie the middle and working classes. Most come from families that have never had to struggle, and were never taught to really think, or empathize with others, our economic reality is simply non existent to them, they are wholly unaware it even exists. It’s reflected especially in current Washington, and in Obama’s specious economic reasoning.

Another poster was saying America has no business speaking for Iraqis, well, the affluent Ivy Leaguers, this group , anyway, have no business making economic policy for the rest of us, they really don’t understand our lives.

And this lack of understanding shows in the group that supports Obama: wine drinkers, kids, libertarians, those dazzled by charisma — in other words, OJ’s jury.

His plan will never work.

If the candidates cant get good advice, realistic advice, how can they even know how a problem should be addressed?

They don’t.

Clinton, I think, can see through that window, Obama and the others, can’t.

Short term gains for Obama, long term problems for the rest of us….

What fools Democrats have become….

Most Americans understand Bush’s catastrophic policy, this would clarify much to them, about Obama, and not for the better.

But the right people have to stand up, and question Obama, really vet him.

If they again, don’t appear, I guess it’s meant to be, an act of God…