you all DO realize that if Holder resigns or is fired...

[Voice for Peace]

137. agree there is much more potential with his presidency

and I hope to see it, and although there will be some who
won't be happy no matter what, I am hopeful.

I actually had to look up who Kerry's running mate was!!!
Gawd.. I know my memory's getting bad.. maybe
the presidential run & subsequent disasters of JE's life
over-wrote his earlier VP run in my brain.

This may sound too philosophical, but I feel a responsibility
to focus on what is good, what's going right, to give my
attention and energy there. This doesn't mean not standing
up or speaking out against what is wrong/bad. But I
don't want to feed the Beast in me, and it is a beast.

Hopelessness, anger, apathy devour the best of us.
Surely we can see they are not our friends -- but
whisperers in the mind, to discourage and divert.

First and foremost, those are my enemies: the thoughts that
disable me, convince me to feel despair. They are in my
own head, not outside of me. I can't begin to fight what
is out there, if in my own head I am their audience & minion.

In my heart there is a perpetual hopefulness. I don't
create it, it's just there, as long as I have breath in me
it is there. I want to pay attention to it, no matter what else
may happen. It's independent of presidential politics and
world events.

I see Obama as a man with enormous integrity, who is
self-examining; honest with himself and others (at least
to an extent that is far above average.) I think he is brilliant
and a very solid authentic human being, he has much wisdom
even if I don't agree with him on everything. I give him a
ton of credit so far, and will vote for honesty and integrity.

Thanks very much for the civil conversation, by the way.