I think everyone knows our country is in trouble.

Most politicians and civic leaders alike agree that we desperately need to put differences aside and work hard to get us out of this mess.  Everybody, it seems, except Republican Congressmen and a certain far right talk show host I’ll mention later.

To set the record straight, I consider myself a-political.  Some strong conservatives call me a liberal, but when asked to define liberal, it seems to be anyone that disagrees with them.  Those more moderately conservative call me a conservative.  I think of myself in terms of a line from an old Kingston Trio Song, “… and I don’t like anybody very much.”

Cheered on by the far right, it seems to me that President Bush, while spouting much rhetoric about preserving freedom, proceeded to remove much of our freedom through the Patriot Act and Homeland Security.  I don’t really believe either of these is necessary, but that’s another issue.  It is true that you could at least be investigated if not arrested for bad-mouthing the President, had to be screened in order to hear him speak, without the opportunity to plead your own case, and that those citizens choosing to exercise several of their first amendment rights in his presence(petitioning the government for redress of grievences is one of these rights) had to do so out of his sight and, presumably, hearing.

What’s all this got to do with the present, when Bush is out of office?  Well, the other day I saw a full page ad in a local publication showing a large photo of talk show host Scott Hennen, with the quote “I hope Obama’s socialist policys are a disaster.

Mr Hennan, if you had said a similar thing about your hero Mr. Bush you could well have wound up in jail.  You would at least have been investigated.  I would point out that in Mr Obama’s town meeting in Indiana, people that disagreed with him were admitted without screening and allowed to question him.  If you have an issue with his polices, it seems that you can go ask him about them instead of being screened out.

One might question conservative talker Scott Hennen loyalties at this point.

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