Man, President Bush just can’t win for losing these days.  His polling is in the toilet and now some fool is actually saying he should stay home during convention!  First of all, ain’t gonna happen; second of all, there would be a major revolt among convention attendees if President Bush was not there is some capcity; thirdly, like it or not, he is the sitting president and deserves a little respect from his party.  I’m no Bush supporter, but if the shoe was on the other foot I hope Democrats wouldn’t treat a sitting president this badly.

Well, it’s Independence Day weekend, so of course we have to trot out the Founding Fathers.  A recent poll shows that nearly 70% of Americans think the Founding Fathers would be disappointed in the way America has turned out.  First of all, I think polls like this are beyond stupid because no one can truly know what men born nearly 250 years ago would think of 21st century America.  Second, all that being said, I don’t think that it’s necessarily true George, Thomas, Benjamin, et al., would be completely disappointed in America.  Sure, there are certainly paths our country has taken now and again they might have found wrong-headed and downright stupid, but overall our country has turned out pretty damn good.  When you look at the rest of the world America looks good.  People still scramble to get into this country by whatever means, you can still live the American dream, we are still one of the most free countries on the planet, and politics aside America is a great place.  We certainly have some things that need changing, but that doesn’t detract from just how great this country has become since that fateful day in 1776 when our Founding Fathers said enough to King George III.  We’re not perfect, but who said we had to be?