Listening to grown-ups

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I am not the smartest person I know.  I have not always held that opinion of myself, but seven years of God's refining fire have all but eliminated the high regard I once held myself in.  That's a great thing, by the way.  Anyway, with that said, I hold a high regard for learned people because often times I learn things from even those I disagree with

My choice for news as of late is MSNBC.  I came to my own understanding several years ago that Fixed News (I really miss Keith Olbermann) aka Fox News is anything but fair and balanced. I can distinguish news from commentary. News is what gets reported on.  Panels discussing reported news is commentary.

I work nights so I don't see many of their shows but I did tonight and what I saw on MSNBC frightened me.  I saw two grown-ups, two well established, card carrying Republicans Diana DelPerciuo, and George Will express concerns about our President.

And I saw Rachel Maddow lay out the case that Mike Pence lied to Brett Bair in a Fox News interview.  That's bad.  The only thing worse than the lie she caught him in is the unlikely possibility hat he was actually telling the truth about something he said he didn't know about until fielding a question from Mr. Bair.

Grown-up Republicans are starting to suggest things aren't right, and when the grown-ups are scared, we ought to be as well.

Ms DelPercio (spelling may be off) was talking about voters who voted for this guy because there was just no way they could vote for Mrs. Clinton.  I couldn't vote for her husband, either.  I voted Perot, both times.  She was talking about me.

I listen to smart people.  I can learn from them.  My politics and Mr. Will's are day and night apart.  We share a live of baseball and that's it.  But I find myself in agreement with him on one thing.

We need to be prepared to support our elected leaders if they gave to do something about these guys.  And we also need to let them know they need to be prepared to

If you get a chance , even if you disagree with her personally ( I don't support her lifestyle choices) check out her segment on VP Pence tonight.

As for me, I'm coming to grips with a very real possibility that we might be looking at President Paul Ryan before our next election, and that frightens me a lot

Happy Birthday America!

Praying for ya!






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