JUSTIFYING MYSELF...OR NOT

A guy calling himself Craig (I have no idea whether or not that's his real name. I, myself, use my real name so that anybody who wants a piece of me can come and try to get it. I'm certain I will be at the top of President BO (the child president)'s list of detainees, which he asserts he will never do, even though he signed an order giving himself the right to detain Americans without due process if he wants to.), asked about my last post (see below) if I was drunk.

He called my post "odd."

For the record, I have had only two sips of alcoholic beverage in my 70 years of life, and one of those made me throw up. Cough syrup tastes better.

My post was about the names of our prospective presidents and referred back to a post I wrote some months before the last presidential election.

Being a liberal, Craig (if that's his real name) was unable to see the humorous, quirky nonsense with which the post was written and actually tried to make sense of it.

Bad liberal! Bad liberal!

You shouldn't have received your education at a government school.

See, presidents should have real American names. Names like George, John, Thomas, James, Andrew, Martin, William, (OK, Zachery and Millard weren't so cool), Franklin, Abraham, (Uh...I guess Useless...I mean Ulysses and Rutherford weren't that good either), Chester, Grover (not the guy from Sesame Street, although I must admit I don't know what street Cleveland was from), Benjamin, Ted (Theodore), (Woodrow? Who the heck names his kid Woodrow?), Warren, Calvin, Herbert, Frank, Harry, (OK...I'll give you that Dwight and Lyndon weren't so good), Gerald, Jimmy, and RONALD.

Don't you see that most of those were good old-fashioned, common American names?

Who in the world would name an American child Mitt, Newt or Barack?

And then expect them to run for president?

Then along comes Fredd, and takes my joy away by calling the Iowa caucuses "King Makers."

(He also tries to put soccer ahead of baseball on the boring list, but that's another story...I think).

I prefer to think of Iowa as Chance Killers (not that they kill by accident, but that they kill the chances of some very good people, namely: Michelle and Rick (both solid American names).

I would include Newt in that list, but you already know how I feel about that name.

So Craig, try to keep up, no matter how much of a headache it gives you.

Would somebody please pass the Jack Daniels?