On Jul 5, 10:17 pm, graverobber...@yahoo.com wrote:
> http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080706/ap_on_re_us/america_s_bad_mood
>
> *beginning       of excerpt from the article, for fair use purposes> Even folks in the Optimist Club are having a tough time toeing an
> upbeat line these days. Eighteen members of the volunteer
> organization's Gilbert, Ariz., chapter have gathered, a few days
> before this nation's 232nd birthday, to focus on the positive: Their
> book drive for schoolchildren and an Independence Day project to place
> American flags along the streets of one neighborhood.
>
> They beam through the Pledge of Allegiance, applaud each other's good
> news — a house that recently sold despite Arizona's down market, and
> one member's valiant battle with cancer. "I didn't die," she says as
> the others cheer.
>
> But then talk turns to the state of the Union, and the Optimists
> become decidedly bleak.
>
> They use words such as "terrified," "disgusted" and "scary" to
> describe what one calls "this mess" we Americans find ourselves in.
> Then comes the list of problems constituting the mess: a protracted
> war, $4-a-gallon gas, soaring food prices, uncertainty about jobs, an
> erratic stock market, a tougher housing market, and so on and so
> forth.
>
> One member's son is serving his second tour in Iraq. Another speaks of
> a daughter who's lost her job in the mortgage industry and a son in
> construction whose salary was slashed. Still another mentions a friend
> who can barely afford gas
>
> *end        of excerpt from the article.
>
> Hey, if the members of the Optimist's Club are feeling defeated, just
> think of how the rest of the nation must feel.  All of the problems of
> this nation are sure to decrease the brotherly love we used to feel
> and the years of success the successful America that President Bill
> Clinton had brought us.  To be surplanted by the evil and selfish
> environment of cronyism and favoritism the sinful administration of
> GWBush and those who are rewarded well to worship his feet, lick his
> boots, and suck his toes. .
>
> I'll open the floor for discussion and discourse.....

I am sure these groups are very interested in this information.  the
evil AmeriKKKKa that GWBush and his rat-like minions have visited on
us. ANYONE not in on that circle are feeling VERY terrorized just now!