Muscatine

"When I read many of yours, the opinions I gleened from them were more of the personal nature as if you actually knew the author".  Indeed.  Your "reading between the lines" would indicate that you know me.  I write these things with a smile on my face, but you conclude that my purpose is to prove someone a "sap" or "idiot".  You assume that I "skimmed" your lengthy prose, rather than taking the time to see if there was anything worthwhile.  Tact?

Hope you get to feeling better.

Thanks Max,

I do actually this morning, still tired though. Those rotten drips just wipe a person out.

From my schooling, way back, our instruction and as I instructed, was that there's always a message between the lines. I tend to cary that along with me wherever I go. Just as the skilled accountant surgically grafts a few bucks out of an overt bottom line. Oft times they are simple and easily seen, but like within yours (at times, not all)  humorous, technically tactful?, now and then slightly tacky, can be felt without specificity to berate or belittle. There are jokes and joke jokes, then tacky Inside ditties as it were.

I can say it, you're obviously well read, you toss a good argument when you want to and seemingly you don't look back, unless some ankle biter is snapping at you. It's the inner perception that your words sting, that your hidden smile or smirk is there. So you know me and I bet me and others feel we know you...... literarily,   in as much as you'll allow.  At times I reflect the attitude of a Democrat. At times a Republican and aften as I get a chance, the real "in the middle" sort that I am. I got grated recently for spewing that same old liberal, "gotta help us poor financially caged monkeys," all. If that person knew me, he or she would have been able to realize that amongst those lines, was the fact that I can see a mole on an otherwise clear face. Second nature to me anyway. Now giving you and a few others, soaring through these posts and pages, that you really have not identified your true political nature, the middle meanings are there. I realize you don't have to hang yourself, nor puke a diatribe like mine to get your point(s) out there. But in spite of all that, I can sense you give off that(perhaps unbeknownst to you) little hook-setting manuver when you write, while wearing that  smile hidden or not. Kind of a compliment actually. You just jumped a couple points.

Now that we're? focused. What is your take on Gov. Palin's toned down support seeking? I never understood the ferver to start with. It only made her and McCain look small. I think. In as much as I hate to say it, the ideologs on both sides will likely tie things up in the way of a fix, for well beyond one presidential term. So at this point it seems a toss-up. Obama or McCain will be about as good as the other. I'll give either a chance once it's been decided. Unlike GW. He never had my support.

I took Reagan at his word. Once. This is what's on a plaque my father had made for me after his first term. While running for the oval office in 1980 He said: Work and family are at the center of our lives, the foundation of our dignity as a free people. When we deprive people of what they earn or take away their jobs, we destroy dignity and undermine their families. We cannot support our families unless there are jobs. The people must have money to invest and the faith to invest it"  Throughout his eight years in office, he continued signing legislation to do the exact oposite, starting with alternative energy and education. I was just distrought and despondent with my choice and vowed from that election forward. If  "Keeping jobs and creating new jobs. and Read my lips, no new taxes" type rhetoric is used to garner votes, they best hold to it or I'll leap.

Sleepy and queezy, Treat out.

God Bless

I guess my schooling instilled a different message in me, to not look too hard between those lines as your own prejudices tend to cloud what's there.  

As for Mrs. Palin, the "fervor" was never that apparent to me.....just another politician throwing around loose rhetoric.  Nothing surprising.....not a Democratic or Republican trait. 

Glad to hear you're feeling okay. 

Thanks again Max

Not surprised. I was actually educated similarly. Snooping between the lines I guess comes from one fantastic educator I tend to emulate. Lit. Comp. in St. Louis, mid 1950's(not really as old as I seem) "Thou giveth and thou taketh away" I can bare it though. Gov. Palin isn't an enemy of the state in my eyes. I agree also, it just doesn't add up. The hoopla surrounding her seems more reminiscent of the presidential candidate, not the V.P.

Not trying to pin you to anything, but don't you consider any of this to be more important in our time anyway, than just another election or gaggle of politicians tossing child-like bribes to get that vote.? "C'mon Rosy, if you eat your brocoli, you can have a moon-pie" Agree also, in retrospect, that the basic mantra has been to tell us what we already know and skip the actual plan. Now we are 300 million plus "bank owners" Not that it will matter in the booths the 4th, I will catch the debate. Perhaps afterward I can cull another short story from it.

Keep yall posted.

Godd Bless.