DING DONG PESSIMISM

PESSIMISM IS IN VOGUE. WHY? DING, DONG, WHOSE BRAINS ARE DEAD? FROM WHAT I AM HEARING AND READING, THE USUAL CULPRITS ARE THE CRANIUMS OF LIBERAL DEMOCRATS.

THIS TUESDAY I ACCIDENTALLY CAME ACROSS AN ANTI-BUSH SCREED IN MY LOCAL, SMALL NEWSPAPER. IT ENDED WITH AN APPRAISAL OF THE "BUSH LEGACY," WHICH THIS DOOMSAYER WRITES WILL BE ONE OF "DEATH, DEBT, DESPAIR AND HATRED." PROOFS TO BACK UP THIS OPINION ALL POINTED TO THE AUTHOR'S DISAPPROVAL OF THE WAR IN IRAQ WHICH HAS COST APPROXIMATELY 280 BILLION DOLLARS, MONIES WHICH COULD HAVE BEEN, ACCORDING TO HIM, BETTER SPENT ON FIXING THE PROBLEMS OF THE WORLD. HERE IS MY FIRST CONFRONTATION WITH AN UNREALISTIC AND IRRATIONAL THOUGHT.

LAST SUNDAY, I WAS SUBJECTED TO THOMAS FRIEDMAN, AUTHOR AND POLITICAL ANALYST, DISCUSSING THE "DEATH OF OPTIMISM," IN AMERICA. HIS IS ANOTHER DELUSIONAL AND BLINKERED PERSPECTIVE.

TODAY, CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS, WRITER AND CRITIC, TELLS ME THAT THE "U.S. IS REGARDED WITH HATRED AND FURY." THIS THIRD STRAW OF UNTRUTH WILL NOT BREAK THE BACK OF MY CAMEL INHABITING A WORLD OF FACTS.

IT IS APPARENT THAT HATERS OF BUSH INSTINCTIVELY PERVERT REALITY AND SPIN IT TO CONFORM TO THEIR BIASES. I AND MY MEDIOCRE I.Q. CAN EASILY SEE THAT BUSH BASHING IS A CURRENT BLOOD SPORT, NOT ONLY HERE IN AMERICA BUT ALSO ABROAD THE "FLAT WORLD" DESCRIBED IN MR. FRIEDMAN'S BOOK. I CANNOT AFFORD TO BE SUCKED INTO THE DEPRESSING 'QUAGMIRE' OF LIBERAL, DEMOCRAT THINKING. A PARTIAL OR PREJUDICED INTERPRETATION OF REALITY IS NOT THE SAME AS A PHOTOGRAPH WHICH DOESN’T LIE. LIFE, IN 2006, IF ONE PUTS IT INTO PERSPECTIVE, IN AMERICA AND IN THE FIRST WORLD COUNTRIES, IS MIGHTY SWEET.

ANOTHER SHOCKING AND SAD EXAMPLE OF A BRAIN DEAD VICTIM (NOT IN ANY WAY TO BE LET OFF THE HOOK FOR SHEER, IMMORAL STUPIDITY) IS MEL GIBSON. FOLLOWING HIS 'FALL', WILL CHRIST FIND IT IN HIS HEART TO COME DOWN FROM HIS CROSS AGAIN TO FORGIVE HIM? BUSH BASHERS, ENEMIES OF AMERICA FROM WITHIN AND WITHOUT THAT WISH TO BLOW UP OUR SHINING CITY ON THE HILL AND NOW MEL GIBSON BOWED - QUO VADIS, LORD? WE REALISM DRIVEN OPTIMISTS CANNOT AFFORD TO LOSE SIGHT OF THE SUN SHINING THROUGH HEZBOLLAH'S FOREST OF KATYUSHAS.