So last week I mentioned the personal issues happening here.  A big thank to to all who emailed me!

The decision to write that musing was not an easy one.  I don’t like bringing my personal life to the blog very often.

First of all, it is easy to become whiny and needy ands self indulgent that way.  Sympathy is really nice sometimes, but it can be a drug.  Not that I shun people who express sympathy, as so many have.  Far from it!  I appreciate every person who felt compelled to express their thoughts.

But bottom line, my problems are mine and mine alone, and I have to deal with them myself, and while I can allow myself to be encouraged by my friends, I cannot allow myself to be propped up by their sympathy.

I don’t regard this as a failure, mind you.  I guess I am not quite that traditional.  Sometimes people move in different directions.  Sometimes being apart or with someone else is necessary.  I could go on for hours on marriage, and how societies corruption has devalued it, but what would the purpose be?  I am where I am, and  must deal with it.  Preaching to the choir won’t help.

But, in that regard, I also had to consider a more serious matter, that of whether my separation leads me to being hypocritical in my writing.  After all, while I do not take a totally conservative stance on marriage, I do place a lot of value in marriage and family, and I express that fairly often.  So I do have to recognize that appearances matter in this.

I have always tried to take a realistic approach to the topic, in all of its forms.   Maybe that helps.  I don’t think I have stepped on my tongue lately.

Nonetheless, I will be considering very carefully my words in this regard for some time.

My only comment about the larger world concerns the European Obama tour, and the continuing buffoonery he is displaying.

Bottom line, his entire protocol staff should be fired or shot.

The gaffes are piling up.  Bowing to the king of Saudi Arabia.  Touching the Queen, not to mention the iPod fiasco.  When you couple that with the Russian button goof and the DVD gaffe we see a man and his administration who are going abroad to try and mend the fences they claim Bush broke with his cowboy diplomacy, and in doing so they leave a wake of offense.

The press is very forgiving, I hope the people in Europe are too.  How many more insults will they offer our allies.

His defenders claim this is minutia, and it does not matter, but it does for a few simple reasons.  First, even Hillary on her campaign noted that he has no foreign policy and diplomatic experience, and she and others were hushed as being shrill for that suggestion. 

Yet here we are. 

And as I mentioned, Obama and the other liberals campaigned no how important repairing our image with the world is.

So far, we don’t seem to be on a good path…except to socialism and fascism…but that’s another blog.

Just my two cents.

LSU

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