Dr. Feel Good

Thinking about this election and the fact that Barack Obama will be our next president, I could not help but think about another liberal democratic elected president under a climate of “hard times for the middle class”, Jimmy Carter. For those of you old enough to remember 1979, the year before America returned to its senses and elected Ronald Reagan who returned economic prosperity and honor to our country, one of the country’s hit films that year was ‘Apocalypse Now’. In this film, a disparaged, drunken Captain Willard (pictured above) prays for a mission, and for his sins, he gets one.
I liken this to Americans, who every 15 or 20 years, seem to want a ‘feel good’ president, one who promises economic equality for all, making America a good buddy to everyone in the world, so we can all hold hands and sing “I’d love to teach the world to sing”. And after four years of disaster, America always returns to its senses.
So let us see what the next four years bring us. I pray for us all.