OK, I am ready. I got things done in record time this time so I am now ready to go to the airport a full seven hours ahead of time. Yippee...of course, having a checklist helps but even with that, I can be rather disorganized until the last moment. That was not the case this time. So I am outa here for a three week vacation. See ya...

Huckabee vs. Obama? Well, if it works out that way that will make it easy for me in November as I would not want the right wing huckster Huckabee as president. I have to consider him a country bumpkin who is not presidential material.

These caucuses in Iowa are so meaningless as are the various state primaries. Yes, I suppose they are supposed to tell party big whigs who the people really like so that they can make the right decision when it comes to nominating a candidate at the national conventions in August but to me, the whole election system seems broken. Why can't we just have a national primary on one date, and then a direct vote of the people on another time to determine who the president will be. This electoral college crap is for the birds. What we really need is a parliamentary system that is really more representative of the political wishes of the people so that parties other than the two major parties get their fair share of seats in Congress. About the only way that can happen now is for a Democrat or Republican to switch parties after they are elected.