Micheletti is being democratic. The people protesting his [Zelaya's] ousting are a tiny majority. I asked Albert if everything was okay on the ranch, and he said this happening was the only means of anything ever getting any better. He also said the US has become less popular in Honduras lately, and the people of Honduras know better than Barack what's good for them. Albert has dual citizenship and served in Desert Storm, so maybe you'd think his opinion is still biased despite the fact that he lives in a 3rd world country? I'm just grateful he did it.

As far as Iran is concerned... an uprising that overthrows those insane Mullah's would be the best thing we could ever hope for.

Forgive my sensitivity on the democracy, but having been there and having friends there definitely made me take sides. I agree with all of you that we have more issues to focus on at home with this economy. "I inherited an economy that lost 2 million jobs over the year before I took office". Yes, but according to the department of labor, there are now 18,000,000 people out of work, that's 16M more people than Bush is being blamed for in that statement last week, and the "stimulus" still isn't working. Creating jobs means putting a dent in the 500,000 people a month that are losing their jobs. That hasn't changed. Half the entrepreneurs in my family and friends' families are closing up shop. The stimulus was a bullshit coverup for a special interest spending bill. There has been no transparency. Cap & trade in a country that derives 80% of its power from coal is going to hit every last MF in the pocketbook that's already struggling to get air in a sea of foreclosures and bankruptcies. You don't save money and balance a budget by tripling the payrolls of bureaucrats. You can't spend your way out of debt. When I max out my credit card, my card issuer does not raise my credit limit and ask me to spend more. They cut me off. BHO, Pelosi and Reid don't understand this. These policies aren't just not working, but they're the nails in the coffin of capitalism (which made America what it was up until last year). Where foreign policy is concerned, stating whose side you're on doesn't mean we're mobilizing troops or imposing sanctions on anyone. It also doesn't cost anything from our budgets. It says, "this is who we are, this is what we believe in, and this is why we're the greatest nation in the world." Past that, it's our responsibility to prove it to every other nation and come out of it on top. Taxing and penalizing citizens is not the way out and I do get angry when people blindly follow and support this wolf in sheep's clothing.

Call me a raving right wing lunatic all you want, if common sense about financial matters and foreign policy makes me that, get the straight jacket and rubber room ready because I don't want to live any other way. Long live freedom.