No Joy in Mudville

McCasey has struck out. There's no joy in Mudville today after Obama's victory at the polls. A guy down the street has the American flag flying at half-mast on the pole in his front yard. The mood of the males in the locker room at my daily work-out place was somber, unlike the comments disparaging Obama that were floated last Monday. A lady working out on an elliptical trainer next to the one I was using for self-punishment remarked to me that she was fearful of the direction this country would take with Obama in the lead. Glenn Beck, on his morning radio show, said that now was the time to start home-schooling your children, because the public schools had failed to educate the public in the truths of being an American. Otherwise, he mused, how can you explain Obama's victory, except by the ignorance of the mis-guided voters who said, "Yes, We Can". Many other examples of dismay are finding voice. Rush Limbaugh who calls himself the Doctor of Democracy was ranting in circles about Obama's win. Actually, Rush has a PhD (piled higher and deeper) in Demagoguery. A CNN call-in commentor kept repeating the RNC line, apparently not realizing that the sound-bites he uttered were nothing more than campaign rhetoric with no foundation in fact. I'm going to pay attention to the mutterings of those disappointed in the event that brought joy to untold thousands of Americans. When the pain of the conservative faithful becomes too much for them to bear, I'll remind them that it is only a ballgame. They'll get plenty of more chances to strike out in the future, like they did this November 4th.