4 AM

When ever I wake at 4 or 5 AM, for whatever reason, and I can't go back to sleep, I tend to get up and go to the computer -- half an hour to an hour, and I'm usually ready to go back to sleep.

Lately, when I turn the computer on, one of my very first thoughts is ---- is Obama O.K.? Has anyone attacked him?

I'm very relieved when I log on and discover nothing has happened to him.

Now, that's a "fine kettle of fish" (as some folks said, once upon a time). Those who would do ANYTHING to keep him out of the office of President are not motivated by fear. They claim to be. They say they worry about The Constitution, about our rights. They still claim he's a Muslim, while at the same time damning Rev. Wright.

In truth, they appear to be nothing other than racists. They actually believe all the anti-Obama crap thrown around by the Republicans during the campaign.

I recently read some stuff on one of the gun owner lists where some guy's wife is about to leave him because of his obsession with Obama. He claims he's just being a "patriot". According to his posts, his wife says she "wants her husband back".

Other people on the list are trying to get him to calm down -- even some of the same folks who promote the most outlandish anti-Obama crap.

I guess they know it's just a load of crap.

It's those folks, the ones who are anti-Liberal (they call "liberalism" a "disease" or a "mental illness), that frighten me. It often appears they are rooting for someone to harm or kill Obama. They are truly insane..

This break from reality goes as far as blaming Obama and/or Clinton for the current recession, They are unable to divine their own self-interest, call for more "personal responsibility", yet seem to think everything that happens to them is the fault of someone else (usually one or another minority - it was "the Mexicans", but now that they are heading back to Mexico, some are reverting to more "traditional" targets. LGBT folks have become popular targets - look for a spike of violence against LGBT people. Maybe we will suffer "enough" -- so that Newt will find us "worthy" of civil rights).

It's all very strange. It's also very frightening.