Will The Real Obama Please Stand Up?

Well Rush Limbaugh is an entertainer. There is no doubt about that. He portrays Berock Obama's trips to Iraq and Afghanistan and Europe is something an eighteen year old college student would take as a learning experiance. He referred to it as Summer Camp with hovering hilocopter parents represented by the media. And the media really is into this trip. But I would suggest that this is a politically dangerous trip for Obama. It can bear little good but the pitfalls are enormous. Obama could make some huge embarrassing gaff. You know, like President Bush wondering what the price of milk is at the supermarket. Of course is Obama changes his position at all from being "informed" the way Mc Cain is urging he be "informed about the surge, then this can only hurt Obama with his supporters. Mc Cain is not going to let go of the fact that Obama, unlike this blogger, was against the surge, and that Mc Cain was right in being the only Republican candidate to favor the surge, and now comes out smelling like a rose. But I'm thinking, "Welcome to Tommy's Holiday Camp" and we all know that's about indoctrination and brainwashing. Here at Tommy's Holiday Camp, time passes very slowly. Maybe it's June 10th. and there is that guy named "Barry", who is white and Jewish is leaving home for the first time and his insecurety shows. But he's an orthodox Jew and gets picked on by other Jews. And Barry is told that his brain is going to be inserted inside a Black man running for President, with Dr. Ralph at the controls. Here too are some detainees from demonstrations at the Democratic convention, which hasn't even happened yet. Here also it's July of 1960 and the guy Who would be John Lennon is being readied for his trip to Hamburg with the Beatles. This while the real John Lennon is working on a top secret project along with Lucas Roberts to expose the fact that FBI chief J Edger Hoover is really gay. There are a lot of Nepolians here, too. There are tall Nepolians and short Nepolians. Two hundred years ago Nepolian didn't like the fact that he was so short and he needed a taller double for publicity photos. But the beaurocracy here is so slow they don't know that Nepolian has been dead nearly two hundred years. So now little Junior is being freed from all his beasty relatives and his wicked Aunt Deedee (what, that's a different story) and now the only one he's hanging out with is his Old Grand Dad, and I don't mean the one with the chicken ranch in idaho. In Hamburg, Junior was "in his cups" a lot, but not because he'd won any trophies. Meanwhile Dr. Ralph is calabrating his machine in his lab in the basement of the old mansion by the lake, making sure that the brain waves are properly modulated. (It's always important to be well modulated when you speak) It's important that the voters be so confused on election day they can't tell Mc Cain and Obama apart, and from then on "White guilt" and "age-ism" will do the rest. Obama is one of those atomotons who never gets angry, and this could prove an invaluable asset in a heated debate.

But now President Bush is exercising his executive perogatives by telling the Germans not to let Obama speak at the Brandenburg Gate because of its emotive publicity value. Also our President has been leaning on Meliki not to agree with Obama's sixteen month withdrawal of troops plan. Apparently the German magazine Der Spiegle published the article and Bush wants a retraction or something. The odds are as stacked as a caller to a call in show and the radio host. He's the one with the microphone and the sound effects, and the ability to edit out anything he pleases, and the listeners never know what. There are roomers that during their first face to debate- - Obama kept hearing the sound of cracking nuts in his headset and he finally just exploded and blurted out "Stop chewing my nuts. I know what you're doing!"

MORE LIFE IN THE YEAR 1982

They had "game night" frequently at the Bosc house. Dominoes was no doubt the favorite, and they played that the most often. But they also played Pictionary, Risk(a game I came to develope a dislike of), Pit, that comodities game, Uno, and Trivial Pursuit, Scrabble, and occasionally standard card games. It was approximently Saturday May 22nd. when they went miniatura golfing at that East Anaheim miniature golf course. After this Tina and Gina brought over a new kitten that Jim named Bones, who was a black cat with seven white spots and was "hydro-phelic". Jim always said the six - one domino was lucky.

The following Saturday they had a dance at the Bosc house. The weather that day had been cold and dreary but they opened the door in the evening and turned the fan on, making me cold when I was over there. One guy Don, was dancing with a chick named Terry. It was soon after this that Michelle issued a strange prophecy in church. She said "Something is going to come up that will shock and disconcert everybody but not to worry because it's God's will". A day or two later we learned that Don had gotten a girl named Diedra pregnent. This was considered a major scandal for such a lilly pure church as Calvary Chappel.

It was the 3rd. of June another sleepy dusty delta day. Guy Owens got up and had a bowl of Cheerios. He'd been hoping to eat more later but just then he got a phone call. This was the famous day of the two mile hike in and out of the valley, on no food, testing one's strength. There were just three of us, me, Jim Cooper (who'd eaten a big meal) and Bobby Hayden. We hiked down to this lake and waterfall and I and Jim swam around in the brisk water.

Of course we went to the Premier of StarTrek II. This was in Westwood village and first we had dinner where I had a "London broil", which I was disappointed with. It was myself and Laura, and Jim and Shelly, and Bobby and Gina, and Pike and Madalaine, and I'm not sure specifically which others were there. It was a large group.

On the file "sougern" there is a recounting of how Bobby Hayden and Pike, who were both in the Marines, would "secure" a building where it was dark and they didn't know where the snipers were. And Bobby would say "No, you're dead, Jim". Apparently Mark Campbell went psycho during this late evening "war games" excersise and began playing mind games threatening to kill everyone in the room, like Jack Nichelson in "The Shining" or something.

There was a beach trip to Huntington Beach in mid June. But the weather had continued dismal this spring and it was cold, overcast and windy, and even covered up you felt cold as the evening wind blew relentlessly. "Delores" remarked that she was already sixteen and desperate for a boyfriend. There was another beach trip at the end of July in Carona Del Mar that had a nice grassy area. Delores and her sister, Sylvia, and their brother John came. But even at this late date it wasn't the warmest weather in the world. There had been some psychic on the Bruce and Tony show who accurately predicted the cold and dismal spring, and into the summer.

In terms of records purchasses, I usually liked to make sure nobody else owned the records I was intending to buy. Often people once owned them but didn't have them now. In the first half of May I bought "The First Family Rides Again", and "On the Third Day" by E L O, with a lot of songs that received fleeting radio play, and also "In God We Trust" by the Dead Kennedies. In June I bought "The Hunter", Blondie, last album, and "The Wall" because nobody else currently seemed to have a copy of it. Of course there was the key line "So is this where [I] came in". I think it was driven home dawning for me in a real way that there might be a real world out there after you die. Also channel 40 was doing their album "critiques" and labored on the word "Buggar" and what it really means. They had read this poem by a possed girl (also named Michelle) about "four times seven - seven times four - turn around you are no more" and it was coming up on the 28th. anniversary of the famous Blackwood Brothers plain crash. Of course there is the lyric of "Look out darling, there's a plane a coming". The seeds of my subsequently wierding out into some strange "pre identity" beliefs, were laid right here.

There was a Fourth of July baseball game at the Church, which was a school, as was the tradition. That evening there was a Fourth of July party at Ron's house. A favorite pasttime there is playing "around the world" ping pong. This house is also in a place where you can watch the fireworks being shot off from Disneyland. It was an unspecified time after this that we all went to Dodger Stadium to watch Fernando pitch. I think the game started at an odd time like five o clock or something. We sat in the left field pavilion where they had no beer.

We rode the Palm Springs Tram in mid July. If you don't mind my saying so this was the first hot day. It was warm at the top of the mountain where others such as Gina had a lot more energy to dart about than I did at that 9000 elevation. In the evening I told Mark I did not want to see "The Secret of Nym" where they were all going, a cartoon movie. It was only the next day that I found out that Zachery had been called up and invited to come with them. He was six going on seven at that time.

It was later in July that I bought two more albums "The Dead Kennedys" first album, and also eight songs off of the Beatles Tony Sheridan album put out by "Phoenix 10" records. Early in February I had bought "Rare Hendrix", JH in New York in 1966 on the same label. Occasionally we went Bowling. One night we were at Linbrook Bowl, and Ron was going with Pam at the time, so you had two people (couples) who wern't with their eventual mates.

During this time the stock market was making all time lows. But the thing is nobody thought about that because it had been going on so long it would be like a school of fish commenting on how wet the water was.