Politics can be so brutal! Senator Clinton is getting a raw deal right now. Barack Obama is turning everything upside down. People are really drawn to him. I would love to see him in person and have a chance to feel what people are feeling from him.

I must talk now about Naomi Wolf's book "The End of America". She writes about fascism and how democracies fall prey to it. As I read the book, I can't help but identify this wonderful country with her book. She writes about ten steps dictators take to bring a country under his/her control. Some of these steps have started already in America. I know that sounds hard to believe but it is true. The steps already taken by the Bush administration are involving an external and internal threat, establish secret prisons, develop a paramilitary force (e.g. Blackwater), surveil ordinary citizens, infiltrate citizen group, and arbitrarily detain and release citizens. When in ameica would there be a debate about whether we torture or should we torture? Yet that has been going on for several years. This is not the america I was born and raised in. And I find it very, very sad!