Haven't been about here lately, tired, really tired! I'm not talking a little tired, I'm talking "carrying cement blocks, wearing a lead jacket tired." I don't know if I am tired because my America is letting me down or if I am tired because it is the end of the school year and I should be tired or maybe I am tired because I have been fighting lupus for 16 years. Whatever the cause I have been really tired. And the Met's suck. That makes me even more tired. How can a team with that much talent suck that bad. I will tell you how...bad manager. Willie Randolph is not a good manager. Probably a nice guy and a great dad, or husband or friend - whatever? He is not a good manager. Simple and plain and easy to explain - He is not a good manager. He makes choices that are wrong, choices that any 40 year fan of the game knows are wrong - and all the while I am screaming at the screen telling him what bad things is about to befall the team because he made the wrong choice, and just as my prediction becomes reality a light bulb goes on somewhere in a small town - but not in Randolph's head.
Another reason I am so tired is this primary race for democratic president. I am tired because we are a dysfunctional family, we would rather tear each other to shreds than defeat our greatest threat. If McCain wins the presidency we have no one to blame - and we can't complain for the next four years...not one word of disrespect or defiance toward a McCain presidency - if he wins it is our own fault and we will have to reap what we sow. And I am tired because a woman I once respected, a woman I once wanted to meet above all others, this woman has become so many things that I don't like about politics, and now she doesn't even know that she is becoming a caricature of herself. It really makes me sad - I don't trust Obama, I don't but I sure want to. I want to believe we can return to a country of leadership, responsibility and that we can create positive change for our future - I am cynical, this I know. I want to quit my job and follow him where ever he leads me just so I can serve him and be a part of what is right with this country. But I don't trust him. And Mrs. Clinton, you have changed the landscape for every woman in this country. For this you will have our gratitude, but don't lose our respect just to be president. The respect of this country is worth more than being the president of this country. We stopped respecting the resident of the White House a long time ago. We respect the people who are agents of positive change and good vibes. Be that person Mrs. Clinton, Senator, be a leader who can lead us down the streets, be a leader who doesn't have to abide by so many rules and unwritten agendas - be this leader Senator Clinton, you will be remembered more for being the woman who could have been president but decided there was a more important job for her to do. Your legacy, Mrs. Clinton, does not rest on a bed on Pennslyvannia Avenue - there are greater posts for which you must be ready.
