I thought The Bama was supposed to be our inspirational leader, driving *CHANGE* and revamping the system, and working for us like no other has since…Kennedy? Lincoln? Are we all ready to fess up to the fact that The Bama Promise is starting to ring hollow? I mean, admit it, Dem or Rep, we all got choked up when he took the stage on election night, we all were amazed to see Oprah standing in the crowd, crying and weeping on the shoulders of strangers, and we were humbled by the moment, humbled by the idea, humbled by what had been accomplished. But righting this ship and *changing things up* was The Promise, it was not meant to just be the satisfaction of seeing a person of color elected to the Highest Office. Has change come?

Taxes. Jobs. Education. Health Care. The War(s). Corruption. A broken economy. Government that is too big. Debt. A legal system gone awry. Back-to-back generations of entitlement and excess. Obesity. High fructose corn syrup. Nuclear weapons. ..

Nukes, that is a good note to end on. They do say Rome crumbled from within, but Rome did not have nukes. You look at history, all the nations that have risen and eventually fallen. It is different with nukes. I don’t rightly ever see a time where we will hand over the car keys to the fellow who just beat us in the drag race. Sure he might have the pink-slip and the oil and the gas, but the car? Hell. We’ll drive it off a cliff before we hand it over. I mean, really. Nukes are like that…no matter how bad things get, we got nukes, and we’ll use them before we let our sovereign status leave us. We’ll use them before we lose WWIII, be that a military or economic war, or both. How do we man-up to prevent that? What change can possible occur?