You know, the stress is killing me...

the stress of eight long miserable years of failure. the stress of our image in the world being effectively destroyed. the stress of lie after lie after lie when we demand the truth and they laugh at us. the stress of no one being held accountable. the stress of watching my hard earned dollars vanish before my eyes. the stress of having no faith in our government. the stress of 7 years of wars with no result or end in sight. the stress of more and more people getting killed for "our freedoms". the stress of our nations future looking a little more bleak each and every day that passes.

when I am alone, I feel the sadness, the frustration, the stress well up inside me. The simple anguish of feeling powerless.

On election day, like everyone here, I will vote for Obama. Why? Change. But not the change that you think, I need to feel the change in my soul. A lifting of the grief and sorrow of the crimes that have been committed under the banner of America. I want to breath again.

the daily grind will continue, after all, I'm still just a prol, but I want to know that, given everything else, my voice, our collective voice, may be heard again.

these last 8 years have aged me. I maybe 8 years older on paper, but my soul feels an extra 50. I will never ever get these last 8 years back. I know I pin a lot of hopes upon Obama and given the current circumstances of this nation, he maybe only able to deliver on 10% of them, but you know what? That's 10% more than what I have now.

And if that 10% only amounts to relieving the stress upon my heart and soul, then he will be successful.

Peace.

even though sometimes there's hope of waking out of it...one just gets sucked back in because there never is anyone held accountable for anything...hopes constantly dashed and the nightmare goes on.

Surely if Obama wins someone will put out a T-Shirt with some clever saying for those of us battered and disillusioned who managed to survive these years without going bat-shit crazy.

I seriously think the stresses of the past 8 years, from this administration, to the economy, to corporate America, have taken a serious toll on millions of Americans.

I would be very curious to see what the statistics of illness' and even deaths, are as a result of this madness.

I've been here for 26 years, thanks to Bush Gang. I hear you bro.

12/11/00 was the darkest day in American History.

1/20/09 will be a bright, sunshiny day -- even if it's raining.

Glad you spoke up, it's good group therapy.
I want to be happy and proud.
And I don't want to return to the daily grind.

True story.
For all the reasons Javaman related.
It's like perpetually waiting for the other shoes to drop...and they keep dropping, long after you think you have heard and seen the ultimate FU from the Gov't, they come up with something more bizarre, illegal, and outrageous.

Won't even talk about the insomnia.

But, good news...after I got all our savings back under my own control, hives went away.

Insomnia getting better.

Between now and inauguration day, I won't feel very relaxed, tho.