Smithers MINNEAPOLIS

Posted by Smithers at 3:02 pm in Miscellaneous | Permalink | 4 Comments »

morning after

Let’s keep things in perspective.

via Nick.

Posted by Smithers at 11:03 am in Miscellaneous | Permalink | 1 Comment »

My map

I got Missouri wrong, maybe North Carolina.

Posted by Smithers at 9:03 am in Politics | Permalink | 2 Comments »

touchstone

I was six years old when Richard Nixon resigned the Presidency. I was born while LBJ was still in office, but Nixon is the first President that I feel I had any personal association with. Of course I never met him, but I remember watching him that day on TV, standing behind that podium, making that speech, then walking out to Marine One and giving that two handed victory salute before leaving the White House in disgrace.

Nixon, and to some extent the Presidency, have always carried a bit of a sad and sour feeling for me. Nixon was my first President.

My son will be seven years old at the end of Obama’s first term as President. I am optimistic that Toddler Smithers will have a fonder association to President Obama as his first President than I have to mine.

I am optimistic for the future of this country.

Posted by Smithers at 7:49 am in Politics | Permalink | 46 Comments »