I would like to take a break from all the hub-bub of grieving and mourning and all those things and events which all seem like a really long, really bad dream.

Barrack Obama was here in Pomona yesterday, and had I known this the day before yesterday I would be writing something about what he looked like in person and what it was like to be standing in the same room as the most powerful man in the free world. However, I did not know that he was here until I looked on the CNN report and recognized a lot of the buildings surrounding the place where President Obama was. When I found out that he was here, and just how close he was to my house, it was almost as though the entire town of Pomona -"P-Town"- was at a different level. It was a very cool thing, even just knowing about it.

Then I woke up this morning and listening to the world's most well-known windbag (Limbaugh), and listening to how he tells everyone that whatever Obama does the media overblows, I started wondering to myself why it was that if it was not such a big deal that the President - our nations' first black President- visited the place that my kid sister refers to as "the blackest area of the city" (And yes, she lives there - down the street from where the Pres was yesterdayt). Our nation's first black President went to a place in a small town on the West Coast where his words would be heard.

Then came the Special Olympics remark, and all of a sudden, the windbag comes out of the cave and starts ruminating about the comment.

I have but one thing to say, and I am sure that as the day wears on, I will have much more to write about regarding the President's visit to my town, but I gotta know, Mr. Limbaugh - if it is not OK that the liberals get coverage for something as benign as appearing on the Tonight Show and saying something that was probabyl taken out of context anyway, is it ok that the First Bush President made remarks as to the Hawaiian people not being a real people, unrecognized, and if so, why was it downplayed back when it was first said?

Why make a big deal out of something that was probably just being said in jest?

Of course, let's not talk about other stuff, like the reason our troops are still in the Middle East, costing billions of dollars per day...let's not do that.

Let's talk about what this President did that really and truly didn't make life any worse for anyone else.

MAPU