I've got the desert in my toenail...

I once had a life, or rather
Life had me
I was one among many
Or at least I seemed to be

Sometimes I wish I was born in the 50s so that I could enjoy the Rolling Stones before they became a joke, the Beatles when they were still together, Funkadelic in all their glory before Bootsy Collins and Bernie Worrell left the band, Michael Jackson before his personality preceded his music, Talking Heads when they were still playing CBGBs or with aforementioned members of Funkadelic...

Then again, if that were the case, I'd have to live through Nixon, the racist, law-breaking, warmonger president. Oh, wait, that's a parallel to the present administration.

At least Nixon did something for the environment by signing NEPA into law. So far, Bush's legacy is being the worst president without receiving any substantial Congressional action toward impeachment. I just hope that calls for impeachment don't start until next year, when the Democrats have control of the House, so that we have some hope of getting a Democrat in office...

I'm so sick of all the partisan politics, though. I haven't changed my voter registration from Independent to Democrat for two reasons. Reason one: It took me six months to receive my initial registration card; I can only imagine how long it would take to get a second one. Reason two: although I still believe in the tenets of the Democratic Party, I think the leadership is too busy pandering to the marginal constituents that they haven't set an adequate platform.

The activists of the 1960s and 1970s hated both Nixon and Johnson equally. It almost seems that Johnson wasn't recognized for pushing the civil rights legislation (and it's debatable as to whether segregation would have ended under any other president) until recently. Of course, he had the Vietnam quagmire to answer for...

Why aren't we, the fine citizens of the 21st century, holding our politicians accountable for our situations in Iraq? The 2006 Democratic nominee was a guy who voted for the war. If I wasn't such a Constitutionalist (one who loves the Constitution, not the Constitution Party), I would have given up on politics.